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U.S. President Barack Obama meets Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in the White House in Washington

Obama Meets Iraq's Maliki at White House on Monday

As U.S. troops prepare for departure from Iraq, President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki met at the White House Monday for talks focusing on the future relationship between the two countries.
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Martin Marietta makes $5 billion bid for Vulcan

Construction aggregates maker Martin Marietta Materials Inc made an unsolicited $5 billion offer to buy larger rival Vulcan Materials Co in stock, in a bid to create the global leader in the industry.
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Newt Gingrich

Gingrich Calls Palestinians 'Invented' People, Stands by Comments [VIDEOS]

Newt Gingrich is standing behind his comment that Palestine is a nation of invented people with no real right to their own state. His comments have inflamed Arab sentiments and may alienate some Jewish voters, but Gingrich insists his remarks are factually accurate and historically true. Watch his initial comments and response here.
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Ariad leukemia drug helps 47 percent of patient

Early results from a pivotal trial of Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc's experimental leukemia drug ponatinib show it is effective in nearly half of patients who had stopped responding to currently available drugs.
Palestinians visit the grave of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Ramallah

Documentary looks at life of Palestinian leader Arafat

Associates of Yasser Arafat offer personal recollections in a documentary screened in Dubai this week on his search for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal that descended into violence and failed to lead to a Palestinian state.
U.S. Investment Outlook

Bank Strategists: Put Your Money in Good Companies, and Leave It Be

As unprecedented conditions continue to buffet the U.S. equities, and investors pull tens of billions out, investment managers are increasingly counseling their clients on what could be the most basic of stock market strategies: put your cash in mature high-dividend shares of mature companies, and stop fussing.
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Activision game crosses $1 billion in sales

Activision Blizzard, the biggest U.S. video game publisher by market capitalization, said its game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 crossed $1 billion in sales since its launch on November 8.

Lowe's Labeled 'Un-American' For Pulling Ads From 'All-American Muslim'

Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse has come under fire after the retail company pulled advertisements from TLC's reality show, All-American Muslim. The ads were pulled after the Florida Family Association claimed that TLC's 'All-American Muslim' is propaganda that riskily hides the Islamic agenda's clear and present danger to American liberties and traditional values.
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Majority of Americans would blow whistle: poll

NEW YORK - Four months after U.S. financial regulators opened a whistleblower office, more than three-quarters of polled Americans said they would blow the whistle under the protections and incentives now offered by the government.
Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Gregory Jaczko attends a news conference during the Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety in Vienna in Vienna June 21, 2011.

Provocative U.S. Nuclear Chief Faces Political Test

The embattled chief of the U.S. nuclear safety regulator found some powerful political support on Saturday ahead of Capitol Hill hearings next week that will scrutinize his bid to enact sweeping safety reforms.

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