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Economy
5:13 am
Sat February 4, 2012

Job Market Could Help Obama's Election Stock

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President Obama speaks about the economy Friday in Arlington, Va. Obama says he wants to "send a clear message to Congress: Do not slow down the recovery that we're on."
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Originally published on Sat February 4, 2012 12:05 pm

It turns out January was a surprisingly good month in the job market. U.S. employers added 243,000 jobs in January, and the unemployment rate fell to 8.3 percent.

That better-than-expected news from the Labor Department triggered a rally in the stock market Friday, with the Dow climbing more than 150 points. The news could also help the stock of President Obama.

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Presidential Race
5:10 am
Sat February 4, 2012

Out West, GOP Candidates Mine For Caucus Votes

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Romney supporters gather for a rally at the Elko Regional Airport in Nevada on Friday. The state holds its caucus Saturday.
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Originally published on Sat February 4, 2012 12:05 pm

Saturday is caucus day in Nevada, the first state in the West to vote as Republicans go about choosing their presidential candidate.

Mitt Romney is counting on another win here to keep him on the path to the nomination. Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul have also been campaigning across the state, while Rick Santorum is in the Midwest looking ahead to later contests next week.

Believe it or not, Nevada leads the country in unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcy.

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Politics
5:08 am
Sat February 4, 2012

'Buffett Rule' Becomes A Bill, And Congress Bickers

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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat, introduced legislation this week that would effectively raise taxes for most who earn more than $1 million annually.
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At last week's State of the Union address, the secretary of billionaire investor Warren Buffett was seated prominently with first lady Michelle Obama.

President Obama invited Debbie Bosanek to a seat in the spotlight to underscore a complaint her boss has widely made: that she pays a much higher tax rate than the 17 percent Buffett himself pays.

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Around the Nation
5:07 am
Sat February 4, 2012

While Graceland Booms, Other Historic Homes Rot

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Graceland, home of Elvis Presley.
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Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, in Charlottesville, Va. is one of the few homes of celebrated figures that people go out of their way to see.
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New York City's landmarks board debated whether to offer historic status to jazz legend Louis Armstrong's Queens home because the red-brick residence was so plain.
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Kansas City, Mo., is filled with sites associated with the boyhood and early career of cartoon pioneer Walt Disney. The neighborhoods where Disney lived and worked remain poor.
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Ernest Hemingway's home in Key West, Fla., was recently designated as a literary landmark. He lived there from 1931 through 1939 and wrote many of his manuscripts in the studio.
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Mark Twain and his family enjoyed what the author would later call the happiest and most productive years of his life in their Hartford, Conn., home.
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The Tuscan hill town of Volterra in Italy has seen a spike in traffic lately who were attracted to the spots where the Twilight movies were shot.
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Among the hundreds of markers that make the claim George Washington slept here, the most unusual is on the Caribbean island of Barbados, which Washington visited in 1751.
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Graceland, home of Elvis Presley, is the second-most visited home in America after the White House.
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Originally published on Wed May 23, 2012 10:03 am

Americans have always sought architectural brushes with greatness.

The nation's first president spent the night at so many inns and private houses that signs advertising "George Washington slept here" were regular roadside attractions even during his lifetime.

But only a few homes of celebrated figures, such as Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and Elvis Presley's Graceland, have become sites that people go out of their way to visit. Most such places have been torn down, or fall into neglect and disrepair.

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Shots - Health Blog
6:48 pm
Fri February 3, 2012

Komen's Race To Reverse Course: Questions And A PR Challenge

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Originally published on Fri February 3, 2012 6:58 pm

Just three days after announcing it would no longer fund cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood, the pink-ribboned breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure abruptly reversed course today. But the Komen foundation's actions still leave many questions unanswered — not to mention a public relations challenge.

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