Reid plans 5 percent millionaire surcharge to fund jobs bill
Senate leaders discuss dropping Obama’s proposed pay plan and replacing it with a 5 percent tax on millionaires to unite Democrats for a lengthy clash with Republicans. Reid outlined the surcharge in a closed meeting as Obama urged Congress to act.
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Afghanistan at ten years of war leaves Afghans in despair
Amid a decade of conflict in Afghanistan, ordinary citizens face grim life in ruined spaces while some sectors show progress. More than 6 million children attend school and media outlets grow, yet security deteriorates with rising violence and widespread corruption delaying enduring governance.
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Christie declines 2012 presidential bid in N J
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie announced at the Statehouse that now is not his time to run for president. He says the decision ends Republican hopes for an alternative to Romney and Perry three months before the first GOP vote.
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Knox returns to Seattle amid homecoming scene
Amanda Knox arrived in Seattle to a chorus of cheers after an appellate court in Italy threw out her murder and sexual assault conviction. The 24 year old UW student had spent four years imprisoned in Italy before the acquittal and return home.
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Johns Hopkins physicist Riess wins Nobel for accelerating universe
Johns Hopkins astronomer Adam Riess shares the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics for guiding the discovery that the universe’s expansion is accelerating. Riess, Saul Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt were honored for work on distant supernovae revealing dark energy. Riess recalled wedding weekend emails as his findings reshaped cosmology.
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