GM to make first sports car with SS nameplate
DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co, the largest U.S. automaker, will begin selling its first rear-wheel-drive performance sedan under the Chevrolet brand in the United States in 17 years, it said Thursday.
The Chevrolet...
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Top Republican boosts pressure for U.S. tax rewrite
By Kim Dixon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top Republican lawmaker on Thursday stepped up pressure to force action next year on a rewrite of the U.S. tax code, which both major political parties agree...
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Hanging caused death of wife of Robert Kennedy Jr.: autopsy
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. died from asphyxiation due to hanging, an autopsy revealed on Thursday, in an apparent suicide at the family's suburban New York home.
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USPS to close or consolidate 140 mail sites
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service will move ahead with a plan to shut or consolidate mail-processing facilities as part of its cost-cutting effort but will spread out the closings to maintain overnight delivery of local mail.
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U.S. Postal Service to close or consolidate 140 sites
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service will close or consolidate operations at 140 mail processing sites through February 2013, a postal official said on Thursday.
USPS Chief Operating Officer Megan Brennan said the...
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More minority babies than whites in U.S.: Census Bureau
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For the first time, there are more black, Hispanic and other minority babies being born in the United States than white babies, according to government data released on Thursday that officially confirm what has been a long-growing trend.
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Arguments due in ex-US Senator Edwards' campaign finance case
By Colleen Jenkins
GREENSBORO, North Carolina (Reuters) - Attorneys are scheduled to give their closing arguments on Thursday in former U.S. Senator John Edwards' federal campaign finance trial on charges he accepted excessive political...
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Defeated Ohio Democrat Kucinich declines run in Washington state
By Steve Gorman
(Reuters) - Veteran Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, a liberal stalwart who lost his primary race after redistricting forced him to run against another Democratic incumbent, said on Wednesday he had ruled...
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Family cancels weekend search for missing Hollywood executive
By Dan Whitcomb
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The family of a Hollywood executive reported missing more than two weeks ago called off on Wednesday a major search planned for this weekend after consulting with...
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Super Bowl winners New York Giants get "Big Blue" rings
By Jonathan Allen
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Players and coaches with the New York Giants football team gathered at Tiffany & Co.'s flagship store in New York City on Wednesday evening to receive...
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Pioneer graves found at site of new Arizona sheriff's office
By Tim Gaynor
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Workers digging the foundations for a new office of an Arizona sheriff accused of discriminating against Latinos have unearthed the graves of early city founders, some of whom...
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Obama gives Medal of Honor to soldier who died 42 years ago
By Samson Reiny
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday hailed a fallen Vietnam War soldier who saved his members of his platoon by awarding him the Medal of Honor 42 years after...
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Guantanamo lawyers want ex-CIA official to testify
By Jane Sutton
MIAMI (Reuters) - Defense lawyers want to force a former CIA official who supervised what they called torture of al Qaeda captives to testify in the war crimes tribunal for five...
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Wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. found dead at NY home
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mary Kennedy, the estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr, was found dead on Wednesday at her home in a New York City suburb, an officer at the Westchester County Medical Examiner's Office said. She was 52.
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Mother of homeless man killed by police settles with city
By Dan Whitcomb
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The mother of a schizophrenic homeless man who died after he was beaten and repeatedly shocked with a stun gun by police in California last year has...
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