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White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel attended the Democratic caucus' briefing on the compromise and senators said he pushed hard for their support. Emanuel, a former House leader still popular with his ex-colleagues, may help win backing for the bill from House Dems upset over the loss of funding for their projects. Obama will also hit the road to sell the stimulus, visiting Elkhart, Ind., and Fort Myers, Fla., early next week. Elkhart has one of the highest unemployment rates in the country - at, 15.3%, dramatically up from 4.7% a year ago. Fort Myers has an unemployment rate...
...Islamists and Abbas' secular Fatah movement have struggled for control of the Palestinian territories since Hamas won the elections of January 2006, but after Israel's 22-day pummeling of Gaza, their quarrel has become intensely personal. Hamas officials have accused Abbas' former national security chief, Mohamed Dahlan, of colluding with Israelis in advance of the invasion in a bid to weaken Hamas' resistance. (View images of Fatah-Hamas conflict...
...shape as at any time since the 1974 recession. If it should get worse, he remarked, "Once you break through '74-'75, you don't stop 'til you get to 1929." At almost the same hour, Bill Gross, the undisputed king of the fixed income world and chief of investments at Pimco stated "the U.S. may slump into a 'mini depression' unless policy makers spend trillions of dollars to spur growth." He did not make the distinction between a "mini depression" and one of normal size but his comments were, nonetheless, alarming...
...immediate reaction to the remarks, BGLTSA and SLAM leaders are planning to raise awareness of the incident. “We would feel a lot stronger if we see strong student support,” said Edward B. Childs, Adams House cook and the union’s chief steward, at the meeting last night. Rainbow gay-pride pins have been available in bowls at some dining halls over the course of this week, but the students at last night’s meeting sought to do more. Suggestions included encouraging students to fill out dining feedback cards expressing their...
...Ukrainian government has repeatedly said that the arms are bound for Kenya. Mykola Malomuzh, the chief of Ukraine's state weapons-exporting agency, Ukrspetsexport, said Kenya had assured the government that it and not South Sudan was the owner of the tanks. "The cargo onboard the ship was transported under a contract between Ukrspetsexport and the Defense Ministry of Kenya," Malomuzh said Thursday...