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Republican Party officials in Virginia have announced that neither Newt Gingrich nor Rick Perry submitted a sufficient number of valid signatures to qualify for the state’s presidential primary ballot.

The development is a significant blow to both campaigns. Virginia is one of the most delegate-rich states to hold [...]

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London (CNN) — Britain’s Prince Philip was taken to a hospital on Friday for “precautionary tests” after complaining of chest pains, a Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said.

He was taken from Sandringham to the cardiothoracic unit at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, she said. The royal family traditionally spends Christmas at the Sandringham Estate.

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Oil rises for 4th day, nears $100 a barrel

By JONATHAN FAHEY, AP Energy Writer – 5 minutes ago 

NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices rose above $99 a barrel Thursday amid signs of growing U.S. crude demand and concerns about global supply.

Benchmark crude rose 73 cents to $99.40 per barrel [...]

Oil rose a fourth day in New York as the number of applications for unemployment benefits in the U.S. fell to the lowest level since April 2008, bolstering optimism that economic growth will accelerate.

Futures advanced as much as 0.7 percent after the Labor Department said that jobless claims dropped by [...]

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(Reuters) – Banks took a huge 489 billion euros at the European Central Bank’s first ever offering of three-year funding on Wednesday, raising hope a credit crunch can be avoided and that the money may be used to buy Italian and Spanish bonds.

A total of 523 banks borrowed money at the tender with [...]

U.S. online retail sales rose 14% in the latest week from a year earlier, placing e-commerce spending for the holiday shopping season on track to top 2010 levels, according to Internet measurement company comScore Inc. /quotes/zigman/105907/quotes/nls/scor [...]

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(Reuters) – A U.S. scientific advisory board Tuesday asked two scientific journals to leave out data from research studies on a lab-made version of bird flu that could spread more easily to humans, fearing it could be used as a potential weapon.

The U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity has asked the journals [...]

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Deadly snowstorm halts travel across Great Plains

By JERI CLAUSING, Associated Press – 10 minutes ago 

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Fierce winds and snow that caused fatal road accidents and shuttered highways in five states, crawled deeper into the Great Plains early Tuesday, with forecasters warning that pre-holiday travel would be [...]

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Last night Romney defended his experience at Bain, saying that it taught him valuable lessons about how the economy works. ‘‘Government doesn’t create jobs, but the private sector does,’’ Romney said. ‘‘I spent my life, my career, in the private sector. I understand, by the way, from my successes and my failures what it’s going [...]