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Obama: Any debt solution must be bipartisan As the Republican-led House and Democratic-led Senate push ahead with separate measures to avert a calamitous U.S. default next week, President Barack Obama once again urged compromise in the stalled negotiations. Debt debacle damage could mean double-dip Near-anemic first-half growth, coupled with Washington's spectacular failure to manage the nation's finances, has renewed fears of a douple-dip recession. Fort Hood suspect denounces military The U.S. soldier accused of planning to set off bombs near Fort Hood defiantly shouted anti-military statements after he was charged in federal court Friday. Adrift 18 hours, pilot mulled ‘how much time I had left’ “The motor started sputtering, and that’s when the panic set in,” said Michael Trapp, 42, who survived 18 hours treading water after his Cessna 150 crashed in Lake Huron. “I don’t know how much time I had left,” he said Friday. Oslo victim is back to work after spike in head An adviser working in Oslo's Justice Department when last week's bomb exploded is back at work, just five days after escaping the building â€" with, unbeknownst to her at the time, a foot-long piece of debris lodged in her head. New rules to demand far higher fuel economy President Barack Obama, with the backing of major carmakers, announced a plan  to boost average fuel economy of new cars and trucks to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, double current levels. Bush explains reaction upon learning of 9/11 attacks Former President George W. Bush says what some people took as his apparent lack of reaction to the first news of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks was actually a conscious decision on his part to project an aura of calm in a crisis. Amanda Knox: Victim of a crazy court system? Drought-hit Texas welcomes tropical storm As much of Texas suffers through one of its worst droughts, many rain-starved Texans are doing something they thought they would never do â€" looking forward to the arrival of Tropical Storm Don. Turkey's military chiefs quit ahead of key meeting Turkey said on Friday its top four military chiefs were all seeking retirement, in moves that appeared to reflect a deep rift between the secularist military and a government with roots in political Islam. 'All-out search' for 'shy' girl gone missing An "all-out search" involving more than 100 investigators was being carried out for a missing 11-year-old girl in a small New Hampshire town near the Canadian border, according to police and reports. Fugitive caught after taunting cops via Facebook When the Facebook page of a man wanted on multiple arrest warrants taunted authorities with messages such as "Catch me if you can, I'm in Brooklyn," officers were bound to capture the man quickly and in an entirely appropriate place â€" right in front of his computer. A good cry doesn't make you feel any better, study says New research suggests weeping isn't the cathartic emotional release it's often cracked up to be, sniff, sniff. Please pass the tissues. Pilot errors outlined in 2009 Air France crash The crew piloting a doomed Air France jet over the Atlantic did not realize the plane was in a stall, were insufficiently trained in flying manually, and never informed the passengers that anything was wrong before they plunged into the sea, according to new findings released Friday. Copyright 2011 msnbc.com RSS URL: http://rss.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032091/device/rss/rss.xml

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