2012年12月28日星期五

Morning Digest: Lawmakers, Obama in last chance talks on "fiscal cliff"

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12/28/2012
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Lawmakers, Obama in last chance talks on "fiscal cliff"
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and lawmakers are launching a last-chance round of budget talks just days before a New Year's deadline to reach a deal or watch the economy go off a "fiscal cliff.".
Putin signs ban on U.S. adoptions of Russian children
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Friday that bans Americans from adopting Russian children and imposes other measures in retaliation for new U.S. legislation meant to punish Russian human rights abusers..
Stock index futures steady; budget talks eyed
PARIS (Reuters) - Stock index futures pointed to a steady Wall Street open, with S&P 500 futures down 0.11 percent, Dow Jones futures down 0.03 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.05 percent at 4.54 a.m. ET..
British actress Kate Winslet marries for third time
LONDON (Reuters) - British Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet has married for the third time, her publicist confirmed on Thursday..
Giants rule American sports in 2012
NEW YORK (Reuters) - In a country driven by the mantra 'bigger is always better', it was fitting that Giants dominated America's professional championships in 2012..
Netflix blames Amazon for Christmas Eve outage
NEW YORK (Reuters) - An outage at one of Amazon's web service centers hit users of Netflix Inc's streaming video service on Christmas Eve and was not fully resolved until Christmas Day, a spokesman for the movie rental company said on Tuesday..
International crew of three reaches orbiting space station
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying a multinational crew of three arrived at the International Space Station on Friday, setting the stage for a Canadian for the first time to take command of the orbital research base..
So you find certain words annoying? Whatever
NEW YORK (Reuters) - "You know," "whatever" is a really annoying term -- "like" "you know." We're "just sayin'.".
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