Health care delays
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Hopes for rapid progress on President Obama’s health care overhaul dimmed Wednesday as Republican delaying tactics complicated the work of Senate Democrats to line up 60 votes and move the bill.
Interest rates stay put
The Federal Reserve pledged Wednesday to hold interest rates at a record low to drive down double-digit unemployment and sustain the economic recovery.
Taliban plan video
A terrorism monitoring group says the Taliban have announced they will release a new video of a U.S. soldier captured in Afghanistan.
FTC targets Intel
The Federal Trade Commission piled on new antitrust charges against Intel Corp. on Wednesday, seeking to end what it described as a decade of illegal sales tactics that have crippled rivals and kept prices for computer chips artificially high.
Grisly discovery
A woman was charged Wednesday in Wilmington, N.C., with keeping the corpse of her elderly mother in their home for months before the body was discovered in the woman’s bed.
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A 2-year-old Brazilian boy has as many as 50 metal sewing needles inside his body, and a doctor treating the boy said Wednesday they were apparently stuck there one by one. The boy’s mother told police she doesn’t know how the needles got inside her son, but police have opened an investigation.