Steve Jobs resigns from Apple

Silicon Valley legend Steve Jobs has resigned as chief executive of Apple Inc in a surprise  move that ended his 14-year reign at the technology giant he co-founded in a garage.

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Bachmann

About two-thirds of Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachman’s statements PolitiFact have checked have been judged either false or “pants on fire,” according to Bill Adair, editor of  PolitiFact.com, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Website that fact-checks statements by politicians and other public figures. “Her issue with accuracy has become I think an important aspect of her campaign,” Adair told ABC News’ political webcast Top Line.

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In Congress, sliding support

According to a Gallup  Aug. 11-14 poll, the approval rating for Congress is down to a woeful 13 percent, tying a historic low.

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Casey Anthony freed

Casey Anthony was freed from a Florida jail early Sunday, 12 days after she was acquitted of murder in the death of her two-year-old daughter Caylee in a verdict that drew threats from people across the U.S. – CBS

 

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The cost of war

A study by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies estimates that the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan have cost 225,000 lives and up to $4 trillion in U.S. spending.

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Isolating Gaddafi

Britain’s Foreign Secretary William Hague said the defection of Libya’s former Foreign Secretary Moussa Koussa to Britain would encourage others close to Muammar Gaddafi to abandon the Libyan leader.

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Pentagon budget cuts?

Defense spending has ballooned since 2000, jumping from $294 billion to roughly $700 billion a year, or 20 percent of the entire federal budget. The Pentagon was to start paring that back, cutting $78 billion in spending over five years, but that was until bombs starting raining over Libya. The confrontation with Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi has now thrown a curve at the possibility of cuts to the Pentagon budget.

 

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Libya…Yemen…or Wisconsin?

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Rep. House speaker John Boehner says limiting women’s access to abortion “top priority”

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Fight for Democracy

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