In The Days

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Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, left, and President Shimon Peres of Israel on Thursday at a discussion on Gaza in Davos, Switzerland. Mr. Erdogan later walked out in anger.
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Exxon Mobil Corp. on Friday reported a profit of $45.2 billion for 2008, breaking its own record for a U.S. company, even as its fourth-quarter earnings fell 33 percent from a year ago.
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City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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Unions condemn delegates on crisis
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The U.S. economy shrank the most since 1982 in the fourth quarter of last year as consumer spending recorded the worst slide in the postwar era, a trajectory that’s likely to continue in coming months.
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Lovers of the Truth

“Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.”
—Malachi 3:16

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Al Gore questioned at hearing: ‘How long are we going to be around as a species?’…

The lawmakers gazed in awe at the figure before them. The Goracle had seen the future, and he had come to tell them about it.
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Jobless rolls jumped to a record peak in mid-January, while new orders for durable goods fell for a fifth straight month in December, data showed on Thursday, underscoring the deepening economic malaise.
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Government officials seeking to revamp the financial bailout have discussed spending another $1 trillion to $2 trillion to help restore banks to health, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.
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JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel’s chief rabbinate severed ties with the Vatican on Wednesday to protest a papal decision to reinstate a bishop who publicly denied 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust.
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