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Taxpayer loss on auto bailout narrows
Taxpayers will lose about $14 billion on the government's $80 billion bailout of Chrysler and GM, far less than originally anticipated, the White House said Wednesday.
Source: Taxpayer loss on auto bailout narrows (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43242226/from/RSS/)
Tornadoes killed four people, injured others and damaged homes and trees across western Massachusetts Wednesday afternoon.
Source: Mass. tornadoes kill 4, damage homes (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43242642/from/RSS/)
At least four people were killed when storms and tornadoes tore through heavily populated western and central Massachusetts on Wednesday.
Source: 'Baddest I've seen': Tornadoes kill 4 in Mass. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43248653/from/RSS/)
An Army staff sergeant home on leave in southwest Florida chased down a suspected bank robber and held him until authorities arrived.
Source: Soldier home on leave thwarts bank robbery (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43249972/from/RSS/)
Washington scrambled on Thursday to assess whether security had been compromised after Google revealed a major hacker attack targeting U.S. officials that the Internet giant pegged to China.
Source: US weighs security after 'serious' Google allegation (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43253703/from/RSS/)
Sukanya Roy, 14, of South Abington Township, Pa., correctly spelled "cymotrichous" in the 20th round to win the 84th Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Source: Pa. teen wins Spelling Bee with 'cymotrichous' (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43255742/from/RSS/)
Two-time presidential candidate John Edwards has pleaded not guilty to charges that he solicited and spent more than $925,000 to hide his mistress and their baby from the public at the height of his 2008 White House campaign.
Source: John Edwards: 'I did not break the law' (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43260386/from/RSS/)
Identical twins Julian and Adrian Riester were born seconds apart 92 years ago. They died hours apart this week.
Source: Twin friars die on same day at age 92 (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43271150/from/RSS/)
British and French attack helicopters under NATO command are used for the first time Saturday in military operations over Libya.
Source: NATO helicopters join attacks on Libya (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43276352/from/RSS/)
Malaysian lawyers, politicians and activists lambasted the police Saturday, accusing them of abusing their power in chaining up and marking the bodies of women detained for alleged prostitution.
Source: Fury over Malaysia cops cattle-branding women (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43277444/from/RSS/)
Senior al-Qaida operative Ilyas Kashmiri, regarded as one of the world's most dangerous militants, has been killed by a U.S. drone strike, Pakistani intelligence officials and a militant group confirmed Saturday.
Source: US strike kills top al-Qaida militant in Pakistan (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43277881/from/RSS/)
Two members of a famed acrobatic family commemorated patriarch Karl Wallenda on Saturday by completing the stunt that killed him, walking between two towers of a seaside hotel on a wire 100 feet (31 meters) above the ground, without a net.
Source: 'Wallendas are still here': Acrobats fly again (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43281032/from/RSS/)
This time the river crossing was a lot slower, and a lot drier.
Source: Plane that landed in Hudson heads to NC museum (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43279475/from/RSS/)
Sarah Palin says she didn't mess up her history on Paul Revere.
Source: Palin: I didn't mess up Paul Revere history (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43285196/from/RSS/)
The USPS has stayed afloat by borrowing $12 billion from the U.S. Treasury. This year it will reach its statutory debt limit. After that, insolvency looms.
Source: The postal service is running out of options (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43259512/from/RSS/)
Nobel Prize winner Peter Diamond said on Sunday he planned to withdraw as a nominee for Federal Reserve governor, after his nomination was repeatedly opposed by Republicans.
Source: Obama Fed pick withdraws, cites party politics (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43290745/from/RSS/)
A forensic expert testified Monday in the Casey Anthony trial that the odor of human decomposition in an air sample taken from her car was "extremely, overwhelmingly strong."
Source: Anthony jury hears from air expert (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43294684/from/RSS/)
After days of denials, a choked-up New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner confessed Monday that he tweeted a bulging-underpants photo of himself to a young woman. "The picture was of me, I sent it."
Source: Weiner: 'The picture was of me, I sent it' (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43299964/from/RSS/)
A New Mexico man's decision to lash out with a billboard ad saying his ex-girlfriend had an abortion against his wishes has touched off a legal debate over free speech and privacy rights.
Source: Jilted ex-boyfriend puts up abortion billboard (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43302321/from/RSS/)
While police say conclusive evidence in the case of missing Northern California nursing student Michelle Le points to homicide, her family said they believe she is still alive.
Source: Cops: Missing Calif. nursing student likely killed (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43305852/from/RSS/)
Americans' disapproval of how President Barack Obama is handling the economy and its growing budget deficit has reached new highs, a new poll finds.
Source: Disapproval of Obama's economic record rises (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43308329/from/RSS/)
The swollen Missouri River is threatening to inundate a small Iowa town where officials are piling massive sandbags on a faltering levee to contain floodwaters.
Source: If fixes fail, Iowa town could be left under water (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43307338/from/RSS/)
Scotland is to hold a referendum on whether to leave the U.K. and become an independent country within the next five years, following an election victory for the Scottish National Party.
Source: Scotland to split from UK and 'be a nation again'? (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43077321/from/RSS/)
As pressure mounted on Rep. Anthony Weiner to resign after sending a lewd photo via Twitter, ne faced new wrinkles: his wife is pregnant and an explicit picture of him turned up.
Source: Weiner's wife's pregnancy reported as explicit photo revealed (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43329388/from/RSS/)
The Obama administration has intensified the American covert war in Yemen, exploiting a growing power vacuum to strike at militant suspects, according to American officials.
Source: NYT: US intensifying secret Yemen airstrikes (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43333763/from/RSS/)