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  • Bombers target Israeli diplomats in Georgia, India (AP)

    Indian policemen watch security and forensic officials examine a car belonging to the Israel Embassy after an explosion tore through that in New Delhi, India, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012. The driver and a diplomat's wife were injured, according to Indian officials. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)AP - Assailants attacked Israeli diplomatic targets in India and Georgia in near-simultaneous strikes on Tuesday, wounding two people in a car bombing in New Delhi, officials said. Israel's Foreign Ministry said an attempted car bombing in Georgia was thwarted when the bomb was discovered before it went off.




  • Obama's election-year budget to target rich (Reuters)

    President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 24, 2012. REUTERS/Saul Loeb/PoolReuters - President Barack Obama will propose an election-year budget on Monday that raises taxes on millionaires and seeks billions of dollars for job-creating infrastructure projects, drawing a populist battle line with his Republican opponents.




  • At least your money can live like a millionaire's (AP)

    Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney greets a supporter at an election caucus in Portland, Maine, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012.  (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)AP - Movie super spies James Bond and Jason Bourne use them. So do real-life presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who says he pays his taxes, and untold numbers of Americans who don't. Swiss banks and their secretive counterparts around the globe may sound like the exclusive province of the wealthy, the mysterious or the shady, but anybody can legally open an offshore account.




  • Greece still to convince skeptical euro zone (Reuters)
    Reuters - The Greek government was under pressure on Monday to convince a skeptical euro zone that it would stick to the terms of a multi-billion-euro rescue package endorsed by lawmakers despite violent protests.

  • AT&T customers surprised by 'unlimited data' limit (AP)

    This undated screen grab provided by Mike Trang shows a warning message on the screen of Trang's iPhone that he received from AT&T advising he was in danger of having his data speeds throttled. AT&T considers Trang to be among the top 5 percent of the heaviest cellular data users in his area. Under a new policy, AT&T has started cutting their data speeds as part of an attempt to manage data usage on its network. (AP Photo/courtesy of Mike Trang)AP - Mike Trang likes to use his iPhone 4 as a GPS device, helping him get around in his job. Now and then, his younger cousins get ahold of it, and play some YouTube videos and games.




  • JFK intern recounts long-ago affair in new book (AP)

    In this Feb. 10, 2012 photo, Mimi Alford, author of 'Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and its Aftermath,' poses for a photograph, in New York. In her book, she writes of her first encounter as a naive teenager, and her “varied and fun” sex life with Kennedy, who she always called Mr. President. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)AP - Mimi Alford was terrified in 1998 when the Monica Lewinsky scandal turned the word "intern" into a dirty joke, exposing an affair with a president. Her decades-old secret about her trysts with John F. Kennedy was still safe then.




  • Obama's budget headed to Congress (AP)

    In this photo released by NBC News White House Chief of Staff Jacob Lew talks on NBC's Meet the Press in Washington Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012. Lew, who appeared on various Sunday shows, said the new budget would put the country on track to achieve $4 trillion in deficit reductions over the next 10 years, achieved by raising taxes on the wealthy and trimming government spending.  (AP Photo/NBC News, William B. Plowman)AP - President Barack Obama is sending Congress a new budget that seeks to achieve $4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade through cuts in government spending and higher taxes on the wealthy. At the same time, he wants to boost spending in key areas such as transportation and education.




  • Israel says bombs target embassies in India, Georgia (Reuters)
    Reuters - Bombers targeted staff at Israel's embassies in India and Georgia on Monday, the foreign ministry said, with a bomb going off in New Delhi but a second device in Tbilisi defused.

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