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Thursday, January 29, 2009

MAINE COMPANIES - Michelle Obama salutes Lilly Ledbetter at White House - Los Angeles Times

Reporting from Washington -- Michelle Obama made a public appearance this morning -- her first since the inauguration -- joking with reporters and lauding equal-pay advocate Lilly Ledbetter. "Feel free to walk around and touch some stuff, just don't in Dow Jones News >

SPRINGFIELD, Ill.) Gov. Rod Blagojevich appeared at his impeachment trial today and asked senators how they can vote him out of office based on criminal charges that haven't been proven. Blagojevich said removing him from office would set a in Dow Jones News >

NEW YORK - Historians Robert Dallek and Sean Wilentz and author-essayist Barbara Ehrenreich are among the more than 100 writers who have signed an open letter asking The Washington Post not to shut down its stand-alone Sunday Book World section. "Few in Dow Jones News >

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Massive deficits could force the post office to cut out one day of mail delivery, the postmaster general told Congress on Wednesday, in asking lawmakers to lift the requirement that the agency deliver mail six days a week. If the in Dow Jones News >

WASHINGTON — A uniquely Louisiana tradition has ensnared Washington this week, blending politics and fun. The Washington Mardi Gras, a concept created more than 60 years ago by homesick Louisianians in the nation’s capital, kicks off tonight, Jan in Dow Jones News >

IRVING, TX, Jan 29, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Mr. R. D. (Dan) Nelson, vice president of Exxon Mobil Corporation's (NYSE:XOM) Washington, D.C., office, has announced his intention to retire, effective April 1, 2009, after more than 32 years of service in Dow Jones News >

Worried about salmonella, the Army said Thursday it's removing some peanut butter items from warehouses in Europe, the latest in an ever-growing list of recalled peanut products linked to a national salmonella outbreak. Already more than 430 kinds of in Dow Jones News >

OLYMPIA, Wash. » Adrienne Purcella's life has changed a lot in the past year: She got a job as a police officer and officially entered a domestic partnership with Libby Cope. The Seattle couple joined other gay and lesbian couples Wednesday as in Dow Jones News >

WASHINGTON - The number of people receiving unemployment benefits has reached an all-time record, the government said Thursday, as layoffs spread throughout the economy. The Labor Department reported that the number of Americans continuing to claim in Dow Jones News >

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