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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79170740&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Denver district attorney has charged a couple with child abuse for allegedly growing marijuana in the home they shared with three children.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79170726&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Barack Obama says House passage of a massive overhaul of financial regulations is a victory for everyone who was hurt by what he is calling Wall Street "recklessness and irresponsibility" that caused the financial meltdown and millions of job losses.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79170686&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Sensitive to election-year resentment over big government, President Barack Obama declared Wednesday he intends to get "our debt and our deficits under control." With fears alive of a double-dip recession, Obama warned that he won't slash spending at the expense of the economic rebound.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79170660&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Republican Scott Brown owes his election in part to the public furor over the so-called Cornhusker Kickback, the backroom deal that Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska struck for his vote to pass the health care bill. Now he is following Nelson's example, winning concessions in the financial overhaul bill on behalf of Massachusetts [...]

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79170638&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Nearly two years after a Wall Street meltdown left the economy reeling, the House on Wednesday passed a massive overhaul of financial regulations that would extend the government's reach from storefront thrifts to the executive suites of Manhattan.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79170637&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK In a solemn procession, dozens of people on Wednesday replaced the now-tattered yellow ribbons that have flanked an Idaho town's streets since a local soldier went missing in Afghanistan.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79170624&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK For Microsoft, there will be no next of Kin.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79170623&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Gov. Deval Patrick has enacted a $27.6 billion budget that will cut state aid to cities, towns and schools for the new fiscal year that begins Thursday, at the same time vetoing $457 million in spending, much of it anticipated federal dollars that Congress has yet to approve.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79170612&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An alleged member of a Russian spy ring that authorities say operated under deep cover in America's suburbs vanished in Cyprus on Wednesday, a day after being released on bail.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79170531&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The first Atlantic hurricane of the year grew to a powerful Category 2 storm as it neared Mexico's Gulf coast and south Texas on Wednesday, whipping up high waves that frustrated oil-spill cleanup efforts and delivering tar balls and globs of crude onto already soiled beaches.