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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79181612&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Police said Wednesday they are reopening an investigation into a Portland massage therapist's allegations that former Vice President Al Gore groped her at an upscale hotel in 2006.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79181611&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=79181555&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK New carbon-trading laws intended to reduce climate-changing pollution emissions took effect Thursday in New Zealand, immediately sending gas prices higher.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79181527&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=79181526&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Cruising toward confirmation, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan completed grueling Senate questioning Wednesday, unscathed by Republican challenges on abortion, gays in the military and gun rights while sidestepping partisan debate about GOP-named judges pulling the court to the right.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79181524&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=79181523&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A former executive of bailed-out insurance company American International Group Inc. says if he had been allowed to keep his job, he could have saved taxpayers a bundle.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79181521&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK With hurricane-whipped waves pushing more oil onto the Gulf of Mexico's once-white beaches, the government pinned its latest cleanup hopes Wednesday on a huge new piece of equipment: the world's largest oil-skimming vessel.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79181520&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Alex has weakened from a Category 2 to a Category 1 storm as it moves inland over northeastern Mexico.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79181344&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK NATO says Afghan and international forces have captured a Taliban district leader after a four-hour gunbattle in Helmand province.