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Stimulus Tracker
Large parts of the $787 billion federal stimulus package to help the U.S. economy are being spent on entitlement programs such as unemployment benefits and Medicaid, but hundreds of billions will go toward contracts, grants and loans to restore infrastructure. Check out our interactive Stimulus Tracker to see how money's being spent in your community.
Health Care Dose of Reality
Confused by the health care debate? Get the facts, weigh in and keep up with Dose of Reality, msnbc.com's guide to health care. Send a health care claim you want fact-checked to doseofreality@msnbc.com, Tweet @msnbc_health using the tag #doseofreality, or visit Newsvine to sound off.
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The pandemic of swine flu may be hitting a peak across much of the globe, health officials said on Friday, but they cautioned it was far from over.
A civil rights organization says it has identified at least 50 new right-wing militia groups that have formed within the last two years, in part coinciding with the advent of the Obama administration.
Army Maj. Nidal M. Hasan exchanged e-mails with a radical Yemeni American cleric and began to discuss surreptitious financial transfers, according to two sources.
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Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display.
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Toshiba UK Click for video: An armchair floats to the edge of space in Toshiba's "Space Chair Project" commercial. Click on the image to see Toshiba's video on YouTube. Space ballooning hits new heights in an HDTV commercial showing
There are signs of recovery in the nation's heartland, including Elkhart, Ind., but the rebound is faint, uneven and faces many threats.
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Heidi Klum, who was supposed to be acting as host of the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, drew screams from the crowd Thursday night when she made a surprise trip down the runway.
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Does the Internet make people gullible? A recent outbreak of fake death reports on Twitter have some people wondering if too much information too quickly is bad for us.
NYT: The commander of military forces protecting North America has ordered a review of the costly air defenses intended to prevent another Sept. 11-style attack.
Most women in their 20s can have a Pap smear every two years instead of annually, say new guidelines that conclude that's enough to catch slow-growing cervical cancer.
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The Week in Pictures
Fiery soccer celebration, Ground Zero, big yellow taxis, meteor shower, the Taj Mahal reflected and more news and feature photos from around the globe.
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A rising proportion of fixed-rate home loans made to people with good credit are sinking into foreclosure, adding to concerns about the strength of the economic recovery.
Diarrhea and pneumonia kill an estimated 3.5 million kids under 5 each year globally — more than HIV and malaria combined.
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Nestle — which sells nearly all the canned pumpkin in the U.S. — says poor weather hurt its harvest, creating a potential shortage of its Libby's pumpkin pie products through the holidays.
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Since 1954, volunteers in North Pole, Alaska, have opened thousands of letters addressed to Santa and sent replies with North Pole postmarks. But after one volunteer was recognized as a sex offender, the Postal Service is dropping the program – and people are outraged.
