On the short-messaging service Twitter, space is at a premium: You’ve got 140 characters to make your point, and you probably don’t want to waste half of it on a super-sized link to your latest YouTube obsession. There’s an increasingly popular quick fix: a…

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The stock market is looking winded from its three-month race upward. After a quick bounce off 12-year lows in early March, Wall Street is having a harder time carving advances as investors await definitive signs of a break in the recession. The benchmark…

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Red Wings coach Mike Babcock is keeping his lineup the same for Game 2 of the Stanley Cup finals, meaning injured forwards Pavel Datsyuk and Kris Draper will again sit out against the Pittsburgh Penguins. The teams will be back on the ice Sunday night, less…

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DETROIT (Reuters) – Investors representing about 54 percent of General Motors Corp’s $27.2 billion of bonds indicated support for a U.S. Treasury-brokered swap that could help speed the automaker’s way through bankruptcy.

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In vehicle showrooms across the country, questions about the future of auto giant General Motors Corp. add to the usual haggling and give-and-take. Car shoppers have been kicking the tires a little more cautiously as salespeople try to ease their worries…

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A leading Democratic senator says that President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee is “virtually filibuster-proof” when his colleagues look at her record. Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York said Sunday that Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination is heading toward…

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A representative for General Motors’ bondholders says the majority of them will support a sweetened deal to swap the company’s $27 billion debt for equity. That should make the automaker’s reorganization go more smoothly after it enters bankruptcy protection,…

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KEITH SRAKOCIC/AP PHOTOIn this May 12, 2009 photo, Bill Shaffer, owner of Conicity Technologies, talks about edge preparation machines that can be leased to clients, at the company’s headquarters in Latrobe, Pa. For 10 years, Conicity Technology has been trying…

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A leading Democratic senator says that President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee is “filibuster-proof” when his colleagues look at her record. Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York said Sunday that Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination is heading toward confirmation. He…

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We first heard the term decades ago: The “Sun Belt” was just starting a run of phenomenal growth _ and no wonder. It conjured a sunny state of mind as well as a balmy place on the map. Everybody, it seemed, wanted a spot in the sun. Industries such as…

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The Senate’s top Republican says the debate over President Barack Obama’s first Supreme Court nominee should not begin with a deadline for a vote, as the president wants. Obama has nominated appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor for the high court. Senate…

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A majority of General Motors bondholders have agreed to a debt-for-equity exchange, a source familiar with the voting said on Sunday, helping pave the way for a bankruptcy filing expected on Monday.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A majority of General Motors bondholders have agreed to a debt-for-equity exchange, smoothing the way to a bankruptcy filing expected on Monday, a source familiar with the voting said on Sunday.

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As global powers debate how to punish North Korea for its nuclear defiance, two American journalists seized nearly three months ago face a trial this week in Pyongyang on charges that could land them in one of the country’s notorious labor camps. North Korean…

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the U.S. financial system is in much better shape these days and there is more stability in the overall economy. Geithner told reporters traveling with him Beijing that there are a number of signs the U.S. economy…

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