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U.S. caught China buying more Treasuries than disclosed

National flags of the U.S. and China are seen in front of an international hotel in Beijing

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Shakira sayign she aint preggers

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Gamers… PS3 is back online

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High court undoes Scalia’s pro-tobacco order

FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2010 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia speaks in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

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Rocket attack kills 3 American soldiers in Iraq

The deaths take the overall US death toll since the March 2003 invasion to 4,469

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Beanie Siegal still hates Jay-Z

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Survey ranks San Francisco greenest U.S. city

South Tower of Golden Gate Bridge emerges from fog from Marin Headlands

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Obama wants to be down with Latin America

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Justin Timberlake part of group buying MySpace

Bass guitarist Cameron Schnittger, with the pop rock band Four O'clock Heroes, points to his picture on on the bands' MySpace web site page in San Jose, Calif., Wednesday, June 29, 2011. News Corp. has sold struggling social networking site MySpace for $35 million, mostly in stock, according to a person familiar with the matter. The deal values MySpace at a fraction of what News Corp. paid for the site six years ago. The sale to online advertising network operator Specific Media is expected to close later Wednesday. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

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Illinois political chaos may be a bigger pain for Obama than Massachusetts 

DateFriday, January 29, 2010

CHICAGO – If the Massachusetts special election was a kick in the shins for President Barack Obama, the political turmoil in Illinois, his home state, is a pain in the neck that never seems to go away.

His former Senate seat, already stained by an ethics scandal, is a major takeover target for Republicans. So is the governor’s office.

Going into Tuesday’s Illinois primary, the first of the 2010 campaign season, Democrats are in disarray, with no political heavyweights in their lineup for the Senate seat that Obama gave up for the White House.

Losing it would be a bigger personal embarrassment for the president than Republican Scott Brown’s upset victory in Massachusetts, which took away the late Edward M. Kennedy’s Senate seat.

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