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22 million missing Bush White House e-mails found

AP - Mon Dec 14, 9:24 PM ET

WASHINGTON - Computer technicians have found 22 million missing White House e-mails from the administration of President George W. Bush and the Obama administration is searching for dozens more days' worth of potentially lost e-mail from the Bush years, according to two groups that filed suit over the failure by the Bush White House to install an electronic record keeping system.

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  1. Medical personnel examine a scan sent from a hospital using a CT scanner in the southern Indian city of Bangalore September 5, 2008. REUTERS/Kavita Chandran Budhraja
    Radiation from CT scans may raise cancer risks Reuters - Mon Dec 14, 4:30 PM ETSent 794 times

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - Radiation from CT scans done in 2007 will cause 29,000 cancers and kill nearly 15,000 Americans, researchers said on Monday.

  2. FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2009 file photo, President George W. Bush speaks during a news conference in the pressroom at the White House in Washington. Two nonprofit groups, the National Security Archive and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington said Monday Dec. 14, 2009 that computer technicians have found 22 million White House e-mails from the administration of President George W. Bush. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)
    22 million missing Bush White House e-mails found AP - Mon Dec 14, 9:24 PM ETSent 305 times

    WASHINGTON - Computer technicians have found 22 million missing White House e-mails from the administration of President George W. Bush and the Obama administration is searching for dozens more days' worth of potentially lost e-mail from the Bush years, according to two groups that filed suit over the failure by the Bush White House to install an electronic record keeping system.

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    LONDON - Those baby-faced people now have another reason to be smug: a new Danish study says looking young apparently means a longer life.

  4. Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore gestures as he joins cabinet ministers from Nordic countries for discussion on Greenland's ice sheet at the UN Climate summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, Monday, Dec. 14, 2009. With a week for the climate summit to end, the split between the developing and developed world became sharper as ministers of the world's nations started to arrive for a crucial second week of climate talks. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
    Gore: Polar ice may vanish in 5-7 years AP - Mon Dec 14, 9:24 PM ETSent 154 times

    COPENHAGEN - New computer modeling suggests the Arctic Ocean may be nearly ice-free in the summertime as early as 2014, Al Gore said Monday at the U.N. climate conference. This new projection, following several years of dramatic retreat by polar sea ice, suggests that the ice cap may nearly vanish in the summer much sooner than the year 2030, as was forecast by a U.S. government agency eight months ago.

  5. A NASA satellite image of iceberg B17B (C), floating southwest off the West Australian coast. An island-sized iceberg is breaking up as it drifts closer to Australia, producing hundreds of smaller slabs spread over a massive area of ocean, experts have said.(AFP/Australian Antarctic Division/Ho)
    'Monster' iceberg shedding hundreds of offshoots AFP - Mon Dec 14, 4:29 AM ETSent 133 times

    SYDNEY (AFP) - An island-sized iceberg is breaking up as it drifts closer to Australia, producing hundreds of smaller slabs spread over a massive area of ocean, experts said Monday.

  6. Lava cascades down the slopes of Mayon volcano in Legazpi city, Albay province, Monday Dec. 14, 2009, about 500 kilometers (310 miles) south of Manila, Philippines. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, PHIVOLCS, has raised the five-alert level to three following increased activity of the country's most active volcano and residents are prohibited from venturing into the 6-kilometer (4 miles) permanent danger zone. In December 2006 ash deposits from a previous eruption rolled down its slopes at the onslaught of a typhoon killing more than a thousand residents living around the cone-shaped volcano. (AP Photo/Nelson Salting)
    Mayon volcano in Philippines oozes lava; alert up AP - 4 minutes agoSent 130 times

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    Falling-TV deaths remain concern even amid LCD fad AP - Mon Dec 14, 5:07 PM ETSent 122 times

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  8. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., center, speaks during a news conference on health care, Monday, Dec. 14, 2009, on Capitol Hill in Washington. With Reid from left are Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
    Obama to work to solidify support for health bill AP - 57 minutes agoSent 97 times

    WASHINGTON - After months of turmoil, President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats are reaching for the unity they need to pass health care legislation by Christmas, but without the government-run insurance program that liberals have long sought.

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  10. FILE - In this April 16, 2008 file photo, a Wells Fargo Bank logo is seen in Sunnyvale, Calif. The North American Securities Administrators Association says Wells Fargo has agreed to repurchase about $1.3 billion in soured auction-rate securities from clients.(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)
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    SAN FRANCISCO - Wells Fargo plans to sell $10.4 billion in new stock to help repay all $25 billion in bailout aid it received from the government at the height of the market meltdown last fall.

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  1. 22 million missing Bush White House e-mails found AP - Mon Dec 14, 9:24 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - Computer technicians have found 22 million missing White House e-mails from the administration of President George W. Bush and the Obama administration is searching for dozens more days' worth of potentially lost e-mail from the Bush years, according to two groups that filed suit over the failure by the Bush White House to install an electronic record keeping system.

  2. 'Monster' iceberg shedding hundreds of offshoots AFP - Mon Dec 14, 4:29 AM ET

    SYDNEY (AFP) - An island-sized iceberg is breaking up as it drifts closer to Australia, producing hundreds of smaller slabs spread over a massive area of ocean, experts said Monday.

  3. 3 Rhode Island detectives shot during drug raid AP - Tue Dec 15, 12:01 AM ET

    PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Three Providence, R.I., police detectives have been shot and wounded during a drug raid.

  4. Back from combat, women struggle for acceptance AP - Mon Dec 14, 6:03 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - Nobody wants to buy them a beer.

  5. A United HomeCare Services home-health aide talks to an elderly man after shaving him at his home on December 14 in Miami, Florida. Democratic senators were to meet with President Barack Obama at the White House Tuesday to discuss health care reform, amid reports of new compromise likely to infuriate liberal lawmakers.(AFP/Getty Images/Joe Raedle)
    Obama to work to solidify support for health bill AP - 57 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON - After months of turmoil, President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats are reaching for the unity they need to pass health care legislation by Christmas, but without the government-run insurance program that liberals have long sought.

  6. FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009 file picture, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chair Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. presides over the markup on the Climate Change legislation on Capitol Hill in Washington. The widely played video clip of U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer reprimanding a general for calling her 'ma'am' is the gift that keeps on giving for the two Republicans hoping to challenge her in 2010. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)
    Boxer's opponents capitalize on 'ma'am' exchange AP - Mon Dec 14, 8:07 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - The widely played video clip of U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer reprimanding a general for calling her "ma'am" is the gift that keeps on giving for the two Republicans hoping to challenge her next year.

  7. 1881 gold coin found in Conn. donation kettle AP - Mon Dec 14, 9:16 PM ET

    TORRINGTON, Conn. - A Connecticut Salvation Army chapter got a pleasant surprise when its members were counting change dropped into one of the organization's holiday donation kettles. Members found a rare 1881 "half eagle" coin last week while counting donations made somewhere in Torrington on the day after Thanksgiving.

  8. FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 16, 2009 file photo, an aerial view of the Thomson Correctional Center is seen in Thomson , Ill. The White House plans to announce Tuesday Dec. 15, 2009, that a rural Illinois prison will be acquired by the federal government to become the new home for a limited number of Guantanamo Bay detainees. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)
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  9. An Iraqi man walks through debris at the scene of last Tuesday's massive bomb attack near the new Finance Ministry in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 14, 2009. The U.S. military says it warned Iraqi officials about possible attacks in Baghdad the same day that bombers struck government sites in the country's capital last week. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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    NEW YORK - Stephen Colbert (kohl-BEHR') has joined the legions of athletes and swimsuit models to grace the cover of Sports Illustrated.

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  1. Black nativity angers Italy's "White Xmas" party Reuters - Mon Dec 14, 1:03 PM ET

    ROME (Reuters) - A nativity scene featuring a dark-skinned Jesus, Mary and Joseph that has gone on display in a Verona courthouse has created heated debate in a city with strong links to Italy's anti-immigration Northern League party.

  2. A doctor administers a vaccine to a patient at the Delaney Sisters Medical Center in November in New York. Democratic senators were to meet with President Barack Obama at the White House Tuesday to discuss health care reform, amid reports of new compromise likely to infuriate liberal lawmakers.(AFP/File/Don Emmert)
    Obama to work to solidify support for health bill AP - 57 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON - After months of turmoil, President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats are reaching for the unity they need to pass health care legislation by Christmas, but without the government-run insurance program that liberals have long sought.

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    Koalas, penguins at risk of extinction: study AFP - Mon Dec 14, 6:27 AM ET

    COPENHAGEN (AFP) - Climate change threatens the survival of dozens of animal species from the emperor penguin to Australian koalas, according to a report released Monday at the UN climate summit.

  4. FILE - This is a March 27, 2005, file photo showing former Miss Universe and Bollywood actress Sushmita Sen posing wearing a Tag Heuer watch that the company claims to be the world's first professional golf watch designed, developed and worn by golfer Tiger Woods, on poster in background, at an event in New Delhi, India. Swiss watch maker Tag Heuer said Monday, Dec. 14, 2009, it will continue its association with Tiger Woods despite the golfer's alleged infidelities. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan, File)
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    NEW YORK - Swiss watch maker Tag Heuer said it will spend the next few weeks assessing its relationship with golfer Tiger Woods.

  5. 'Monster' iceberg shedding hundreds of offshoots AFP - Mon Dec 14, 4:29 AM ET

    SYDNEY (AFP) - An island-sized iceberg is breaking up as it drifts closer to Australia, producing hundreds of smaller slabs spread over a massive area of ocean, experts said Monday.

  6. Report: AT&T Reputation Tarnished by iPhone Flaws PC World - Mon Dec 14, 5:01 PM ET

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  7. FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2009 file photo, Citigroup headquarters is seen in New York. Citigroup Inc. said Monday, Dec. 14, 2009, it is repaying $20 billion in bailout money it received from the Treasury Department, in an effort to reduce government influence over the banking giant.(AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)
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  9. US President Barack Obama has awarded himself a B plus for his first 11 months in office, stressing in an interview with talk show queen Oprah Winfrey that there was still much to be done.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)
    Obama gives himself B+ for first months in office AFP - Mon Dec 14, 10:44 AM ET

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President Barack Obama, in remarks aired late Sunday, awarded himself a B plus for his first 11 months in office, stressing in an interview with talk show queen Oprah Winfrey that there was still much to be done.

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