Consumer Reports says Ford is slipping

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GM recalls SUVs to fix tire pressure monitors

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Range Rover sheds pounds, aims to gain share

The request channel timed out while waiting for a reply after 00:01:00. Increase the timeout value passed to the call to Request or increase the SendTimeout value on the Binding. The time allotted to this operation may have been a portion of a longer timeout.AppId is over the quota APThe new Range Rover Evoque is the smallest and lightest model ever to wear the Land Rover nameplate.Few vehicles can match the off-road capabilities of the typical Land Rover sport-utility vehicle. But when it...

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Ford posts 10th consecutive quarterly profit

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Girl shot at North Carolina school, prompting lockdown

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina | Mon Oct 24, 2011 7:09pm EDT WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - A high school student was shot in the neck during an outdoor lunch break at a North Carolina school on Monday, prompting a lockdown of two campuses as authorities tried to identify her shooter.Exactly what happened at Cape Fear High School in Fayetteville to land the 15-year-old girl in the hospital confounded investigators."This was probably one of the strangest shootings that we've ever come across," Cumberland County Sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie...

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Perry Ups Ante With Flat Tax Plan

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota In his effort to reboot his struggling presidential campaign, Texas Gov. Rick Perry made a statement Tuesday morning with a starkly conservative flat tax proposal. The plan would set personal income and corporate taxes at 20 percent, would eliminate the capital gains and estate tax, and would be paired with a commitment, and eventually a constitutional amendment, to bring federal spending down to 18 percentof gross domestic product. The plan was crafted with the help of magazine publisher Steve Forbes, who used a similar plan in his unsuccessful runs...

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Romney Campaign Confident in Frontrunner Status

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota A senior Romney aide points out that the former Massachusetts governor has maintained his position in the top tier of Republican presidential candidates for many months, an achievement in itself.[See a collection of political cartoons on the 2012 GOP hopefuls.]He has done this by minimizing errors, remaining steady when under attack, raising lots of money, and most of all by staying on message. Romney has relentlessly criticized President Obama on the economy rather than getting distracted by other issues such as criticism of Romney's Mormon religion...

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Two accused killers break out of Florida prison

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota By Barbara ListonORLANDO, Fla | Mon Oct 24, 2011 7:08pm EDT ORLANDO, Fla (Reuters) - Two accused killers escaped through an air conditioning vent and used blankets to scale razor-wire-topped fences to break out of maximum security at a Florida prison before dawn on Monday, authorities said."When all the details come out, you probably won't believe (it)," Indian River Sheriff Deryl Loar said.The two men had been cellmates for the past five days in the Indian River County Jail and were being held on murder charges for separate incidents."It was a very...

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Police, Wall Street protesters fall into uneasy truce

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota 1 of 4. Protesters and members of Occupy Wall Street shout slogans against police next to New York Police Department (NYPD) officers, during an annual demonstration calling for a stop to police brutality in New York October 22, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Eduardo MunozBy Ben BerkowitzNEW YORK | Mon Oct 24, 2011 4:50pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - After a rough start marked by mass arrests and allegations of heavy-handed behavior, the New York Police Department...

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Thousands Plan to Protest Keystone Pipeline

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota Home > Politics & Policy > Washington Whispers > Thousands Plan to Protest Keystone Pipeline October 25, 2011 Print Thousands of people are gearing up for November 6 when they will encircle the White House in Washington, D.C., to protest the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Their message to President Obama? Tar sands oil is not in the national interest and that he must deny the presidential permit for the 1,700 mile Keystone XL pipeline, which runs from Canada through the United States to Mexico.[See a collection of political cartoons...

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Brooklyn man accused of butchering boy to plead insanity

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota By Jonathan AllenNEW YORK | Mon Oct 24, 2011 5:56pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lawyers for the Brooklyn man accused of butchering an 8-year-old boy on his first walk home alone from an Orthodox Jewish day camp said on Monday they believe his signed confession was coerced and will pursue an insanity defense.Levi Aron, 35, is charged with kidnapping, suffocating and dismembering Leiby Kletzky in July. His lawyers say he is insane and should therefore be found not guilty."My opinion is you could get this guy to admit he shot (John F.) Kennedy if you spent...

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Debt 'Supercommittee' Taking Small Steps

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The Republican head of a special deficit-reduction panel in Congress said on Tuesday he was hopeful that at least some modest steps can be achieved by a November 23 deadline.There has been growing uncertainty about how much the committee can achieve and there have been few signs of progress so far, raising questions about its ability to reach the minimum target of at least $1.2 trillion in budget savings over 10 years."I remain hopeful that the Joint Select Committee can show progress on a bipartisan basis of at least taking...

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Cain's Running Against the Clock

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Herman Cain, who became a surprising front-runner in the Republican presidential race without running a traditional campaign, is scrambling to assemble a team with just 10 weeks before the first crucial nominating contests in January.A former fast food executive who has never held public office, Cain has jumped to the top of polls among Republican candidates vying for the nomination to oppose President Barack Obama, a Democrat, in the November 2012 election. [See a collection of political cartoons on the 2012 GOP hopefuls.]And...

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Police forces shrinking amid budget strains

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota A pedestrian walks past a line of New York Police Department (NYPD) cars parked at Times Square in New York, October 18, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Gary HershornWASHINGTON | Mon Oct 24, 2011 1:34pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday warned that financially strained police forces around the country likely will shrink for the first time in the quarter century in which statistics have been tallied.Holder said that by the end...

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Obama Plans to Lift Veteran Hiring in Lead Up to Iraq Troop Withdrawal

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The Obama administration announced fresh steps Tuesday to lift the hiring of military veterans, who face higher levels of unemployment than other Americans as thousands more prepare to return home from Iraq.President Barack Obama, currently touring electorally vital western states to convince voters he is doing everything he can to cut high U.S. unemployment, has repeatedly emphasized measures to aid veterans that resonate with many Americans.He has pledged to use the executive powers of his office to work around Republicans...

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