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US Democratic and Republican congressional leaders reached a tentative deal on tax rebates of $300 to $1,200 per household and business tax cuts to jolt the slumping economy.
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Colorado’s House of Representatives voted 62-1 to censure Rep. Douglas Bruce, who kicked a newspaper reported taking his picture and refused to apologize.
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Dennis Kucinich (b.1946), US Congressmen for Ohio, announced that he is dropping his long-shot bid for president.
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Iran received a sixth shipment of nuclear fuel from Russia, destined for a power plant being constructed in the southern port of Bushehr.
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Sergei Tretyakov (51), a former Russian spy who had never spoken out about his spying before this week, granted his first news media interviews to publicize the book: "Comrade J.: The Untold Secrets of Russia's Master Spy in America after the End of the Cold War," by former Washington Post journalist Pete Earley, which was published on this day. Tretyakov said his agents helped the Russian government steal nearly $500 million from the UN's oil-for-food program in Iraq before the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
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Doctors said they have developed a technique that could free many patients from having to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of their lives. The treatment involved weakening the patient's immune system, then giving the recipient bone marrow from the person who donated the organ.
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Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute of Rockville, Md., reported that they have built from scratch a synthetic chromosome containing all the genetic material needed to produce the bacterium Mycoplasma genitalium, the tiniest bacteria ever found.
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- Current / Future Events
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1988 –
Jade Ewen, English singer
1986 –
Mischa Barton, English-born American actress
1986 –
Raviv Ullman, Israeli-born American actor
1984 –
Scott Kazmir, American baseball player
1984 –
Witold Kieltyka, Polish drummer (Decapitated) (d. 2007)
1983 –
Scott Speed, American race car driver
1983 –
Shaun Maloney, Scottish footballer
1981 –
Travis Hanson, American baseball player
1980 –
Nicole Marie Lenz, American actress
1980 –
Rocky Boiman, American football player
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January, 24
- Births
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2009,
Reg Gutteridge, British Boxing Journalist (b. 1924)
2009,
Kay Yow, North Carolina State Univ. women's basketball head coach (b. 1942)
2009,
Gérard Blanc, French singer
2008,
Randy Salerno, co-anchor of Chicago's CBS 2 News (b. 1963)
2007,
Krystyna Feldman, Polish actress (b. 1916)
2007,
Guadalupe Larriva, Ecuadorian politician (b. 1956)
2007,
Emiliano Mercado del Toro, World's Oldest Military Veteran (b. 1891)
2006,
Fayard Nicholas, American tap dancer, one-half of The Nicholas Brothers (b. 1914)
2006,
Schafik Handal, Salvadoran politician (b. 1930)
2006,
Chris Penn, American actor (b. 1965)
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January, 24
- Deaths
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