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Los Angeles Times: Faced with fresh assaults on fast food from politicians and anti- obesity activists, the restaurant industry is gearing up to fight back. Starting next year, major chain restaurants in California will have to include calorie counts of items on menus. Last week, San Francisco officials passed the so-called Happy Meal ban, which [...]

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NEW YORK (AP) – “Call of Duty: Black Ops” blasted entertainment records this week by raking in $360 million in its first 24 hours on sale, a dramatic and lucrative indication that video games have cemented their place as mainstream entertainment on a par with movies, books and music. For the hordes of devoted fans [...]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – President Barack Obama bluntly accused China on Friday of undervaluing its currency and said he’s insisting on a “win-win” free-trade agreement with South Korea, asserting that his hand in international summitry is strong despite election setbacks at home. A combative Obama told reporters at the G-20 summit here that progress [...]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – – Staking his ground in the global fight over the world’s major currencies, President Barack Obama on Friday disputed claims that the U.S. was deliberately weakening the dollar while accusing China of manipulating its yuan. Obama said the decision by the Federal Reserve to pump $600 billion into the U.S. [...]

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Wall Street Journal: On paper, the numbers tell you the Democrats held on to a majority in the Senate last week.

New York Times: SEOUL, South Korea — President Obama’s hopes of emerging from his Asia trip with the twin victories of a free-trade agreement with South Korea and a unified approach to spurring economic growth around the world ran into resistance on all fronts on Thursday, putting Mr. Obama at odds with his key allies [...]

Politico: Two years after his dramatic expansion of the electoral map paved the way to a landslide win, President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign appears likely to resemble the political trench warfare that marked the 2000 and 2004 presidential races. Last week’s midterm elections saw the trio of conservative-leaning states Obama captured in 2008 — Virginia, [...]