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Koenigsegg backs out of plan to buy Saab from GM
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From Associated Press
November 24, 2009 12:13 PM EST
DETROIT - General Motors Co. says a Swedish specialty car maker has ended plans to buy GM's Saab brand.
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WASHINGTON - The U.S. economy is growing modestly, with consumers too wary about spending to invigorate the recovery. That picture emerged Tuesday from reports on the nation's economy and the confidence of consumers, who power 70 percent of it.
ALBANY, N.Y. - New York's top court ruled Tuesday that the state can use eminent domain to force homeowners and businesses to sell their properties for a massive development in Brooklyn that includes a new arena for the New Jersey Nets.
SAN FRANCISCO - Hewlett-Packard Co.'s cost-cutting and push into new markets is helping soften the blow from weakness in the company's mainstay businesses.
NEW YORK - Complaints poured in Monday about Adam Lambert's sexually charged performance at the American Music Awards, including criticism of his kiss with a male keyboard player that was left out of rehearsals for the show.
BRUSSELS - A doctor who discovered that a Belgian man had been wrongly diagnosed as vegetative says he is reexamining dozens of other cases.
WASHINGTON - The NFL and its players union have approved independent doctors to evaluate head injuries for about half of the league's 32 teams as part of a new program.
WASHINGTON - Federal officials are fining three airlines a total of $175,000 for their role in the stranding of passengers overnight on an airport tarmac in Rochester, Minn., this summer.
LONDON - An inquiry investigating Britain's role in the Iraq war kicked off Tuesday with top government advisers testifying that some Bush administration officials were calling for Saddam Hussein's ouster as early as 2001 - long before sanctions were exhausted and two years before the U.S.-led invasion.
WASHINGTON - In the history of U.S.-India relations, there's been plenty of broken bread and even a few crumbled Triscuits. American presidents have entertained India's leaders over fine wine and even finer food for the past 60 years - at grand White House dinners with hundreds of guests in black-tie, at an intimate Sunday lunch and away from Washington's prying eyes near a storied Civil War battlefield.
ATLANTA - Celebrity chef Paula Deen got an unexpected serving of ham - across her face. The Food Network star was helping unload 25,000 pounds of donated meat for an Atlanta food bank on Monday when someone threw one of the hams like a football and accidentally smacked her.
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