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Home resales at 1-1/2 year-high, supply falls (Reuters) Reuters - Home resales rose to a 1-1/2-year high in January, pushing the supply of properties on the market to the lowest level in almost seven years in a hopeful sign for the housing sector. Publ.Date : Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:27:00 GMT Man's childhood comic collection fetches $3.5M (AP) AP - Billy Wright plunked down dime after dime for comic books while growing up in the late 1930s and early 1940s, caring for the collection he started around the age of 9 until his death more than half a century later. On Wednesday, most of that collection sold for a whopping $3.5 million. Publ.Date : Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:22:51 GMT Poll: Obama benefitting from improving economy (AP) AP - President Barack Obama is reaping political benefits from the country's brighter economic mood. A new poll shows that Republicans and Democrats alike are increasingly saying the nation is heading in the right direction and most independents now approve the way he's addressing the nation's post-recession period. Publ.Date : Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:29:52 GMT Obama urges corporate tax cut, closing loopholes (Reuters) Reuters - President Barack Obama made an opening offer in what could be a long negotiation with corporate America on Wednesday, putting forward his first detailed plan to cut the corporate tax rate. Publ.Date : Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:04:02 GMT Fitch downgrades Greece on debt swap plan (Reuters) Reuters - Fitch cut Greece's long-term ratings on Wednesday to its lowest rating above a default, becoming the first ratings agency to make the widely expected downgrade after the country announced a bond exchange plan to ease its massive debt burden. Publ.Date : Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:04:45 GMT Congress members threatened with biological attack (Reuters) Reuters - Several members of the Congress received mail threatening a biological attack and containing a suspicious powder later found to be harmless as law enforcement officials warned on Wednesday that more letters could be on their way. Publ.Date : Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:42:20 GMT Stolen Valor Act at Supreme Court: Is lying about being a hero a right? (The Christian Science Monitor) The Christian Science Monitor - When Xavier Alvarez stood up and introduced himself at a local water district meeting in July 2007, he had no idea he was about to commit a federal crime. Publ.Date : Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:28:00 GMT Police charge 2 in death of Ala girl forced to run (AP) AP - At a doublewide trailer along a dirt road in rural Alabama, authorities say 9-year-old Savannah Hardin was forced to run for three hours as punishment for having lied to her grandmother about eating candy bars. The severely dehydrated girl had a seizure and her death days later was ruled a homicide. Publ.Date : Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:54:46 GMT