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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy AP: Prime Minister, Jean-Max Bellerive, tells CNN: “I believe we are well over 100,000,” while leading senator Youri Latortue tells The Associated Press that 500,000 could be dead.

The New York Times: Untold numbers of people in Haiti — including the head of the United Nations mission — remained missing in the rubble of collapsed buildings on Wednesday morning, a day after an earthquake ravaged this impoverished nation.

The New York Times: A powerful earthquake of 7.0 magnitude rocked Haiti just before 5 p.m. Eastern time, 10 miles southwest from the highly populated capital of Port-au-Prince, according to the United States Geological Survey, leveling a hospital and causing

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer: “Jack, you gonna tell us how you really feel about Nancy Pelosi.” Jack Cafferty: “I just did. She’s a horrible woman.”

Fox News: “There are some frayed nerves, but I think we’ve come through this pretty well for the magnitude of earthquake we’ve had.”

CNN: Three people were killed and five others wounded Thursday in a shooting at a St. Louis, Missouri, transformer manufacturing company, police said. It was unclear whether the suspect was among those killed at ABB Inc., St. Louis Metropolitan Police

Press Association: The man who pleaded guilty in the runaway balloon saga that riveted the US for hours says the event was not a hoax. Richard Heene, an aspiring reality television show participant and backyard scientist, told CNN’s Larry King

CNN: November 5, 2009. That’s the day the AARP endorsed the House health care bill. With nearly 40 million members, it’s not surprising that the president quickly came before cameras in the White House to thank the AARP for its

Embedded video from CNN Video CNN: The U.S. government has lowered the threshold for information deemed important enough to put suspicious individuals on a watch list or no-fly list, or have their visa revoked, senior State Department officials tell CNN.

CNN: Former professional basketball star Jayson Williams was hurt early Tuesday when he apparently crashed a sport utility vehicle into a tree, a spokeswoman for the New York Police Department told CNN. Williams’ black Mercedes hit the tree at a

CNN: The Center for Responsive Politics says 951 firms and organizations registered to lobby just the House version of the bill. The group, which tracks campaign contributions and lobbying dollars, counted more than 3,000 individual lobbyists who have spent at

President Barack Obama returned Monday to the White House capping an 11-day holiday vacation.

CNN: Iraq said Friday that it will file a lawsuit against five Blackwater security guards cleared of manslaughter charges in the 2007 killing of 17 Iraqi civilians, an act a government official called murder. The Iraqi government also will ask

CBS News: It appeared right in front of a red white and blue sign that says, “Plains, Georgia. Home of Jimmy Carter our 39th president.”

The New York Times: Officials took the action after a man was observed walking the wrong way down the exit lane between the secured, or “sterile,” area and the public area at around 5:20 p.m. The Transportation Security Administration initially

Politico: “The U.S. Embassy in San’a is closed today, January 3, 2010, in response to ongoing threats by al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula … to attack American interests in Yemen,” the embassy said in a brief message on its Web

Newser: Just wouldn’t be New Year’s Eve without Kathy Griffin hanging out with Anderson Cooper and saying something on live TV that makes him and the censors squirm. This year, she pretends to fumble over the name of Balloon Boy