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Moments after the Senate cast its final vote on a health care bill before recessing on a recent Saturday evening, Senator Christopher J. Dodd convened an unpublicized meeting of the members of the Senate banking committee.

I first caught up with Dara Panasy a little over three years ago, not long after her fianc, a wily and much maligned North Stonington businessman, was found shot to death in Thailand, where he made frequent visits for an importing business.

President Barack Obamaa s plan to send 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan is being greeted with skepticism or outright opposition by Democrats and support from Republicans in Congress.

Rhode Island Superior Court Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson on Tuesday sailed through the first leg of her confirmation as a 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge.

Ahead of his address to the nation at West Point on Tuesday, President Barack Obama and his team have started to put the wheels in motion for a change in the U.S. course in Afghanistan.

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In his Crib Sheet, CNN's John King looks back at Sunday's talk shows and ahead to the topics that will be making news this week.

A day before he is scheduled to announce a new strategy in Afghanistan, President Obama is under increasing pressure to explain how his administration intends to pay the rising costs of military operations in Afghanistan, which average about $3.6 billion per month.

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A top Republican senator wants to postpone efforts to overhaul health care until next year so Congress can concentrate on how to pay for President Barack Obama's expected plans for expanding military operations in Afghanistan.

Expect the focus of this Sunday's talk shows to shift from health care to President Barack Obama's much-anticipated speech Tuesday at West Point, where he plans to unveil his new strategy in Afghanistan, including how many more American troops he intends to send there.

Beginning Tuesday, the first of thousands of unemployed Rhode Islanders will exhaust a federal stimulus subsidy that has helped them afford temporary health insurance.

Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., left, accompanied by Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Ariz., right, lifts copy of the Democratic health care reform bill, Friday, Nov.

Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin of Ill. , right, accompanied by Sen. Jack Reed , D-R.I. , gestures during a health care reform news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov.

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will consider President Obama's nomination of Rhode Island Superior Court Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Dec.

More Rhode Islanders than ever now rely on emergency food pantries and soup kitchens, according to the Rhode Island Community Food Bank's 2009 Status Report on Hunger in Rhode Island.

Judaism Jews pray at the Mount of Olives, matzoh is baked in Brooklyn, and thousands of rabbis pose for a group photo.

Invoking the memory of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama.

Providence Bishop Thomas Tobin, is shown in his office in Providence, R.I, in this Aug.

In this Nov. 8, 2006 file photo, Rhode Island Republican Gov. Don Carcieri address the media during a news conference at the Statehouse, in Providence, R.I. Gov.