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Already-skittish moderate Democrats in Congress got fresh reasons Wednesday to worry about their votes on economic and health care legislation from the election results in Virginia and New Jersey.

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MeritCare -Sanford merger gets ND approval Eds: APNewsNow. Fargo , N.D. North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem has signed off on the merger of the two largest health systems in the Dakotas.

An Oklahoma man accused in the death of a North Dakota dentist has waived extradition.

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Faced with anxiety in financial markets about the huge federal deficit and the potential for it to become an electoral liability for Democrats, the White House and Congressional leaders are weighing options for narrowing the gap, including a bipartisan commission that could force tax increases and spending cuts.

NDVirgil Hill,0199 Virgil Hill training fighters; still wants another ND bout Bismarck , N.D. North Dakota boxer Virgil Hill says he'd still like another fight in his home state.

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If Congress can't stop itself from spending the nation into everlasting debt, give the controls to somebody else.

North Dakota 's oil patch has gotten a lot of attention over the last couple years... The discovery of the Bakken formation and it's potential has increased the drilling going on in western North Dakota.

Does anyone in Washington tell the truth? Why should Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid be believed when he promises that states can "opt out" of a public option on health care? This isn't like opting out of sex-education class.

The Senate Finance Committee's ranking Republican Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, second from right, makes a point as he talks about the public option during the markup of health care legislation, Tuesday, Sept.

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If Congress can't stop itself from spending the nation into everlasting debt, give the controls to somebody else.

The House prepared to attack health insurers on two fronts, with Democrats seeking to pass the strongest form of a U.S. government-run insurance plan and a panel voting to strip the industrya s antitrust exemption.

As readers of this blog know, I've been pointing out that the Countrywide scandal is far from a closed case despite attempts by apologists for Democrat Senators Kent Conrad and Chris Dodd to close the book on the matter after the Senate Ethics Committee's "investigation." And by "investigation" I mean the letter they issued clearing Conrad and Dodd ...

CONCORD The Hodes for Senate campaign is scrambling this morning to minimize the political fallout caused by the release of an embarrassing video of the Congressman dodging a key vote on an investigation into a major mortgage scandal.

As we've reported, a compromise is emerging in the Senate on a public option that give states the opportunity to either opt out of or opt in.A Democratic sources say the former, rather than the later, is preferred by Majority Leader Harry Reid, but some concerns still exists for moderate Dems, like Sens.

Oct. 22, 2009 10:11 p.m. I don't often have reason to say, Thank you , to our Wisconsin Senators Herb Kohl and Russ Feingold.

A handful of centrist Senate Democrats, along with moderate Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe, could pose a major problem for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as he tries to pull health care reform legislation to the floor.