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3 hrs ago | York Dispatch

Kennedy to speak on health care after church feud

Congressman Patrick Kennedy is to make his first public appearance since heightening a feud with Rhode Island's Roman Catholic bishop over abortion.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Patrick Kennedy, Roman Catholic Church, Religion, Brown University

8 hrs ago | Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Whitman tries courting women in Calif. gov race

As Meg Whitman has been introducing herself to California voters, she retells a line that usually generates a chuckle: "The next governor of California needs to know exactly what SHE believes." The statement conveys the kind of confidence the former eBay executive displayed in her trailblazing role as the female head of a Fortune 500 company.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Nancy Pelosi, US News, US House of Representatives, California

12 hrs ago | SavannahNow

Dinner crashers shook hands with President Obama

This photo released by the White House Nov. 27, 2009, shows President Barack Obama greeting Michaele and Tareq Salahi, right, at a State Dinner hosted by Obama for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the White House in Washington Tuesday, Nov.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Barack Obama, Manmohan Singh, World News, India, Asia, Edolphus Towns, US House of Representatives, Entertainment

17 hrs ago | Port Clinton News Herald

Hospitals brace for new state fee

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio hospitals, which have been cutting staff and medical services amid the recession, are bracing for a new state fee that begins Monday.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Ted Strickland, US News, Ohio, US House of Representatives, Columbus Metro, Columbus, OH, Medicaid, Health

21 hrs ago | Myrtle Beach Online

Expiring health insurance subsidy imperils laid-off Americans

Just before Don Hall and his family left town for Thanksgiving, the laid-off manufacturing supervisor from Castalia, Ohio, wrote a $763.81 check to his health insurance company for his December payment.

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Related Topix: Health Insurance, Health, Life, Thanksgiving, Castalia, OH, Holidays, US News, US House of Representatives, US Politics, Sherrod Brown, US Senate, Industrial, Consolidated

Fri Nov 27, 2009

WJBF-TV Augusta

Chambliss Urges More Troops For Afghanistan

Sen. Saxby Chambliss is leading a Georgia congressional delegation that's visiting Afghanistan, and he says the U.S. must increase it troop strength there.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Saxby Chambliss, John Barrow, Lynn Westmoreland, US House of Representatives, Tom Price, Georgia, Georgia Government

KVAL - News - Tech

Government delays new ban on Internet gambling

The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve are giving U.S. financial institutions an additional six months to comply with regulations designed to ban Internet gambling.

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Related Topix: US House of Representatives, US Politics, Barney Frank, US News

Los Angeles Times

Democrats work on multibillion-dollar jobs package

Reporting from Washington - Troubled by the rising jobless rate, President Obama and the Democratic majority in Congress are assembling a new jobs package that would devote billions of dollars to projects meant to put people back on payrolls in 2010 and keep them working.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US House of Representatives, Representative Betty Sutton, Ohio

Bloomberg

Obama Will Attend UN Climate-Change Meeting in Copenhagen, Official Says

President Barack Obama will travel to Copenhagen for climate-change talks, where hea ll offer to cut U.S. emissions about 17 percent by 2020 in an effort to help break a deadlock between rich and poor nations.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Global Warming, Travel, Denmark Travel, John Kerry, US Senate, Wilmington, DE

Free Republic

Krauthammer: Pending Climate Change Legislation a 'Dead Parrot'

After the U.S. House of Representatives passed cap-and-trade legislation earlier this year by a thin seven-vote margin earlier this year, the possibility that it could become law seemed like it was a real one.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barbara Boxer, US Senate, John Kerry

Thu Nov 26, 2009

WIAT-TV Birmingham

Charter schools become governor's race issue

The six contenders for the Republican nomination have also chimed in on the issue a ' mostly supporting the idea of charter schools, though with varying degrees of enthusiasm.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Artur Davis, Alabama Government, Alabama, Education Etc.

WHDH

Kirk's low-key approach in Senate drawing notice

Paul Kirk never figured to upstage the legend whose death paved his road to the Senate.

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Related Topix: US Politics, John Kerry, US News, US Senate, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Government, Boston University, Abortion

Boston Herald

Immigration reform activists diversifying ranks

Beyond the noisy town hall meetings, Tea Party protests and sky-is-falling speeches characterizing much of the health care debate is a less visible, but no less intense push to broaden the face of the immigration reform movement.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Representative Yvette Clarke, US House of Representatives, Barack Obama, Asian-American

TwinCities.com

How to pay for the war in Afghanistan? Taxes, top Democrats say

Abraham Lincoln levied the country's first income tax to help pay soldiers and buy rifles for the Civil War.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, US House of Representatives, David Obey

TwinCities.com

Obama to go to climate talks

The White House announced Wednesday that President Barack Obama will attend U.N.-sponsored climate talks next month in Copenhagen and commit the United States to specific targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, US Senate, John Kerry

Wed Nov 25, 2009

KSTU - Fox 13

Pro-immigrant political action committees see their...

Two fledgling political action committees that support allowing some illegal immigrants to become citizens are raising more money than their immigration-control counterparts, signaling a possible fundraising shift ahead of next year's congressional races.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US News, Illegal Immigration, US Politics, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, US Senate

KATU-TV Portland

Family: Fort Lewis soldier was murdered

The family of a Fort Lewis soldier who died in a non-combat shooting in Iraq says she was killed execution-style, with a bullet in the back of the head.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Army, Fort Lewis, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Colonie, NY

Reuters

Health public option fight - symbol over substance

The fight over a U.S. government-run public insurance plan may be getting louder and noisier, but for now the program's political symbolism far exceeds its practical impact on expanding health coverage.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Senator Ben Nelson, US Senate

Portland's CW32 KRCW -TV

Former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs considers NJ Senate run, possible stop for White House bid

Former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs is seriously considering running for U.S. Senate in New Jersey as "an intermediary step" that could lead to a run for the White House.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, Robert Menendez, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, US Senate, Fred Thompson

Fox 8 - WJW

Doctor pulled in to help Ohio execution team find vein...

In this May 8, 2007 file photo, Dr. Jay Chapman holds a human skull from Nepal that has been hand decorated with silver at his home in Napa, Calif.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Ted Strickland, US News, US House of Representatives, Ohio, Prison, Columbus Metro, Columbus, OH

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