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Debt and spending deal picks up momentum in Senate

By doris | Published: August 1, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House and congressional leaders worked Monday to align lawmakers from both parties behind their formula for averting a financial meltdown and halting the government’s prolific spending habits. Despite resistance from both liberals and conservatives, momentum appeared to be building in support of the compromise deficit-reduction plan. [...]

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Minn. governor, GOP reach deal to end shutdown

By doris | Published: July 14, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota’s Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton and Republican lawmakers reached a deal to end what has become the longest state shutdown in recent U.S. history. The deal came after a three-hour negotiating session that followed major concessions by Dayton. If details are worked out and approved by state [...]

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Giffords released from Houston hospital

By doris | Published: June 15, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com HOUSTON — U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords reached a major milestone in her recovery Wednesday when she was discharged from a Houston hospital where she has spent the past five months recovering from a gunshot wound to the head. Doctors treating the Arizona congresswoman at TIRR Memorial Hermann said her cognitive abilities [...]

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Bin Laden hideout location challenges Pakistan credibility

By doris | Published: May 2, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com Osama bin Laden’s presence in an elaborately fortified million-dollar compound “raises questions” about what some Pakistani officials might have known about the al-Qaida leader’s presence prior to Sunday’s raid that killed him, the top White House counterterrorism adviser said Monday. The pointed comments by White House advisor John Brennan come amid [...]

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Congress passes budget deal despite GOP defections

By doris | Published: April 14, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — A budget deal reached last week to avert a government shutdown won approval Thursday from both the House and Senate, sending it to President Barack Obama for his signature. The measure cuts $38.5 billion in spending while funding the government for the rest of the current fiscal year, [...]

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Shutdown would take away $32 million a day from national parks

By doris | Published: April 10, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com New York (CNN) — An average of $32 million a day in national parks revenue could be shut off if the Beltway showdown results in a government shutdown, officials say. The measure would be the first shutdown in more than 15 years, shuttering national parks, seashores and historic sites, and barring [...]

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18 days of protest culminate in Mubarak’s ouster

By doris | Published: February 11, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Cairo, Egypt (CNN) — Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down Friday and handed over power to the military, his nearly three decades of iron rule ended by a groundswell of popular protests that began January 25. In a somber one-minute announcement on state television, Vice President Omar Suleiman announced Mubarak’s resignation [...]

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Clinton loses Iran official at ‘hello’

By doris | Published: December 4, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com The U.S. secretary of state had a rare chance to interact with Iran’s foreign minister at a Bahrain security conference, which Clinton used to deliver a message to Tehran on the need to engage with the international community over its nuclear program at next week’s talks in Geneva. But while Clinton’s [...]

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WikiLeaks cut off from Amazon servers

By doris | Published: December 2, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Amazon, whose servers have been home to WikiLeaks since earlier this week, has quit hosting it, the website behind a massive disclosure of controversial documents said Wednesday. WikiLeaks confirmed the move on its Twitter feed Wednesday afternoon. “WikiLeaks servers at Amazon ousted,” read a post from shortly before 3 [...]

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Clinton draws parallels between ‘upheaval’ of 1995, today

By doris | Published: April 18, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Former President Clinton said he sees parallels in the mood of the country now and on April 19, 1995, when the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City killed 168 people while he was in the White House. “There’s the same kind of economic and social upheaval now,” [...]

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Karzai calls Clinton amid US criticism

By doris | Published: April 3, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON – Afghan President Hamid Karzai called Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday after the Obama administration expressed dismay at his assertion a day earlier that the international community was to blame for the controversy over last year’s disputed Afghan election. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Karzai used [...]

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US census forms arrive in the mail: What to expect

By doris | Published: March 15, 2010

Full Story at google.com More than 120 million U.S. census forms begin arriving Monday in mailboxes around the country, in the government’s once-a-decade population count that will be used to divvy up congressional seats and more than $400 billion in federal aid. Fast-growing states in the South and the West could stand to lose the [...]

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Clinton visits quake-hit Chile to offer support

By doris | Published: March 3, 2010

Full Story at  msnbc.com U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made a small dent in Chile’s growing needs following a massive earthquake, handing over 25 satellite phones while promising more Tuesday in the country’s capital.

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First U.S. military aid reaches quake-stricken Haiti

By doris | Published: January 15, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — With the first of its flights touching down in earthquake-devastated Haiti late Wednesday afternoon, the U.S. began deploying military planes, ships and ground troops to the Caribbean nation. One of two planes carrying a 30-person assessment team arrived at Port-au-Prince airport about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. The team will [...]

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Troops, families mixed over Obama’s surge

By doris | Published: December 2, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com JACKSONVILLE, N.C. – Battle-weary troops and their families braced for a wrenching round of new deployments to Afghanistan announced Tuesday by the president, but many said they support the surge as long as it helps to end the eight-year-old conflict. As President Barack Obama outlined his plan to send 30,000 extra [...]

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Can tech personalities break into politics?

By doris | Published: September 29, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com But what about a tech geek? Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman wants to move into politics with a run for the job of governor of California in 2010. In doing so, she is, in effect, trying to prove that high-tech personas have become mainstream and trusted enough to take up political [...]

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Whistle-blower: Contractor mischief in Kabul ‘over the top’

By doris | Published: September 6, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Terry Pearson, who worked as an operations manager for contractor R.A. International at Camp Sullivan in Afghanistan, said he witnessed mistreatment among the guards employed by ArmorGroup North America, who were housed at the camp. “It was just downright stupid, some of the things they were doing,” Pearson told CNN. “And [...]

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Doctors see benefit in end-of-life controversy

By doris | Published: August 15, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com The paragraphs, buried deep in the 1,000-page House health reform bill, appear innocuous, but they have ignited a firestorm among critics predicting government-sponsored euthanasia. The controversy, over proposed Medicare funding of end-of-life counseling, has come to epitomize some of people’s deepest fears about the government’s role in health care. Yet physicians [...]

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Defiant North Korea ‘to weaponize plutonium’

By doris | Published: June 13, 2009

Full Story At CNN.com North Korea officials said they were enriching uranium and would weaponize all plutonium, according to KCNA, the state-run North Korean news agency. When enriched to a high degree, uranium can be used for weapons-grade material. Plutonium can be used in atomic bombs. These moves are in response to Friday’s U.N. resolution, [...]

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Fidel Castro: Obama Misinterpreted Raul

By doris | Published: April 22, 2009

Full Story At  CBS News (AP) Fidel Castro said Tuesday that President Obama “misinterpreted” his brother Raul’s sentiments toward the United States and bristled at any suggestion Cuba should free political prisoners or reduce official fees on money sent to the island from the U.S. Raul Castro touched off a whirlwind of speculation that the [...]

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