AP - A final agreement nearly in hand, President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders are about to embark on one last sales job that will determine the outcome of the president's signature health care overhaul.

[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:10:35 GMT]
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AP - On Christmas Day, a passenger on a Northwest Airlines flight bound for Detroit tried to blow up the plane with plastic explosives in his underwear. He failed, yet the very attempt shook the U.S. government, set federal agencies against each other and triggered months of political second-guessing.

[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:04:29 GMT]
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AP - Toyota's massive recalls are bringing new scrutiny to the government's auto safety agency, prompting Congress to look at how federal safety officials have lived up to their mission of protecting motorists.

[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:06:22 GMT]
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Politico - Both Democrats and Republicans are speaking against the ban.
[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:09:57 GMT]
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Politico - Mike Allen speaks with Karl Rove about his new book "Courage and Consequence."
[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:34:35 GMT]
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AP - One is a former Democratic freshman little known outside his Corning-Olean-Pittsford, N.Y., district. The other, a 20-term Democratic kingpin from Harlem, is widely known to New Yorkers and anyone following tax legislation.

[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:09:47 GMT]
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AP - A conservative group's bashing of several Obama administration lawyers as the "al-Qaida Seven" has struck a nerve in the U.S. legal community, prompting even some fellow Republicans to denounce the group's attack.

[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:05:58 GMT]
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Reuters - The Senate on Wednesday passed a $149 billion package of jobless aid and tax breaks, as Democrats continued efforts to lower the 9.7 percent unemployment rate before congressional elections in November.
[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:45:06 GMT]
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AP - The following products are being recalled because they could be contaminated with salmonella, an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children and others with weakened immune systems:
[Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:32:36 GMT]
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The Christian Science Monitor - It’s starting to look like the Hatfields versus the McCoys. Except, in this instance, it’s two branches of government duking it out: the judicial branch (Chief Justice John Roberts) versus the executive (President Obama).
[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:23:36 GMT]
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AP - The Associated Press-GfK Poll on President Obama, the direction of the country and health care was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media from March 3-8. It is based on landline and cell phone telephone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,002 adults. Interviews were conducted with 702 respondents on landline telephones and 300 on cellular phones.
[Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:18:04 GMT]
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Reuters - A Republican senator who held up action earlier this month on a bill to renew jobless benefits faced more criticism on Wednesday for blocking approval of President Barack Obama's nominee to be U.S. ambassador to the World Trade Organization.
[Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:04:29 GMT]
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AFP - The United States is unhappy with the current framework of the Doha Round of negotiations to forge a global trade accord, a key lawmaker said Wednesday after talks with WTO chief Pascal Lamy.

[Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:01:19 GMT]
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AP - Wildlife officials lauded Washington's "holistic approach" to conservation in Hawaii after the Obama administration declared 48 species as endangered and announced plans to set aside more than 40 square miles on Kauai as critical habitat to allow the plants and animals to flourish.

[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:32:21 GMT]
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McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives rejected a resolution Wednesday that called on President Barack Obama to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan by year's end.
[Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:17:00 GMT]
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CQPolitics.com - While Senate Republicans boast top-flight female candidates in several marquee races, there appears to be a dearth of GOP women running in some of the most competitive House races across the country.
[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:01:15 GMT]
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Bloomberg - Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp.’s handling of recalls came under mounting criticism on the eve of the automaker’s U.S. congressional testimony, including charges that the company misled the public on the adequacy of its recalls.

[Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:28:42 GMT]
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