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President Obama will announce within days whether he will send more troops to Afghanistan, the White House said after he met with his national security team Monday night. "After completing a rigorous final meeting, President Obama has the information he wants and needs to make his decision and he ...
CNN · 50 minutes ago
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Two top Democrats say they want to impose a new tax on the wealthy to finance any increase in U.S. troops for the Afghanistan war. Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., chairman of the purse string-controlling House Appropriations Committee, is calling the idea a "war surtax." He said that just as the federal ...
FOXNews.com · 10 hours ago
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Patrick Kennedy tells newspaper that bishop barred him from Communion Diocese confirms it, says ban came in a confidential pastoral discussion in 2007 Bishop says he's "disappointed" that Kennedy made their conversation public Kennedy fought ban on funding abortion, but voted for health care bill ...
CNN · 4 hours ago
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The acknowledgment of the affair has led to a huge fall from grace for a man that many viewed as a rising star within the GOP. He's now fighting to complete a second term in office that continues through 2012.The Hamptons and Ensigns had been close family friends for years. Hampton told "Nightline" ...
MSNBC · 53 minutes ago
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Sarah Palin drew a crowd of over 4,000 on Monday to her book signing at Fort Bragg, though the former Alaska governor kept her appearance from turning into the kind of "political platform" that some military officials were concerned about. Palin did not give a speech during her three-hour stop at ...
Fox News · 8 hours ago
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Several U.S. policy makers consider JPMorgan Chase’s chief executive, Jamie Dimon, as a potential successor to U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, The New York Post reported, citing sources. Mr. Dimon “would love to serve his country,” the newspaper quoted people familiar with his ...
New York Times · Nov. 23, 2009
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Sen. Joseph Lieberman, speaking in that trademark sonorous baritone, utters a simple statement that translates into real trouble for Democratic leaders: "I'm going to be stubborn on this." Stubborn, he means, in opposing any health-care overhaul that includes a "public option," or government-run ...
FOXNews.com · 5 hours ago
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Senate Democrats cleared a major hurdle this weekend by voting to move ahead with debate on health care reform, but it was hardly a unified party standing behind the bill. 'We can only see the finish line; we have not yet crossed it. The road ahead will be the toughest stretch. But we have momentum ...
CNN · 16 hours ago
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ABC News' reports: Fresh off his week-long trip to Asia, President Obama today assembled his fourth Cabinet meeting of his administration for “updates on progress made across several areas,” including national security, the budget, health insurance, and the economy. Mr. Obama said he ...
ABC News · 13 hours ago
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President Obama announced on Monday a campaign to enlist companies and nonprofit groups to spend money, time and volunteer effort to encourage students, especially in middle and high school, to pursue science, technology, engineering and math.“You know the success we seek is not going to be ...
New York Times · 9 hours ago
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