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Historic health care bill clears Senate hurdle
35 mins ago
Invoking the memory of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama. There was not a vote to spare.
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Terror trials differ in civilian, military courts
3 hours ago
The federal courts and military tribunals that will prosecute suspected terrorists vary sharply in their independence, public stature and use of evidence. But the Obama administration has so far offered no clear-cut rationale for how it chooses which system will try a detainee.
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Senate Roll Call: Health Care
3 hours 17 mins ago
The 60-39 roll call Saturday by which the Senate voted to advance a measure overhauling health care to a full debate.
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Obama has low-key evening out after long week
5 hours ago
President Barack Obama and his family spent a low-key night out at the home of a senior White House adviser after a whirlwind week spent on a presidential trip to Asia.
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Levin: More e-mails from Ft. Hood suspect possible
5 hours 19 mins ago
WASHINGTON _ The government intercepted at least 18 e-mails between the alleged Fort Hood gunman and a radical Muslim cleric, and a key senator says there could be more communications that might have tipped off law enforcement or military officials.
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US to drop shooting case against Blackwater guard
14 hours 50 mins ago
The Justice Department intends to drop manslaughter and weapons charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, prosecutors said in court documents Friday.
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FAA says equipment outage caused 819 flight delays
1 day ago
The Federal Aviation Administration is blaming an equipment outage this week for delaying 819 flights.
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Couple pleads guilty in Cuban spying case
1 day ago
A retired State Department worker and his wife accused of a decades-long plot to spy for Cuba pleaded guilty Friday in a deal that will leave him behind bars for the rest of his life but gives her a chance at freedom in six years.
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