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Baucus predicts health care overhaul this year
By News on Aug 31, 2009
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HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Max Baucus of Montana says a health care overhaul will happen this year even if Republicans back out of bipartisan talks under growing public pressure and that the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy could help hold together a compromise deal....Hearing date set on possible Kennedy replacement
By News on Aug 31, 2009
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BOSTON (AP) -- Massachusetts legislators have scheduled a public hearing on whether to change state law to allow the governor to name an interim replacement for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy....US officials cancel contract to profile reporters
By News on Aug 31, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. military authorities in Afghanistan have terminated a contract with a company that was producing profiles of reporters seeking to cover a war that's becoming increasingly unpopular with the American public....
Ridge: Talk of terror-alert politics exaggerated
By News on Aug 31, 2009
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Monday people "are hyperventilating" about his assertion that politics played a role in talk of raising the terror alert before the 2004 elections....Justice Dept. again fielding charges of politics
By News on Aug 30, 2009
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Besieged during the Bush administration for bending to the White House's will, the Justice Department is again accused of playing politics with cases - this time in investigating whether CIA interrogators illegally abused terror suspects....