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WH understands frustration with Cash for Clunkers
By News on Aug 20, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House says it understands some of the frustration automobile dealers are feeling about the government's Cash for Clunkers vehicle trade-in program....
Ex-DHS chief links politics to terror alerts
By News on Aug 20, 2009
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge claims in a new book that he was pressured by other members of President George W. Bush's Cabinet to raise the nation's terror alert level just before the 2004 presidential election....Obama guarantees health care overhaul will pass
By News on Aug 20, 2009
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama guaranteed Thursday that his health care overhaul will win approval and said any bill he signs will have to reduce rapidly rising costs, protect consumers from insurance abuses and provide affordable choices to the uninsured - while not adding to the federal deficit....Obama stands by belief a public option is viable
By News on Aug 20, 2009
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is standing his position that a public option for health insurance coverage should be considered as part of legislation to overhaul the health care system....Scotland frees terminally ill Lockerbie bomber
By News on Aug 20, 2009
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EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) -- Scotland freed the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds Thursday, letting him go home to Libya to die and rejecting American pleas to show no mercy to the man responsible for the 1988 attack that killed 270 people....