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Reid seeks extension of jobless aid
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is pressing to extend unemployment benefits and health insurance subsidies for the jobless through December as he and Republicans try to clear leftover Senate business....Pa. abortion doctor's license suspended after raid
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Federal agents raided a clinic where abortions are performed and found "deplorable and unsanitary" conditions, including blood on the floor and parts of aborted fetuses in jars, according to the state agency that shut it down and suspended the license of the doctor in charge....
Navy will soon let women serve on subs
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon has moved to lift a decades-old policy that prohibits women from serving aboard Navy submarines, part of a gradual reconsideration of women's roles in a military fighting two wars whose front lines can be anywhere....GOP's Brown branded turncoat for jobs bill vote
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BOSTON (AP) -- A month after being crowned the darling of national conservatives, Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts is being branded "Benedict Brown" for siding with Democrats in favor of a jobs bill endorsed by the Obama administration....
Dems, GOP: Summit will not break logjam on health
By News on Feb 23, 2010 | Comment »
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Here's one point on which Democrats and Republicans agree on health care: President Barack Obama's much-touted televised summit has virtually no chance of breaking the political logjam, forcing Democrats to find a way to pass an overhaul on their own or face a huge political defeat....
