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Fewer people apply for unemployment benefits
By News on Dec 16, 2010
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fewer people applied for unemployment benefits last week, the third drop in the past four weeks and a sign that the job market is slowly improving....Obama war review: Taliban, al-Qaida diminished
By News on Dec 16, 2010
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's expansion of the war in Afghanistan has eroded the power of the al-Qaida terrorists who attacked America in 2001 and the resurgent Taliban militants who gave them cover, according to his own government's review. The findings ensure that Obama will stay the course, with U.S. forces to remain at war through 2014....House votes again to lift restrictions on gays
By News on Dec 15, 2010
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- For the second time this year the House voted to dismantle the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, giving the Senate a final shot in the waning days of this Congress at changing a law requiring thousands of uniformed gays to hide their sexual identity....Senate acts; Keeping tax rates intact up to House
By News on Dec 15, 2010
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a sweeping tax package that would save millions of Americans thousands of dollars in higher taxes while also reducing their Social Security taxes and extending jobless benefits....WH: GOP delay on nuclear treaty is 'new low'
By News on Dec 15, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is forcefully accusing Republicans of reaching a 'new low' by threatening to use delaying tactics to hold up ratification of a new nuclear treaty with Russia....
