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Obama Wrote Personal Letter to Kim Jong Il
(Washington Post) This story was written by Glenn Kessler.
President Obama has written a personal letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il that was delivered by the administration's special envoy for North Korea during a visit to Pyongyang last
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Obama resists as liberals attack health care bill
Obama resists as liberals attack health care bill By CHARLES BABINGTON Associated Press Writer Toby Talbot, File FILE - In this Jan. 30, 2008 file photo, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean testifies before the legislature in Montpelier, Vt. Dean argued
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In Health Care Fight It's Dem vs. Dem
(AP) It's one of the oldest spectator sports in American politics: Democrat vs. Democrat. Welcome to the health care overhaul edition.
With just days remaining to prove that they can meet a self-imposed Christmas deadline and pass President
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F.B.I. Accused of Abuse Of Power in Clinton Case
WASHINGTON A former director of the Secret Service said Friday that the F.B.I. had engaged in an “abuse of power” by trying to pressure him to “give us the president” during the investigation of President Bill Clinton’s interactions with Monica
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Obama To Declassify Cold-War Era Documents
WASHINGTON (AP) ―
President Barack Obama plans to deal with a Dec. 31 deadline that automatically would declassify secrets in more than 400 million pages of Cold War-era documents by ordering government-wide changes that could sharply curb the
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Obama naming Hispanics to top posts at record pace
That compares with a total of 30 approved under Bill Clinton and 34 under George W. Bush during their first 20 months in office, according to U.S. Office of Personnel Management data.
The personnel office does not track appointments of judges or
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Obama naming Hispanics to top posts at record pace
MIAMI (AP) - President Barack Obama is on track to name more Hispanics to top posts than any of his predecessors, drawing appointees from a wide range of the nation's Latino communities, including Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans and
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Suit seeks to overturn Tongass roadless exemption
The Organized Village of Kake and other plaintiffs are seeking to end the 2003 decision under the Bush administration that exempted the Tongass from the Clinton-era Roadless Rule. The rule protects roadless areas in national forests from commercial
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North Korea reportedly lauds soldiers who nabbed reporters
Journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee arrive at Hangar 25 on August 5, 2009 in Burbank, California after being released by North Korean authorities. Ling and Lee, of San Francisco based Current TV, were both arrested by North Korea in March for
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Democrats see GOP hypocrisy in health care debate
With no new taxes or spending offsets accompanying the Medicare drug program, the cost has been added to the federal debt.
All current GOP senators, including the 24 who voted for the 2003 Medicare expansion, oppose the health care bill that's backed
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Activist: US Missionary Crosses Into NKorea
SEOUL, South Korea -- A Christian missionary from the U.S. has entered North Korea carrying a letter to leader Kim Jong Il in order to call attention to the tens of thousands of political prisoners believed held in the communist state, an activist said
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Activist: US missionary likely detained in NKorea
Analysts said North Korea would most likely expel the Christian missionary instead of holding him as a negotiating card because that would serve his purpose of highlighting the regime's human rights abuses.
The communist country's state-run media did
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Report: North Korea detains U.S. missionary
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korean border guards apparently detained an American missionary as soon as he walked into the communist nation in an effort to call attention to Pyongyang's human rights abuses, an activist said Monday.
Robert Park, 28,
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North Korea: American detained after illegal entry
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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea announced Tuesday that it has custody of an American who entered the country illegally last week - the first possible word from Pyongyang about an Arizona man who activists say wanted to bring
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Poll: Americans most admire Obama, Clinton, Palin
President Obama is the man Americans admired most in 2009, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, while Secretary of State Hillary RodhamClinton and former Alaska governor Sarah Palin are virtually tied as the most-admired woman. The close finish by Clinton,
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Christianity may put American in danger in NKorea
Park, of Tucson, Arizona, has not been heard from since, but one of the two guides - both North Korean defectors - brought back the black leather jacket, hat and gloves that Park handed over before fleeing across the border, said Jo Sung-rae of the
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Saudi, Norway gov'ts, Streisand, give to Clinton
WASHINGTON -- Foreign countries including Saudi Arabia and Norway gave millions of dollars to former President Bill Clinton's charity, and donors ranging from entertainer Barbra Streisand's foundation to bailout beneficiary American International Group
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Clinton foundation draws eclectic donor list
WASHINGTON - Former President Bill Clinton's charity drew an international roster of donors last year, ranging from Norway and Oman to foreign lotteries, businessmen and celebrities, a contributor list released under an ethics promise by Secretary of
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Today in History - Jan. 3
In 1521, Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Leo X.
In 1777, Gen. George Washington's army routed the British in the Battle of Princeton, N.J.
In 1868, the Meiji Restoration re-established the authority of Japan's
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US ends HIV, AIDS travel ban
HUMAN rights groups have praised the official lifting of a decades-old ban that prevented people with HIV/AIDS from travelling to the United States.
President Barack Obama announced in October last year his administration would end the ban, and the
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PERSPECTIVE: Jobs not strict election predictor
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The conventional wisdom goes something like this: Political party takes power, economy tanks, political party loses power.
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Kids forced on frigid walk after dad's drunken-driving crash, police say
Clinton Township -- A Sterling Heights dad is facing prison time on allegations he took his children on a half-mile walk for help in frigid temperatures Saturday after driving drunk and crashing his vehicle into a ditch.
Clinton Township police today
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Dubai downturn sends ripples throughout Arab world
Even before Dubai's financial crisis, the sheikdom's growing economic woes had begun rippling out across the Arab world, forcing workers like Tamimi back to their home countries, where jobs are scarce and wages often rock bottom. That is eating away
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Volunteers in Calif remove fences to save antelope
CALIFORNIA VALLEY, Calif. - The fences crossing the desolate Carrizo Plain are remnants of the hardscrabble homesteaders who arrived a century ago, then abandoned the arid, alkaline land to the elements.
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Just Biding Our Time Before The Crash In 2011
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest
This will be my tenth annual forecast issue. Time has flown by, and I enter a new decade of writing Thoughts from the Frontline. And even as I write about the high level of uncertainty
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A loophole on tax prep registration
Maybe it's me, but when I see the word "all," I assume it means all-inclusive.
Recently, the Internal Revenue Service announced a major initiative to bring greater scrutiny to the tax preparation industry. IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman wants paid tax
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Clinton visiting Pacific nations for talks on countering terrorism and strengthening relations
Clinton left Monday on a 10-day trip scheduled to take her to Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, with a stop in Hawaii for a policy speech and a one-on-one meeting with her Japanese counterpart.
The trip will highlight the high priority the
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Clinton seeks answer to sticky dispute with Japan
HONOLULU -- Leaping into a deepening dispute with a longtime Asian ally, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is meeting with her Japanese counterpart to discuss the future of a U.S. Marine air field and, more broadly, the U.S.-Japan security
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Haiti Quake Causes Widespread Causalities
(CBS/ AP) Last updated 12:35 a.m. ET
The Haitian capital has largely been destroyed in the most powerful earthquake to hit the country in more than 200 years. Journalists from The Associated Press describe severe and widespread casualties after a
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Obama asks former Presidents Bush and Clinton to help Haiti
President Barack Obama has asked former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton to help with U.S. relief efforts in Haiti.
Enlisting ex-presidents' help in responding to a natural disaster is just what Bush did in 2004 after a tsunami ripped across
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Money Reaches Haiti, but Where will it Go?
(AP) Haiti has received billions of dollars in taxpayer and private aid from the United States and others, yet is so poor that few homes had safe drinking water, sewage disposal or electricity even before the earthquake. With sympathetic donors
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Obama, Dems near health agreement
former President Bill Clinton urged that it be jettisoned. "That Nebraska thing is really hurting us," he told House Democrats in an appearance designed to build support for the overall legislation.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama and top
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If Haiti is to `build back better'
Paul Farmer is the Presley Family Professor in Harvard Medical School, the co-founder of Partners In Health, and the Deputy to Bill Clinton, United Nations Special Envoy to Haiti. A few months ago I joined President Clinton as a volunteer to, in his
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More troops, aid go to Haiti, but hunger persists
If you have relatives that you've spoken to in Haiti or have information to share, we'd like to hear from you. Contact Troncone@northjersey.com or Sforza@northjersey.com
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Troops, doctors and aid workers flowed into Haiti on
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Help steps up, but so does scale of Haiti tragedy
The staggering scope of Haiti's nightmare came into sharper focus Monday as authorities estimated 200,000 dead and 1.5 million homeless in the heart of this luckless land, where injured survivors still died in the streets, doctors pleaded for
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FHA bailout? New real estate fees, loan rules aim to avert one
WASHINGTON The Federal Housing Administration is raising fees and tightening lending standards to shore up its strapped finances and avoid a taxpayer bailout.
The government agency has seen its losses rise with the foreclosure rate. Its reserves have
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Beyonce, Madonna join telethon; DiCaprio gives $1M
Published January 21, 2010 11:46 pm - NEW YORK — Beyonce and Madonna have been added as performers to Friday's multi-network "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon, and Denzel Washington, Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio and former President Bill Clinton are
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Beyonce, Madonna join telethon; Clinton, Pitt, others participating; DiCaprio donates $1M
NEW YORK
- Beyonce and Madonna have been added as performers to Friday's multi-network "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon, and Denzel Washington, Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio and former President Bill Clinton are among the participants.
A statement
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Dems quiet on how to keep pushing health overhaul
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders insist they will push ahead with efforts to overhaul health care. They just aren't explaining how.
Obama acknowledges running into a "bit of a buzz saw" of opposition. A top Democrat
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History Shows Obstacles Can Block Haiti's Recovery
(AP) Former President Bill Clinton, now the U.N. special envoy to Haiti, says the country can be made into a better place than existed before the devastating earthquake struck. But can it? Or do the lessons of history and the country's special
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Rep. Marion Berry Won't Run for Reelection
(CBS/ AP) Congressman Marion Berry says he's retiring after representing Arkansas in the House of Representatives for seven terms.
He is the second Arkansas congressman to announce this month that he is retiring.
The 67-year-old Democrat from
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Mel Gibson Returns to Screen After 71/2 years
LOS ANGELES – The last time Mel Gibson starred in a movie, he was
grappling with alien invaders and a misplaced faith in the sci-fi
thriller "Signs."
That was seven and a half years ago. In the intervening time,
Gibson became a cultural firebrand,
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Backroom Health Care Deals Fuel Voter Anger
WASHINGTON -- Special legislative favors, especially one designed to secure a Nebraska senator's vote for the embattled health care package, ignited so much public outrage that President Barack Obama is calling them a mistake and House leaders say the
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Obama: Gays Have Right To Serve In Military
Obama urged a repeal of the ban on gays in the military during his State Of The Union speech.
WASHINGTON — Reaching out to a skeptical gay community, President Barack Obama on Wednesday urged Congress to repeal the ban on gays and lesbians serving
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About 48 Million Tuned Into State Of Union Speech
LOS ANGELES (AP) ―
About 48 million viewers watched President Barack Obama's first State of the Union address on 11 networks, with Fox TV drawing the biggest share.
The Nielsen Co. said viewership for Wednesday's speech was 7 percent lower than
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Pentagon Starts Clock On Lifting Gay Ban, Warns It Will Be Several-Year Process
WASHINGTON — The Defense Department starts the clock next week on what is expected to be a several-year process in lifting its ban on gays from serving openly in the military.
A special investigation into how the ban can be repealed without hurting the
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Virginia woman wins Miss America
Cameron, the daughter of a background researcher for the government and a contractor, said she was inspired to compete in pageants at age 14, when Miss Virginia 2003 Nancy Redd visited her school.
"At that time, all I knew that I could do was sing --
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Analysis: Dems' missteps led to health breakdown
It wasn't just a political fluke brought on by the surprise election of a Republican senator in true-blue Massachusetts.
Looking back, Obama and his congressional allies failed to appreciate the depth of frustration with Washington — people's desire
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Gates to announce review of military gay ban
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert Gates is promising to try to spare more gay troops from being dismissed from the military while the Pentagon takes a year to study revising its "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
An announcement of the study,
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Lift military ban on gays, defense officials say
President Harry S. Truman's 1948 executive order integrating the services.
WASHINGTON — It's time to repeal the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy and allow gay troops to serve openly for the first time in history, the nation's top defense
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Haiti quake death toll tops 200,000
The number of deaths from last month's earthquake in Haiti has exceeded 200,000, the prime minister says.
The latest figures, revised up from the government's previous figure of 150,000 dead, come as the UN named Bill Clinton, the former US
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North Korea says it will free American missionary detained after crossing border from China
North Korean media reported in a brief dispatch Dec. 29 that authorities had detained an American suspected of illegal entry, but said nothing more about it until Friday, leaving his fate in question for weeks.
The 28-year-old missionary's detainment
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Obama DNC Speech: Says He's Not Giving Up On Health Care Reform
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Saturday sought to assure despondent Democrats he would not abandon his commitment to overhauling health care and would work to counter GOP challenges to their congressional dominance.
At its winter meeting, a
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Wyclef keeps Haiti in his heart amid Super Bowl
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - The contrasts are stark: As Haiti grapples with chaos, death and despair after last month's earthquake, the world's most famous VIPs party in luxurious fashion in preparation for a football game.
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Haiti Protesters Denounce Aid Corruption, Hoarding
Hundreds of Haitian earthquake survivors protested in a suburb of the wrecked capital on Sunday, accusing a district mayor of corruption and hoarding food aid provided by relief groups, witnesses said.
The protest in the Petionville neighborhood of
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Clinton asked to intervene in Haiti kidnap case
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S.-based lawyer for one of 10 American Baptists charged with child kidnapping in Haiti is asking Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to personally intervene in the case.
Attorney Reginald Brown said in a Tuesday letter to
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Obama to take health bill that's not all he wants
Obama's overarching goals are to rein in medical costs and expand coverage to millions of uninsured. Specifically, Obama said he'd be willing to work on ways to limit medical malpractice lawsuits - one of the main ideas Republicans have for reducing
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Clinton surgery after chest pains
Bill Clinton has undergone a heart procedure after being admitted to hospital suffering from chest pains.
The former US President had two stents placed in one of his coronary arteries at the New York Presbyterian hospital in Manhattan.
Hillary Clinton,
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Bill Clinton leaves hospital after heart procedure
NEW YORK - Former President Bill Clinton has left the Manhattan hospital where he underwent a heart procedure, a close friend said Friday.
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Clinton unlikely to slow down after heart procedure
CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. - Right until he was wheeled into an operating room for a heart procedure, Bill Clinton was on the phone, talking about Haiti earthquake relief. An aide finally took the phone away from him.
Today, the 63-year-old former president
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Clinton visits key allies in Persian Gulf
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Clinton: Iran is becoming a military dictatorship
"Iran is moving toward a military dictatorship," she said. "That is our view."
Last week the U.S. Treasury Department announced that it was freezing the assets in U.S. jurisdictions of a Revolutionary Guard general and four subsidiaries of a previously
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Funeral set for John Murtha in Pa.
The funeral for congressman John Murtha is expected to bring former President Bill Clinton and a congressional delegation led by House speaker Nancy Pelosi to the Pennsylvania Democrat's hometown of Johnstown.
The funeral for congressman John Murtha is
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Zsa Zsa's flamboyant husband joins race for CA gov
SACRAMENTO, Calif. Sporting alligator-skin cowboy boots and a bright red campaign cap, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, a flamboyant Los Angeles socialite and eighth husband of Zsa Zsa Gabor, officially joined the California governor's race on
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UN appeals for nearly $1.5 billion for Haiti
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UNITED NATIONS The United Nations launched a new appeal for nearly $1.5 billion Thursday to help the 3 million Haitians affected by last month's devastating earthquake.
The appeal, covering needs in 2010, is more than double the U.N.'
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UN calls for £930m Haiti aid effort
Covering needs in 2010, it is more than double the UN's initial request on January 15 for £362 million to help quake victims for six months.
UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon and his special envoy for Haiti, former US president Bill Clinton, launched
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Robins set to unveil Clinton
Clinton: Signed for Hull KR It'll be good to get out on the field against Huddersfield tomorrow, even if I'm not playing, just so I can have a look at the place and the fans. Joel Clinton Quotes of the week Related links Teams Huddersfield Giants Hull K
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New book casts UK's Brown as angry, abusive
The description, carried in book "The End of the Party," by The Observer journalist Andrew Rawnsley, is vigorously contested by Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his lieutenants — who say that, while the prime minister does get angry, he's not a
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Obama Details Plan to Expand Health Care to Uninsured
WASHINGTON President Obama on Monday laid out for the first time a detailed legislative proposal for overhauling health care, largely sticking with the approach passed by the Senate with unified Democratic support in December but making concessions to
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In Obama's Shadow, Friends Serve Key Role
(AP) Even a president needs to have a BFF or two.
Meet Chicago businessman Marty Nesbitt and hospital executive Eric Whitaker. There's a good chance you may have seen them already.
They're regulars at President Obama's side: tagging along when he
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Clinton says little choice but sanctions on Iran
In congressional testimony, Clinton said Iran's failure to accept the Obama administration's offers of engagement and prove its nuclear intentions are peaceful had given the U.S. and its partners new resolve in pressuring Tehran to comply with
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NJ mother of starving children ends prison term
CLINTON, N.J.—The New Jersey woman accused of starving her four adopted sons has completed her prison sentence.
Vanessa Jackson served just over four years of a 7-year sentence at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton.
Jackson
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Legal troubles aside, ex-Detroit mayor lives large
DETROIT If ever a public figure should be down for the count, it is Kwame Kilpatrick.
Stripped of his job as Detroit's mayor, locked in jail for 99 days and saddled with a felony record, he is legally prohibited from seeking the only occupation
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Barack Obama to stick close to Sydney
Mr Obama will be the fifth US president to visit Australia.
He will be accompanied by his wife, Michelle, and children Malia and Sasha.
The family have expressed interest in seeing wildlife such as koalas, kangaroos, wombats and platypuses.
Sources
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Clinton to tour Latin America
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is heading to Latin America on a weeklong, five-nation tour expected to be dominated by the earthquake in Chile and building support for fresh penalties against Iran.
Clinton plans to leave
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Clinton's Latin America tour aims to boost reengagement with region
Clinton will attend the presidential inauguration of former Uruguayan leftist rebel Jose Mujica in Montevideo and then meet with Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez in Buenos Aires before heading to Santiago for talks with Chilean President
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Clinton in quake-hit Chile to offer support
State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said in Washington on Monday that Chile has also asked for a field hospital and water purification systems. Other details of U.S. aid are to be worked out during Clinton's visit.
U.S. officials said Chile would
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SNL 'presidents' gather for summit on FunnyOrDie
NEW YORK (AP) — The comedians who played presidents on "Saturday Night Live" have gathered for a comedic summit in a new Web video on FunnyOrDie.com.
The video, posted Wednesday, stars Fred Armisen as President Barack Obama. During the night he is
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Clinton to Meet With Latin American Officials
Clinton arrived in the capital, San Jose, early Thursday morning and will meet with officials from 16 Central and South American nations at a conference aimed at promoting reform.
Costa Rica is the second to last stop on Clinton's weeklong,
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Shaw’s Supermarkets laying off 967 in Conn.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Shaw’s Supermarkets Inc. will be laying off 967 workers in Connecticut as it sells all its stores in the state.
Shaw’s parent company, Minneapolis-based SuperValu Inc., says it will be cutting jobs at stores in East Hartford,
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Paul Krugman: Aliens in Congress
So the Bunning blockade is over. For days, Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., exploited Senate rules to block a one-month extension of unemployment benefits. In the end, he gave in, although not soon enough to prevent an interruption of payments to around 100,000
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Clinton praises Iraqis for important national vote
WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the Iraqi election is a perfect way to counter the violent extremists who seek to derail Iraq's progress.
Clinton is thanking Iraqi officials and security forces for overseeing the polls
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Conservationist Edgar Wayburn dies at 103
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SAN FRANCISCO Dr. Edgar Wayburn, a five-term president of the Sierra Club who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for working to preserve vast tracts of U.S. wilderness, has died. He was 103.
Wayburn died Friday at his home in
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Is Palin a Candidate, Pundit or Celebrity?
(AP) For more than a year, Sarah Palin has been one of the most famous political and cultural figures in America. Even by that standard, though, last week was an extraordinary one.
On Thursday came word that the former Alaska governor was working
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Clinton, Gates say US help abroad improves image
Bill Clinton and Bill Gates have told a Senate panel that U.S. investments in fighting AIDS, malaria and other diseases in underdeveloped nations play a vital role in improving America's image abroad.
Bill Clinton and Bill Gates have told a Senate
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Lawmaker's clash with fellow Democrats nothing new
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U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Menominee meets with George O'Hara at the Page Street Senior Center in West Branch, Mich., Monday, March 8, 2010. Stupak withstood President Bill Clinton's charm offensive and voted against free-trade
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Government sends e-mails; it just can't save them
FILE - In this 1973 file photo, Rose Mary Woods, President Richard Nixon's secretary at her White House desk, demonstrates the "Rose Mary Stretch" which could have resulted in the erasure of part of the Watergate tapes. As the Justice Department hunts
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Obama chooses 1st young appeals court nominee
Thirteen months into his presidency, Barack Obama finally gave liberal supporters the kind of judicial nominee they had sought and conservatives feared.
Goodwin Liu, 39, is an unabashed liberal legal scholar who, if confirmed, could become a force on
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Obama chooses 1st young appeals court nominee
WASHINGTON - Thirteen months into his presidency, Barack Obama finally gave liberal supporters the kind of judicial nominee they had sought and conservatives feared.
Goodwin Liu, 39, is an unabashed liberal legal scholar who, if confirmed, could become
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U.S. consulate employee slain in drug-ridden Mexican city
"The safety and security of our personnel and their families in Mexico and at posts around the world is always our highest priority," Clinton said, adding the State Department would "do everything necessary to protect our people and to ensure that the
