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Poll: Reid's re-election numbers don't add up — CARSON CITY — Nearly half of Nevadans have had enough of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as the powerful Democrat heads into his re-election campaign, a new Las Vegas Review-Journal poll finds. — About a third of the state's voters …
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Kennedy's cancer in remission — Sen. Edward Kennedy's brain cancer is in remission and the Massachusetts Democrat is expected back in the Senate after the Memorial Day recess, according to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. — Sen. Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday that he spoke with Kennedy's wife …
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Credit Card Industry Aims to Profit From Sterling Payers — Credit cards have long been a very good deal for people who pay their bills on time and in full. Even as card companies imposed punitive fees and penalties on those late with their payments, the best customers racked up cash-back rewards …
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Senate Passes Bill Curtailing Credit Card Industry — The Senate today overwhelmingly passed a bill that would sharply curtail credit card issuers' ability to raise interest rates and charge fees, taking a critical step in reforming an industry that has gone largely unregulated for decades.
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CIA Officials Fear That New Rules May Hinder Interrogations — Intelligence Officials Privately Warn That New Rules May Hinder Their Interrogations — Battered by recriminations over waterboarding and other harsh techniques sanctioned by the Bush administration, the CIA is girding itself …
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UPDATED: Source: “EIT” Term Wasn't In Use When Pelosi Was Briefed — Here's yet another reason (as if more were needed) to doubt that that CIA briefings document perfectly reflects what lawmakers were told about torture back in the early days of the war on terror.
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Here We Go — Walter Pincus commences the drumbeat …
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Steele Threatens to Quit if RNC Undermines Funding Authority — Michael Steele, who is delivering a speech Tuesday on the future of the GOP, says some of the animosity in the RNC is from people in the party who supported other candidates for chairman. — FOXNews.com
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Steele threatens to quit the RNC if he's pushed to become a ‘figurehead chairman.’
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Senate Democrats won't fund Gitmo closing for now — WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's allies in the Senate will not provide funds to close the Guantanamo Bay prison until the administration comes up with a satisfactory plan for transferring the detainees held there, top Democrats said Tuesday.
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Anderson Cooper Says “Teabagging” Comment Was “Stupid, Silly” — CNN's Anderson Cooper spoke at UCLA Sunday as part of the Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture Series, and was asked about his “teabagging” comment last month during the Q&A portion. — Here is a video of his response, taken by an audience member.
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Huntsman's mission — This, from the blog of a Utah State Rep. Craig Frank, may not be quite what Huntsman and Obama were thinking: — This is a big deal for the Governor, Utah, the United States, and...the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS).
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GOOD FOR HUNTSMAN, BUT NO ONE KNOWS HOW 2012 WILL SHAKE OUT.
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The GOP's future on the long boat to China
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CORRECTED - UPDATE 1-GM bankruptcy plan eyes quick sale to gov't — General Motors Corp's (GM.N) plan for a bankruptcy filing involves a quick sale of the company's healthy assets to a new company initially owned by the U.S. government, a source familiar with the situation said on Tuesday.
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Obama Avoids Test on Gays in Military — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has decided to accept an appeals-court ruling that could undermine the military's ban on service members found to be gay. — A federal appeals court in San Francisco last year ruled that the government must justify …
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DCorps: New Survey Reveals Obama Closing the Democrats Historical National Security Gap — Democracy Corps — Research Categories … Executive Summary — A new Democracy Corps poll released by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner today shows that after 100 days in office, President Barack Obama has …
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The Guy Behind the Palin Pick — RICK'S PICK — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin can thank Washington lobbyist and political consultant Rick Davis, chief executive officer of John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, for being the ultimate pick to become the Republican vice presidential candidate.
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The President's hair — The caption from the White House Flickr feed: “The youngster wanted to see if the President's haircut felt like his own.” — post comment | … Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1) — The son of a White House staff member during a family visit to the Oval Office May 8, 2009.
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Uighurs Fire Back At Gingrich From Gitmo: “Why Does He Hate Us So Much?” — Chinese Muslims known as Uighurs, detained for more than six years and counting at the American prison at Guantanamo Bay, are firing back at Newt Gingrich, who has accused them of terrorist ties and says that releasing …
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Poll: Democrats and Repulicans agree on photos — WASHINGTON (CNN) - It isn't often that Democrats and Republicans see eye to eye. But on the thorny question of whether photos of U.S. military personnel allegedly abusing Iraqi prisoners should be released, a new national poll suggests Democrats and Republicans appear to agree.
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Netanyahu stands firm against demands from Obama — Israel stood firm against demands from Barack Obama on Monday to cease the construction of Jewish settlements and embrace the “two-state solution” to achieving peace in the Middle East. — Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister …
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The Old Time and the New Newsweek — Twenty-seven years ago, I began my professional career at Time Magazine as a reporter-researcher in the World section, which was devoted to international news. Generally speaking, the World section ran 12 pages in the magazine.
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Obama Scored Big at Notre Dame — At least the president is forthright about his principles. — Printer — Friendly — Seldom does dawn rise on an America where the morning's New York Times displays a more intuitive grasp of a story than the New York Post.
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Obama's new rules will transform US auto fleet — DETROIT - Some soccer moms will have to give up hulking SUVs. Carpenters will still haul materials around in pickup trucks, but they will cost more. Nearly everybody else will drive smaller cars, and more of them will run on electricity.
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Rumsfeld disputes GQ report — An aide to former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Keith Urbahn, e-mails to contest a widely discussed GQ article by Robert Draper, which suggested that Rumsfeld “appreciated” the practice of quoting Biblical quotations on the cover sheets of classified briefings …
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Dan Brown's America — The movie treatment of his novel, “Angels and Demons,” is cleaning up at the box office this week. The sequel to “The DaVinci Code,” due out in November, might bouy the publishing industry through the recession. And if you want to understand the state of American religion …
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GPS system ‘close to breakdown’ — Network of satellites could begin to fail as early as 2010 — It has become one of the staples of modern, hi-tech life: using satellite navigation tools built into your car or mobile phone to find your way from A to B. But experts have warned that the system may be close to breakdown.
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Obama's $1,300 car tax — Nobody in the White House is going to call the president's “mileage and pollution” plan what it is. — It's a $1,300 car tax. On the working class. On the middle class. On everyone who has responded to the government's consumption-mania incentives …
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