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Thom Shanker / New York Times:
Pilot's Remains Found in Iraq After 18 Years — WASHINGTON — Navy officials announced early Sunday that Marines in western Anbar Province, Iraq, had found remains that have been positively identified as those of an American fighter pilot shot down in the opening hours of the first Gulf War in 1991.
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Associated Press:
Remains of U.S. pilot missing since '91 found — Speicher's disappearance in Iraq had bedeviled investigators for 18 years — WASHINGTON - The remains of the first American lost in the Gulf War have been found in Iraq, the military said Sunday, a sorrowful resolution of a nearly …
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IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Remains Identified as Navy Captain Michael Scott Speicher — The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) has positively identified remains recovered in Iraq as those of Captain Michael Scott Speicher. Captain Speicher was shot down flying a combat mission …
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Palin beats press to blog claim — Sarah Palin's spokeswoman Saturday took the unusual step of posting a statement on Facebook denying an anonymous blog report that the former Alaska governor was getting a divorce and moving to Montana. — “Yet again, some so-called journalists have decided …
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The Other McCain / The Greenroom:
Sarah Palin Needs to Help Conservative Bloggers So We Can Make Stuff Up, Too — Many Republicans have been heard to complain recently, “Hey, what's wrong with you conservative bloggers? How come you can't just make ...
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Tim Lindell / Conservatives4Palin.com:
Palin Camp Shoots Down Ridiculous Divorce Rumors Spread by CNN Stringer Dennis Zaki
Palin Camp Shoots Down Ridiculous Divorce Rumors Spread by CNN Stringer Dennis Zaki
Gryphen / The Immoral Minority:
Exclusive! Sarah and Todd Palin are Splitsville!
Exclusive! Sarah and Todd Palin are Splitsville!
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Todd and Sarah Palin to divorce
Todd and Sarah Palin to divorce
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Robert Stacy McCain / AmSpecBlog:
Palin Divorce Gossip ‘Completely False’
Palin Divorce Gossip ‘Completely False’
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David Collins / Central Florida Political Pulse:
Bloggers say Sarah Palin to divorce; her camp says it's bull
Bloggers say Sarah Palin to divorce; her camp says it's bull
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George Stephanopoulos / George's Bottom Line:
Geithner Won't Rule Out New Taxes for Middle Class — To get the economy back on track, will President Barack Obama have to break his pledge not to raise taxes on 95 percent of Americans? In a “This Week” exclusive, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told me, “We're going to have to do what's necessary.”
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Honesty and TV Booking — House Democrats have the congress considering a bill that involves around $540 billion in new taxes, along with several hundred billion in offsetting spending cuts, in order to pay for a substantial expansion of health insurance coverage in the United States.
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Stimulus 2? W.H. may extend jobless aid — President Barack Obama's top economic officials said in interviews aired Sunday that the administration may support an extension in unemployment benefits. — Some on Capitol Hill view that as a second stimulus package, although it is unlikely …
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The Politico:
McCain: Obama flunks bipartisanship — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) says in a wide-ranging interview aired Sunday on CNN's “State of the Union” that President Barack Obama needs to “be more specific” about his prescription for health reform. — “I think they may have over-learned the lesson …
Agence France Presse:
Fatah to reject Israel as Jewish state at congress: document … Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah faction will reaffirm its refusal to recognise Israel as a Jewish state at a major congress next week, according to a document obtained by AFP on Saturday.
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Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
Prolonged Aid to Unemployed Is Running Out — Over the coming months, as many as 1.5 million jobless Americans will exhaust their unemployment insurance benefits, ending what for some has been a last bulwark against foreclosures and destitution. — Because of emergency extensions already enacted …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
With Health Care Talks Uncertain, Democrats Consider a Last Resort — WASHINGTON — With bipartisan health care negotiations teetering, Democrats are talking reluctantly — and very, very quietly — about exploiting a procedural loophole they planted in this year's budget to skirt Republican filibusters against a health care overhaul.
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