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Obama Urges Mubarak Not to Run Again — WASHINGTON — President Obama has told the embattled president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, that he should not run for another term in elections in the fall, effectively withdrawing American support for its closest Arab ally, according to American diplomats in Cairo and Washington.
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Mubarak says will step down, won't leave Egypt — (Reuters) - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said on Tuesday he would not leave Egypt although he would step down from the presidency at the end of his term, due to end when the country holds a presidential election in September.
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Obama presses Mubarak to move ‘now’ — President Obama, clearly frustrated by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's intention to retain his hold on power until elections later this year, said Tuesday evening that he has told Mubarak that a transition to representative government “must begin now.”
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Remarks by the President on the Situation in Egypt — THE PRESIDENT: Good evening, everybody. Over the past few days, the American people have watched the situation unfolding in Egypt. We've seen enormous demonstrations by the Egyptian people. We've borne witness to the beginning …
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Protesters defiant after Mubarak speech
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The Quest for Dignity — I wonder if sometime around 50 years ago …
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Clueless in Cairo — So President Hosni Mubarak has announced …
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U.S. envoy tells Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to step aside
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Egyptian Lt. Gen. Sami Enan to take over for Mubarak?
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Tardy senator draws dressing-down — Back home they were often superstars, governors, or state attorneys general, but here in Washington they are now just freshman senators — a lesson Sen. Richard Blumenthal learned on Monday when he got dressed down by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid …
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Health care repeal measure will be offered as an amendment to first Senate bill
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Senate to hold vote on repeal of health care law
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Senate Appropriations announces earmark ban
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Rachel Maddow and NBC Struggle With Satire — WASHINGTON, DC - The Internet's finest satirists hooked a big fish in the media world last night. In an embarrassing segment on her MSNBC show, Rachel Maddow slammed conservatives for attacking President Obama's Egypt policies.
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MSNBC's Maddow Reports Internet Spoof Story as Fact
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Barasso, Graham, Introduce “Third Front” Against Health Care Reform — Senators John Barasso, R-WY, and Lindsey Graham, R-SC, have introduced The State Health Care Choice Act, written to allow states to opt out of the individual mandate, the employer mandate, expansion of Medicaid programs and …
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Tea Party Shadows Health Care Ruling
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‘Al-Qaida on brink of using nuclear bomb’ — Al-Qaida members participate in military training in Afghanistan in this file photo. — Photograph by: Agence France-Presse Files, National Post, With Files From News Services — Al-Qaida is on the verge of producing radioactive weapons …
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Valerie Jarrett to uniformed general: More wine, garçon! — In Washington, bigwigs can misspeak and misstep a million times without drawing attention. And then there are the seemingly harmless moments that stick to a person like super glue: Joe Wilson barking “You lie!”
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HOAX VIDEO EXPOSED: Planned Parenthood Already Reported “Sex Trafficking” To FBI — Today, anti-abortion rights propagandist Lila Rose released her latest in a series of heavily edited videos seeking to demonstrate that Planned Parenthood engages in criminal activities.
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Video: Planned Parenthood offering advice to pimps? Update: Did PP call the feds?

Planned Parenthood, ‘Safe Haven’ for Sex Trafficking: A Shocking, Breaking Video
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Day one of my Sarah Palin moratorium — I survived Day One of my February Sarah Palin moratorium, defeating the evil plans of ABC News's Rick Klein. Only 27 days to go... Mr Milbank, — in addition, how about a PERMANENT moratorium on your fawning over every little/ignorant/weak/leftist DIMocRAT extremist?
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A Guide: How Not To Say Stupid Stuff About Egypt — The past few days I have heard so many stupid things from friends, blogs, pundits, correspondents, politicians, experts, writers that I want to pull my hair. So, I will not beat around the bush, I will be really blunt and give you a handy list …
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WikiLeaks: FBI hunts the 9/11 gang that got away — The FBI has launched a manhunt for a previously unknown team of men suspected to be part of the 9/11 attacks, the Daily Telegraph can disclose. — An airliner explodes in a fireball as it hits the south tower of the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001
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President Obama snubs Issa on first major document deadline — TheDC Exclusive - The Obama administration snubbed top GOP oversight official Rep. Darrell Issa on his first major document deadline as new chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sending a short letter promising …
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An Answer for Bill — Last week on his show Bill O'Reilly asked, “Why has southern New York turned into the tundra?” and then said he had a call into me. I appreciate the question. As it turns out, the scientific community has been addressing this particular question …
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A VISION OF FOREIGN POLICY THAT ONLY BECK CAN PROVIDE.... Over the last year or so, Fox News' Glenn Beck has lost about a third of his audience, which is a pretty significant drop, and may very well lead the deranged media personality to think of ways to bring viewers back.
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“This Is Important Stuff” — Above is a Glenn Beck clip …
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An interview with Mark Pauly, father of the individual mandate — In 1991, economist Mark Pauly was the lead author of a Health Affairs paper attempting to persuade President George H.W. Bush and his administration to adopt a universal health-care proposal that would keep the government from eventually taking over the sector.

Technology & Psychology: The Never-Before-Revealed Details of Why John Edwards Finally Confessed to Affair — It took two years, thousands of man hours and a cross-country chase to catch John Edwards cheating. — That was the easy part. — Even after gathering and publishing overwhelming proof …
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Unauthorized Immigrant Population: National and State Trends, 2010 — As of March 2010, 11.2 million unauthorized immigrants were living in the United States, virtually unchanged from a year earlier, according to new estimates from the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center.
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Report Foresees Quick Gulf of Mexico Recovery — The Gulf of Mexico should recover from the environmental damage caused by the enormous BP oil spill last year faster than many people expected, according to new estimates in reports commissioned by Kenneth R. Feinberg, the administrator of the $20 billion compensation fund.
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Michigan Family Says Obama Foreclosure-Prevention Program Cost Them Their Home … The following story is produced in partnership with The Dylan Ratigan Show's week long “No Way To Live” series on the financial crisis and its impact on ordinary Americans, and in collaboration with Meetup.com …

Sen. Webb raises $12K in final quarter of 2010 — Sen. Jim Webb's (D-Va.) latest fundraising numbers won't do much to ease the concerns of Virginia Democrats, worried that the senator isn't doing nearly enough to gear up for a 2012 challenge from former Sen. George Allen (R-Va.).
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Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results — Google has run a sting operation that it says proves Bing has been watching what people search for on Google, the sites they select from Google's results, then uses that information to improve Bing's own search listings. Bing doesn't deny this.

Former Sen. Kennedy staffer convicted of stealing from Senate — Sen. Edward Kennedy's (D-Mass.) former office manager was convicted on Tuesday of stealing more than $75,000 from the Senate. — Ngozi Pole was found guilty on five counts of wire fraud and one count of theft of government property.

Mental health specialist recommended WikiLeaks suspect not be deployed to Iraq — A mental health specialist recommended that the Army private accused of leaking classified material to the anti-secrecy Web site WikiLeaks not be deployed to Iraq, but his immediate commanders sent him anyway …
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