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Obama's budget to spark fight in US Congress
United States Of America News - Reuters - 39 minutes ago
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama sends his first budget proposal to the US Congress on Thursday bracing for fights over how best to heal the economy, create a new healthcare system and still cut out-of-control ... |
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Panetta: CIA to limit countries getting detainees
United States Of America News - The Associated Press - 1 hour ago
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama may limit the countries to which the US sends alleged terrorists to those with good human-rights records, and will be less inclined to hand prisoners over in general, to help make sure they are not tortured or ... |
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Obama girls 'to have a water dog'
United States Of America News - BBC News - 1 hour ago
US First Lady Michelle Obama wants to find a rescued Portuguese water dog as a pet for her daughters, People magazine has reported. |
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Commerce secretary nominee well known to China
United States Of America News - Seattle Post Intelligencer - 2 hours ago
AP SEATTLE -- Gary Locke, President Barack Obama's choice for secretary of commerce, first experienced business as the son of Chinese immigrants who owned a restaurant and neighborhood grocery. |
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Obama to seek $537 billion defense budget: Murtha
United States Of America News - Reuters - 1 hour ago
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will sketch out a robust US military budget for next year totaling $537 billion, a senior Democrat in the US House of Representatives said on Wednesday. |
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Humanists happy with high court monument ruling
United States Of America News - USA Today - 2 hours ago
The American Humanist Association is delighted with Wednesday's US Supreme Court decision that Pleasant Grove, Utah, need not allow a small spiritual sect, the Summum, to post its Seven Aphorisms beside a Ten Commandments monument in the city park. |
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US law chief: Guantanamo "well-run," but to close
United States Of America News - Reuters - 1 hour ago
By Randall Mikkelsen WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Guantanamo prison is "well-run now," with no signs of inmate mistreatment, but the Obama administration remains determined to close it, Attorney General Eric Holder said on Wednesday after a visit this ... |
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US Interior scraps Bush research oil shale leases
United States Of America News - Reuters - 2 hours ago
By Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - A Bush administration plan for demonstration oil shale leases will be scrapped because the proposal is flawed and royalties to the government are too low, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Wednesday. |
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Biden Asks for Web Site's 'Number'
United States Of America News - FOXNews - 3 hours ago
The vice president made a techie gaffe Wednesday as he asked an aide to tell him a Web site's "number," stirring questions online whether he knows how the Web works. |
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US House clears $410 bln spending for fiscal 2009
United States Of America News - Reuters - 2 hours ago
By Jeremy Pelofsky WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - The Democratic-controlled US House of Representatives approved a $410 billion bill on Wednesday to fund government operations through the end of fiscal 2009, despite Republican objections to additional ... |
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