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Democrats eye health vote without abortion foes
WASHINGTON — House Democratic leaders Thursday abandoned a long struggle to strike a compromise on abortion in their ranks, gambling that they can secure the support for President Obama’s sweepi...
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Cadmium_.JPG Feds recall more children’s jewelry in cadmium probe
Federal safety regulators recalled a line of Christmas-themed bracelets Thursday, expanding their effort to purge children’s jewelry boxes and store shelves of items containing high levels of the ...
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9/11 health cases settle for up to $657.5M
After years of fighting in court, lawyers representing the city, construction companies and more than 10,000 ground zero rescue and recovery workers have agreed to a settlement that could pay up t...
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Masked rioters set fire to a car during a demonstration against the Greek government’s austerity plan in Athens Thursday. Street clashes have erupted between rioting youths and police in central Athens. Greek austerity plan spurs clashes, strikes
Clashes between riot police and rock-throwing, masked youths broke out during a demonstration Thursday in central Athens by tens of thousands of striking workers protesting austerity measures that...
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associated press | Martin Mejia Paraguay’s President Fernando Lugo (right), and Bolivia’s President Evo Morales (center) look up in reaction to a strong earthquake aftershock as Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera was sworn into office in Valparaiso, Chile, on Thursday. Aftershocks rattle Chilean inauguration
The earth shook and shook Thursday as dignitaries walked in for the swearing-in of Sebastian Pinera as Chile’s president
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Iraqi PM battling secular challenger
The first results from Iraq’s parliamentary election showed the prime minister and his secular rival locked in an extremely tight contest Thursday amid fraud allegations by rival parties and...
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Financia.JPG Dodd to offer own financial regulation measure
With one eye on the calendar and the other on elusive bipartisanship, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd plans to offer his own version of a sweeping overhaul of financial regulati...
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K.C. closing nearly half its schools
The Kansas City school board narrowly approved a plan Wednesday night to close nearly half the district’s schools in a desperate bid to avoid a potential bankruptcy
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U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden (left) talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Wednesday. Row highlights settlements snarl
An open diplomatic row during the visit of Vice President Joe Biden has shined a spotlight on the U.S. failure to rein in Israeli settlement ambitions and deepened Palestinian suspicions that the ...
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