Gitmo detainees not free in US after prison
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Guantanamo Bay detainees brought into this country for trial will not be staying here, the Obama administration is promising. A detainee tried in this country would be treated for immigration purposes as though he is...
Obama panel urges single system for secrets
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A presidential task force on government secrecy recommends creating a new government-wide system for categorizing sensitive information. President Barack Obama had ordered a study of how the federal government...
Popularity of texting edging out cell phone calls
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R u kidding me? Americans punched out more than 110 billion text messages last year, double the number in the previous year and growing, as the shorthand communication becomes a popular alternative to cell phone calls. ...
Schwarzenegger says go carefully on climate change
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says world policymakers do not have to choose between a clean environment and economic growth. Schwarzenegger said "we've proved that over and over again in California."...
Ill. prison to get Gitmo detainees
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Taking an important step on the thorny path to closing the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the White House plans to announce Tuesday that the government will acquire an underutilized state prison in...
Health care issues: Public plan compromises
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A look at key issues in the health care debate: THE ISSUE: Are compromises being considered when it comes to letting the government sell insurance in competition with private industry? THE POLITICS: The so-called...
Feds charge Pa. teens, police officers in attack
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A federal grand jury has indicted two Pennsylvania teenagers and four Shenandoah police officers in a hate crimes investigation into a fatal attack on a Hispanic man. Derrick Donchak and Brandon Piekarsky were charged...
Decade of politics leaves Americans still divided
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It wasn't so long ago that politicians had the luxury to bicker over how to spend a record budget surplus, Barack Obama was a state senator trying unsuccessfully to get a foot in the door of the U.S. Capitol, and George...
Obama to pitch energy-saving home remodeling
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President Barack Obama is making another pitch Tuesday to save energy and help the economy by encouraging people to make their homes more energy-efficient. Obama will make his presentation during a visit to a Home...
CAPITAL CULTURE: Obama's Chicago plans a no-go
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People do it all the time. They move, and promise to visit the old neighborhood often. You never see them again. Barack Obama said when he became president that he wanted to get back to his home in Chicago every six...
AP sources: Ill prison to get some Gitmo detainees
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The White House plans to announce Tuesday that a rural Illinois prison will be acquired by the federal government to become the new home for a limited number of Guantanamo Bay detainees. Administration officials as...
AP source: Feds eye NY trial for Gitmo suspect
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Federal prosecutors are considering sending a Guantanamo Bay detainee named Majid Khan _ who grew up in Maryland before allegedly enlisting with al-Qaida _ to face trial in New York, a person familiar with the...
22 million missing Bush White House e-mails found
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Computer technicians have found 22 million missing White House e-mails from the administration of President George W. Bush and the Obama administration is searching for dozens more days' worth of potentially lost e-mail...
Lieberman supported Medicare expansion
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Sen. Joe Lieberman was for a Medicare expansion before he was against it. Democrats circulated video Monday from a Connecticut newspaper's interview in September showing Lieberman voicing support for a so-called...
Obama: UN resolutions in Lebanon must be enforced
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President Barack Obama said Monday a U.N. resolution calling on Hezbollah to disarm must be enforced. Speaking to reporters following a private Oval Office meeting with Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, Obama said...
Senate Dems weigh dropping Medicare expansion
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Senate Democrats say they may jettison a proposed Medicare expansion from health care legislation they are eager to pass before Christmas. Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana, emerging from a closed door meeting, said Monday the...
Back from combat, women struggle for acceptance
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Nobody wants to buy them a beer. Even near military bases, female veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan aren't often offered a drink on the house as a welcome home. More than 230,000 American women have fought...
Pa. lawmaker hospitalized with abdominal pains
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Pennsylvania Rep. John Murtha has been hospitalized with abdominal pains. His spokesman says he was admitted to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., on Sunday night. The spokesman, Matt Mazonkey, says it...
Feds: Chicago suspect knew of Mumbai attack
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A Chicago man accused of planning a terrorist attack against a Danish newspaper knew in advance about a plot to attack Mumbai and offered congratulations to the killers afterward, federal prosecutors charged Monday. In...
Famed blue diamonds to join up at Smithsonian
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Two of the world's most famed blue diamonds will be on display together starting in January. The 31.06-carat Wittelsbach-Graff Diamond will join the 45.52-carat Hope Diamond at the Smithsonian's National Museum of...
Clinton: New sanctions on Iran needed
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday the Obama administration's nearly yearlong effort to engage Iran has fallen short and new sanctions are needed to press the Iranian leadership to come clean about...
Tenn. Rep. Gordon won't seek re-election next year
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Rep. Bart Gordon, a 13-term congressman from Tennessee, announced Monday he will not seek re-election next year, the latest Democrat in a string of retirements. Gordon, 60, won re-election easily last year, garnering...
Clinton: Iran charges on US hikers unfounded
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that Iranian charges against three detained Americans are "totally unfounded" and appealed anew to authorities in Iran to release them. Clinton said the three were...
High court to rule on deportation issue
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The Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether immigrants convicted of repeat, minor drug possession crimes should be subject to deportation. The justices said Monday they will hear an appeal from Jose Angel...
Health care issues: Penalties for no insurance
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A look at key issues in the health care debate: THE ISSUE: If individuals don't get health insurance, will they be penalized and how will it happen? THE POLITICS: President Barack Obama did not propose penalties for...
Court won't hear appeal from ex-Gitmo prisoners
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The Supreme Court has refused to take up an appeal from former Guantanamo Bay detainees who say they were tortured and denied religious rights. The justices rejected the appeal without comment Monday. Four British men...
Court rejects new appeal of Chrysler sale
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The Supreme Court has declined to take another look at Chrysler's bankruptcy. The justices on Monday turned down an appeal from the state of Indiana pension funds that earlier challenged the automaker's bankruptcy...
Obama to meet with bankers, then Lebanon's leader
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President Barack Obama is meeting with the nation's top financial industry executives at the White House today. They'll discuss economic recovery, small business lending, improving lending practices for homeowners and...
US reveals fund for green tech in poor nations
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The White House on Monday announced a new program drawing funds from international partners to spend $350 million over five years to supply developing nations with clean energy technology to curb greenhouse gas...
Obama: Success of strategy evident in a year
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President Barack Obama says he'll know by the end of 2010 if his Afghan strategy is working, and pledges to change direction if the U.S. military is not on course "in terms of securing population centers" from Taliban...
Obama: Expect no more White House gate-crashers
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President Barack Obama says the White House gate-crashers got in through a "screw-up," he's unhappy with everyone involved and it won't happen again. "What I know is what everybody knows, which is that these people...
Gay mayor-elect: Victory shows Houston's diversity
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The day after Houston voters chose Annise Parker to become the city's first openly gay mayor, she did as she had throughout a contentious, hard-fought campaign: focused on the brick-and-mortar realities of running the...
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Senate sends $1.1 trillion spending bill with budget increases to Obama ...
Kremlin cites progress on weapons treaty
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Russia and the United States are making "substantial progress" on negotiations for a successor to an expired nuclear weapons treaty, according to a Kremlin statement. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry...
Obama celebrates the holidays
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President Barack Obama and the first lady will attend the Christmas in Washington celebration at the National Building Museum Sunday evening. The holiday event is a benefit for the Children's National Medical Center. ...
White House unhappy with Iranian nuke proposal
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The White House is expressing unhappiness over Iran's announcement that it is ready to exchange uranium for nuclear fuel. Such a deal would meet a key demand of a U.N.-sponsored effort to defuse fears over Iran's...
State Department says Cuba has detained US citizen
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The Cuban government has arrested an American citizen, and U.S. diplomats in Havana are trying to learn more about the case, the State Department said Saturday. The American was detained on Dec. 5, State Department...
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Senate defeats GOP filibuster on big spending bill ...
Houston voters may elect openly gay mayor
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Voters are deciding Saturday whether Houston will become the largest U.S. city to elect an openly gay mayor. The runoff election pits City Controller Annise Parker against former city attorney Gene Locke. Parker is a...
GOP: US should reject climate pact
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Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn on Saturday urged against U.S. participation in an international agreement on climate change, maintaining it would result in soaring energy prices and damage America's economic...
AP sources: FBI questions students, eyes charges
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FBI agents have questioned some of the young Americans arrested in Pakistan as U.S. investigators gather evidence that could lead to a conspiracy charge against them, an American official and another person familiar...
Blackwater Predator missile-load contract ending
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CIA Director Leon Panetta has canceled a contract with the former Blackwater security firm that allowed the company's operatives to load missiles on Predator drones in Pakistan. Panetta canceled the contract earlier...
AP source: Al-Qaida operative killed by US missile
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A senior al-Qaida operations planner was killed in an American missile strike this week in western Pakistan, a U.S. counterterrorism official said Friday. Saleh al-Somali was responsible for the terror group's...
Memo may point to IL as site for Gitmo detainees
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A draft memo leaked to a conservative Web site is an encouraging sign the government intends to transfer Guantanamo terrorist suspects to Illinois, Sen. Richard Durbin and the state's governor said Friday. In a joint...
Ninth defendant pleads guilty to passport snooping
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A State Department filing clerk pleaded guilty Friday to illegally viewing passport files of celebrities, the ninth current or former employee of the agency to admit to snooping. Debra Sue Brown, 47, of Oxon Hill, Md.,...
White House to help close health bill loophole
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In a victory for people with cancer and other serious medical problems, the White House agreed Friday to help close a loophole in the Senate health care bill allowing annual dollar limits on their care. "The president...
Mosque: VA men detained in Pakistan 'regular kids'
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The five young Americans detained in Pakistan as part of a terrorism investigation were wholesome kids who never exhibited any signs of religious extremism, according to the youth director at a mosque where they...
Obama dog Bo has own Christmas stocking
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Bo, the White House dog, has his very own Christmas stocking. First lady Michelle Obama made the revelation in an interview with Oprah Winfrey for her "Christmas at the White House" special, scheduled to air Sunday...
Senator Baucus gave girlfriend $14,000 raise
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Sen. Max Baucus gave the director of his Montana office a nearly $14,000 raise as they were becoming romantically involved last year, a spokesman for the senator said Friday. Baucus, a Democrat who chairs the Finance...
Roll Call: House passes broad regulatory bill
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The 223-202 roll call Friday by which the House passed broad legislation changing how the government regulates banks and other financial institutions. A "yes" vote is a vote to pass the bill. Voting yes were 223...