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Report: Health bill would reduce senior care

By doris | Published: November 16, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com A plan to slash more than $500 billion from future Medicare spending — one of the biggest sources of funding for President Obama’s proposed overhaul of the nation’s health-care system — would sharply reduce benefits for some senior citizens and could jeopardize access to care for millions of others, according to [...]

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Gates: Closing Guantanamo prison ‘more complicated’

By doris | Published: September 29, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com “I think it has proven more complicated than anticipated,” Gates said in an interview broadcast Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Noting he had pushed for a firm deadline of January 2010 for closing the controversial facility, Gates said: “If you have to extend that date, if at least you [...]

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CNN Poll: Americans don’t want to intervene in Iran election crisis

By doris | Published: June 30, 2009

Full Story At CNN.com WASHINGTON (CNN) – A new national poll suggests that that nearly three out of four Americans don’t want the U.S. directly intervene in the election crisis in Iran even though most Americans are upset by how the Iranian government has dealt with protests over controversial election results. More than eight in [...]

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Study: U.S. lacks strategy to fight arms smuggling into Mexico

By doris | Published: June 19, 2009

Full Story At CNN.com In Mexico last year, drug violence was blamed for the deaths of 78 soldiers and more than 6,000 others. This year, the drug violence has claimed more than 2,900 lives, according to the newspaper El Universal. Much of the violence has affected the U.S.-Mexico border. Over the last five years, about [...]

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Lee and Obama to discuss North Korean threats

By doris | Published: June 16, 2009

Full Story At News.yahoo.com WASHINGTON – As North Korea threatens nuclear war, President Barack Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak will be eager to show the North the unity of their alliance and a determination not to back down. North Korea’s pledge to expand its nuclear programs gives their meeting Tuesday at the White [...]

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Analysis: UN could hit North Korean arms exports

By doris | Published: June 11, 2009

Full Story At  News.yahoo.com WASHINGTON – The United Nations’ newly toughened penalties on North Korea for its nuclear defiance could hit hardest in an area that worries American officials the most: the North’s illicit exports of nuclear and missile technologies. Proposed new sanctions demand that North Korea give up its nuclear weapons, stop launching missiles [...]

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North Korea’s bomb test seen as troubling progress

By doris | Published: May 27, 2009

Full Story At  News.yahoo.com WASHINGTON – Based on what appears to be a successful test of an atomic bomb more powerful than the one North Korea detonated in 2006, former U.S. government and independent analysts say the North’s technical skills are improving slightly. Of greater concern, according to national security adviser James L. Jones, is [...]

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Avoid ‘confined spaces’ such as planes, Biden says

By doris | Published: May 1, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com Biden made the remarks on NBC’s “Today Show,” after he was asked what he would tell a family member about traveling to Mexico, where the first cases of the virus — technically known as 2009 H1N1 — were detected. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, is advising [...]

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Lawmakers start work on global warming bill

By doris | Published: April 19, 2009

Full Story At  msnbc.com WASHINGTON – The last time Congress passed major environmental laws, acid rain was destroying lakes and forests, polluted rivers were on fire and smog was choking people in some cities. The fallout from global warming, while subtle now, could eventually be even more dire. That prospect has Democrats pushing legislation that [...]

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Analysis: Don’t expect deal with Mexico on assault weapons ban

By doris | Published: April 18, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com Mexican officials say criminals use assault weapons from the U.S. in the violent border region. Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Arturo Sarukhan, Mexico’s ambassador to the U.S., say reinstating the ban would stop the deadly flow of weapons across the border. Under the Clinton administration in 1994, Congress banned possession of [...]

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Mortars fired as U.S. lawmaker leaves Somalia

By doris | Published: April 14, 2009

Full Story At  msnbc.com MOGADISHU, Somalia – Assailants fired mortar shells at Mogadishu airport as a plane carrying a U.S. congressman took off, a police officer said. The plane departed safely, but 19 Somalis from surrounding residential areas were reported injured. U.S. Rep. Donald Payne, chairman of the House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs subcommittee on [...]

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