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Congressional budget experts say the new Senate health care bill would make a government health plan widely available.           ]]></description>
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South Carolina&#8217;s State Ethics Commission is set to decide whether a three-month investigation provides enough evidence that Gov. Mark Sanford broke state laws.           ]]></description>
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As President Barack Obama visits China seeking to balance a seesawing relationship, Chinese-Americans embody the challenges facing the giants of East and West.            ]]></description>
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Majority Leader Steny Hoyer is predicting that the House will pass historic health care overhaul legislation Saturday to extend coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and ban insurance companies from turning people away.           ]]></description>
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RICHMOND, Va. &#8212; Last year, 23-year-old Rashida Hill watched the presidential debates, visited the college political party meetings and put a Barack Obama bumper sticker on her townhouse door. She voted for Obama because she felt like the election was about &#8220;being a part of something.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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The Senate on Thursday confirmed Dr. Regina Benjamin to be the U.S. surgeon general, elevating a well-known Alabama family physician to be the nation&#8217;s top doctor.           ]]></description>
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House Democrats reached agreement Wednesday on key elements of a health care bill that would vastly alter America&#8217;s medical landscape, requiring virtually universal sign-ups and establishing a new government-run insurance option for millions.            ]]></description>
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A government-sponsored ``public option&#8217;&#8216; for health care lives, though it may be more attractive to skeptics if it goes by a different moniker, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday. 
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WASHINGTON  &#8212; A controversial e-mail message buried by the Bush administration because of its conclusions on global warming surfaced Tuesday, nearly two years after it was first sent to the White House and never opened.           ]]></description>
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A Senate committee moved Tuesday toward a pivotal vote on a sweeping health care bill that fulfills President Barack Obama&#8217;s top domestic priority. ``It&#8217;s time to get the job done,&#8216;&#8217; Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus declared as he convened his panel for the long-anticipated action.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Report: Stimulus spared hundreds of teaching jobs</title>
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Teachers appear to have benefited most from the effort to save jobs with the $787 billion recovery package, which sent billions of dollars to states that were on the verge of ordering heavy layoffs in education           ]]></description>
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Too many agencies are still holding their secrets close nine months after President Barack Obama ordered the federal government to open the flow of information to the public, advocates of access said Wednesday.           ]]></description>
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As support for the community activist group ACORN withered in Congress in the wake of a hidden-camera scandal, Republican governors and other state officials moved swiftly to sever ties. It turns out the group often commanded little &#8212; if any &#8212; state business.           ]]></description>
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President Barack Obama on Tuesday declared that the United States is a serious partner in combating global warming, telling world peers ``we are determined to act.&#8216;&#8217;            ]]></description>
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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner acknowledged Tuesday the federal government had to take some ``deeply offensive&#8217;&#8216; steps to help the country get past the financial crisis a year ago.            ]]></description>
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Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has joined two excluseive Birmingham-area private golf clubs.           ]]></description>
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U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts says it&#8217;s vital he and new Justice Sonia Sotomayor get along well because they could spend the next quarter century working together in close quarters.           ]]></description>
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Public disapproval of President Barack Obama&#8217;s handling of health care has jumped to 52 percent, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll released hours before he makes his case for overhaul in a prime-time address to Congress.           ]]></description>
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In a pep talk that kept clear of politics, President Barack Obama on Tuesday challenged the nation&#8217;s students to take pride and ownership in their education &#8212; and stick with it even if they don&#8217;t like every class or must overcome tough circumstances at home.            ]]></description>
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Early estimates put the cost of Sarah Palin&#8217;s midterm resignation as Alaska governor at a minimum of $40,000, not including a special legislative session partly linked to her departure.           ]]></description>
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A federal appeals court has ruled that former Attorney General John Ashcroft may be held liable for people who were wrongfully detained as material witnesses after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.           ]]></description>
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Over nearly a half-century, Ted Kennedy watched his beloved Senate change from a collegial boys&#8217; club known for bipartisan deal-cutting to a far less friendly place dominated by polarized parties, where broad compromise is a dying art.           ]]></description>
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South Carolina&#8217;s first lady Jenny Sanford is working to fix her shattered marriage after her husband admitted a yearlong affair.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Millions of older people face shrinking Social Security checks next year, the first time in a generation that payments would not rise.           ]]></description>
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South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford says she feels sorry for her husband&#8217;s Argentine lover and believes the philandering governor&#8217;s affair is almost like an addiction to alcohol or pornography.           ]]></description>
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Former House Republican Whip Tom DeLay, called the ``Hammer&#8217;&#8216; for his arm-twisting talents, wants to show the world some fancy footwork.            ]]></description>
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The Senate confirmed Sonia Sotomayor Thursday as the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court.           ]]></description>
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Sonia Sotomayor stands on the verge of making history as the Supreme Court&#8217;s first Hispanic justice, despite staunch opposition from Republicans who call her ill-suited for the bench.           ]]></description>
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President Barack Obama pledged Wednesday that health care legislation he is seeking will bar insurance companies from denying coverage because of pre-existing medical conditions and include numerous provisions to hold down the cost of care for consumers.           ]]></description>
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The senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee says he&#8217;ll vote against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON &#8212; President Barack Obama&#8217;s summary of the furor over a black Harvard professor&#8217;s arrest was so understated, and perhaps obvious, that it barely rose above the cable-news driven din.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON  &#8212; President Barack Obama, citing a new White House study suggesting that small businesses pay far more per employee for health insurance than big companies, said Saturday the disparity is &#8220;unsustainable &#8212; it&#8217;s unacceptable.&#8221;           ]]></description>
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) &#8212; An independent investigator has found evidence that Gov. Sarah Palin may have violated ethics laws by trading on her position as she sought money for lawyer fees, in the latest legal distraction for the former vice presidential candidate as she prepares to leave office this week.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; The same question that could have been asked 40 years ago moments after Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon is still being asked today: Now what?           ]]></description>
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) &#8212; Another ethics complaint was filed against Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Monday &#8212; less than a week before her resignation &#8212; alleging she failed to submit complete gift disclosure forms in a timely manner.           ]]></description>
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For all the attention generated by last year&#8217;s presidential race, census figures show the share of eligible voters who actually went to the polls in November declined from 2004.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor won her first public pledges of support from Senate Republicans and one prominent GOP opponent, after a smooth performance at her confirmation hearings that has placed her firmly on track to become the high court&#8217;s first Latina and the first Democratic-named justice in 15 years.           ]]></description>
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Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor says she&#8217;s lived on a judge&#8217;s salary for 17 years, and she can, in her words, ``suffer through more of it.&#8216;&#8217;            ]]></description>
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Some excerpts from comments during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. 
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) &#8212; Since Sarah Palin abruptly resigned as governor, she has repeatedly cited the bombardment of ethics complaints against her while conceding the financial burden of defending herself had taken its toll.           ]]></description>
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) &#8212; Gov. Sarah Palin spent another day on the move in far-flung locations Wednesday at a time when many Alaskans remain mystified over her decision to step down and not finish out her first term.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; U.S. authorities eyed North Korea on Wednesday as the origin of the widespread cyber attack that overwhelmed government Web sites in the United States and South Korea, although they warned it would be difficult definitely to identify the attackers quickly.           ]]></description>
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KOTZEBUE, Alaska (AP) &#8212; Gov. Sarah Palin returned to the spotlight Tuesday with an appearance in a remote Arctic village where she stood by her perplexing decision to resign just as she tries to elevate her national profile ahead of a possible 2012 presidential run.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; A military strike to thwart Iran&#8217;s nuclear weapons capability remains on the table but could have grave and unpredictable consequences, the top U.S. military officer said Tuesday.
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BAGHDAD (AP) &#8212; Vice President Joe Biden pressed Iraqi leaders Friday to do more to foster national reconciliation and offered U.S. assistance in achieving that, as concerns grow that a lack of political progress is fueling violence in Iraq.           ]]></description>
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WASILLA, Alaska &#8212; Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin surprised supporters Friday and announced she is resigning from office at the end of the month without explaining why she plans to step down &#8212; throwing into question whether she would seek a run for the White House in 2012.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Thousands of U.S. Marines and hundreds of Afghan troops moved into Taliban-infested villages with armor and helicopters Wednesday evening in the first major operation under President Barack Obama&#8217;s revamped strategy to stabilize Afghanistan.           ]]></description>
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BAGHDAD (AP) &#8212; Iraqi forces assumed formal control of Baghdad and other cities Tuesday after American troops handed over security in urban areas in a defining step toward ending the U.S. combat role in the country.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; In a triumph for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed sweeping legislation Friday that calls for the nation&#8217;s first limits on pollution linked to global warming and aims to usher in a new era of cleaner, yet more costly energy.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; With President Barack Obama lobbying by phone, the Democratic-controlled House churned toward a showdown vote Friday on historic legislation to reduce pollution linked to global warming and to power the nation with cleaner but more expensive energy.           ]]></description>
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South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford faced legal and ethical questions Thursday as he fought to save his job after admitting having an affair with a woman from Argentina.            ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; President Barack Obama on Tuesday declared the United States and the entire world &#8220;appalled and outraged&#8221; by Iran&#8217;s violent efforts to crush dissent and for the first time expressed significant doubt about the legitimacy of the national election at the root of the upheaval.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; President Barack Obama on Tuesday squared off with the insurance lobby over industry charges that a government health plan he backs would dismantle the employer coverage Americans have relied on for a half-century and overtake the system.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Lamenting his first teenage cigarette, President Barack Obama ruefully admitted on Monday that he&#8217;s spent his adult life fighting the habit. Then he signed the nation&#8217;s toughest anti-smoking law, aiming to keep thousands of other teens from getting hooked.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Democrats got a sobering glimpse of what it would look like if their ambitious health care overhaul ran into a wall &#8212; and they quickly pulled back to regroup and get moving again.
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; President Barack Obama&#8217;s plan to increase oversight of banks and other financial institutions ran into skepticism Thursday on Capitol Hill where senators sharply questioned whether it was enough to prevent another economic meltdown.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; President Barack Obama proposed sweeping new &#8220;rules of the road&#8221; for the nation&#8217;s financial system Wednesday, casting the changes as a critically important response to the economic crisis and the greatest regulatory transformation since the Great Depression.           ]]></description>
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President Barack Obama is offering a broad-scale overhaul of the financial system, saying hard times struck largely because a post-Depression era business regulatory scheme couldn&#8217;t keep up with an increasingly global economy.           ]]></description>
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) &#8212; A North Carolina man has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison for threatening to shoot and kill Barack Obama when he was the Democratic candidate for president.            ]]></description>
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OMAHA BEACH, France &#8212; President Barack Obama honored the valiant dead and the &#8220;sheer improbability&#8221; of their D-Day victory, commemorating Saturday&#8217;s 65th anniversary of the decisive invasion even as he remakes two wars and tries to thwart potential nuclear threats in Iran and North Korea.           ]]></description>
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska &#8212; Alaskans are getting fired up over the prospect that North Korea is getting ready to test a long-range missile that could reach strategic targets in their home state.
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CAIRO &#8212; Muslim shopkeepers, students and even radical groups such as Hamas praised President Barack Obama&#8217;s address Thursday as a positive shift in U.S. attitude and tone. But Arabs and Muslims of all political stripes said they want him to turn his words into action&#8212;particularly in standing up to Israel.
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WASHINGTON &#8212; Sen. Jeff Sessions has made a career of speaking out and voting against anyone he considers an activist liberal judge. Sonia Sotomayor was no exception the last time they crossed paths.           ]]></description>
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SEOUL, South Korea &#8212; Former President Roh Moo-hyun, embroiled in a penetrating corruption investigation, leaped to his death Saturday &#8212; a shocking end for a man whose rags-to-riches rise took him from rural poverty to Seoul&#8217;s presidential Blue House. He was 62.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON &#8212; President Barack Obama warned overeager shoppers and greedy credit card companies alike on Friday to act responsibly as he signed into law a bill designed to protect debt-ridden consumers from surprise charges.           ]]></description>
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&nbsp;   WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; President Barack Obama finds himself in a political box &#8212; at home and abroad &#8212; on closing the Guantanamo Bay prison, and he has prepared a major address on national security in hopes of working out of the tight spot.            ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; The Pentagon and Air Force are reviewing whether their officials may be partly to blame for a $328,835 photo-op of a jumbo jet used by the president soaring above New York City that has already forced the White House military director to step down.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; The Federal Reserve could become the supercop for &#8220;too big to fail&#8221; companies capable of causing another financial meltdown under a proposal being seriously considered by the White House.           ]]></description>
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President Barack Obama and his South Korean counterpart agreed Thursday on the need for a &#8220;stern, united&#8221; international response if North Korea goes ahead with a planned rocket launch, as Obama juggled that intensifying crisis thousands of miles away and a global effort to fix the sagging economy.
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Top executives of the nation&#8217;s biggest banks said Friday after meeting with President Barack Obama that they will work with the administration on its economic recovery plans, but want more specifics from the White House.           ]]></description>
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U.S. intelligence suggests that violence in Afghanistan will rise through 2009 despite the Obama administration&#8217;s new strategy for combatting the Taliban and shoring up the Afghan government, a top intelligence official said Friday. 
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Widening war in &#8220;the most dangerous place in the world,&#8220; President Barack Obama launched a fresh effort Friday to defeat al-Qaida terrorists in both Pakistan and Afghanistan, defending his strategy with shades of the dire language of George W. Bush.           ]]></description>
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President Barack Obama is planning an online town hall-style meeting on the White House&#8217;s Web site this Thursday. The White House says Obama will answer questions about the economy and other topics at WhiteHouse.gov.           ]]></description>
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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner could announce as soon as Monday his much-anticipated plan to get toxic assets off the books of the country&#8217;s struggling banks, administration and industry officials said.            ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON &#8212; President Barack Obama&#8217;s budget would produce $9.3 trillion in deficits over the next decade, more than four times the deficits of Republican George W. Bush&#8217;s presidency, congressional auditors said Friday.            ]]></description>
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A Web site launched by the White House last month to allow citizens to keep track of where stimulus dollars are going is getting 3,000 hits per second and already has registered more than 150 million hits altogether.            ]]></description>
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 Debt-strapped homeowners facing foreclosure could resort to bankruptcy to force reductions in their monthly mortgage payments under a measure awaiting a House vote. The bill set for a vote Thursday would let bankruptcy judges reduce the principal and interest rates on home loans. But the measure has been watered down since Democrats first proposed it, due in large part to mortgage industry lobbying to limit the cost for banks.
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President Barack Obama is sending Congress a budget Thursday that projects the government&#8217;s deficit for this year will soar to $1.75 trillion, reflecting efforts to pull the nation out of a deep recession and a severe financial crisis. A senior administration official told The Associated Press that Obama&#8217;s $3 trillion-plus spending blueprint also asks Congress to raise taxes on the wealthy in 2011 and cut Medicare costs to provide health care for the uninsured.
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WASHINGTON &#8212; Sales of existing homes sank unexpectedly last month to the lowest level in nearly 12 years as potential buyers worried about their jobs and awaited details of President Barack Obama&#8217;s plans to stabilize the housing market.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON &#8212; President Barack Obama promised a nation shuddering in economic crisis Tuesday night that he would lead it from a dire &#8220;day of reckoning&#8221; to a brighter future, summoning politicians and public alike to shoulder responsibility for hard choices and shared sacrifice.

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JERUSALEM (AP) &#8212; Israel&#8217;s outgoing prime minister called on 

hard-line Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu to form a new 

government quickly as coalition bargaining shifted into 

high gear Sunday.           ]]></description>
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 The top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee is attacking the Obama administration&#8217;s proposal to leverage more than $2 trillion into the shaky financial system.
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has said no nation is more important to the United States than China. But ties between the two powers may be off to a rocky start just days into the Obama administration.           ]]></description>
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