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| Obama says on 'threshold' of White House nod
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|  AFP - Barack Obama Wednesday pledged that Democrats would unite to defeat Republican John McCain in November's presidential election as he celebrated a milestone on the road to his party's nomination.
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| Wed, 21 May 2008 18:18:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| Kennedy illness robs Senate of dealmaker
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|  AP - Sen. Edward Kennedy's diagnosis of a malignant brain tumor left Congress this week without its best dealmaker as well as its boldest liberal, a politician known simultaneously for his staunch left-wing positions and for his willingness to work with right-wing lawmakers to get legislation passed.
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| Wed, 21 May 2008 18:24:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| An aging Senate contends with time and illness
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|  AP - Edward M. Kennedy, Robert Byrd, Arlen Specter — fighters and history-makers all. Their battles with age and illness are the hallmarks of the nation's oldest-ever Senate and reminders of the fragility of power.
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| Wed, 21 May 2008 18:38:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| Big Oil defends profits before Senate panel
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|  AP - Top executives of the five largest oil companies tried to shift anger over high prices to a debate over supplies Wednesday, leading a senator to accuse them of acting like "hapless victims" while racking up record profits.
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| Wed, 21 May 2008 17:24:08 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| Kennedy illness robs Senate of dealmaker
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| AP - Sen. Edward Kennedy's diagnosis of a malignant brain tumor left Congress this week without its best dealmaker as well as its boldest liberal, a politician known simultaneously for his staunch left-wing positions and for his willingness to work with right-wing lawmakers to get legislation passed.
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| Wed, 21 May 2008 17:29:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| US effort to defeat al-Qaida questioned
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|  AP - A congressional watchdog group and several senators declared Tuesday that nearly seven years after the 9/11 attacks, there appears to be no winning plan to defeat al-Qaida and other extremists in tribal areas of Pakistan.
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| Tue, 20 May 2008 23:22:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| Senate panel OKs homeowner rescue
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| AP - Profits from government-sponsored mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, instead of taxpayers, would back up a home loan rescue for up to 500,000 strapped borrowers under a plan approved by a key Senate committee Tuesday to pull the nation out of a housing crisis. -- read full article |
| Tue, 20 May 2008 23:24:26 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| Former US detainee testifies of abuse
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| AP - A German-born Turkish citizen told U.S. lawmakers Tuesday of abuses he says he suffered while detained by the United States in Afghanistan and in the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. -- read full article |
| Wed, 21 May 2008 00:17:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| A grim diagnosis: Kennedy's brain cancer is worst kind
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|  AP - A malignant glioma — the diagnosis doctors gave Sen. Edward M. Kennedy — is the worst kind of brain cancer. Malignant gliomas strike almost 9,000 Americans a year. Survival statistics are grim — few live three years and for the worst subtype, half die within a year.
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| Wed, 21 May 2008 01:13:08 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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