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Back from combat, women struggle for acceptance
AP – Mon Dec 14, 6:03 pm ET Sent 3,325 times

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WASHINGTON - Nobody wants to buy them a beer. Full Story »
22 million missing Bush White House e-mails found
AP – 2 hrs 9 mins ago Sent 793 times

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WASHINGTON - 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 from the Bush years, according to two groups that filed suit over the failure by the Bush White House to install an electronic record keeping system. Full Story »
Gay mayor-elect: Victory shows Houston's diversity
AP – Sun Dec 13, 5:11 pm ET Sent 539 times

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HOUSTON - 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 country's fourth largest city. Full Story »
Dems weigh dropping Medicare expansion in overhaul
AP – 1 hr 59 mins ago Sent 120 times

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WASHINGTON - The end game at hand, Senate Democrats appeared ready to jettison a proposed Medicare expansion from historic health care legislation Monday in hopes of assuring Christmas-week passage of the bill to extend coverage to tens of millions. Full Story »
Obama pushes bankers to increase lending to boost economy
McClatchy Newspapers – Mon Dec 14, 4:20 pm ET Sent 29 times

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama gave the nation's top bankers an earful Monday, telling them in no uncertain terms that it's time for them to start lending again to help boost the economy after being bailed out themselves by the nation's taxpayers. Full Story »
Obama Criticizes ‘Fat-Cat Bankers,’ Defends Afghan War Strategy
Bloomberg – Mon Dec 14, 12:02 am ET Sent 25 times

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Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) --President Barack Obama said he is frustrated that “fat-cat bankers” continue to take large bonuses and fight his effort to revamp financial regulation. Full Story »
Democrats, Lieberman List U.S. Health Bill Demands
Bloomberg – Sun Dec 13, 2:50 pm ET Sent 15 times

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Dec. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic and independent U.S. senators laid out a list of conditions to win their votes on health care legislation, underscoring the challenges facing Senate leaders as they work to pass a bill by the year’s end. Full Story »
Obama: Expect no more White House gate-crashers
AP – Sun Dec 13, 7:01 pm ET Sent 12 times

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WASHINGTON - 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. Full Story »
General says Afghan troop surge will take longer
AP – 2 hrs 9 mins ago Sent 10 times

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KABUL - The military may not finish its surge of 30,000 American troops to Afghanistan until nearly a year from now, a senior U.S. commander said Monday — a slower pace than President Barack Obama has described. The White House insisted it was sticking with a goal of completing the buildup by late summer. Full Story »
Fed can do no more to cut unemployment: Greenspan
Reuters – Sun Dec 13, 4:44 pm ET Sent 9 times

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve has done all it can do to reduce unemployment and needs to worry more about the risk of inflation from the stimulus it poured into the economy, former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Sunday. Full Story »
Senate backs move to boost farm trade with Cuba
Reuters – Mon Dec 14, 3:31 pm ET Sent 8 times

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(Corrects by deleting phrase "directly to the United States" from eighth paragraph) Full Story »
Famed blue diamonds to join up at Smithsonian
AP – Mon Dec 14, 3:27 pm ET Sent 8 times

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WASHINGTON - Two of the world's most famed blue diamonds will be on display together starting in January. Full Story »
Banks: We'll 'step up now'
Politico – Sun Dec 13, 11:51 pm ET Sent 7 times

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Facing White House pressure to increase lending, bank CEOs plan to tell President Barack Obama in a meeting on Monday that they are ready to “step up” and take additional steps to promote economic recovery, industry officials tell POLITICO. Full Story »
Kremlin cites progress on weapons treaty
AP – Sun Dec 13, 9:24 am ET Sent 7 times

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WASHINGTON - 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. Full Story »
Can Republicans 'smoke out' Webb?
Politico – Mon Dec 14, 4:23 am ET Sent 7 times

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Senate Republicans say they want to “smoke out” Democratic senators who could help them bring down the health care bill, and so far, they think they’ve found one in Sen. Jim Webb. Full Story »
Obama: Success of strategy evident in a year
AP – Sun Dec 13, 7:01 pm ET Sent 5 times

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WASHINGTON - 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 militants. Full Story »
Amid contentious health care issues, there's a lot lawmakers agree on
McClatchy Newspapers – Mon Dec 14, 5:53 pm ET Sent 4 times

WASHINGTON — The mounting Senate tension in these last days of the 2009 session is all about public options, Medicare and abortion policy, but step away from the rhetorical flames and it turns out that a lot of lawmakers from both parties agree on many proposals to change the nation's health care system. Full Story »
Clinton: New sanctions on Iran needed
AP – Mon Dec 14, 2:01 pm ET Sent 4 times

WASHINGTON - 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 its suspect nuclear program. Full Story »