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WASHINGTON - The Senate on Friday turned back a Republican effort to eliminate a long-term care insurance program to help seniors and the disabled, saving the plan once championed by the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy in its health overhaul bill.

In the months since she returned to the public spotlight, Sarah Palin’s continually evolving political identity has undergone a subtle change as her public persona centers increasingly on her disabled son, Trig.

WASHINGTON - A House Democrat says someone from the White House social secretary's office should have helped the Secret Service clear people into last week's state dinner, saying "even Walmart has a greeter."

On May 3, 2007, League of Conservation Voters President Gene Karpinski realized that the plan was working.

The 58-42 roll call Thursday by which the Senate rejected an amendment that would have stripped more than $400 billion in Medicare cuts from the health care bill.

The 61-39 roll call Thursday by which the Senate adopted an amendment to safeguard coverage of mammograms and preventive screening tests for women under a revamped health care system.

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - US lawmakers have rolled out business leaders who back action on climate change, hoping to counter criticism that a deal at this month's Copenhagen summit would hit the wobbly US economy.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The FBI on Thursday updated its "Most Wanted Terrorist List" with the names of four Palestinians suspected of taking part in a 1989 hijacking of a Pan Am airliner that left 20 dead in Pakistan.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US authorities are ready to transfer 116 of the 211 detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility to other countries, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told a Senate hearing on Thursday.

WASHINGTON - A House Democrat says someone from the White House social secretary's office should have helped the Secret Service clear people into last week's state dinner, saying "even Walmart has a greeter."

In the months since she returned to the public spotlight, Sarah Palin’s continually evolving political identity has undergone a subtle change as her public persona centers increasingly on her disabled son, Trig.

WASHINGTON - Lawmakers are seeking a reprieve for three Navy SEALs facing court-martial because one allegedly punched a suspect in an ambush killing of U.S. contractors in Iraq.

WASHINGTON - Facing the prospect of more American deaths in Afghanistan as the war escalates, lawmakers lashed out at neighboring Pakistan on Thursday as an unreliable ally that could spare the U.S. its bruising fight with al-Qaida if it wanted.

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is looking to press in early January for a new round of United Nations sanctions against Iran for its continued defiance of demands to come clean about its nuclear program, U.S. officials said Friday.

WASHINGTON - Surrounded by celebrity performers and characters from the North Pole, the Obama family on Thursday led a countdown and lighted the National Christmas Tree.

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is delaying moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is considering widening missile strikes on al-Qaida and the Taliban inside Pakistan and is planning to bolster the training of Pakistan's forces in a key border battleground where militants fuel the escalating Afghan insurgency, according to U.S. officials.

The good news for President Obama is that 53% of voters nationwide support his plan to send another 30,000 troops to Afghanistan. Nearly as many (47%) support his plan to begin withdrawing troops from that war-torn country in 18 months.

The country received a temporary respite from the health care reform debate while political leaders of both parties paused to criticize President Obama for his dual decision to send more than 30,000 new troops to Afghanistan while at the same time announcing a withdrawal date of 2011.