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Senate safeguards mammograms, other screenings in first votes to overhaul health care
San Jose Mercury News - Fri Dec 4, 12:56 am ETAmendment expands women's access to preventive services
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Obama Says Private Sector Must Lead in Creating Jobs (Update1)
Bloomberg - Thu Dec 3, 3:59 pm ETDec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama said the private sector must take the lead in creating jobs as the U.S. economy recovers and that persistently high unemployment “cuts deep” for the millions out of work.
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Air Force Pilot Tortured in Vietnamese Prison Camp Dies
Fox News - Thu Dec 3, 3:55 pm ETRetired Air Force Col. Jack Pitchford, a fighter pilot from Mississippi who survived seven years in the Vietnamese prison camp known as the "Hanoi Hilton," has died. He was 82.
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Senate Defeats Proposal To Re-write Health Bill
Fox News - Thu Dec 3, 3:47 pm ETSenate Defeats Proposal To Re-write Health Bill
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Obama Open To Every Good Idea To Stop Job Losses
NPR - Thu Dec 3, 3:38 pm ETAfter a half-day brainstorming session with some of the nation's top CEOs, small-business leaders, union reps and economists, Obama said he'd heard many "exciting ideas and proposals." He said there were some ideas that could be put to work almost immediately and others that would become part of legislation for Congress to consider.
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White House Job Summit opens with Obama remarks
CNNMoney.com via Yahoo! Finance - Thu Dec 3, 3:34 pm ETPresident Obama called on business leaders Thursday to help the administration kickstart hiring as policymakers contend with rising unemployment that's weighing down the economy.
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President Obama says jobs summit generated solid ideas
Boston Herald - Fri Dec 4, 12:21 am ETWASHINGTON - President Barack Obama said he'd heard many "exciting ideas and proposals" from participants at a White House-sponsored jobs forum yesterday and...
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Medicare cuts stay in Senate's health care bill
Vail Daily - Thu Dec 3, 9:53 pm ETWASHINGTON - Casting its first votes on revamping the nation's health care system, the Senate rejected a Republican bid Thursday to stave off Medicare cuts and approved safeguards for coverage of mammograms and other preventive tests for women. The first round of votes ended with a fragile Democratic coalition hanging together. Senators voted 58-42 to reject an amendment by Sen. John McCain, R ...
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Lawyer allegedly contributed Ponzi funds
UPI - Thu Dec 3, 2:50 pm ETFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Dec. 3 (UPI) -- The Florida lawyer arrested on racketeering and fraud charges donated to political campaigns with funds from a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme, prosecutors alleged.
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Health bill survives test on Medicare
The Vacaville Reporter - 2 hours 14 minutes agoWASHINGTON -- Unflinching on a critical first test, Senate Democrats closed ranks Thursday behind $460 billion in politically risky Medicare cuts at the heart of health care legislation, thwarting a Republican attempt to doom President Barack
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Senate Approves Plan to Boost U.S. Mammogram Testing (Update3)
Bloomberg - Thu Dec 3, 2:45 pm ETDec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Senate took its first vote on legislation to overhaul the health system, approving a plan to guarantee that women can receive mammograms and other preventive health screenings without making co-payments.
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Hedge funds sank $775 millions into Rothstein scheme
Miami Herald - Thu Dec 3, 11:23 pm ETWealthy Fort Lauderdale investor George Levin and his Banyon hedge funds sank $775 million into Scott Rothstein's legal-settlement deals -- accounting for most of the money sucked into the lawyer's massive Ponzi scheme, court records show.
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Gates Defends ‘Gradual’ U.S. Afghanistan War Exit (Update1)
Bloomberg - Thu Dec 3, 2:28 pm ETDec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. forces will leave Afghanistan gradually based on security in local areas, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told lawmakers as he sought to deflect Republican criticism of a target July 2011 troop-drawdown date.
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Pilot who survived 7 years in e_SSLq Hanoi Hilton ' dies at 82
Tulsa World - 2 hours 48 minutes agoRetired Air Force Col.
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A.C. mayoral race a bargain for some of its three losers
Press of Atlantic City - Fri Dec 4, 3:16 am ETATLANTIC CITY - Elections do not offer consolation prizes. No loss is better or worse than any other. All that's left is to separate the good investments from the bad, an easy task when one also-ran spends $58 per vote and another spends $3 per vote.
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