joi, 7 octombrie 2010

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US News News - October 7, 2010
Watching an "Oprah" show about holiday craft tips? The commercial break includes a piece starring a sickly man in a hospital bed with dire warnings about the health care overhaul supported by Sen.
Obama to campaign in Maryland, Illinois (The Topeka Capital-Journal)
Campaigning for Democrats in a string of blue states, President Barack Obama is warning his party's rank-and-file of the dangers of "sulking and sitting back." The day after raising cash for Democrats in New Jersey, Obama is headed Thursday to a rally for Gov.
U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar of Minnesota has been in politics so long that when he talks about his district helping deliver the presidency to a promising young Democrat, he means John F. Kennedy.
A conservative organization is running ads against five incumbent House Democrats, saying voters need to stop them from expanding the size of government.
U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg said Wednesday he'll introduce legislation requiring colleges to adopt a code of conduct that prohibits bullying and harassment following the suicide of a student whose gay sexual encounter in his dorm room was broadcast online.
New Yorkers using food stamps will not be allowed to spend them on sugar-sweetened drinks under an obesity-fighting proposal being put forward by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Governor David Paterson.
Gay Americans have arrived at a "teachable moment." Often feeling marginalized in political discourse or grousing that they're used as political pawns, they have the nation's attention - and sympathy - after a recent spate of teenage suicides and two apparent anti-gay attacks in the heart of their community.
Nearly a year after a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, the Pentagon is taking new steps to beef up security and surveillance programs at its bases, and will join an FBI intelligence-sharing program aimed at identifying future terror threats, U.S. officials said.
First Todd Palin was mad at Republican Senate nominee Joe Miller for stepping around the question of whether his wife is qualified to be president.
The three-way race for the Senate became a discussion of extremes during a debate Wednesday night - radical-right, far-left and all over the place.
Former President Bill Clinton said desperately needed U.S. aid is coming to Haiti despite delays after listening on Wednesday to refugees in a sprawling homeless camp complain of a lack of food, jobs and housing nine months after a devastating earthquake.
The government is looking into allegations that mortgage lenders in the foreclosure crisis have been evicting homeowners using flawed court papers, Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday.
The spill was reported Tuesday afternoon, and cleanup crews were on the scene Wednesday.
Philadelphia Phillies Roy Halladay made his postseason debut on Wednesday, and in doing so, made major league baseball history.
U.S. and Mexican officials are just now fully employing a gun-tracing program touted as a key deterrent to weapons-smuggling, nearly three years after it was first announced in Mexico and weeks after an inspector general's preliminary report called it underused and unsuccessful.

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