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Black Caucus Gives Clyburn Nod In Dem Race

The chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus said Monday that Rep. James Clyburn, the highest ranking African-American in the House Democratic leadership, should be the vanquished party’s second in command in the next Congress.

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Decision Points: Katrina response was ‘flawed’, but I wasn’t to blame – Bush

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!In Decision Points, George Bush says of Katrina ‘the problem was … that I took too long to decide’There is plenty of blame to go around for the failures before and after Katrina hit New Orleans and Louisiana, killing more [...]

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Art auction records broken by new breed of billionaires

Up to £1bn will be spent on expressionist and contemporary works in New York this week if sales reach expectationsBy the end of this week, New York will have come to the end of a fortnight of impressionist and contemporary art sales at its main auction houses. Already, the auction record for a Modigliani has [...]

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Fast-food restaurants target U.S. kids, study shows

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Fast-food restaurants are stepping up efforts to market themselves and unhealthy food products to children and toddlers with television ads, websites and even their own menus,…

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Border Patrol issues wanted posters in Arizona

TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) – U.S. Border Patrol agents in southern Arizona are handing out wanted posters to crack down on drug and human smugglers in the most heavily trafficked corridor along the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Lawyer: Elizabeth Smart’s abductor is mentally ill

The man accused of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart in 2002 was influenced by an escalating mental illness and extreme religious beliefs, his lawyer told jurors Monday at the start of his federal trial.

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Killer of mom, 2 daughters gets death sentence

A Connecticut man will be sentenced to death for a night of terror inside a suburban home in which a woman was strangled and her two daughters tied to their beds, doused in gasoline and left to die in a fire.
 

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GOP taps Scott, Kinzinger for transition to power

House Republicans are tapping two newly elected congressman who drew tea party backing in their campaigns to help lead the party’s transition to power.

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MSNBC brings back suspended anchor Keith Olbermann

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Suspended liberal anchor Keith Olbermann will return to the MSNBC lineup on Tuesday, four days after the cable news network suspended him for giving money to three Democratic politicians.

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Gunman kills Calif. police officer during chase

A gunman shot and killed a Riverside, Calif., police officer during a foot chase through a park late Sunday night, authorities said.

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Clinton back on US soil after marathon Asia tour

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton returned to American soil on Monday after a marathon two-week trip to the Asia-Pacific during which the domestic U.S. political landscape dramatically changed amid growing international concerns about China …

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Alaska’s Murkowski on cusp of write-in win

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski is on the cusp of vindication after waging a high stakes — and long shot — write-in campaign to keep her job.

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Debutants steal show at NYC marathon

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Debutants stole the show at the New York City marathon on Sunday as Ethiopian Gebre Gebremariam won the men’s race on his marathon debut and Kenya’s Edna Kiplagat took the women’s title in her first New York race.

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Jury to hear 2nd week of testimony in DeLay trial

In this Oct. 26, 2010, file photo, Tom DeLay, right, answers questions from members of the media with his attorney, Dick DeGuerin, left, at the Travis County courthouse in Austin, Texas.

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US offers to drop Sudan from state terror list

Barack Obama says US will remove Khartoum from list of state sponsors of terror if referendums go ahead in JanuaryThe US will drop Sudan from its list of state sponsors of terrorism as early as July 2011 if Khartoum ensures two key referendums take place on schedule in January and the results are respected, according [...]

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