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Obama hails 60th Senate vote for health care
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Jubilant Democrats locked in Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson as the 60th and decisive vote for historic health care legislation Saturday, putting President Barack Obama's signature issue firmly on a path for Christmas Eve passage.
Blizzard-like storm slams East, region snowed in
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A blizzard-like storm rocked the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Saturday, crippling travel across the region and causing hundreds of thousands of power outages.
Senators OK defense budget bill, much left to 2010
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The Senate cleared its year-end plate of some must-do work Saturday as it passed a critical budget bill that blends money for the Pentagon with additional help for the jobless.
Climate reality: Voluntary efforts not enough
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Around the world, countries and capitalism are already working to curb global warming on their own, with or without a global treaty.
Iraq sends forces to oil well seized by Iran
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Iraq deployed security forces Saturday near a remote oil well seized by Iran, officials said, and its government pressed Tehran to withdraw its forces from the area along their disputed southern border.
Prison population to have first drop since 1972
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The United States may soon see its prison population drop for the first time in almost four decades, a milestone in a nation that locks up more people than any other.
Iran acknowledges prisoners were beaten to death
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After months of denials, Iran acknowledged Saturday that at least three people detained in the country's postelection turmoil were beaten to death by their jailers.
Fear of violence grows in mountaintop mining fight
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It was the slap heard 'round the coalfields: Cordelia Ruth Tucker, wearing the fluorescent-striped shirt of a miner, strode past West Virginia state troopers and into a stream of marchers protesting mountaintop removal mining to deliver an audible smack.
Bundchen reveals name of son with Brady: Benjamin
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The baby boy keeping New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and supermodel wife Gisele Bundchen awake at night has a name: Benjamin.
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