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Senate Dems reach 60 vote threshold on health bill
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Democratic leaders secured the support of Sen. Ben Nelson to provide the 60th and deciding vote for sweeping health care legislation in the Senate, capping a year of struggle and a final burst of deadline bargaining on President Barack Obama's top domestic priority.
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 tens of thousands of power outages.
Divided climate talks end with compromise deal
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The historic U.N. climate talks ended Saturday after a 31-hour negotiating marathon, with delegates accepting a U.S.-brokered compromise that gives billions in climate aid to poor nations but does not require the world's major polluters to make deeper cuts in their greenhouse gas emissions.
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.
Graphic Packaging shares jump on analyst coverage
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Consumer products packaging maker Graphic Packaging International Inc. is aggressively reducing debt and overshadowing others in the industry, an analyst said Tuesday, initiating coverage of the company with an "Outperform" rating and pushing its shares up 11 percent.
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.
Poland tightens border in hunt for Auschwitz sign
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Polish authorities stepped up security checks at airports and border crossings and searched scrap metal yards Saturday as the search intensified for the infamous Nazi sign stolen from the Auschwitz death camp memorial.
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