Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell finally reached an agreement Wednesday on how and when to vote on the first four amendments. The two women's health amendments will receive a vote at 11:45 a.m. Thursday, and the two Medicare amendments will go up at 2:45 p.m
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Impasse ends in Senate, votes on health bill ammendments set
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A little-noticed letter from Yahoo! to the US Marshals Service offers troubling insight into the surveillance policies of one of the Internet's largest email providers. In response to a Freedom of Information Act request seeking details of Yahoo's! policies allowing the Justice Department to request wiretaps of its users and the amount they charge US taxpayers per wiretap — the search engine leviathan declared in a 12-page letter that they couldn't provide information on their approach because their pricing scheme would “shock” customers.
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Democratic senators said they told Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) Wednesday that they are willing to stay in session through the Christmas break to finish the health care reform bill. Accusing Republicans of stalling tactics, Democrats emerged from a caucus meeting vowing to complete the bill by the end of the year
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A new law will allow some Maine sex offenders to remove their names from the state's sex offender registry, but state police say there is a whole list of criteria sex offenders need to meet in order to take advantage of it. Among the guidelines, the offender must been convicted between January 1, 1982 and June 30, 1992, and must have been discharged from the correctional system before September 1, 1998.
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WASHINGTON — President Obama’s top cabinet officers went before skeptical members of Congress on Wednesday to argue his case for a rapid build-up of troops in Afghanistan, followed by withdrawals beginning in 2011.
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HIV prevention efforts – and the promise of antiretroviral therapy as prevention – are being undermined by punitive laws targeting those infected with and at risk of HIV, Human Rights Watch said today on the eve of World AIDS Day. This year's World AIDS Day theme is “universal access and human rights,” tying together goals for universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, and care with recognition that respect for human rights is critical in the global response to AIDS.
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WASHINGTON — President Obama plans to announce Tuesday night that he will begin to transition American forces out of Afghanistan beginning in July 2011, setting the first time frame to wind down the war there nearly a decade after the United States first sent troops in to topple the Taliban government, senior administration officials said. Mr. Obama will set the drawdown goal even as he orders another 30,000 troops to deploy to Afghanistan over the next six months in an effort to reverse the momentum of Taliban insurgents fighting to regain control of the country
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Pullout from Afghanistan to begin in 2011; McCain Balks
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WASHINGTON — President Obama plans to announce Tuesday night that he will begin to transition American forces out of Afghanistan beginning in July 2011, setting the first time frame to wind down the war there nearly a decade after the United States first sent troops in to topple the Taliban government, a senior administration official said.
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LOS ANGELES — Three boys were booked on suspicion of bullying or kicking red-haired students at a middle school when a “Kick a Ginger Day” prank inspired by a “South Park” episode got out of hand, authorities said Monday. A 13-year-old boy was detained last week for investigation of threatening to inflict injury by means of electronic communication — essentially, cyberbullying.
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"Kick a Ginger Day" – Middle school attacks inspired by South Park
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After months of debate, President Barack Obama will spell out a costly Afghanistan war expansion to a skeptical public Tuesday night, coupling an infusion of as many as 35,000 more troops with a vow that there will be no endless U.S. commitment. His first orders have already been made: at least one group of Marines who will be in place by Christmas.
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