Among the burning questions being asked as we sift through the ramifications of Comcast's move to acquire a majority stake in NBC: Whither Hulu? Will it say free, go the pay way, or morph into a some kind of pay/free hybrid?
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Hulu’s future remains cloudy in wake of Comcast-NBC deal
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A narrow majority of Americans support President Obama's revamped strategy on Afghanistan, according to a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Wednesday, but there are broad concerns that the costs of the war will sap the government's ability to address problems facing the nation at home. Though the results underscore a significant selling job ahead for the White House, they also show a willingness by Democratic voters to back Obama despite their reservations about the war.
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Poll: 51%, majority of Americans support Obama’s Afghan strategy
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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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Hundreds, if not thousands, of lobbyists are likely to be ejected from federal advisory panels as part of a little-noticed initiative by the Obama administration to curb K Street's influence in Washington, according to White House officials and lobbying experts. The new policy — issued with little fanfare this fall by the White House ethics counsel — may turn out to be the most far-reaching lobbying rule change so far from President Obama, who also has sought to restrict the ability of lobbyists to get jobs in his administration and to negotiate over stimulus contracts. The initiative is aimed at a system of advisory committees so vast that federal officials don't have exact numbers for its size; the most recent estimates tally nearly 1,000 panels with total membership exceeding 60,000 people.
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Obama bars lobbyists from Federal advisory boards
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Senators Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska) and Joseph Lieberman (I-Connecticut) say they do not support the health care legislation in its current form. Both have issues with the government run insurance option, or public option.
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Centrist Senators oppose health bill ‘as is’
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You may have missed it in the mainstream news media, but statistical societal indicators are reading red across the board.
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The critical unraveling of US society
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Obamu: v. To proceed optimistically despite challenging obstacles.
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Japan loves Obama so much they gave him his own verb
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NEW YORK – They're the spoils of a feast that's over forever: Bernard Madoff's stuff on a government auction block. Almost 200 items seized from the fallen financier's homes are being sold Saturday in Manhattan, ranging from dishes, pens and stationery to decoy ducks, furs and a Rolex dubbed the “prisoner watch.” There's even a partly used pad of adhesive notes, personalized with “Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities” — a reminder that Madoff's twisted financial activities were interrupted in action
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Spoils of Madoff’s feast go on the auction block
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When it comes to understanding the real economy and the struggles of ordinary Americans, Senator Bernie Sanders always seems to be ahead of the curve and fighting like hell for Congress to show leadership and be responsive. Now he's doing it once again with his legislation to break up the Too Big To Fail financial institutions that pose a threat to our entire economy.
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Breaking up is hard to do
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FORT HOOD, Tex. — President Obama took on the role of national eulogist in a moment of tragedy on Tuesday for the first time since taking office as he led the country in mourning 13 current or retired soldiers gunned down not on a foreign battlefield but here on their home base by one of their own
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Obama mourns victims of Fort Hood shootings
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