House Speaker Nancy Pelosi signaled her willingness Thursday to consider a health care bill without a government-run public health insurance option. Pelosi previously has insisted the public option was necessary for House approval of a health care bill.
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Five young men who vanished from the Washington area last month are believed to be held in Pakistan while authorities investigate possible links to extremists there. The Pakistani embassy in Washington says the investigation focuses on whether the US citizens have links to extremist groups in Pakistan. The five men have been arrested but no formal charges have been filed
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Five US citizens arrested in Pakistan, being investigated on links to extremists.
Barack Obama, the US President, has accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo but said others may be “more deserving” of the award. Obama defended the US record in Afghanistan President Obama, who earlier arrived in Norway with his wife Michelle, also defended the US record in Afghanistan and his planned surge of 30,000 military personnel as motivated by his desire to bring peace to the war-torn country. In his acceptance speech, he hit back at critics of his plan to begin withdrawing US soldiers from Afghanistan in mid-2011, saying he was “unambiguous” about the date and would debate it no further.
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US President Barack Obama receives Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
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The reports of a possible death penalty for gays in Uganda are horrific. But since I don’t know anything about Ugandan politics, I asked Andrew Rice , a friend who wrote a book about Uganda, if he could add some context. Andrew Rice lived in Uganda between 2002 and 2004 and frequently writes about Africa for publications like The New York Times Magazine , The New Republic and The Economist .
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Ask an Expert: Is Uganda About to Start Executing Gays?
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College enrollment has increased in recent years, but completion has drastically declined, study shows.
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MTV’s ‘Get Schooled’ Works To Help Students Complete College In Tough Environment
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Filmmaker has cited his mom as the inspiration for his Madea character. By Larry Carroll Tyler Perry Willie Maxine Perry, the inspiration behind one of the most iconic film characters of the past decade and the mother of Hollywood heavyweight Tyler Perry, has passed away.
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Tyler Perry’s Mother, Willie Maxine Perry, Dies
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‘It was definitely different,’ he says of recording without his brothers. By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Tim Kash Nick Jonas Photo: MTV News Nick Jonas is a pretty busy and ambitious 17-year-old.
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Nick Jonas Says Administration Debut Is ‘A Real, Raw Rock Record’
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The interim Czech government, led by chief statistician-turned-Prime Minister Jan Fischer, Monday took another step towards making casual marijuana smoking a worry-free affair. Fischer’s cabinet defined what constitutes “small amounts” of cannabis for personal use, clarifying the country’s new penal code that from next year decriminalizes cultivation and possession of the plant by individuals
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Czech government allows personal cannabis use in 2010
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The Washington Post has run another Sarah Palin op-ed. And this time it’s worse than ever — it’s about the myth of global warming and how she is the true defender of science because she kills polar bears. The piece essentially says that because man-made global warming is clearly non-existent, based on leaked emails from climate change scientists, Obama should boycott Copenhagen.
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Sarah Palin’s Washington Post Op-Ed Debunked
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