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   <title><![CDATA[Health Care: Do the Democrats Have Enough Votes?]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[With health reform's first test vote on the Senate floor less than 72 hoursaway, the White House dispatched a platoon of top strategists]]></description>
   <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Senate Dems Moving With Test Health Vote]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[A wavering centrist Democrat said Friday he'd stand with Senate Democratic leaders on a crucial weekend test vote on their sweeping health care bill]]></description>
   <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Dems Have 60 for Health Care; Lincoln a 'Yes']]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Democrats have hit the magic number of 60 to move ahead on historic health care legislation.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Obama's Asia Trip: Too Focused on Common Ground?]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[In foreign policy, does making nice lead to making progress?]]></description>
   <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[The Fall of Greg Craig]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[How Obama's lawyer sparked a battle royal when he tried to keep some of the President's campaign promises in the war on terrorism]]></description>
   <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Sarah Palin's 'Going Rogue': What Do Book Reviews Say?]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin's blockbuster memoir, Going Rogue, gets a mixed reception in the press as it hits bookstores]]></description>
   <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Abortion Funding in Health Care Reform Splits Democrats]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[In the end, all the tea-party town halls, Glenn Beck rallies and "death panel" rumors may have less of a hand in bringing down health care reform than an intraparty Democratic culture war]]></description>
   <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Senate Health Bottom Line: $849 Billion Overhaul]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid briefed crucial moderate Democrats before unveiling long-awaited legislation Wednesday to remake the nation's health care system]]></description>
   <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Dan Pfeiffer: The Next White House Communications Boss]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[The 33-year-old will guide the Obama administration's public face amid a feud with the powerful Fox news operation]]></description>
   <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Supreme Court Rejects Redskins Name Case]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from a group of Native Americans who think the name of the NFL's Washington Redskins football team is offensive]]></description>
   <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Carter Defends Handling of 1979 Iran Crisis]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said Monday he had no regrets about his handling of the Iran hostage crisis more than 30 years ago]]></description>
   <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[RNC Health Insurance Plan Covers Abortion]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[The Republican National Committee's health insurance plan covers elective abortions for its employees, an option Republicans strongly oppose in health overhaul legislation]]></description>
   <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Homeland Security Chief: Many Border Security Goals Met]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday said many of the border security benchmarks set by the Obama administration have been met]]></description>
   <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Democrats Worry Joe Lieberman Could Sink Health Care]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[The Democratic Party is trying to grin and bear the roguish independent Joe Lieberman in their caucus (they do need his vote on health care), but it is getting harder and harder]]></description>
   <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Klein on the Iraq Surge: What Lessons for Afghanistan?]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[There's no guarantee that counterinsurgency tactics will succeed in Afghanistan]]></description>
   <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Will Senate Close Health Care Deal? Dems Feel Urgency]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Now that the House has passed its health care bill with a vote of 220 to 215, Democrats on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue feel an even greater sense of urgency]]></description>
   <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton After Mideast Trip: Diplomacy Success?]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[She is the star of the Obama Cabinet and an international celebrity -- and after nine months of staying out of the limelight, Hillary Clinton has arrived on the global stage. An intimate portrait of the diplomat and her world]]></description>
   <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Sotomayor Graces Cover of Latina]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Sonia Sotomayor heeded White House advice to paint her fingernails a neutral shade during her Supreme Court confirmation process up to a point]]></description>
   <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Health Care Passes the House; Dems Forced to Go It Alone]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Democrats on Capitol Hill are congratulating themselves on their historic achievement of passing a health care-reform bill, but they know as well as anyone that it is too early to really celebrate]]></description>
   <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Sarah Palin 'Going Rogue' Book Tour Hits Key States]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[GOP heartthrob Sarah Palin is back in the spotlight, this time as an author. Is she running for office -- or just the best-seller list?]]></description>
   <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Sources: Obama Near Decision on Afghanistan Troops]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to add tens of thousands more forces to Afghanistan, though likely not quite the 40,000 sought by his top general there]]></description>
   <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Supreme Ct. to View Juvenile Life Terms]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court is considering whether sentencing a juvenile to life in prison with no chance of parole is cruel and unusual punishment]]></description>
   <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Prosecutors Seek 27 Years for Ex-Lawmaker]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Federal prosecutors want a prison term of at least 27 years for a former Louisiana congressman convicted of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes]]></description>
   <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Will Congress Pass Radical Bank Reform by Year-End?]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[What reform could dramatically remake America and become law by Christmas? Not health care]]></description>
   <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Republican Revival: Moderates on Rise After Election]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Conservatives get the most attention as the GOP revives. But moderates in the Republican Party are rising too]]></description>
   <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <description><![CDATA[A government health insurance plan included in the House bill is unacceptable to a few Democratic moderates who hold the balance of power in the Senate]]></description>
   <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Christie, GOP Wins Separate Dems from Obama Popularity]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[The GOP gubernatorial victories in New Jersey and Virginia may not have been a referendum on Obama, but they did show that the President's popularity cannot so easily be transferred]]></description>
   <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[After Maine Gay-Marriage Defeat, Activists Look Ahead]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Maine's vote against gay marriage, much like all of the states before it, including California's Prop 8 a year ago, will do little to slow the fight over it]]></description>
   <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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