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Considering the fact that Minnesota is covered in snow and ice for half of the year, residents have gotten used to indoor entertainment. The pleasures of summer afternoons quickly give way to the gloom of winter, and for former Sen. Norm Coleman, that means hours playing Ping-Pong. He started early, even before moving to...
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The public might soon get its first glimpse of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords since she was critically wounded in a deadly Tucson shooting in January. But it remains unclear when—or if—the injured Democratic lawmaker will return to Congress. In perhaps the most detailed assessment of Giffords’ condition released since the January shooting, Pia Carusone, the...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Top lawmakers aiming to reach a deficit-reduction deal agreed on Thursday to step up the pace of their talks with a series of meetings next week but said they still disagreed over the need to raise taxes. Vice President Joe Biden and six leading Democratic and Republican lawmakers have now met...
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WASHINGTON – Leon Panetta, President Barack Obama’s choice to head the Pentagon, predicted on Thursday that Iraq will ask the United States to keep some American forces in that country beyond year’s end, the current departure date. In wide-ranging testimony at his Senate confirmation hearing, the current CIA director and former Clinton White House...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Representative Anthony Weiner vowed to remain in office on Thursday despite increasing pressure for him to resign for sending lewd pictures of himself to women over the Internet and then lying about it. “I’m not,” Weiner told the New York Post when asked if he was going to resign. At...
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By Pete Engardio Is Washington finally getting serious about doing something to shore up America’s flagging global competitiveness in manufacturing? There are certainly some signs in recent moves by President Obama. The president has promised to listen to the needs of business more carefully and declared that America must “out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been in discussions with the White House about leaving her job next year to become head of the World Bank, sources familiar with the discussions said on Thursday. The former first lady and onetime political rival to President Barack Obama quickly became one of the...
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By John DickersonSlate DES MOINES—Sarah Palin says George Washington is her favorite founder because he was reluctant to serve but answered the call of duty. She likes to think of herself this way, answering the needs of a clamoring electorate. That is part of the cinematic beauty of her bus tour: The crowds that...
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WASHINGTON – The entire top echelon of Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign resigned on Thursday, a stunning mass exodus that left his bid for the Republican nomination in tatters. But the former House speaker vowed defiantly to remain a candidate. “I am committed to running the substantive, solutions-oriented campaign I set out to run earlier...
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