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Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:50:00 GMT

Obama tries to reassure seniors on health care

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Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:50:00 GMT

Republicans call on Americans to ‘rise up’ against Obama’s health-care bill

House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, center, flanked by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., left., and Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg) House
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:27:00 GMT

Feds use social networks to nab crooks, snoop on Americans

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Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:17:00 GMT

Feds use social networks to nab crooks, snoop on Americans

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Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:17:00 GMT

Passing health care without a vote?

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Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:17:00 GMT

Final full-court press on health care

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Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:17:00 GMT

House Democrats’ Healthcare Reform Plans Are Unconstitutional

By Peter Roff, Thomas Jefferson Street blog House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her allies, in an effort to be clever, have overstepped their constitutional bounds. The plan they have put forward for getting Senate-passed healthcare legislation through the
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:51:00 GMT

Civil rights photographer Charles Moore dies

US photojournalist Charles Moore, whose work chronicled the civil rights era of the 1960s, has died aged 79. Born in Hackleburg, Alabama in the heart of the segregated South, Moore served three years in the marines and then attended the Brooks Institute
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:21:00 GMT

Obama seeks to reassure seniors on health care

Yahoo.com, Staff Original article With a fresh sense of urgency, President Barack Obama sought to reassure seniors Monday about health care legislation approaching a final vote in Congress, pledging it would make preventive care cost-free and close a
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:06:00 GMT

Obama: We Will Get the Votes for Health Care

President Obama told ABC News today he is confident that legislation will pass. 'I believe we are going to get the votes, we're going to make this happen,' Obama told ABC's Jake Tapper in an exclusive interview. Obama said Democrats continue to work to
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:01:00 GMT

Social networking sites find favour with US agents

WASHINGTON: US law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking services, going undercover with false online profiles to communicate with suspects and gather private information, according to an internal
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:41:00 GMT

Obama's day: Getting ready for House health care vote

Good morning from The Oval. On this day in 2003, Vice President Dick Cheney said American troops would be "greeted as liberators" in Iraq.
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:04:00 GMT

Health Care Reform: TV Ads Give Taste of Fall Campaign

President Barack Obama speaks on health care reform March 15 in Strongsville, Ohio Congressman Adam Smith's phones rang so much on Monday that one of his aides called it a "siege." Almost all the calls were about health care, and most of his
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:04:00 GMT

Impac To Increase Mortgage Loans Focusing on HUD

Impac Mortgage Holding, announcing its 2009 corporate earnings, said it plans to originate more mortgage loans in 2010, than in the the previous year. The company said it will focus on home loans eligible for HUD sale. The Maryland based corporation
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:17:00 GMT

What if Obama fails on healthcare reform?

By Linda Feldmann, Staff writer, CSMonitor (AXcess News) Washington - It is an outcome that the Obama White House and its loyal supporters are absolutely not willing to entertain in public: failure to pass comprehensive healthcare reform. Everyone knows
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:01:00 GMT

US Office of Management and Budget on Economic and Social Indicators

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Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:55:00 GMT

[YURIKO KOIKE] Paying for social security programs

TOKYO -- When asked if he had ever read the classic economics textbook by Paul Samuelson, something almost all first-year students in the subject read, Japanese Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister Naoto Kan replied: 'I read about 10 pages.' Of
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:40:00 GMT

The GOP Is So Pre-Occupied With Fighting Healthcare Reform, It's Forgotten To Hammer Obama Over The Deteriorating Israel Situation

We said last week that BY FAR the biggest under-reported story in the world was VP Joe Biden's trip to the Middle East, where he threw some elbows at Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu over settlements in disputed territory. That story is spilling
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:38:00 GMT

In Ohio, Obama appeals for health care votes

STRONGSVILLE, Ohio — President Barack Obama, declaring that 'every argument has been made' on his health care overhaul, sought to seal the deal with Congress and the American people Monday by focusing on a single patient: a self-employed cleaning woman
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:37:00 GMT

Obama: Health care is 'right thing'

STRONGSVILLE, Ohio - Sixteen months ago, Barack Obama knew he had won the presidency when he learned that he'd carried Ohio. At the beginning of what could be a climactic week in his young presidency, Obama returned to the bellwether Buckeye State
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:51:00 GMT

Obama turns up the heat on wavering Dems as lawmakers start countdown toward health care vote

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Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:50:00 GMT

Obama takes health care road show to Ohio as vote looms

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Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:18:00 GMT

Charles Moore dies - took civil rights photos

The world saw glimpses of the civil rights movement through Charles Moore's eyes: In black-and-white photographs, he captured arresting images of the integration riots at Ole Miss in 1962, the fire hoses in Birmingham in '63, a Ku Klux Klan rally in
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:04:00 GMT

Obama turns up the heat on wavering Dems as lawmakers start countdown toward health care vote

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Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:32:00 GMT

Obama Warns Against Medicare Hoodwinking

President Obama today kicked off what the White House promised would be an intense week of lobbying for healthcare reform with an emotional speech in Strongsville, Ohio, accusing opponents of trying to 'hoodwink' seniors and offering ... Monday, March
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:23:00 GMT

Countdown for Obama's healthcare reform

US President Barack Obama has delivered an emotional appeal for his controversial overhaul of the healthcare system. His latest call comes as the House Budget Committee takes up a reconciliation bill that paves the way for the legislation, to be sent to
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:55:00 GMT

Nielsen: U.S. Demographics Are Changing ... Are Your Marketing Plans Ready?

America's demographic profile is undergoing major ethnicity changes. This dynamic transformation represents significant cultural shifts as well as one of the more remarkable marketing opportunities in history If you live in the United States, you're
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:51:00 GMT

President Obama uses trip to Ohio to keep pressure on Democrats to pass health care reform: slideshow, video

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Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:45:00 GMT

House Budget Committee Votes Against Including Stupak Amendment in Health-Care Reconciliation Bill

(CNSNews.com) - The House Budget Committee voted 17-19 Monday night against recommending that the Stupak-Pitts Amendment that bans funding of abortion through federally subsidized health care plans be included in the health-care reconciliation bill that
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:35:00 GMT

Obama seeks to reassure seniors on health care

President Barack Obama (Reuters) Obama appeals for public support on health care Obama: last-ditch health care plan Obama speech fails to break health care logjam Obama, Dems seek final compromise on health bill US parents going on trial in 4-year-old's
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:04:00 GMT