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NASA Sets Dates of Shuttle Fleet's Last Flights
NASA (the United States space agency) revealed the dates it fixed for the last flights of the...
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Medicare Pay Cuts on Senate Republicans’ Hands
Whether the elderly continues to receive medical care
under the Medicare program will be decided...
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Congress Nears August Break, Activity Crippled by Partisan Attitude
As elections are nearing, lawmakers are more partisan than ever and the two parties are almost...
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Guantanamo Interrogation Inspired From Chinese Techniques
The U.S. military trainers who came to Guantanamo Bay in 2002 reportedly based their interrogation...
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Mandela Removed from US Terror Watch List
United States President George W. Bush signed a bill Tuesday to remove Nelson Mandela as well as...
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US Health Officials Expand Salmonella Probe to Other Products
With the number of salmonella infections reaching more than
850, federal health officials have...
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Bush Signs $162 billion War Spending Bill
United States President George W. Bush signed on Monday a $162 billion war spending plan which will...
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N. Korea Demolishes Cooling Tower at Nuclear Plant
North Korea kept its promise and destroyed the cooling tower at the Yongbyon nuclear plant (96...
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U.S. to Remove N. Korea from Terror List and Lift Sanctions
United States President George W. Bush said in a statement issued from the White House Rose Garden...
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McCain Plans to Build 100 New Nuclear Reactors
Republican presidential candidate John McCain announced his plans to nearly double the United...
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Software Engineer Gets 2 Years in Jail for Espionage
A software engineer who had worked in the Silicon Valley will spend the next two years in prison....
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First Black Woman Elected In Congress In Maryland
Lawyer and nonprofit executive Donna Edwards won a special
election to become Maryland’s first...
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Bush to Ask Congress to End Offshore Drilling Ban
After presumed Republican presidential candidate John McCain announced he supported the idea of...
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US Supreme Court Grants Habeas Corpus to Guantanamo Inmates
The foreign detainees at Guantanamo Bay were granted the right to challenge their detention in US...
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Kucinich’s Impeachment Resolution against Bush Likely Doomed
Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s attempt to impeach U.S. President George W. Bush was referred on Wednesday...
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Kucinich Files 35 Impeachment Articles against Bush
Representative Dennis Kucinich, Democrat-Ohio, defied the chiefs of his party on Monday by...
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President Bush Tightens Immigration Policy
The U.S.
tightened its policy regarding immigrants who come to work here. President Bush
signed...
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Obama Poised to Win Party Nomination
The exhausting Democratic presidential odyssey is nearing its end with Senator Barack Obama poised...
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Senator Byrd Is Hospitalized
Monday night, Sen. Robert C. Byrd was taken to hospital and
remained under observation as he was...
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Global Warming Will Cause Lake Waters to Drop
Global warming continues to affect the environment, only
this time the problem is the water from...
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Vito Fossella To Retire Following Personal Mistake
New York Rep. Vito Fossella declared Tuesday he would not
seek to be re-elected and he would leave...
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Child Pornography Law Upheld By US High Court
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld a 2003 federal law,
making it a crime to promote or...
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Energy Department to Stop Adding Oil to Strategic Reserve
The U.S. Energy Department announced on Friday it will comply with the measure sought by the...
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Bush Criticizes the Democrats, Proposes Alternative Bill
During a White House meeting with Republican leaders of Congress on Wednesday, U.S. President...
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China Says Tibetans Linked to Al-Qaeda
China continued its accusations towards the Dalai Lama. During the meeting with the Buddhist...
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Bush Involved In World Food Crisis
President George W. Bush asked the Congress on Thursday to
approve $770 million to alleviate the...
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U.S. Accuses Syria of Building Secret Reactor with NKorea's Help
The United States has claimed that Syria had been secretly building a nuclear reactor with North...
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Election Results In Nepal Promise Significant Changes
The former communist rebels known as the Maoists managed to
win the most seats in the new...
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Bush Backed by Canada, Mexico on Free Trade Deal
US President George W. Bush found more support abroad for his plans with the country’s trade...
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Bush Agrees to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Pressed by the Congress and the courts, President Bush
finally announced this week that he would...
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Rice on European Tour to Conclude Missile Defense Shield Deal
The U.S. State Department said efforts for reaching a missile-defense
agreement with Poland
would...
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Wedding Bells for Benjamin Franklin and Betsy Ross Re-Enactors
Thursday night, on the eve of Independence, two historical
re-enactors exchanged wedding vows....
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How We Celebrate Independence Day
Today, Americans all over the world celebrate the day the Declaration of Independence was adopted...
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Irak War Over Democracy or Oil?
Hunt Oil Co. officials and U.S. diplomats talked several times before the
company signed an...
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Aren’t Menthol Cigarettes Flavored Cigarettes?
A highly debated tobacco bill is currently pending in the
United States Congress which might...
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Michael Jackson's "Thriller" Is Part Of US History
The 1982 best-seller album from singer Michael Jackson
titled “Thriller” has been making history...
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Politicians Share Personal Alzheimer’s Woes
In an attempt to make the Congress more aware of the catastrophic
consequences of Alzheimer’s...
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Dennis Quaid Tells Congress About Twins Overdose
Appearing before Congress on Wednesday, American actor Dennis Quaid testified about the nightmare...
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Negotiators Have Reached An Agreement on Farm Bill
Although the Bush administration has objected to the bill, saying it was too expensive, and the...
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Abstinence-Only Programs 'Simply Do Not Work'
It appears that the everlasting debate over the effectiveness
of abstinence-only programs is...
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Seattle Filmmakers Freed by Nigerian Authorities
Nigerian authorities have released the Seattle film crew detained over the weekend on suspicion of...
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Artists Stand Together For Art
Actor Robert Redford, musician John Legend and actress Kerry Washington were joined yesterday by...
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French Architect Wins Prestigious Pritzker Prize
French architect Jean Nouvel is the 2008 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, it was...
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Xperia X1, The Alliance Between Microsoft and Sony Ericsson
For the first time in its history, Sony Ericcson unveiled a
smart phone powered by Microsoft’s...
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ABC Faces $1.4 Million Fine Over 'NYPD Blue' Nude Scene
US television network ABC is facing a $1.4 million fine brought by the Federal Communications...
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Portrait of $48,500 for Director of Smithsonian Museum
The founding director of the Smithsonian's National Museum
of the American Indian took $48,500...
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Film Registry Goes "Back to the Future" in "Oklahoma!"
The National Film Registry added 25 more classic American films of great variety for preservation...
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Connie Mack and Mary Bono Tie The Knot In Asheville, NC
On Saturday, U.S. Rep. Connie Mack got married to
Congresswoman Mary Bono in a private ceremony...
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Apple Considers Wireless Spectrum Bid- Report
Apple might enter the competition for the wireless spectrum bid to be held on January 16 next year,...
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Sections of the Patriot Act Unconstitutional- Judge
A U.S. District Judge decided to strike down for the second time key sections of the Patriot Act...
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Health
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Congress Fails To Pass Health Bill Protecting Senior Citizens
The Congress went on the 4th of July vacation without being able to pass the bill that would have...
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Ingredients in Fresh Salsa Now Probed in Salmonella Outbreak
Beginning with Wednesday, the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention expanded salmonella probe...
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VA to Warn Veterans about Chantix’s Suicidal Effects
Pfizer’s Chantix is once again in the center of attention
but not in a good way, following the...
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White House Wants Budget Extended for FDA
The Bush administration asked Congress on Monday for an
additional $275 million in the next year’s...
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Children Healthcare Varies Greatly by State
The Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation that seeks to promote better health care for all...
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Senator Kennedy Awaits Treatment News
With just a few days after the announcement of his recently
found brain tumor, Senator Edward M....
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Dennis Quaid Supports Patients’ Right to Sue Drugmakers
Actor Dennis Quaid testified again, this time before
Congress on Wednesday, about the nightmare he...
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Congress Hears Testimony of People Losing Relatives to Heparin
People who lost relatives to deadly reactions from the
blood-thinner heparin recounted their loved...
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US Loses Too Many Lives over Lack of Health Insurance
A
report published this week by Families USA, the national organization for
health care...
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Report Finds Lack of Insurance Is Linked to Higher Death Rates
A report issued Friday by Families USA, the national
organization for health care consumers,...
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Funeral Service Set for Girl Who Died after Tragic Pool Accident
A funeral service has been set for Abigail Taylor, the
six-year-old girl whose intestines were...
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Girl Harmed by Pool Drain Last Year Has Died
Abigail Taylor, the six year old girl whose intestines were sucked out by a pool drain, has died...
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US Health Care Spending Expected to Boom over the Next Decade
A new federal study revealed that government spending on health
care could double by 2017,...
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Bush Wants Wealthy Beneficiaries to Pay More for Medicare
President Bush has proposed to the Congress new legislation on the functioning of the Medicare...
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WHO: Tobacco Could Kill 1 Billion People In The Next Century
Have you ever tried to count to 1 billion? It will take some
time, isn’t it? Now try to imagine...
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Texas Researcher Admits to Leaking Avandia Report to Glaxo
A Texas researcher has admitted leaking results of a
confidential research to the makers of the...
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‘Housewife’ Marcia Cross Lobbying against Drive-By Mastectomies
“Desperate Housewife” star Marcia Cross lobbied Wednesday for
a bill that would allow breast...
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Report: Anti-Tobacco Efforts Insufficient in US
There was little praise for the federal government’s handling of smoking-prevention programs...
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Managed-Care Legislation Leaves the Industry Untouched
As the bill expires in six months, lawmakers are likely to revisit the question of cutting...
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Bush Vetoes Child Health Bill Second Time
President George Bush vetoed a bill proposing to expand
health insurance for children Wednesday....
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Teen Pregnancy Rate Rises for First Time since 1991
After falling steadily for more than a decade, the birth
rate for American teenagers jumped in...
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Teen Birth Rate Rises in the U.S. after Dropping for Years
After falling steadily for more than a decade, the birth
rate for American teenagers jumped in...
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Heart Surgeon DeBakey Received Two Awards for His Lifetime Achievements
This Tuesday, at Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Michael DeBakey, 99, was celabrated by his...
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47 Million Americans Living without Health Insurance
The latest estimates from the US Census Bureau indicate that the number of uninsured Americans has...
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Kids Eat Much More After Watching Food Commercials
Researchers from the University of Liverpool say that obese and overweight children consume 100%...
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