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1 hr ago | WKYC

Gov. Strickland prepares slots order

Sources with knowledge of the negotiations say Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland is preparing an executive order to authorize racetrack slots and break a budget stalemate.

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Related Topix: US House of Representatives, US Politics, Ted Strickland, US News

6 hrs ago | WBT-AM Charlotte

Geithner says derivatives blind-sided the gov't

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner say the enormous scale of the financial derivatives market helped to cripple the economy and that greater oversight is needed to make sure it doesn't happen again.

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Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, US News, US Politics, US House of Representatives, Barney Frank

10 hrs ago | KWQC-TV Davenport

Culver hires new chief of staff, strategist

Gov. Chet Culver has hired a new chief of staff. Culver named John Frew as his chief of staff on Thursday.

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Related Topix: Tom Harkin, US Politics, US News, US Senate, University of Iowa, Iowa Government, Iowa, Creighton University

15 hrs ago | Augusta Chronicle Online

Free treatment promised to infected veterans

A Department of Veterans Affairs letter pledges free medical care and treatment for former patients who have tested positive for HIV or hepatitis since being exposed to endoscopic cleaning mistakes at three VA hospitals in the Southeast.

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Related Topix: Life, Veteran Affairs, Hepatitis, Medicine, Health, Bart Gordon, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Murfreesboro, TN

Thu Jul 09, 2009

Kentucky.com

7-Eleven rallies customers against card fees

Riding a wave of public outrage over credit card practices, 7-Eleven Inc. wants to show merchants are victims of the industry too.

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Related Topix: McKinney, TX, US Politics, Barack Obama, US News, US Senate

ABC7News

Four workers were charged in an elaborate scheme to resell cemetary plots.

Family members arive to search for the graves of relatives at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Ill., Thursday, July 9, 2009, after graves were discovered dug up Wednesday and bodies dumped into unmarked mass graves in an alleged scheme to resell the plots to unsuspecting members of the public.

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Related Topix: Alsip, IL, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Jesse Jackson, Chicago Metro

The Plain Dealer

Continue reading "Tens of billions remain in bank bailout fund"

The government has tens of billions of dollars left in the eye-popping $700 billion bank bailout fund created last fall, prompting a debate in Congress over what to do with it.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Judd Gregg, US Senate, Republican, US House of Representatives, Spencer Bachus, Barney Frank

West Linn Tidings

Budget solutions still evade some U.S. states

A week after a new fiscal year began for the majority of U.S. states, several still lacked balanced budgets on Wednesday and a few of those were likely not to reach a deal for at least another week.

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Related Topix: California, California Government, US Governors, Arnold Schwarzenegger, US News, US Politics, Ted Strickland, US House of Representatives, Ed Rendell

Asbury Park Press Online

House Dems eye surtax on wealthy on health care

An income tax surcharge on highly paid Americans emerged as the leading option Wednesday night as House Democrats sought ways to pay for health care legislation that President Barack Obama favors, several officials said.

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Related Topix: Tax, Healthcare Law, Law, US News, US Politics, Barack Obama, Shelley Berkley, US House of Representatives

Wed Jul 08, 2009

Bloomberg

CIA Admitted Misleading Congress Since 2001, Six Lawmakers Tell Panetta

Six Democrats on the U.S. House Intelligence Committee said the head of the CIA admitted the agency misled Congress since 2001 about a oesignificant actions.a In a letter to CIA Director Leon Panetta , the six members said he had a oerecentlya testified that a oetop CIA officials have concealed significant actions from all members of Congressa and ...

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Nancy Pelosi, US House of Representatives, Silvestre Reyes, John Boehner, Republican

National Post

Former Blagojevich aide pleads guilty in corruption case

The former chief of staff for ousted Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich pleaded guilty Wednesday and agreed to testify about attempts to cash in on the governor's power to fill a vacant U.S. Senate post.

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Related Topix: Rod Blagojevich, US Governors, US Politics, Barack Obama, US News, US Senate, Chicago, IL

Kansas City Star

Stricter labeling urged for bottled water

Consumers know less about the water they pay dearly for in bottles than what they can drink almost for free from the tap because the two are regulated differently, congressional investigators and nonprofit researchers say in new reports.Both the Government Accountability Office and the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit research and advocacy ...

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Food and Drug Administration, Life, Food, Nutrition, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Bart Stupak

Washington Post - The Fix

Madigan Declines Senate, Gov Bids

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan will run for re-election to her current post in 2010, according to a Democratic source aware of the decision, ending months of speculation about whether she might make the leap to a Senate or gubernatorial bid.

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Related Topix: Illinois, Illinois Government, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Senator Roland Burris, Rod Blagojevich, US Governors

The Globe and Mail

U.S. watchdog eyes energy trading limits

U.S. watchdog eyes energy trading limits Oil and gas: One of the bright lights in the otherwise dismal Statistics Canada report, capacity use in oil and gas extraction rose 1.7 per cent in the first quarter to 78.6 per cent.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, US Senate, Carl Levin, Byron Dorgan

CBS 5

Karl Rove Testifies On Fired Attorneys

Former Bush White House official Karl Rove was questioned by House Judiciary Committee lawyers Tuesday on any role he may have played in politically motivated firings of U.S. attorneys.

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Related Topix: US News, Karl Rove, US Politics, John Conyers, US House of Representatives, George Bush

Tue Jul 07, 2009

WBT-AM Charlotte

News Story: Poignant service says goodbye to M.J., the man

Brooke Shields speaks at the memorial service for music legend Michael Jackson, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, on Tuesday, July 7, 2009.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Pop/Rock, Michael Jackson, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Sheila Jackson-Lee

Thenew995fm.com

Jury Sees Videos Of Jefferson Accepting Cash

A federal jury has seen video of a former Louisiana congressman accepting a suitcase filled with $100,000 in cash outside a northern Virginia hotel.

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Related Topix: Jefferson, LA, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, William Jefferson

FindLaw

Feds: Pa. defense contractor exec took kickbacks

A former executive for a defense contractor with ties to Democratic U.S. Rep. John Murtha has been charged by federal prosecutors in Pittsburgh with taking about $200,000 in kickbacks from a subcontractor.

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Related Topix: US House of Representatives, US Politics, US News, John Murtha

Boston.com

Minnesota, land of the freshman senator

When Al Franken assumes his new Senate perch Tuesday, the numbers will tell his tale: Minnesota's second senator, the symbolic 60th vote for Democrats -- and No.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Mark Udall, US Senate, Senator Michael Bennet, US House of Representatives, Senator Mark Udall, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma

KDBC

Pearce to re-seek 2nd District seat in US House

Steve Pearce of Hobbs, who represented New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District for three terms, wants the job again.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Senator Tom Udall, Tom Udall, US Senate, US House of Representatives, Representative Harry Teague, Pete Domenici, Republican

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