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Henry Kissinger Recovering in South Korea Hospital

8 hours 51 minutes ago |AOL News

(March 13) -- Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was taken to a hospital Saturday after suffering abdominal pain during a visit to the South Korean capital , according to several reports. ...

Catholic Hospitals Back Health Care Reform Bill

2 hours 6 minutes ago |Politics Daily

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(March 13) -- The head of the national association of Catholic hospitals, which holds great sway in the health care debate, on Saturday threw her support behind the contested Senate reform bill in a ...

Why Health Care End Game Is Hijacking Washington

1 day 1 hour ago |AOL News

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(March 12) -- Health care reform or bust. After stalemate followed stalemate for roughly a year of lawmaking and politics, the fight to change national health care rules and insure millions more Ame ...

Texas Yanks Thomas Jefferson From Teaching Standard

20 hours 34 minutes ago |AOL News

(March 12) -- Widely regarded as one of the most important of all the founding fathers of the United States, Thomas Jefferson received a demotion of sorts Friday thanks to the Texas Board of Educatio ...

Utah GOP Leader Paid Woman $150,000 After Skinny-Dip

23 hours 26 minutes ago |AP

SALT LAKE CITY (March 12) - A late-night confession by Utah's House majority leader about sitting nude in a hot tub with a minor 25 years ago has shocked this conservative state's political establish ...

Reid's Wife Has Surgery Following Car Accident

23 hours 4 minutes ago |AP

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (March. 12) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife underwent surgery Friday to stabilize serious injuries suffered when a tractor-trailer rear-ended the minivan she and their da ...

Pelosi: Public Option Dead in Health Care Overhaul

1 day 4 hours ago |AOL News

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WASHINGTON (March 12) -- The health care public option died today, and it took one of its most devoted supporters to put it down. In definitive terms, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters at the ...

Obama Delays Asia Trip to Focus on Health Reform Push

1 day 7 hours ago |AP

WASHINGTON (March 12) -- President Barack Obama is postponing his long-scheduled Asian trip for a few days to make a final push for passage of historic legislation reinventing the health care system. ...

House Democrats to Cut Some Pork From the Menu

1 day 8 hours ago |AOL News

WASHINGTON (March 12) -- It's hard to compete with bridges to nowhere, teapot museums and gigantic weapons systems the Pentagon doesn't want. But finally, pork projects for private companies are gett ...

Is This Fighter Jet Worth $131 Million?

1 day 7 hours ago |AOL News

WASHINGTON (March 12) -- The Pentagon is acknowledging that its largest-ever weapons program is years behind schedule, tens of billions of dollars over budget and in the initial stages of a testing p ...

Why the Internet Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

1 day 10 hours ago |AOL News

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(March 12) -- The short list of nominees for this year's Nobel Peace Prize includes an unexpected contender: the Internet. This is the result of a campaign launched by the Italian edition of Wired ma ...

US Slams China on Human Rights Record

1 day 10 hours ago |AOL News

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(March 11) -- The United States has taken a fresh swing at China's human rights record at a time when the Obama administration is wooing Beijing for support against Iran, highlighting the tension bet ...