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Stakes Are High in Historic House Vote on Health Care

15 hours 50 minutes ago |Politics Daily
Sunday Showdown

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(March 21) -- With the stakes as high as any vote in recent memory, Democrats braced for the end game on health care reform Sunday, with an impasse over abortion funding unresolved, and with their to ...

President Offers Dialogue in Web Video to Iranians

1 day 21 hours ago |AOL News
Reaching Out

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(March 20) -- President Barack Obama issued an online video to the Iranian people today as they celebrate the Persian new year, saying the United States wants them to have more cultural exchanges for ...

A Year in the Making, Health Care Vote Nears

1 day 3 hours ago |Politics Daily
Last-Minute Negotiations

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(March 20) -- With a controversy over abortion funding still unresolved and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seemingly just short of the votes necessary to pass the Democratic health care bill, the House i ...

Thousands Protest on Iraq War Anniversary

1 day 8 hours ago |AP
Vocal Critics

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WASHINGTON (March 20) -- Thousands of protesters - many directing their anger squarely at President Barack Obama - marched through the nation's capital Saturday to urge immediate withdrawal of troops ...

British Airways Flights Canceled as Crews Strike

1 day 17 hours ago |AOL News
Grounded

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(March 20) -- Thousands of British Airways flights have been canceled amid a three-day strike by cabin crew that's throwing a kink into vacation plans for tens of thousands of travelers beginning the ...

Final Health Care Push Met With Bitter Resistance

1 day 4 hours ago |AP
'Absolutely Shocking'

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WASHINGTON (March 20) -- House Democrats heard it all Saturday - words of inspiration from President Barack Obama and raucous chants of protests from demonstrators. And at times it was flat-out ugly, ...

Deadly Snow Storm Hits Plains on First Day of Spring

1 day 8 hours ago |AP
Spring Blizzard

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NORMAN, Okla. (March 20) -- A powerful storm began blowing through Oklahoma and the southern Plains on the first day of spring Saturday, bringing heavy snow and strong winds a day after temperatures ...

Three Die After Small Planes Collide Over Central Florida

1 day 8 hours ago |AP

WILLISTON, Fla. (March 20) -- A single-engine plane and a kit-built aircraft collided in clear, sunny skies Saturday over central Florida, killing three people, authorities said. A Williston woman wh ...

Teen Arrested in Walmart Racial Comment Case

1 day 18 hours ago |AP
'Bias Incident'

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WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. (March 20) -- A 16-year-old boy who police said made an announcement at Walmart ordering all black people in the southern New Jersey store to leave was charged with harassme ...

Pope Expresses 'Shame and Remorse' to Irish Catholics

1 day 17 hours ago |AOL News
Trust Betrayed

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(March 20) -- Pope Benedict XVI sent an impassioned and unprecedented pastoral letter to the people of Ireland Saturday, apologizing for decades of clerical sexual abuse but placing the blame squarel ...

Magnitude-5.6 Quake Rattles Cuba

1 day 8 hours ago |AP

HAVANA (March 20) -- A moderate earthquake and smaller aftershock rattled houses and nerves in eastern Cuba on Saturday near the U.S. holding facility at Guantanamo Bay. No damages or injuries were r ...

Judge Rejects $575 Million Settlement in WTC Case

1 day 16 hours ago |AP

NEW YORK (March 20) -- A federal judge rejected a multimillion dollar settlement for people sickened by ash and dust from the World Trade Center, saying the deal to compensate 10,000 police officers, ...