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Moderate Dems pivotal in Saturday health care vote

Updated: 11/20/09 5:21 PM
Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisiana.

6 world powers meet about Iran nuclear issue

Updated: 11/20/09 8:41 AM
Representatives of six world powers on Friday were considering measures against Iran for its refusal to halt nuclear enrichment activities, as the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency warned Tehran not to miss the opportunity to resolve the dispute.

SC lawmakers to take up impeachment of governor

Updated: 11/20/09 4:21 PM
South Carolina lawmakers plan to formally consider impeaching Gov. Mark Sanford for the first time next week, the chairman of the committee beginning that work said Friday.

Resort island reels after deadly attack by gunman

Updated: 11/20/09 3:21 PM
The Pacific resort island of Saipan was reeling Saturday from one of the most violent attacks in its history, when a gunman killed five people, including two small children and himself, in a rampage that ended at a World War II historical site.

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Police: NC girl raped, killed on day she was taken

Updated: 11/20/09 6:31 PM
A 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, according to an arrest warrant released Friday. Shaniya Davis was sexually assaulted and asphyxiated Nov. 10, the day her mother reported her missing from the trailer park where she was staying, according to the warrant. Authorities embarked on a nearly weeklong search that ended when the girl's body was found dumped off a rural road.

Pentagon looking for Fort Hood management lapses

Updated: 11/20/09 3:26 AM
The Pentagon said Thursday it will scour its procedures for identifying volatile soldiers hidden in the ranks following the Fort Hood shooting rampage and lapses that might allow others to slip through bureaucratic cracks.

Suicide bomber kills 16 in western Afghanistan

Updated: 11/20/09 8:46 AM
A suicide bomber killed 16 people and wounded at least 23 others Friday in a busy city square in western Afghanistan, while near Kabul a powerful former warlord narrowly escaped an assassination attempt, officials said.

Pakistan demands US share Afghan blueprint

Updated: 11/20/09 1:26 PM
Pakistan expressed fear Friday that a large increase in foreign troops in Afghanistan could push militants across the border into its territory and called on the U.S. to factor in that concern as part of its new war strategy.

20 years after UN pact, many children still suffer

Updated: 11/20/09 6:31 AM
EDITOR'S NOTE - The United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child 20 years ago Friday, yet hundreds of millions of children still suffer from violence, hunger and disease. Associated Press correspondents around the globe interviewed children who illustrate the remaining challenges, along with some victories.

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Making matters worse

They still don't get it. New York State legislators, especially Senate Democrats, are talking about filling the state's yawning budget gap by raising taxes or borrowing. In the nation's highest-taxed state, hemorrhaging jobs and population, how can any honest and responsible lawmaker think about digging his constituents deeper into a hole rather than helping them to climb out of it?

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