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Nov 3 2009
The healthcare reform proposals before Congress threaten the existence of the two-party system, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) alleged Monday morning. Hatch asserted that the health bills, which he believes represent a “step-by-step approach to...
Oct 29 2009
MEXICAN soldiers discovered a sophisticated but incomplete tunnel running under the border into the US and arrested six people in the process of digging, the army said. The tunnel was two metres high and one metre wide, and was well lit and had a...
Oct 24 2009
Residents of the New Jersey town where a priest was found dead in the kitchen of his church’s rectory Friday morning should exercise caution, Morris County Prosecutor Robert Bianchi said.
Oct 20 2009
The sex abuse case against the diocese and a former priest will be delayed after the diocese filed for federal bankruptcy protection on the eve of trial. The bankruptcy filing late on Sunday delays a lawsuit that had been set to start on Monday in Kent...
Oct 14 2009
The Senate Finance Committee voted 14-9 Tuesday to pass America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009. The committee’s approval marks a critical turning point for Congress in its attempt to pass comprehensive healthcare reform. Sen. Olympia Snowe...
Oct 7 2009
It seemed like such a good idea at the time. At a staff meeting in 2006, Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry, who was then commander of Combined Forces Afghanistan, took a sip of bottled water. Then he looked at the label of one of the Western companies...
Oct 2 2009
Letterman, 62, made the confessions to the audience during a taping of “The Late Show” for broadcast Thursday night, according to a statement by Worldwide Pants Inc., Letterman’s production company. “This morning, I did...
Sep 25 2009
If the sidewalks seem less clogged with Bugaboo strollers these days and you can’t remember the last time you had to diaper a doll at a baby shower, it’s not your imagination or fuzzy memory. Birth rates in the U.S. fell 2% in 2008, the...
Sep 23 2009
Four people were injured in a gun battle Tuesday involving an attempt to smuggle illegal immigrants from Mexico at the busiest border crossing in the U.S., authorities said. More than 70 people traveling in three vans involved in the incident were in...
Sep 22 2009
Talk like a communist, walk like a democrat. That has been the paradoxical strategy pursued by Latin America’s new radical left — at least until now. Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez will gush effusively in the presence of Fidel Castro one...