New York Times:
The president has apparently rejected the most extreme choices being discussed on troop levels in the eight-year-old war.
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MSNBC.com: Nightly News:
Nov. 7: President Barack Obama made a last-minute personal appeal to Democrats to pass landmark health care legislation. NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell reports. (Nightly News). (Read More)
New York Times:
It was a convoluted contest in New York that turned into an Election Day disaster for the National Republican Congressional Committee.
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New York Times:
Martim Avillez Figueiredo, the editor of i, short for “informação,” has organized his paper with opinion pieces first and all the best news in the front.
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New York Times:
This week, on the 30th anniversary of the takeover of the United States Embassy in Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not mention that, as a student leader in 1979, he had voted against the plan to seize the U.S. compound and suggested taking the Soviet Embassy instead.
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MSNBC:
Democrats just don't get the election message from voters and are pushing a liberal, big government agenda at their party's peril, Republican officials say.
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New York Times:
After weeks of stalemate, lawmakers approved a law to administer a critical election that could determine how quickly U.S. combat forces leave.
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Huffington Post:
BAGHDAD — Iraq's parliament passed on Sunday a long-delayed law in a crucial step to setting up nationwide elections, which the head of the electoral commission expected would still be held in January.The decision appeared to resolve a key sticking point – who will be allowed to vote in the disputed, oil-rich city of Kirkuk (Read More)
MSNBC.com: South & Central Asia:
As Pakistan's army plows ahead with its offensive in South Waziristan, its success is at risk because the government has yet to come up with a plan to rebuild the lawless territory.
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Wall Street Journal:
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- On a 220-215 vote late Saturday night, the U.S. House of Representatives passed and sent to the Senate controversial legislation that would overhaul the nation's health-care system. The legislation, the cornerstone of President Barack Obama's domestic policy, would cost an estimated $1 trillio (Read More)
GretaWire:
Washington Post reports today that most of the outrage over the market bomb in Peshawar, Pakistan two weeks ago that murdered more than 100 is directed not at the Islamic extremist groups the Pakistan government said did this...but rather at countries many Pakistanis say are their true enemies: Israel, India and United Stat (Read More)