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Rocky Mountain News - Sen. Ken Salazar's would-be replacement, Denver Public Schools chief Michael Bennet, might be a political rookie heading into a hard-fought 2010 election, but "he's got the goods" to win, according to the man who oversees the national U.S. Senate battleground for Democrats. (Read More)
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The European Union accused Russia and Ukraine of holding their neighbors hostage with a cutoff of gas supplies and urged the countries' political leaders to settle their dispute. (Read More)
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I don't know who pays to get public places to play Fox News instead of CNN, but it is everywhere you turn, a car-chase-punctuated, bimbo-model-hair-pulling, right-wing infomercial from Hell. I was getting my car fixed. The auto outpatient center was crowded. They had Fox News on the 35" flat screen in the waiting room. As (Read More)
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On Tuesday, Tom Perriello was sworn in as a freshman member of Congress. Sam Bennett was not.The divergent courses these two progressive candidates took were not driven by the political winds. Perriello won in a deeply conservative rural Virginia district controlled by a veteran Republican and was considered by insiders to (Read More)
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ATLANTA — Mississippi now has the nation's highest teen pregnancy rate, displacing Texas and New Mexico for that lamentable title, according to a new federal report released Wednesday.Mississippi's rate was more than 60 percent higher than the national average in 2006, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Preventi (Read More)
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NEW DELHI — "We have three foreigners, including women," the gunman said into the phone.The response was brutally simple: "Kill them." Gunshots then rang out inside the Mumbai hotel, followed by cheering that could be heard over the phone. The ruthless exchange comes from a transcript of phone calls Indian auth (Read More)
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WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama said Wednesday that reforming massive government entitlement programs _ such as Social Security and Medicare _ would be "a central part" of his effort to control federal spending.Obama made the pledge but provided few details as he named Nancy Killefer as his administration's (Read More)