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AP - President Barack Obama described the stakes of this weekend's health care vote in stark terms Friday, using words uttered so rarely out of the White House that they seem all but banned: "If this vote fails."
AP - Democratic Rep. John Boccieri of Ohio is switching his vote to "yes" on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
Clinton says agreement with Russia near on nukes
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AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that American and Russian negotiators are "on the brink" of agreement on a nuclear arms reduction treaty.
Politico - After pulling out last week for the lucrative contract, EADS says it's rethinking entering the competition.
Keep Medicare in Congress's hands
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Politico - In an Ideas piece, the authors express concern over the health care bill's handling of Medicare.
Come back to the table, Israelis and Palestinians are urged
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AP - Top international diplomats on Friday called on Israel and the Palestinians to return to peace negotiations with a goal of reaching a final settlement that would create an independent Palestinian state within 24 months. They reiterated their condemnation of Israel's latest move to add Jewish housing in disputed east Jerusalem but did not escalate criticism of the Jewish state.
AP - Slowly but steadily, support is building behind President Barack Obama's health care legislation in the House, with the intense lobbying and politically targeted changes to the bill winning over an Ohio Democrat on Friday.
Reuters - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday said that when the House of Representatives votes on the healthcare bill, lawmakers will have assurance that the legislation will also be passed by the Senate.
AP - It will be the rarest of sights: a black-hulled, two-masted replica of a slave-carrying schooner slipping into Havana's harbor flying two flags — those of the United States and Cuba.
AP - The Idaho Supreme Court has denied requests from six death row inmates who said they were entitled to new trials because a U.S. Supreme Court ruling made after their convictions called on juries, not judges, to impose the death penalty.
Recent cases show challenge of US terrorists
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AP - The growing front in the war on terrorism may be no farther than Main Street. The terror cases that have emerged in the past week have one common characteristic: The suspects are all Americans.
AP - A Polish court says a biography of former President Lech Walesa is slanderous and has fined the publisher and ordered it to apologize.
Turkey indicts 33 in alleged coup plot
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AP - Authorities have indicted 33 people in an alleged secularist plot to destabilize Turkey and overthrow the government.
Obama's hails weekend's 'historic' health vote
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AFP - President Barack Obama Friday hailed this weekend's "historic" congressional vote on his health plan as the culmination of a century of struggle, at a euphoric campaign-style rally.
McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — A Democratic plan for new federal power over health insurance rates was dropped Thursday from the final health care bill, squeezed out by the way the Democrats are pushing the bill through Congress.
Senate Democrats Crafting Broad Message Campaign
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CQPolitics.com - Senate Democrats are planning an aggressive message campaign between now and November focusing on jobs, national security, the immediate impact of health care reform and their party's efforts to "take on Wall Street."
Toyota Criticism Mounts on Eve of Recall Hearings
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Bloomberg - Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp.’s handling of
recalls came under mounting criticism on the eve of the
automaker’s U.S. congressional testimony, including charges that
the company misled the public on the adequacy of its recalls.
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