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Sweeping Health Care Plan Passes House
Handing President Obama a hard-fought victory, lawmakers voted to approve a $1.1 trillion, 10-year plan that Democrats said could be their defining social policy achievement.
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Lawyer Cites Mental Illness in Shooting
Jason Rodriguez, who is accused of shooting six people, one fatally, in Orlando, Fla., on Friday, “has been declining in mental health,” his lawyer said.
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Citizenship for Polish Hero of American Revolution
Gen. Casimir Pulaski finally became an American citizen, 230 years after he died fighting in the Revolutionary War.
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Labels and Gay Benefits in Health Bill
As a high-priority bill for Congressional leaders and President Obama, the legislation has become a vehicle for many other initiatives large and small.
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Unalaska Journal: An Island Shelter Meets Resistance From Locals
Years after the frontier town of Unalaska picked itself up off the barroom floor, residents fear a shelter would once again invite the wrong kinds of neighbors.
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Heavier Americans Push Back on Health Debate
Heavier Americans are lobbying legislators and trying to move public opinion to recognize their point of view: that thin does not necessarily equal fit, and that people can be healthy at any size.
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After 8 Years, Work Starts at a Sept. 11 Site
Construction of a permanent memorial is under way at the crash site in Pennsylvania of United Airlines Flight 93.
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Abortion Was at Heart of Wrangling
The results of that fight were evident as many liberal Democrats denounced the plan because of abortion restrictions, even though most held their noses in the end and voted for the bill itself.
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Justices Weigh Life in Prison for Youths Who Never Killed
There are just over 100 people in the world serving sentences of life without parole for crimes they committed as juveniles in which no one was killed; 77 of them are in Florida.
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Preliminary Inquiry Finds No Link to Terror Plot
Investigators believe that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the suspect in the mass shooting at Ford Hood, acted under a welter of emotional, ideological and religious pressures.
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Painful Stories Take a Toll on Military Therapists
Those who treat soldiers’ psychological wounds say last week’s rampage highlights the strains of their profession.
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When Soldiers Snap
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The President Whose Words Once Soared
Barack Obama’s speechifying once gripped the nation. Not so much now. He may need his salesman’s tools more than ever.
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Alice S. Rossi, Sociologist and Feminist Scholar, Dies at 87
Professor Rossi was a noted sociologist and feminist scholar who was a founder of the National Organization for Women.
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Robert Rines, Inventor and Monster Hunter, Dies at 87
Mr. Rines will be mainly remembered not for holding more than 800 patents, starting a law school or writing music for the stage, but for his pursuit of the Loch Ness monster.
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Obama Offers Sympathy and Urges No ‘Jump to Conclusions’
President Obama, extending condolences to Fort Hood, Tx., reminded Americans that people of “every race, faith and station” serve in the military — an oblique attempt to prevent a backlash against Muslims.
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Army Releases Names of All 13 Killed in Shootings
The bodies of the 13 victims were taken to Dover, Del., as federal investigators continued to figure out how and why this deadly act could have occurred on an Army base in the United States.
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Politics: City’s JobsNow Program Also Benefits Newsom
A piece of the stimulus program Congress passed earlier this year is helping the mayor burnish his credentials with the business community.
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Community Continues to Grapple With Rape
Some of the virulent culture that gave rise to the attack itself is defiantly asserting itself, despite efforts to contain it.
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Art: A Torah Scribe Pushes the Parchment Ceiling
In Hebrew the word for Julie Seltzer’s arcane profession is soferet; she’s a scribe, a Hebrew calligrapher who writes sacred texts on parchment.
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