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- End in sight, health care battle tilts Obama's way
WASHINGTON (AP) -- One by one, House Democratic fence-sitters began choosing sides Friday, and the long, turbulent struggle over landmark health care legislation tilted unmistakably in President Barack Obama's direction....
- 7th anniversary of Iraq War passes, little noticed
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- It was a day like any other day - except that it was the seventh anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. And, for the most part, that was forgotten....
- World diplomats urge resumption of Mideast talks
MOSCOW (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested Friday that the United States and Israel have found a way around the worst disagreement the two allies have faced in years while international diplomats set goals for new U.S.-backed peace talks aimed at establishing an independent Palestinian state....
- Final health bill omits some of Obama's promises
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It was a bold response to skyrocketing health insurance premiums. President Barack Obama would give federal authorities the power to block unreasonable rate hikes....
- Pope's Irish letter faces critical Catholic world
DUBLIN (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI addresses Ireland on Saturday in a letter apologizing for the sex abuse scandal here - a message being watched closely by Catholics from Boston to Berlin to see if it also acknowledges decades of Vatican-approved cover-ups....
- Testing overseas may explain big drop in TB cases
ATLANTA (AP) -- An unexpected big drop in new U.S. tuberculosis cases is probably because of stepped up screening and treatment of immigrants before they leave their native countries, health officials say....
- NCAA: New Mexico State coach hit with technical
New Mexico State coach Marvin Menzies got hit with a technical foul, and the Aggies could use something - even a technical - to wake them up. They trail Michigan State 37-22....
- Mom of octuplets may lose home to foreclosure
LA HABRA, Calif. (AP) -- Octuplets mom Nadya Suleman could be kicked out of her Southern California home....
- NYC cops sorry for pounding couple's door 50 times
NEW YORK (AP) -- Cheesecake in hand, the police commissioner personally apologized Friday for the 50 or so mistaken, door-pounding visits that police have made to the home of a bewildered elderly Brooklyn couple in the past eight years....
- Court: Anna Nicole Smith gets none of oil fortune
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The elderly Texas billionaire who married Anna Nicole Smith in the last year of his life never intended to leave the former stripper any portion of his vast fortune, a federal appeals court ruled Friday....
