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          <title>Gates: It&#8217;s not time to leave Afghanistan</title>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Facing eroding public support for the war in Afghanistan, the Pentagon chief said Thursday that the Obama administration&#8217;s effort in the eight-year-old conflict is &#8220;only now beginning.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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          <title>Sen. Edward Kennedy, 77, dies after cancer battle</title>
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HYANNIS PORT, Mass. (AP) &#8212; Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the last surviving brother in an enduring political dynasty and one of the most influential senators in history, died Tuesday night at his home on Cape Cod after a yearlong struggle with brain cancer. He was 77.           ]]></description>
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OAK BLUFFS, Mass. (AP) &#8212; President Barack Obama announced Tuesday he wants to keep Ben Bernanke on as Fed chairman, saying he shepherded America through the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says his party&#8217;s caucus has &#8220;absolute unity&#8221; on the need to pass health care reform this year.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Democrats sought to limit increases in the cost of insurance sold under a sweeping health care bill Friday as they labored to clear the final obstacle to a September showdown on President Barack Obama&#8217;s top domestic priority.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; The Senate&#8217;s top Republican accused Democrats of cutting Medicare to finance a &#8220;massive new government-run&#8221; health care plan, as the last of three House committees pushed its way through a compromise version of the health care overhaul Thursday.
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Top House Democrats sought to minimize the impact of a near-certain missed deadline for health care legislation on Tuesday as the leadership struggled to ease the concerns of rank-and-file critics.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Israel on Iran: Anything it takes to stop bomb</title>
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JERUSALEM (AP) &#8212; Israel hardened its insistence Monday that it would do anything it felt necessary to stop Iran from getting a nuclear bomb, just the ultimatum the United States hoped not to hear as it tried to nudge Iran to the bargaining table.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Palin to resign</title>
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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she&#8217;ll step down           ]]></description>
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NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; The first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be brought to the United States for trial has pleaded not guilty in two embassy bombings.
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DETROIT (AP) &#8212; A former CEO and chairman of telecommunications giant AT&amp;T Inc. will lead General Motors Corp.&#8216;s board after the automaker emerges from bankruptcy protection, GM said Tuesday.           ]]></description>
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          <title>10 big banks get OK to repay $68B in bailout money</title>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; The Treasury Department has approved 10 of the nation&#8217;s largest banks to repay $68 billion in government bailout money.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; President Barack Obama promised Monday to deliver more than 600,000 jobs through his $787 billion stimulus plan this summer, with federal agencies pumping billions into public works projects, schools and summer youth programs.           ]]></description>
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          <title>White House: Sotomayor says she chose word poorly</title>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; The White House says Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor acknowledges she made a poor word choice in a 2001 speech in which she said that a Latina judge would often reach a better conclusion than a white male judge who hasn&#8217;t lived the same life.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; President Barack Obama is calling digital security a top priority, whether it&#8217;s guarding the computer systems that keep the lights on in the city and direct airliners to the right runway or those protecting customers who pay their bills online.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Initial jobless claims drop unexpectedly</title>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; The tally of newly laid-off people requesting jobless benefits fell last week, the government said Thursday, a sign that companies are cutting fewer workers.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Senate votes to block funds for Guantanamo closure</title>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; In a major rebuke to President Barack Obama, the Senate voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to block the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to the United States and denied the administration the millions it sought to close the prison.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; The credit card companies seem to have few friends on Capitol Hill these days, with even the most business-minded lawmakers siding with consumers in speaking out against steep rate hikes and fees.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; President Barack Obama outlined Tuesday the nation&#8217;s first comprehensive effort to curb vehicle emissions while cutting dependence on imported oil, calling the plan an historic turning point toward a &#8220;clean-energy economy.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Unable to stop the tide of foreclosures and job losses, lawmakers are hoping to give voters at least some breathing room in the economic downturn by banning arbitrary credit card rate hikes and excessive fees.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is signaling he may resist President Barack Obama&#8217;s pressure to support Palestinian statehood as the two leaders try to tackle an array of Mideast issues Monday on which they disagree.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; The financial health of Social Security and Medicare, the government&#8217;s two biggest benefit programs, have worsened because of the severe recession, and Medicare is now paying out more than it receives.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; The Federal Reserve could become the supercop for &#8220;too big to fail&#8221; companies capable of causing another financial meltdown under a proposal being seriously considered by the White House.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; The Pentagon and Air Force are reviewing whether their officials may be partly to blame for a $328,835 photo-op of a jumbo jet used by the president soaring above New York City that has already forced the White House military director to step down.           ]]></description>
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MINGORA, Pakistan (AP) &#8212; Helicopter gunships and mortar teams pounded militant strongholds Wednesday, killing dozens outside emerald mines, the military said, as Taliban reinforcements poured down from their mountain hide-outs and seized homes and government buildings.           ]]></description>
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ISLAMABAD (AP) &#8212; Pakistan&#8217;s president said Monday his intelligence agencies believe Osama bin Laden may be dead, but he added there is no proof.            ]]></description>
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) &#8212; A same-sex Iowa couple will be allowed to wed as soon as Monday after a judge allowed them to bypass the state&#8217;s three-day waiting period.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Think you can do better than your federal boss? President Barack Obama wants to know how.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; President Barack Obama says he will push for a law to provide &#8220;strong and reliable&#8221; protections for the millions of Americans who have credit cards.           ]]></description>
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MONTGOMERY (AP) &#8212; The Alabama House has approved a resolution that praises Miss USA contestant Carrie Prejean for speaking out against gay marriage.

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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; President Barack Obama wants Congress to act quickly on his $83.4 billion request for U.S. military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, an appeal that&#8217;s disappointing the most liberal, anti-war wing of his party.           ]]></description>
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BAGHDAD (AP) &#8212; Cheered wildly by U.S. troops, President Barack Obama flew unannounced into Iraq on Tuesday and promptly declared it was time for Iraqis to &#8220;take responsibility for their country&#8221; after America&#8217;s commitment of six years and thousands of lives.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; President Barack Obama said Monday that neither General Motors nor Chrysler has proposed sweeping enough changes to justify further large federal bailouts, and demanded &#8220;painful concessions&#8221; from creditors, unions and others as their price for survival.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Widening war in &#8220;the most dangerous place in the world,&#8220; President Barack Obama launched a fresh effort Friday to defeat al-Qaida terrorists in both Pakistan and Afghanistan, defending his strategy with shades of the dire language of George W. Bush.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Top executives of the nation&#8217;s biggest banks said Friday after meeting with President Barack Obama that they will work with the administration on its economic recovery plans, but want more specifics from the White House.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON &#8212; President Barack Obama seized the bully pulpit Thursday and reprised the best of his acclaimed campaign skills in an unprecedented Internet town hall from the White House &#8212; a direct sales pitch for Americans to get behind his $3.6 trillion budget and be patient as he tries to right the tottering economy.           ]]></description>
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State Sen. Jeff Sessions said Tuesday he plans to offer an amendment to President Barack Obama&#8217;s budget that would freeze discretionary spending at current levels.           ]]></description>
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The Federal Trade Commission is trying to outwit the catchy FreeCreditReport.com commercials with its own ads touting a government-sponsored free service.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON&#8212;The Senate approved tens of millions of dollars for Alabama projects Tuesday, including research at Auburn University and the Interstate 10 connector in Dothan, as part of catch-all spending bill.            ]]></description>
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) &#8212; The self-professed mastermind and four other men charged in the Sept. 11 attacks declared they are &#8220;terrorists to the bone&#8221; in a statement that mocked the U.S. failure to prevent the killings and predicted America will fall like &#8220;the towers on the blessed 9/11 day.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON - Labor advocates and business leaders are turning up the heat on freshman Sen. Mark Warner, a self-described &#8220;radical centrist.&#8220;            ]]></description>
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A Web site launched by the White House last month to allow citizens to keep track of where stimulus dollars are going is getting 3,000 hits per second and already has registered more than 150 million hits altogether.            ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON - A House panel passed a sweeping tobacco regulation bill Wednesday, putting it on pace for passage by the full House far earlier in the congressional session than last year.            ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON&#8212;A House panel is expected to approve today sweeping tobacco regulation that would put the bill on pace for House passage far earlier in the congressional session than in the last Congress.           ]]></description>
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) &#8212; Democratic state Sen. Rodger Smitherman of Birmingham has introduced legislation to get $100 million in unemployment compensation funding that Gov. Bob Riley has declined from the federal stimulus package.           ]]></description>
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The Internal Revenue Service is looking for taxpayers who are missing more than 279,000 economic stimulus checks totaling about $163 million and more than 104,000 regular refund checks totaling about $103 million that were returned by the U.S. Postal Service due to mailing address errors. Search our database to see if the IRS owes you money and learn how to get your check.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON-The government should offer incentives for health care providers to adopt federally-approved computer networks and treatment practices, Sen. Mark R. Warner, D-Va., said Tuesday.           ]]></description>
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SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt (AP) &#8212; U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, on her first foray into Middle East diplomacy, declared the Obama administration committed to pushing intensively to find a way for Israelis and Palestinians to exist peacefully in separate states.           ]]></description>
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Rep. Bobby Bright, a Democrat, was elected in November to represent Alabama&#8217;s 2nd District, which covers southeast Alabama and includes Dothan, Eufaula, Montgomery and Ozark. 
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Here is what some of Alabama&#8217;s congressional delegation had to say about President Barack Obama&#8217;s address Tuesday night:           ]]></description>
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LOS ANGELES (AP) &#8212; George Clooney apparently had a good reason for skipping out on Oscar night: He had a meeting with President Obama.           ]]></description>
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JERUSALEM (AP) &#8212; Israel&#8217;s outgoing prime minister called on hard-line Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu to form a new government quickly as coalition bargaining shifted into high gear Sunday.           ]]></description>
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BEIJING (AP) &#8212; U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is urging China to continue investing in United States Treasury bonds and said Sunday that country&#8217;s continued investment in the U.S. is a recognition that the two countries depend on each other.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; President Barack Obama on Friday rejected his transportation secretary&#8217;s suggestion that the administration consider taxing motorists based on how many miles they drive instead of how much gasoline they buy.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; President Barack Obama on Friday rejected his transportation secretary&#8217;s suggestion that the administration consider taxing motorists based on how many miles they drive instead of how much gasoline they buy.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON &#8211; In his first month in office, President Barack Obama persuaded Congress to give out economic stimulus sweets totaling $787 billion.            ]]></description>
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JERUSALEM (AP) &#8212; Benjamin Netanyahu appealed to his moderate rivals Friday to join him after the hard-liner was formally tapped to put together Israel&#8217;s next ruling coalition &#8212; an alliance that would dilute the power of nationalists bent on derailing Mideast peace talks.
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MESA, Ariz. (AP) &#8212; Seeking to tackle &#8220;a crisis unlike any we&#8217;ve ever known,&#8220; President Barack Obama unveiled an ambitious $75 billion plan Wednesday to keep as many as 9 million Americans from losing their homes to foreclosure.           ]]></description>
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This database includes all banks (as of Feb. 9) that received funding under the federal government&#8217;s $700 billion rescue package of financial institutions, the Troubled Assets Relief Program or TARP.           ]]></description>
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Sens. Jeff Sessions and Richard Shelby of Alabama, both Republicans, voted against the Senate&#8217;s $838 billion economic recovery plan Tuesday.            ]]></description>
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered a review Tuesday of a Pentagon policy banning media from taking pictures of flag-draped coffins of military dead, signaling he was open to overturning the policy to better honor fallen soldiers.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON - GOP Rep. Adam Putnam approved more privately funded trips for congressional staffers last year than all but nine other members of 435-seat U.S. House or 100-seat Senate.           ]]></description>
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Rep. Eric I. Cantor, R-7th, on a trip to Central Asia and the Middle East, says Iraq is a &#8220;fragile success&#8221; but that an accelerated withdrawal of U.S. forces would be unwise.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has said no nation is more important to the United States than China. But ties between the two powers may be off to a rocky start just days into the Obama administration.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; In a long-expected move, President Barack Obama plans to sign an executive order ending the ban on federal funds for international groups that perform abortions or provide information on the option, officials told The Associated Press on Friday.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON &#8211; They came from all over the world&#8212;from as close-in as the Washington suburbs to as far away as London. No matter where their home, though, people on the National Mall Tuesday had one goal in mind &#8211; to be part of President Barack Obama&#8217;s historic swearing-in. 
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Sens. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., and Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., have been taken from an inauguration luncheon for President Barack Obama.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON &#8211; They arrived in buses from Mobile, Ala., bundled in scarves, jeans and coats.            ]]></description>
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.&#8212;Bret Parks figured that the latest issue of the comic The Amazing Spider-Man would draw lots of fans because it features an appearance by Barack Obama.
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These tips can make your day a little easier if you&#8217;re planning to be on the National Mall for Barack Obama&#8217;s inauguration. 
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WASHINGTON-As Barack Obama plans his first 100 days as president, he has looked for inspiration to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who raced through his early days in office, spurring Congress to act.           ]]></description>
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Think you know all there is to know about the President-elect? Test your knowledge with our Barack Obama biographical quiz. Good luck!            ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON - The Inauguration festivities aren&#8217;t as simple as President-elect Barack Obama taking the oath of office.            ]]></description>
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Want a guaranteed seat along Pennsylvania Avenue so you can wave to Barack Obama after he takes the oath of office Jan. 20? Better act fast.

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Live: President elect Barack Obama holds press conference at 9:30             ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON&#8212;Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee will share in an official regional inauguration ball with those from six other Southern states to be hosted by Barack Obama after he is sworn-in as president on Jan. 20th.
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NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; If Caroline Kennedy had, you know, only known.           ]]></description>
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President-elect Barack Obama&#8217;s choice of Rick Warren to deliver the inaugural invocation drew one kind of protest. Whether the evangelical pastor offers the prayer in the name of Jesus may draw another.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON &#8212; Washington lobbyist Vicki Iseman filed a $27 million suit Tuesday against The New York Times in federal court in Richmond, claiming the newspaper damaged her reputation by falsely implying she had an illicit &#8220;romantic&#8221; relationship with Sen. John McCain.           ]]></description>
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