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Prosecutors Call for Berlusconi Sex Trial
(Newser) - Italian prosecutors have filed a request for Premier Silvio Berlusconi to stand trial for alleged abuse of power and sex with an underage prostitute . Authorities are seeking an immediate trial. A judge now has five days to decide whether to indict the 74-year-old leader or dismiss the request, allowing investigations... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Rebel Senate Dems Eye Health Care Repeal
(Newser) - A group of centrist Senate Democrats is looking into ways to repeal the new health care law's individual mandate—the heart of health care reform, and a key target for Republicans. West Virginia's Joe Manchin and at least three other senators—all from states President Obama lost in 2008 and... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Senator: To Break Deadlock, Don't Sleep With Politicians
(Newser) - Would Belgium's politicians have dithered over forming a government for 241 days if they weren't getting any? Socialist senator Marleen Temmerman thinks not. She has urged the bed partners of the country's politicians to "keep their legs closed" until the deadlock is broken and a coalition government is finally... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Bristol's Memoir Yanked Off Amazon.com
(Newser) - Bristol Palin's memoir has mysteriously vanished from Amazon.com's listings nearly as fast as it appeared. A pre-order page for an "Untitled Bristol Palin Memoir" to be released in June was available earlier this week but now appears to have been pulled, AP reports. A publicist at HarperCollins, Bristol's... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Ala. Lawmaker: 'Empty the Clip' on Immigration
(Newser) - An Alabama state senator being slammed for using incendiary gun rhetoric says he wasn't advocating violence when he told a Republican audience that the party needs to "empty the clip" on illegal immigration. Scott Beason says his remarks were taken out of context and he wasn't thinking of the... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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House Rejects Extension of Patriot Act Provisions
(AP) - The House today failed to extend the life of three surveillance tools that are key to the Patriot Act. Republicans brought up the bill under a special expedited procedure requiring a two-thirds majority, and they fell seven votes short. Twenty-six Republicans voted against the measure, along with 122 Democrats. Supporters... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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First Lady: President Quit Smoking a Year Ago
(Newser) - President Obama's quest to kick the smoking habit is going well, says the first lady. Asked by reporters at a luncheon to clarify whether he'd quit, she answered: "Yes he has, yes he has," reports the Chicago Sun-Times . "Totally." She didn't know exactly when he'd last... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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American Left Foolishly Underestimates Limbaugh
(Newser) - Looking back at the Obama administration's early attempt to portray Rush Limbaugh as Public Enemy No. 1, Wilfred M. McClay can only conclude: Big mistake. The strategy backfired in ways that culminated in the midterm shellacking. "Limbaugh had goaded them into elevating his own importance; and in focusing on... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Coming Soon: Obamacare Comic Book
(Newser) - It doesn't have the ring of, say, Hulk vs. the New Avengers, but Obamacare will get the comic book treatment this fall as Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It’s Necessary, How it Works. An MIT professor who helped craft the legislation—as well as the state's own... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Obama Proposes Boosting Unemployment Tax
(Newser) - President Obama’s proposed budget is expected to call for the first increase in unemployment taxes since 1983. Employers would, as of 2014, have to pay taxes on $15,000-worth of wages, up from the current $7,000, the Wall Street Journal reports. The move would give states a way... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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GOP Fired Up Over 2012 VP Candidates
(Newser) - The field of GOP presidential candidates for 2012 may not be so great , but the VP field is getting the right energized. A wealth of new Congress members and governors has Republicans buzzing over potential veeps like Marco Rubio , Bobby Jindal and Kelly Ayotte , Politico reports. Where the potential presidential... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Vacancies Leave Federal Courts in Crisis
(Newser) - Republicans’ refusal to allow votes on President Obama’s judicial nominees has pushed courts to the breaking point, particularly in southwestern courts struggling with drug and illegal immigration trials, the Washington Post reports. In Arizona, for example, some judges are handling about 1200 criminal cases simultaneously. The state recently declared... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Rumsfeld on Iraq's WMDs: OK, So We 'Misstated'
(Newser) - You know those weapons of mass destruction that triggered the US war on Iraq? Their existence, which turned out to be nonexistent, was only "suspected," Donald Rumsfeld has finally admitted in his new book, Known and Unknown . OK, so "I made a misstatement," he says. At... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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