Sen. Tom Harkin says the state will get more than $600 million for education as part of the federal stimulus package.
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is using her second overseas trip as the nation’s top diplomat to assess peace prospects in the Middle East, reconnect with European allies and remind her Russian counterpart that U.S. efforts to rebuild relations with Moscow has its limits.
The former first lady and former U.S. senator from New York is kicking off a weeklong journey by attending an international conference in Egypt where she will announce on Monday a U.S. government pledge of up to $900 million in humanitarian assistance for the rebuilding of the war-shaken Gaza Strip.
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In this Feb. 3, 2009 file photo, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn, second from left, flanked by Sen.
New York’s attorney general should immediately start investigating whether public funds were spent illegally while the Republicans controlled Albany.
AP – President Barack Obama leaned heavily toward field commanders’ preferences in setting a time frame for an Iraq pullout, weighing the fervent desires of anti-war supporters who propelled him into office and the equally strong worries of war generals.
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Reuters – Bring ‘em home. Or send them to Afghanistan, where things are getting worse.
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Politico – Blog: The Times Picayune today looks into the questions over Bobby Jindal’s Tuesday night anecdote, and winds up more or less where I did:
After years of bitterly debating whether to set a timetable for troop withdrawals in Iraq, Congress has agreed to one.
AP – Union leaders are talking about reuniting under a single, more powerful federation, nearly four years after a nasty breakup split organized labor.
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AP – The Obama administration said Friday that the United States will boycott an upcoming U.N. conference on racism unless its final document is changed to drop all references to Israel and the defamation of religion.
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AP – Suspected al-Qaida sleeper agent Ali Al-Marri is now facing criminal charges, but the Obama administration is refusing to rule out the future use of indefinite detention for terrorism suspects picked up in the United States.
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AP – Congress has agreed to a timetable for troop withdrawals in Iraq after years of bitterly debating whether to set one.
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