Bloomberg – July 1 (Bloomberg) — Senator Edward M. Kennedyâ??s committee
will propose creating a government-backed alternative to private
insurance designed to pay for itself after getting federal
start-up money.
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After a Republican briefly entered the Senate chamber, the Democrats gaveled the body into session and passed a flurry of bills, all of them contested by the Republicans.
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For the Supreme Court, it was the year of living on the verge.
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TEHRAN, June 30 — Iran’s religious and political leadership warned domestic opponents and Western powers Tuesday that no further protests against a disputed election would be tolerated following official certification of a landslide victory for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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Al Franken, center, walks through the US Capitol building in Washington, DC. Photograph: Tim Sloan/AFP/Getty Images The eight-month saga over a contested US Senate seat today appeared to be coming to an end when the Minnesota supreme court ruled in favour of the Democrat and former comic Al Franken.
Politico – A hard-hitting piece on Sarah Palin in the new Vanity Fair has touched off a blistering exchange of insults among high-profile Republicans over last year’s GOP ticket – tearing open fresh wounds about leaks surrounding Palin and revealing for the first time some of the internal wars that paralyzed the campaign in its final days.
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AP – U.S. officials said Tuesday that a North Korean ship has turned around and is headed back toward the north where it came from, after being tracked for more than a week by American Navy vessels on suspicion of carrying illegal weapons.
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AP – Dealing with the first Latin American crisis of his presidency, Barack Obama sought a swift, clear response that would not be interpreted as U.S. interventionism in a region that loathes it.
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AP – NAME ? Al Franken
Sen. Robert Byrd, seen here on Inauguration Day, is now out of the hospital, but it’s not clear when he’ll be able to return to work .
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AP – A judge asked federal prosecutors in a major drug-dealing case Tuesday if they have a pattern of mishandling evidence after a second high-profile prosecution fell apart in his courtroom because of witness problems.
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McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON ? The Social Security Administration has continued to pay millions of dollars in benefits to dead Americans, and other elderly U.S. residents are at risk of losing badly needed aid because they’re improperly recorded as deceased, federal investigators warn in a new report.
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