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Democrats’ health bill passes Senate test
In a dramatic early-morning showdown, the health care overhaul passes in a party-line vote that keeps it on track for Christmas-week passage. Full story
Obama plan could limit secret documents
President pushes for center to clear up backlog of 400 million pages of Cold War-era records. Full story
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Review reveals complex web of events
The White House insists the Salahi case is closed, but witness accounts and investigations raise more questions. Full story
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NYT analysis: Obama accepts ‘pyrrhic victories’
From Copenhagen to Capitol Hill, the president determined the outer limits of what he could accomplish on climate change and health care and decided that was enough, for now.
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Dems’ health bill passes key Senate vote
Senate Democrats won a crucial vote on President Obama's health care overhaul, putting them on track for passage before Christmas of legislation to remake the medical system.
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Anti-whistleblower culture persists in D.C.
A Marine Corps whistleblower says military officials are trying to force him from his job for exposing failures to deliver lifesaving equipment to troops in Iraq.
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