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Moderate Dems pivotal in Saturday health care vote

By: DAVID ESPO

Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisiana.

GOP: Recommendations for fewer women's health tests could mean rationed health care under bill

By: LAURIE KELLMAN

Republicans are seizing on this week's recommendations for fewer Pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care — and to try to chip away support by women for President Barack Obama's proposed health care overhaul.

US prosecutors to drop manslaughter case against Blackwater guard in deadly '07 Iraq shooting

By: MATT APUZZO

Senator says investigators may reveal more troubling e-mails from alleged Ft. Hood shooter

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NY Republican advisers say Giuliani more interested in running for US Senate than governor

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