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Democrats seal majority to advance health care bill on 60-39 vote

Democrats seal majority to advance health care bill on 60-39 vote

WASHINGTON (AP) — Invoking the memory of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama. There was not a vote to spare.

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Court martial finds ex-Air Force nurse not guilty of killing 3 terminally ill patients

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A court martial acquitted a former military nurse of murder Saturday after he was accused of giving lethal doses of...

3-alarm fire breaks out on Atlantic City boardwalk pier, site of several retail stores

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Officials say a three-alarm fire has broken out on the boardwalk in Atlantic City.

Wardens: Calif. fisherman shot sea lion in Sacramento River, faces animal cruelty charges

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities arrested a Sacramento fisherman Saturday in connection to shooting a sea lion in the head.

EPA: Uranium in Nev. wells; whistleblower, preacher's wife helped crack toxic mining mystery

YERINGTON, Nev. (AP) — Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the...

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Democrats seal 60-vote majority to advance health care bill; Landrieu, Lincoln to vote 'yes'

5 Long Beach high school students arrested in alleged groping of 9th-grade girls on campus

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say five male students have been arrested on suspicion of sexual battery after two ninth-grade...

Fort Benning officials investigate suspicious note, package found at Ga. Army post

FORT BENNING, Ga. (AP) — A Fort Benning spokesman says Army officials are investigating whether a suspicious note and package found at...

In 1 month, a vigil, a special salute and goodbyes _ war in Afghanistan ripples across America

Every afternoon, seven days a week, Ed Epley has a 5 p.m. appointment with the war.

World headlines

Man enters bear's enclosure in Switzerland in confrontation that leaves both injured

BERN, Switzerland (AP) — A bear has attacked a man who entered its enclosure at a new park in Switzerland, and a policeman opened fire...

Mumbai Jewish center struggles to rebuild, city still vulnerable 1 year after terror attack

MUMBAI, India (AP) — The walls that the rockets blew out have not been repaired, and the plaster is a dense scattershot of bullet...

Hamas says Gaza militant groups have agreed to stop firing rockets at Israel

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas announced Saturday evening that it has reached an agreement with other militant groups in Gaza to...

Italian police arrest 2 Pakistanis who allegedly paid for phones used in Mumbai attacks

ROME (AP) — Italian police on Saturday arrested a Pakistani father and son who allegedly spent just over $200 to set up a reliable and...

Sri Lanka to release remaining 136,000 Tamil war refugees after 6 months in detainment camps

MANIK FARM, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka will release next month the remaining 136,000 Tamil refugees still in the squalid and overrun...

Azerbaijan's leader threatens force if talks fail to resolve dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan said Saturday his nation may resort to military force if talks with...

Saudi Arabia announces Muslim pilgrimage's first 4 swine flu deaths

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi health officials announced the first deaths from swine flu of this year's annual pilgrimage to...

Mubarak enters soccer row with Algeria, says attacks on Egyptians abroad will not be tolerated

CAIRO (AP) — President Hosni Mubarak entered Egypt's bitter soccer row with Algeria on Saturday, vowing in a televised speech that...

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