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Murray Hill is running for Congress to rid Washington of lobbyists and weak-kneed politicians once and for all. And there may be no better candidate, for Murray Hill is not a frail human being but a company.
“Until now, corporate interests had to rely on campaign contributions and influence peddling to achieve their goals in Washington. But thanks to an [...]

STRONGSVILLE, Ohio — With a decisive vote on his health-care overhaul possible within days, President Obama made an impassioned pitch Monday in northeastern Ohio, where unemployment runs high and insurance coverage is never a certainty.

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Using a military commission to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-defendants for their alleged role in the Sept. 11 attacks could open the case to significant legal uncertainty and expose fresh details of detainee abuse in a proceeding that might not get underway for two years or longer, national security experts and plan critics [...]

Joking that a new “casual Friday” dress code had been instituted in the West Wing, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs showed at the podium Friday wearing a Canadian hockey jersey to make good on a bet he had made with his counterpart in Canada.
Gibbs and Dimitri Soudas, spokesman for Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, [...]

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton rebuked Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Friday about the state of the U.S.-Israeli relationship, demanding that Israel take immediate steps to show it is interested in renewing efforts to achieve a Middle East peace agreement.

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