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US Panel sets fees for big firms, aims to slow Fed
Taking aim at Wall Street and the U.S. central bank, an important House committee voted Thursday to assess fees on large financial firms to pay for the failure of their peers and to require a sweeping congressional audit of the secretive Federal Reserve.
Report: 20-somethings can go 2 years between Paps
First mammograms. Now — in an apparent coincidence — Pap smears.
New guidelines by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists say most women in their 20s can have a Pap smear every two years instead of annually to catch slow-growing cervical cancer.
White House at odds with bishops over abortion
The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.
Senate, House Democratic health bills compared
A comparison of the health care bills before Congress: The Senate Democratic bill (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act): WHO’S COVERED: About 94 percent of legal residents under age 65 — compared with 83 percent now. Government subsidies to help buy coverage start in 2014.
Analysis: US works with and around Afghan leader
The Obama administration has a simple-sounding strategy for the problem that is Hamid Karzai: Work with him and around him at the same time.
Giuliani against trying Mohammed in civilian court
Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Thursday that trying self-professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a federal civilian court in New York is unwise and unnecessary.
Go ’Rogue’ in brief: Alaska, campaign, family, oil
Not a speed reader? Want to get through Sarah Palin’s new book in a flash?
A look at Palin’s most frequently used words capture some of the key themes of the former Alaska governor’s memoir: Alaska, campaign, Todd, family, kids, right, governor, government, oil, work, energy.
AP Poll: Gov’t health plan divides public
Tell Americans that letting the government sell insurance in competition with private industry would be cheaper for them, and a majority is in favor.
Byrd becomes longest-serving Congress member
West Virginia Sen. Robert C. Byrd has become the longest-serving lawmaker in congressional history, a milestone to be marked Wednesday with a Senate resolution.
Holder: Don’t fear trial of ’coward’ 9/11 plotter
Attorney General Eric Holder is defending his decision to put the professed Sept. 11 mastermind on trial in New York — and urging critics of the plan not to cower in the face of terrorists.
Black power has arrived — with some new challenges
Ten months after Democrats took over the Capitol and the first African-American president moved into the White House, black lawmakers are in control of some of the most powerful positions in Congress — and face new challenges to using their long-sought influence.
Watchdog: Gov’t may have overpaid to bail out AIG
Officials handling the multibillion dollar bailout of insurance giant American International Group Inc. mismanaged an initial rescue attempt and may have overpaid other banks to wind down AIG’s business relationships, a government watchdog says.
CAPITAL CULTURE: Sotomayor adds celebrity to court
Apparently, no one told Sonia Sotomayor that Supreme Court justices are supposed to be circumspect, emerging from their marble palace mainly to dispense legal wisdom to law schools, judges’ conferences and lawyers’ meetings.
Going high-tech to track Alzheimer’s patients
Tom Dougherty jokes that he takes “get-lost walks.” To his wife, Cleo, it’s a constant fear: When will his Alzheimer’s get bad enough that she has to end his 4-mile daily strolls?
Business foes of health care revamp, ramp up effort
Business foes of health care overhaul legislation are outspending supporters at a rate of 2-to-1 for TV ads as they grow increasingly nervous over a final bill.
Reports: Army to probe alleged shooter’s career
The Army will conduct an internal investigation to examine whether it missed warning signs about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the man accused of killing 13 people in the Nov. 5 shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, two newspapers reported Monday.
Dozens of Gitmo detainees finally get day in court
In courtrooms barred to the public, dozens of terror suspects are pleading for their freedom from the Guantanamo Bay prison, sometimes even testifying on their own behalf by video from the U.S. naval base in Cuba.
Dems, GOP split on NY trials of alleged terrorists
Bringing those accused in the Sept. 11 attacks to New York for trial would increase the security threat to the city and give radical Islamists a platform to propagate their ideology, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Sunday.
Clinton: Specific demands of Afghanistan will accompany US help
The United States is limiting its goals in Afghanistan and demanding better accountability from that country’s underperforming leader, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday, and she tied additional U.S. civilian help to results from Kabul.
Census: Small US cities lose luster in downturn
America’s small cities are losing some of their traditional appeal to upwardly mobile families seeking wholesome neighborhoods, a stable economy and affordable living.
Report: Imam says he didn’t pressure Hasan
A radical Muslim cleric with suspected links to al-Qaida considered himself a confidant of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused in the Fort Hood shootings, The Washington Post reported Monday.
Army says morale is down in Afghanistan
Morale has fallen among soldiers in Afghanistan, where troops are seeing record violence in the 8-year-old war, while those in Iraq show much improved mental health amid much lower violence, the Army said Friday.
FACT CHECK: Palin’s book goes rogue on some facts
Sarah Palin’s new book reprises familiar claims from the 2008 presidential campaign that haven’t become any truer over time.
Ignoring substantial parts of her record if not the facts, she depicts herself as a frugal traveler on the taxpayer’s dime, a reformer without ties to powerful interests and a politician roguishly indifferent to high ambition.
A look at the 10 Gitmo detainees headed to US
Ten high-profile Guantanamo Bay detainees are being transferred to face justice in the United States.
Obama urges Congress to put off Fort Hood probe
President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Congress to hold off on any investigation of the Fort Hood rampage until federal law enforcement and military authorities have completed their probes into the shootings at the Texas Army post, which left 13 people dead.
Republican bashes Dems over health care proposals
House Democrats missed opportunities to improve the House-passed health care bill when they rejected Republican ideas to limit lawsuits and give states more flexibility to enact innovative changes, a GOP lawmaker said Saturday.
Group seeks to preserve Hughes home in Ohio
A boyhood home of writer Langston Hughes has been purchased after foreclosure by a nonprofit community development group in Cleveland that seeks to preserve it.
Obama orders intel review on Fort Hood shooting
President Barack Obama has ordered a review of all intelligence related to Fort Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and whether the information was properly shared and acted upon within government agencies.
Banks borrow less from emergency Fed program
Banks borrowed slightly less from the Federal Reserve’s emergency lending program over the past week, and reduced their use of other credit programs designed to ease the financial crisis.
CIA said to have won turf war against intel chief
The CIA has won a turf battle over which government agency controls U.S. intelligence operations around the world.
GOP chairman ends abortion insurance for employees
A chagrined GOP Chairman Michael Steele has told Republican National Committee staff to immediately stop providing RNC employees with insurance for elective abortions — an option that Republicans strongly oppose as Democrats try to pass a health care overhaul bill.
AP Source: Gitmo 9/11 suspects heading to NY trial
Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York to face trial in a civilian federal court, while five other suspects will be sent to military commissions, an Obama administration official said Friday.
AP sources: Reid eyes payroll tax hike on wealthy
Majority Leader Harry Reid is considering a plan for higher payroll taxes on the upper-income earners to help finance health care legislation he intends to introduce in the Senate in the next several days, numerous Democratic officials said Wednesday.
Shooting suspect’s superiors questioned behavior
Nidal Malik Hasan’s overly zealous religious views and strange behavior worried the doctors overseeing his medical training, but they saw no evidence that he was violent or a threat.
Unions prod Obama to fix ailing airline industry
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three decades of airline deregulation have helped make air travel more accessible to consumers through lower fares.
Obama said to want revised Afghanistan options
President Barack Obama won’t accept any of the Afghanistan war options before him without changes, administration officials say, amid an argument by his own ambassador in Kabul that a significant U.S. troop increase would only prop up a weak, corruption-tainted government.
AP poll: Family dinner survives, with distractions
Pass the gravy — plus the phone and the remote control. It’s dinnertime in America.
Between the blare of the TV, the ring of the phone and Junior texting his buddies under the table or from the couch, the modern dinner comes with a heaping helping of distracting bells and whistles, an Associated Press-iVillage Food poll found.
Senate Dems move to curb Fed’s powers
Senate Democrats on Tuesday proposed stripping the Federal Reserve of its supervisory powers and creating instead three new federal agencies to police banks, protect consumers and dismantle failing institutions.
THE INFLUENCE GAME: Catholic bishops shape health care bill
Catholic bishops have emerged as a formidable force in the health care overhaul fight, using their clout with millions of Catholics and working behind the scenes in Congress to get strong abortion restrictions into the House bill.
Who knew of Fort Hood suspect’s radical contacts?
The mystery over whether the military knew Fort Hood shooting suspect Nidal Hasan was communicating with a radical Muslim imam lapsed into finger-pointing ahead of congressional investigations looking into the Army psychiatrist’s contacts with any extremists.
Poll: A grouchy public sticking with Obama
President Barack Obama still has the public approval of a majority of Americans, but he finds himself governing an increasingly pessimistic country.
VA sec’y promises timely response to war illness
Veterans Secretary Eric Shinseki says he’s working to improve the agency’s ability to cope with increasing numbers of troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with mental health problems.
AP sources: US troops likely for Afghan in January
President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to add tens of thousands more forces to Afghanistan, though probably not quite the 40,000 sought by his top general there.
Bill Clinton meets with Senate Dems on health care
Former President Bill Clinton knows just how high the political stakes are in the fight to overhaul America’s health care system.
FBI reassessing past look at Fort Hood suspect
Nearly a year before Maj. Nidal Hasan allegedly went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, terrorism investigators conducted an “assessment” of him before deciding he did not pose a threat.
After the shooting, the FBI is doing a new assessment — of its own conduct.
Obama pressed into role as healer, inevitably
Presidents get elected to run the nation. Some days that means knowing how to heal it.
For the first time since winning the White House, President Barack Obama faces such a moment Tuesday at Fort Hood.
Lawmaker wants probe of E. coli and school lunches
The chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee wants an investigation into the risk of deadly E. coli getting into school lunches.
Terror training camps smaller, harder to target
Under growing pressure from U.S. missile strikes, the al-Qaida terror network is relying more heavily on local insurgent groups along the Pakistan border to house training camps that are growing smaller and more mobile, according to counterterrorism officials and analysts.

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