Obama promises leadership on climate change
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Calling climate change an urgent challenge, President-elect Barack Obama promised Tuesday that Washington would take a leading role in combating it in the United States and throughout the world.
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McCain to set up PAC to seek 5th Senate term
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. John McCain, whose presidential bid was snuffed out two weeks ago by President-elect Barack Obama, is setting up a political action committee as a first step in running for a fifth term in the Senate.
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Dems give Lieberman wrist slap over backing McCain
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Taking their cue from President-elect Barack Obama, Democrats in the Senate decided not to take revenge on Joe Lieberman despite lingering anger over the Connecticut independent's forceful support of John McCain.
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McCain returns to Senate, is welcomed by Kerry
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The red-and-blue Senate trolley rolled up to the Capitol basement Tuesday, a lone senator in the front seat checking a piece of paper before slipping it back into his jacket pocket.
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Holder is Obama's top choice for attorney general
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Barack Obama's top choice for attorney general is Eric Holder, a former official in the Clinton administration who would become the first African American to serve as the nation's chief lawyer.
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Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens loses re-election bid
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest serving Republican in Senate history, narrowly lost his re-election bid Tuesday, marking the downfall of a pillar of the U.S. Senate and Alaska icon.
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Broad drilling ban to stand
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Democrats have no interest in restoring the broad ban on oil and gas development off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts but will seek to "delineate areas available for drilling."
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US military can meet Obama demands
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The top U.S. military officer said Tuesday the Pentagon is developing plans to get troops quickly out of Iraq and into Afghanistan to battle a more confident and successful Taliban.
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INSIDE WASHINGTON: Bush picks get new careers
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Come January, not everyone from the Bush administration will be out of office. Federal agencies have been reassigning Bush appointees to career jobs.
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
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