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Obama scraps Bush plans for missile shield
09/18/2009
President Barack Obama scrapped his predecessor's proposed anti-ballistic missile shield in Eastern Europe on Thursday and ordered instead the deployment of a reconfigured system designed to shoot down short- and medium-range Iranian missiles. 
Norton's job in oil a slip-up?
09/18/2009 - Former Interior Secretary Gale Norton, until now, has escaped the cross hairs in a series of scandals that plagued her federal agency. 

Obama sees tough health care fight ahead
09/18/2009 - Calling health insurance reform a "defining struggle of this generation," President Barack Obama told thousands of college students Thursday that Congress must resist scare tactics and false accusations to do a makeover. 

Filmmakers bring scorn to ACORN
09/17/2009 - The proposition was outrageous, outlandish and right up James O'Keefe III's alley. Hannah Giles was on the phone from Washington, D.C., and she was asking him to dress like her pimp, walk into the offices of the ACORN community activist group, openly admit to wanting to buy a house to run as a brothel, and see what happened. 

House, too, OKs denying federal funds for group
09/18/2009 - The House voted Thursday to deny all federal funds for ACORN. 

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