The Senate has voted not to advance a measure that would give D.C. a vote in the House.

The vote was 57 in favor of the measure and 42 against it — three votes short of passing. The procedural vote required 60 votes to be considered by the full Senate.

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Clinton unveiled her plan as Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said President Bush wants to achieve universal health care before he leaves office.

Leavitt told the USA TODAY editorial board that Bush will veto a Democratic plan emerging from Congress that would add $35 billion in taxpayer subsidies to the Children's Health Insurance Program over five years. In doing so, Leavitt said, Bush will urge Congress to join him in seeking coverage for all Americans

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"The View" producers pulled the plug on Manilow's performance when his people demanded that he appear on the show without co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck because of her political stands

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Three months after Congress failed to pass a broad immigration overhaul, lawmakers are quietly returning to the hot-button issue, discussing narrower measures that address illegal immigrants and low-skilled laborers.

Already, critics are promising fireworks.

As early as this week, Democratic senators are set to introduce an amendment that would give conditional legal status to young illegal immigrants.

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Two announcements from the Kremlin yesterday confirmed that President Putin is slowly turning back the clock. Incensed that America and its European partners are building a missile defense system in Eastern Europe, the Russian military said it had successfully tested a non-nuclear "thermobaric" weapon comparable in its destructive effects to a nuclear bomb.

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A woman who cut open a pregnant mother's stomach and stole her unborn child can't use the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion case as a defense, a judge has ruled. Lawyers for Lisa Montgomery argued the baby was not a person under law and, therefore, she can't be charged with kidnapping.

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The Pope’s appeal comes at a time when Europe’s cultural bankruptcy is clearer than ever. One, its increasingly secular and philosophically relativistic culture alienates it from any kind of objective truth, and two, its eroding institutions that provide hope and salvation for the people, i.e. social welfare, are having more and more problems maintaining what they promise—a happy thereafter

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Let's be clear: MoveOn.org is suggesting that General Petraeus has 'betrayed' his country. This is disgusting. To attack as a traitor an American general commanding forces in war because his 'on the ground' experience does not align with MoveOn.org's political objectives is utterly shameful. It shows contempt for America's military leadership, as well as for the troops who have confidence in him, as our fellow soldiers in Iraq certainly do.

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Democrat Christopher Dodd pledged Saturday that as president he would end a decades-old trade embargo with Cuba and lift travel restrictions to the communist island.

The Connecticut senator also said he would open an embassy in Havana and shut down the 17-year-old TV Marti, a U.S. government-run station that broadcasts to Cuba.

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"Our analysts assess with high confidence that al Qaeda's central leadership is planning high-impact plots against the American homeland," Gen. Hayden told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.

"Al Qaeda is focusing on targets that would produce mass casualties, dramatic destruction and significant economic aftershocks," Gen. Hayden said just days before the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

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Giuliani's comments came in an interview with CNN Headline News and radio talk-show host Glenn Beck.

Illegal immigration shouldn't be a crime, either, Giuliani said: "No, it shouldn't be because the government wouldn't be able to prosecute it. We couldn't prosecute 12 million people. We have only 2 million people in jail right now for all the crimes that are committed in the country, 2.5 million."

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One of the biggest sources of political donations to Hillary Rodham Clinton is a tiny, lime-green bungalow that lies under the flight path from San Francisco International Airport.

Six members of the Paw family, each listing the house at 41 Shelbourne Ave. as their residence, have donated a combined $45,000 to the Democratic senator from New York since 2005, for her presidential campaign, her Senate re-election last year and her political action committee. In all, the six Paws have donated a total of $200,000 to Democratic candidates since 2005, election records show.

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Fugitive Norman Hsu turns himself in at Redwood City Court; Judge sets bail at 2 million dollars

Here's the rub: So far this year the blue dogs have been almost all bark when it comes to fiscal restraint and debt reduction. Thirty of the 48 have voted for every one of the non-defense spending bills their committee chairman have sent them.

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Americans pride ourselves on being a country that encourages people to work and stand on their own two feet. But over the past few decades there has been a hidden surge in regulations, licensing and monopolies that discourage people from starting the kinds of small businesses that are often the first step toward self-reliance

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