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President Barack Obama’s pledge to take on climate change and put science over politics is about to be tested as his administration faces  this question: Does ethanol help or hurt global warming?

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Two-time Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is acknowledging a federal inquiry into his campaign funds.

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The stroll was a quiet contrast to their dinner outing. The Obamas’ visit to Georgetown attracted thick crowds of onlookers who were held back by police tape, while sirens occasionally wailed and a protester chanted outside the restaurant.

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They’re furloughing many city workers for eight days this summer. They’ve cut staffing by about 5 percent. Now officials in Tracy, Calif.,  have hired a Washington lobbyist.

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Former colleagues and students say they have a strong sense of the kind of justice Obama will favor to replace Justice Souter: A careful pragmatist with a limited view of the role of courts.

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A spokeswoman says Jack Kemp, a former quarterback, congressman and one-time vice-presidential nominee, has died. He was 73.

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Notre Dame’s honoring of an abortion rights supporter has triggered a reaction among the nation’s Catholic bishops that is remarkable in scope and tone, church observers say.

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Republicans say President Barack Obama’s first 100 days in office can be summed up in three words: spending, taxing, borrowing.

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The strain of flu virus that is alarming the world is so new and poorly understood that it justifies the U.S. government’s multi-pronged efforts to fight it, President Barack Obama said Saturday.

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As President Obama moves to pick his first Supreme Court nominee, he finds women holding dozens of seats on the nation’s appellate courts and occupying dean’s offices at prestigious law schools.

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The Obama administration is moving toward reviving the military commission system for prosecuting Guantánamo detainees, which was a target of critics during the Bush administration.

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The website, Wolfram Alpha, launches later this month, and aims to provide a different approach to internet search queries by not only understanding people’s questions but answering them directly. It means web users can ask questions online in much the same way as they ask them in real life, a process known as “natural search”.

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One day after saying he wouldn’t travel in tight quarters because of the swine flu scare, Vice President Joe Biden rode a train Friday from Washington to Delaware.

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When U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter retires this summer, he likely will return to a 200-year-old farmhouse his grandparents once owned and where he has lived since he was 11.

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Urging calm but caution, President Barack Obama on Friday said that it is not clear the swine flu outbreak in the United States and other nations is any worse than “ordinary flus.”

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President Barack Obama said Friday he will replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter with someone who shares the president’s respect for “constitutional values” and hopes to have “him or her” seated on the nation’s highest court by October.

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An image of how Madeleine McCann might look now, if still alive, has been released ahead of the second anniversary of her disappearance.

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An NHS clerical worker has become the first person in the UK to contract swine flu without having visited Mexico, tests have confirmed.

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First lady Michelle Obama hopes to turn an annual White House picnic for members of Congress into a community service event for lawmakers and their families.

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David Hackett Souter is not of this world. At least not the world many of us living in this nation’s population centers experience on a daily basis in 2009.

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A North Carolina congresswoman says she made a poor choice of words when she called the infamous murder of Matthew Shepard a “hoax” to justify passing hate crimes bills. “It’s apologizing for semantics but not her sentiment, her insensitivity or her ignorance,” countered Judy Shepard, Matthews’ mother, of Rep. Virginia Foxx.

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Even the Obamas have trouble getting their kids to keep their promises, it seems: Michelle Obama said she got up at 5:15 a.m. to walk Bo, the new First Dog, “even though the kids are supposed to do a lot of the work.”

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In 1969, defense contractor Walter T. Davey discovered he was being overpaid by roughly 2 cents an hour. Forty years later, he has been unable to force an accounting change that would have saved taxpayers billions of dollars. Msnbc.com contributor Benjamin Shors reports.

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As many as 100 detainees at the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, could end up held without trial on American soil, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates suggested Thursday.

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