GOP’s Bunning relents, OKs action on jobless bill (AP)

AP - A Republican that had been stubbornly blocking a stopgap measure to extend help for the jobless relented on Tuesday under withering assaults from Democrats and dwindling support within his own party.

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2,000 transportation workers idled over impasse (AP)

AP - Jobless benefits suddenly ended for some laid-off workers, Medicare payments to doctors were delayed and 2,000 federal transportation workers were sent home Monday in a spending dispute tinged with election-year politics.

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Lawmakers to press military on gay ban (AP)

AP - Lawmakers this week will press the military’s top uniformed officers for the first time on whether they think repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell” makes sense or would be too disruptive.

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DOJ review finds no misconduct by memo authors (AP)

AP - The Justice Department is closing the books on its probe of the Bush administration lawyers whose legal memos authorized the CIA to waterboard terrorism suspects.

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Lautenberg’s illness could hurt Senate Democrats (AP)

AP - Concerns about New Jersey Sen.

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FBI closes anthrax case, says scientist was killer (AP)

AP - Wrapping up one of its most vexing investigations, the FBI concluded that Army scientist Bruce Ivins acted alone in the 2001 anthrax mailings that killed five people and further unnerved a nation still reeling from the 9/11 attacks.

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Democrats skeptical health care summit is answer (AP)

AP - First he called congressional Democrats’ yearlong march toward health care overhaul an ugly process. Now President Barack Obama wants to talk directly with Republicans, the very people his Capitol Hill allies call obstinate and uncooperative

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WellPoint insurance hike becomes target for Obama (AP)

AP - Health insurer WellPoint blames the Great Recession and rising medical costs for its planned 39 percent rate increase for some California customers. To President Barack Obama, however, it’s Exhibit A in his campaign to revive the health care overhaul

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Obama admits health care overhaul may die on Hill (AP)

AP - No, maybe he can’t.

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Mid-Atlantic shuts down ahead of huge snow warning (AP)

AP - Life in the nation’s capital ground to a halt Friday as steady snow fell, the beginning of a storm that forecasters said could be the biggest in modern history.

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