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- Towns will investigate Secret Service
- Parties launch stimulus P.R. offensives
- Sunday talk show tip sheet
- USSS head takes heat for breakdown
- DOJ: Pay ACORN for contracts
- Obama orders review of crashers
- Tea parties emerge as revenue stream
- Administration praises rebuke of Iran
- Activists seek green Black Friday
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Twists and turns snagged missing pilot case
Saddam Hussein was telling the truth, this time. The United States just didn't believe him. (Associated Press Writer, 10:51 a.m.)
White House: State dinner crashers met Obama
This time, the picture is the story. After the Secret Service insisted that President Barack Obama was never endangered by a security breach that allowed a couple to crash his first state dinner, the White House has released a photo showing that not only did the pair get close to Obama, they actually shook hands and talked to him. (Associated Press Writer, 10:01 a.m.)
Military divorces increasing from war stress
The divorce rate in the armed forces continues to edge higher, despite efforts by the military to help struggling couples. (Associated Press Writer, 5:01 a.m.)
UN board censures Iran on nuclear policies
The United Nations nuclear watchdog’s governing board voted overwhelmingly yesterday to censure Iran for its defiant nuclear policies and demanded an immediate halt to work on a uranium-enrichment plant built in secret in mountain tunnels south of the Iranian capital. (Washington Post, 11/27/09)
As war drags on, military divorces edge up
The divorce rate in the armed forces increased slightly again in the past year as military marriages continued to bear the stress of nearly a decade at war. (Associated Press, 11/27/09)
Pilots told controllers they were distracted, according to transcripts
After radio contact was finally reestablished with the Northwest Airlines plane that flew 150 miles past its destination last month, a controller twice asked the pilots why they had stopped answering radio calls, according to transcripts and audio files released yesterday by the Federal Aviation Administration. (New York Times, 11/27/09)
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Tax break on profits again in jeopardy
An effort in Congress to eliminate a generous tax break for hedge fund managers, private-equity specialists, and venture capitalists, which could be taken up next week in the House Ways and Means Committee, is being met with resistance by opponents who say the move would weaken the economy. (Globe Staff, 11/26/09)
In N.E. governors’ races, GOP sees a chance to build on gains
Invigorated by state house victories earlier this month in Virginia and New Jersey, Republicans are turning their attention to governorships in New England, where they believe the retirement of four incumbents and a competitive race in Massachusetts has created wide-open opportunities. (Globe Correspondent, 11/25/09)
Senators voice optimism on public option
WASHINGTON - Buoyed by their weekend victory on a vote beginning the health care debate, several Senate Democrats expressed optimism yesterday they could find a way to keep a government-run insurance plan in the sweeping bill. (Globe Staff, 11/23/09)
Health overhaul narrowly advances
The Senate narrowly overcame the first of two critical hurdles to passing sweeping health care legislation last night, mustering the minimum of 60 votes required to begin debate on the bill and opening a volatile floor fight likely to last weeks. (Globe Staff 11/22/09)
Some lawmakers push back Catholic church on health care bill
Representative Louise Slaughter has a consistent record advocating abortion rights. So the New York Democrat was stunned recently to receive, for the first time, a letter from a Catholic diocese in western New York, demanding that she explain her vote this month against a health care amendment prohibiting insurance companies from paying for abortions. (Globe Staff, 11/21/09)
Latinos, blacks take harder hit amid recession
Latinos and African-Americans in Massachusetts and across the country are facing high unemployment rates that could spiral to levels not seen in decades as the jobless economic recovery drags on, analysts and urban community advocates say. (Globe Staff, 11/21/09)
Support wanes for curbs on credit-card interest rates
Efforts in Congress to cap credit-card interest rates are faltering because of opposition from Democrats and a lack of specific support from the White House, despite growing consumer outrage over a rush by banks to impose rates as high as 30 percent. (Globe Staff, 11/19/09)
Obama domestic agenda largely a one-party effort
Despite early pleas for bipartisanship, President Obama is forging ahead with his domestic agenda with a largely single-party strategy, unable to corral more than a handful of Republicans on a wide range of major legislation before Congress. (Globe Staff, 11/17/09)
Beirut attack victims’ families face new hurdle
On Veterans Day, Christine Devlin stood in the cold in Westwood for the unveiling of a new memorial to local soldiers lost overseas, including her son Michael, one of the 241 servicemen killed in the bombing of the US Marine barracks in Lebanon in 1983. (Globe Staff, 11/14/09)
FHA runs low on cash, fueling bailout concerns
The Federal Housing Administration, which propped up the collapsing housing market last year, acknowledged yesterday that it has drained its cash reserves to dangerously low levels, heightening concerns that it might need a taxpayer bailout. (Globe Staff, 11/13/09)