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Clinton orders change in State Department forms to prevent Republican backlash
WASHINGTON – In a bid to forestall a backlash from congressional conservatives, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has ordered the State Department to amend a bureaucratic change that would have replaced the titles “mother” and “father” with the gender-neutral term “parent” in reports of overseas births.
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Anti-abortion female Republican candidates could change political equation in Senate
NEW YORK (AP) — An unusually large contingent of female Republican candidates with strong anti-abortion views is heating up debate on the issue and could change the political equation in the next Congress.
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Christina Patterson: Change. Energy. Passion. How much more of this can I take?
Well, I wish some of those Labour lads had ditched the PPE for English literature. (To be fair, Andy Burnham did, and he’s a lovely boy, with lovely ideas for Labour, and very pleasing on the eye, but since he can’t even get his website to move at anything other than a snail’s pace, one assumes his chances of running the United Kingdom aren’t terribly high.)
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Byrd special election date may change
Some lawmakers in West Virginia say they expect the State Legislature to revisit the succession plan for the late senator. Read more…
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Do SC elections hint at change or good timing?
CHARLESTON, S.C. – South Carolina voters have nominated an Indian-American woman for governor and a black state lawmaker for Congress – developments which, on their face, suggest landmark racial progress in a state that still flies the Confederate flag near its statehouse.
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Analysis: Israeli raid may not change US policies
Amid the uproar over Israel’s deadly raid on the flotilla bringing aid to the Gaza Strip, it’s important to note what is not happening.
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Senate Democrats struggle with climate change legislation
Senate Democrats Thursday seized on the environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico as a reason to pass climate-change and energy legislation, but internal policy differences will not be easy to overcome and may also leave many disheartened.
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Rep. Shea-Porter eyes sea change
Concerns about rising sea levels are not new or novel. It was more than 11,000 years ago that scientists cited as the last time ocean boundaries changed dramatically on the Seacoast.
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Marcia G. Yerman: Women + Politics = Change
Now that a health care bill has been passed, many of Nancy Pelosi’s detractors have recategorized her from the nomenclature of goat to the status…
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