Congress votes to send measure to committee amid chanted opposition
The House passed the measure 251 to 166 and sent it to a committee on Wednesday, a common step used to kill bills. Pelosi led the chamber as lawmakers debated the move.
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Nancy Pelosi
Washington
China
Beijing
U.S
Frank Wolf
R-Va
Smith
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Global Human Rights
Wolf
Fairfax County
House International Relations Committee
Lynne Weil
U.S. Life Expectancy Surpasses 78 For First Time
The 2006 life expectancy for newborns rose to about 78 years as mortality fell across nine of the 15 leading causes of death including heart disease cancer and diabetes. Infant mortality declined to 6.7 per 1 000 births and flu and pneumonia deaths fell 13 percent.
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Atlanta
U.S
Robert Anderson
Health Statistics Center
Heukens
Rivers flood Iowa towns as Mississippi crests approach
Evacuations ordered in Cedar Falls and Waterloo as Cedar River nears flood stage. Cedar Rapids and Vinton face rising waters and power disruptions while Wisconsin drains a reservoir to ease a dam. Mississippi River towns expect higher crests with rain upriver.
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Iowa
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Wisconsin
Indiana
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Iowa City
Waterloo
Tim Hurley
Cedar Rapids
Vinton
Steve Meyer
Cedar
Des Moines
Susan Staudt
Staudt
Mississippi River
National Weather Service
Missouri
Illinois
St. Louis
President
Weather Service
Jim Cramper
Cramper
U S Defends Pakistan Airstrikes Amid Diplomatic Tension
Defense Department spokesman says the strikes near a checkpoint were a legitimate response to attacks on coalition forces. Pakistan summoned the U S ambassador and lodged a protest over reports that allied fighters may have been killed.
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USS
Pakistan
Islamabad
Defense Department
Geoff Morrell
Pentagon
U.S
Anne Patterson
Foreign Ministry
United States
Rick Barton
Center For Strategic and International Studies
Barton
Obscenity judge ran private web site with explicit materials
Los Angeles federal judge Alex Kozinski acknowledged maintaining a publicly accessible site showing explicit photos and a video involving a farm animal. He said the site was for private storage and not intended for public viewing, and he plans to remove degrading images and other explicit content.
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United States
Alex Kozinski
9Th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Kozinski
Ira Isaacs
Stephen Gillers
New York University
Gillers
Federal Judiciary
Appeals Court
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