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The fight over health care has moved to the Senate, and that means the fight over abortion is there as well. Earlier this month, the House passed legislation that would ban federal funding of abortion, but most Democrats say it went too far. Can the Senate's version find a compromise?

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Thousands of University of California students converged on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles Thursday, as regents adopted a 30 percent fee hike. It's one of the latest signs of California's continuing economic crisis. UC officials say, faced with a huge deficit of their own, they have no choice but to raise the fees. Many students say they can't afford to pay more.

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The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is offering new guidelines for cervical cancer screening — delaying the start of pap smears for young women and cutting back on the frequency of the tests. These guidelines were released just days after a different group caused a furor by recommending that most women wait until they're 50 to start getting mammograms.

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Vampires and wolves, astronauts and aliens, a rags-to-NFL story and Jenny's education ... it's all at the movies. An Education—It's 1960s London and teenager Jenny (Carey Mulligan)meets and falls for the charming and much older David (Peter Sarsgaard). She forgets her struggle to get into Oxford and the more time she spends with David, the more she forgets who she really is. Screenplay by Nick Hornby (High Fidelity). (PG-13) Flicks The Blind Side—This film tracks the story of Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron), a homeless African American high school student who was taken in by Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra…

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says she believes a health-care bill will pass, despite fierce debate over language about abortion. She tells Renee Montagne that when it comes to Afghanistan, she doesn't sense wide support among House members for a significant troop increase. Pelosi says she's asked members to give President Obama room to decide his Afghan strategy.

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The Senate is conducting hearings into the recent shootings at Fort Hood — a tragedy that took place just miles from the site of a deadly 1991 attack. That episode, in which a gunman killed 23 people at Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, reshaped how police, medical and psychological personnel respond to such tragedies.

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One of the great mysteries about North America is what killed off woolly mammoths and other exotic animals that roamed the land after the last ice age. Ideas have ranged from a comet impact and climate change to human hunters. A study published Friday in Science Magazine provides new clues about this — cleverly deduced from samples of a fungus that grew on the animal's dung.

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The country's spiraling unemployment rate continues to take a particular toll on men. The "he-cession," as it's sometimes called, has hit African-American men especially hard, increasing their unemployment rate to more than 17 percent last month.

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A blown call by referees cost the luckless Irish a spot in the 2010 World Cup. Within minutes of a shootout, the ball hit the outstretched palm of French striker Thierry Henry, who guided it to his foot then passed it to a teammate for the winning overtime goal.

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Majority Leader Steny Hoyer was able to get the bill passed while the Senate couldn't by appending it to a more popular bill. Republicans complained the cost of the measure was not offset and also charged that it was repayment to the AMA for endorsing the Democrats' health care bill.

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One half of the famous large-scale, Reichstag-wrapping, umbrella-happy duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude passed away suddenly on Wednesday, Nov. 18, due to a ruptured brain aneurysm. The couple stole the spotlight in 2005 with their contentious Central Park installation The Gates, which draped thousands of white frames with fluttering orange cloth throughout Central Park in New York City.

Christo, who has created temporary public art with wife Jeanne-Claude for the past 51 years, notes on the couple’s Web site that he will continue on with the projects they currently have in production. Over the River, plans to suspend miles of woven fabric over a stretch of the Arkansas River in Colorado, while The Mastaba involves erecting a pyramid-like structure from 410,000 oil barrels in the United Arab Emirates.
Though the artistic nature of duo’s work has long been debated, Jeanne-Claude and Christo have undoubtably embodied the phrase “go big or go home.”

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Army officials had said they would prohibit coverage of Palin's on-post event, saying it would turn into political grandstanding against President Barack Obama.

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• "Shhhhh. Ms. Winfrey is thinking."

The New York Times reported today that Oprah—Ms. Winfrey if you're ... uh ... everybody—will bring her daytime network television show to an end on Sept. 9, 2011 after 25 years on the air.

Ending her "talk" show—she talks and ... uh ... everybody listens—will free her up to dedicate her energies to her new cable television network. No, you didn't read wrong. Not her new cable television show, her cable television network.

OWN as it will be called, NATURALLY, will be a "joint venture between her production company and Discovery Communications. It is intended to replace the Discovery Health Channel in more than 70 million households."

I wonder if it will be one of Ms. Winfrey's favorite things?

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The talk-show icon will call it a wrap after 25 seasons, her production company said. A formal announcement is expected on Friday's edition of The Oprah Winfrey Show.

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Another man has been indicted on terrorism charges in a federal investigation into the recruitment of Minnesota Somalis to fight in Somalia.

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Trade commissioner Catherine Ashton of Britain was selected as the EU's new foreign policy chief and Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy was picked for president. Their appointments suggested the need for compromise outweighed the desire for big names like former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

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In Los Angeles, University of California regents adopted a 30-percent increase in tuition in the face of a huge system-wide deficit. The vote came as thousands of angry students converged on the UCLA campus in protest.

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In an NPR interview, the House speaker predicted she can corral enough votes from moderate Democrats to guarantee final passage of health care legislation — even if it contains the less-restrictive rules on abortion contained in the Senate version of the bill.

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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the government's $700 billion bailout program will end "as soon as we can," and that part of it will be used to lower the record deficit. He urged Congress to move quickly in overhauling the nation's financial rules, which he says is key to a healthy economy.

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Two police officers were killed by a suicide bomber a day after 19 people were killed outside a courthouse in Peshawar. The bombings brought to eight the number of militant attacks in less than two weeks in the city on the Afghan border.

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