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Today's Politics News: Senate health care bill to include public option Wayward pilots say they were busy using laptops Obama says he will not rush Afghanistan decision Dems seek home-state exemptions Grayson goes too far for colleagues Senate Leader Harry Reid faces tough re-election Kerry: General's war plan goes too far Senate panel kicks off climate bill drive Justice Scalia: Rival doctrine seeks rigidity FBI, police rescue 52 kids in prostitution probes France: Manslaughter inquiry dropped Vatican: Talks with traditionalists will continue Japanese hope Obama will visit A-bomb cities soon Lawmakers wary of some Obama bank oversight plans Primarymoney Reid Backs Health Public Option With State Opt-Out Senate health care bill to include public option Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:55 pm PDT AP - Health care legislation heading for the Senate floor will give millions of Americans the option of purchasing government-run insurance coverage, Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Monday, although he stopped short of claiming the 60 votes needed to pass a plan steeped in controversy. Reid, D-Nev., said individual states would have the choice of opting out of the program. Full Story Top Wayward pilots say they were busy using laptops Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:07 pm PDT AP - Not sleeping, the pilots say. They were engrossed in a complicated new crew-scheduling program on their laptop computers as their plane flew past its Minneapolis landing by 150 miles — a cockpit violation of airline policy that could cost them their licenses. Full Story Top Obama says he will not rush Afghanistan decision Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:53 pm PDT AP - President Barack Obama mourned 14 Americans killed Monday in helicopter crashes in Afghanistan and told a military audience he will not be hurried as he evaluates whether to alter U.S. strategy in the war. Full Story Top Dems seek home-state exemptions Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:04 pm PDT Politico - David Obey is using an annual spending bill to exempt home state interests from new environmental rules. Full Story Top Grayson goes too far for colleagues Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:32 pm PDT Politico - Florida rep.’s derogatory takedown of Bernanke aide draws rebukes from both sides of the aisle. Full Story Top Senate Leader Harry Reid faces tough re-election Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:11 pm PDT AP - Along a curve of desert highway near the gated home of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, mechanic Bill Johnson is struggling to keep his checkbook balanced. Full Story Top Kerry: General's war plan goes too far Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:00 pm PDT AP - A war plan that asks President Barack Obama to commit tens of thousands of additional U.S. forces to Afghanistan is too ambitious, a top Senate Democrat said Monday. Full Story Top Senate panel kicks off climate bill drive Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:16 pm PDT Reuters - A Senate committee on Tuesday launches three long days of hearings on a Democratic climate bill in a bid to further convince an international summit in December that Washington is serious about tackling global warming. Full Story Top Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:39 am PDT AP - AP Source: 3 Drug Enforcement Administration agents killed in Afghan chopper crash. Full Story Top Justice Scalia: Rival doctrine seeks rigidity Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:47 pm PDT AP - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says those who want modern-day legal interpretations to view the U.S. Constitution through contemporary lenses are seeking rigidity, not flexibility, in the country's justice system. Full Story Top FBI, police rescue 52 kids in prostitution probes Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:49 am PDT AP - FBI officials say they have rescued 52 children in a series of raids around the country aimed at under-age prostitution. Full Story Top France: Manslaughter inquiry dropped Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:36 pm PDT AP - A French magistrate has dropped a manslaughter investigation into a crash involving a motorbike and a police car that killed two teenagers and sparked riots in 2007, a lawyer for the boys' families said Monday. Full Story Top Vatican: Talks with traditionalists will continue Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:29 pm PDT AP - Pope Benedict XVI's efforts to unify the Catholic Church and reach out to Christian traditionalists took a new step Monday with the start of talks between the Vatican and a group of breakaway Catholics that includes a Holocaust denier. Full Story Top Japanese hope Obama will visit A-bomb cities soon Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:21 pm PDT AP - Hopes are growing in Japan that Barack Obama will become the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima or Nagasaki, the only two cities ever devastated by atomic bombs. Full Story Top Lawmakers wary of some Obama bank oversight plans Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:10 pm PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON -- The chairman of a key congressional panel Monday scaled back important parts of the Obama administration's plan to dismantle financial institutions that are deemed "too big to fail." Full Story Top Primarymoney Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:11 pm PDT CQPolitics.com - House GOP Candidates Bank More Money Full Story Top Reid Backs Health Public Option With State Opt-Out Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:36 pm PDT Bloomberg - Oct. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said he will ask the U.S. Senate to vote for a government-run health-insurance program that would allow states to opt out. Full Story Top

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