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NPR 2010-09-30

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NPR 2010-09-27

US officials are meeting with Israeli and Palestinian negotiators this weekend, hoping to salvage the just resumed peace talks. One complication is that in two hours, a partial moratorium on new Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank will ex

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CNN 2011-09-02

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NPR 2008-03-15

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Raum. The House and the Senate have approved separate 3-trillion-dollar spending plans while calling on the next Congress to roll back President Bush's tax cuts for wealthier Americans. NPR's Brian Naylor report

NPR 2010-11-15

Taxation is topic A as Congress returns to Washington for a lame-duck session. At issue, should the tax cuts adopted during the Bush administration extend beyond their year's end expiration date? On NBC's Meet the Press, Senator John McCain of Arizon

NPR 2010-07-08

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CNN 2008-04-17

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US Could by 2017 Be World's Biggest Oil Producer

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AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-10-14

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