US rooting around for a new name for swine flu (AP)
AP - Is the name swine flu hogwash?
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Senate confirms health secretary nominee (AP)
AP - Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius won Senate confirmation Tuesday as the nation’s health and human services secretary, thrusting her into the middle of a public health emergency with the swine flu sickening dozens of Americans.
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Committee to weigh reform proposals (Politico)
Politico - The health care reform plans are aimed at making doctors and hospitals more accountable.
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Democrats urge torture probe by special counsel (AP)
AP - Congressional Democrats turned up the pressure on the Obama administration Tuesday to start a criminal investigation by a special counsel into harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects.
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Specter shift puts Dems near filibuster-proof mark (AP)
AP - Veteran Republican Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania switched parties Tuesday with a suddenness that seemed to stun the Senate, a moderate’s defection that pushed Democrats to within a vote of the 60 needed to overcome filibusters and enact President Barack Obama’s top legislative priorities.
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Mexico death toll stabilizes as epidemic spreads (AP)
AP - The toll from the swine flu epidemic appears to be stabilizing in Mexico, the health secretary said late Tuesday, with only seven more suspected deaths. But an outbreak of the virus at a New York school showed it is capable of repeated jumps between humans — meaning it can keep spreading around the world.
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Analysis: Specter leaves a shrinking GOP tent (AP)
AP - With Sen. Arlen Specter’s switch to the Democrats, the Republican Party is increasingly at risk of being viewed as a mostly Southern and solidly conservative party, an identity that might take years to overcome.
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Concerns About Re-Election, Party’s Shift to Right Fueled Specter’s Switch (CQPolitics.com)
CQPolitics.com - After 29 years as a Republican senator, Arlen Specter said, polling results that he received April 24 convinced him to run as a Democrat in 2010.
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US Senator Specter switches parties, boosts Obama (AFP)
AFP - Senior Republican Senator Arlen Specter announced he was becoming a Democrat in a huge boost to President Barack Obama’s ability to drive his audacious agenda through the US Congress.
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Kan. gets new gov after Sebelius goes to HHS (AP)
AP - Lt. Gov. Mark Parkinson, wooed from the Republican Party three years ago by Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to become her running mate, became governor Tuesday when Sebelius resigned upon her confirmation as U.S. health and human services secretary.
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