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Joe Miller is expected to win Senate seat over Alaska's Lisa Murkowski. The results of Senate polls on Wednesday show Joe Miller holding a slim lead of about 1,900 votes over Lisa Murkowski. A winner will be declared only after election officials count as many as 10,000 absentee ballots, which could take several days. Joe Miller ... Full story

Mr. President, Obama turns 49 years old on Wednesday and plans to fly back home tonight for celebration. Mr. Obama is planning to have dinner with some friends in Chicago. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, said he is looking forward to spending the ... Full story

Happy Doctors' Day quotes and greeting cards, celebrate this "Doctors' Day" by sending Greeting Cards and Quotes to all your Friends, Medicos, Docs and to your family doctor. The first Doctors Day observance was March 30, 1933 in Winder, Georgia. Eudora Brown Almond, wife of Dr. Charles B. Almond, decided to ... Full story

Senator Robert C. Byrd's hometown remembers him fondly. Robert Carlyle Byrd was born Nov. 20, 1917, in North Wilkesboro, NC, as Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr., the youngest of five children. Byrd, a Pillar of the Senate, Dies at 92. Robert Carlyle Byrd was a United States Senator from West ... Full story

Mike Lee clinches Utah GOP Senate nomination. Lee wins Utah GOP Senate nod, Republican voters in Utah picked lawyer Michael S. Lee as the party’s nominee to replace U.S. Senator Bob Bennett, according to the Associated Press. Lee defeated businessman Tim Bridgewater and will likely become state’s next senator. Heavily ... Full story

BP Chairman Svanberg says: ‘we care about the small people’. According to the latest news, BP to pay 'small people' US$20B.BP Perhaps meant the little people, like, the ones that don't make multi-million dollar salaries and all that. Swedish BP chairman's words on Wednesday after a ... Full story

President Obama's Oval Office speech on the Oil Spill - Obama's first speech from the Oval Office, he addressed the nation about the Gulf oil spill and related energy policy issues. According to the reports, Obama discussed his response plan and emphasized what he sees as the need for a shift in energy regulations ... Full story

Kamala Harris leads in AG's race, Harris declares victory in Attorney General Democratic primary. Kamala Harris wins in the race of Democratic Party candidate for attorney general of California. Harris outdistanced her six competitors with 33% of the vote, Kelly came in second with a little over 14%. Harris’ next campaign challenge will be ... Full story

California Budget announced by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger - Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday unveiled California's budget deficit by slashing billions of dollars worth of funding for services designed to help the state's poor.Schwarzenegger's budget spending cuts of 12.4 billion dollars and include the elimination of California's welfare-to-work program and ... Full story

Noynoy Aquino, Mar Roxas can Win in election results philippines 2010 - Noynoy Aquino is a Senator of the Philippines and a candidate for President of the Philippines in the 2010 election, as the standard-bearer of the Liberal Party. He is the only son of former President Corazon Aquino and former Senator Benigno ... Full story