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Sojourner Truth, Once Again a Trailblazer

ABC News' Jonathan Karl reports: Lost amid the frenzy on Capitol Hill this week over swine flu hearings and Arlen Specter's party switch was a more historically significant event: the unveiling of a statue of Sojourner Truth. Sojourner Truth was...

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April 30, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (1)

Senate Rejects Bankruptcy Bailout for Troubled Homeowners

ABC's Z. Byron Wolf reports from Capitol Hill: On the same day that the White House announced that overextended Chrysler would go into a "quick" bankruptcy -- its loans rewritten by a judge to emerge for life another day --...

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April 30, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (4)

GOP Senator on Biden: ‘What Is He Thinking?’

On today’s “Top Line,” Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., told us an interesting story about learning of Vice President Joe Biden’s slightly off-message flu comments this morning.

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April 30, 2009 in Top Line | Permalink | User Comments (9)

Swine Flu Skeptic: The Sky Is Not Falling

ABC News' Jonathan Karl reports: In Texas, state officials have shut down all high school sporting events. In Washington, Vice President Biden says he's advised family members not to fly in airplanes. But at least one member of Congress has...

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Trippi: Edwards Should Not Have Run

ABC News’ Raelyn Johnson and Rick Klein report: With Elizabeth Edwards reportedly offering new details of her husband’s affair in her soon-to-be-released memoir, the senior political adviser to former senator John Edwards told ABC News Thursday that Edwards should never...

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April 30, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (22)

Sen. Specter's Seat Crosses the Aisle

ABC News' Z. Byron Wolf reports: ABC's Vic Ratner was smart enough to chase down a nice little Specter-related item: the Senate seating chart. You may recall that part of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's pitch to Pennsylvania Senator Arlen...

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The Note, 4/30/2009: Politics 101 -- Next 100 days starts with new GOP messaging (yes, again)

By RICK KLEIN Cover your mouth, wash your hands, and prepare to be enchanted. As the ocean liner of a battleship of a ship of state moves from the first 100 days into the second, the lesson is that this...

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The Note's Must-Reads for Thursday, April 30, 2009

The Note's Must-Reads are a round-up of today's political headlines and stories from ABC News and the top U.S. newspapers. Posted Monday through Friday right here at www.abcnews.com Compiled by ABC News’ PETER MARTINEZ, KRISTEN RED-HORSE, CARRIE HALPERIN, JAYCE HENDERSON,...

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Jeb and Mitt Team Up to Rebrand GOP

ABC News' Teddy Davis reports: Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) are teaming up on a Republican rebranding effort intended to push back on Democratic efforts to paint the GOP as "the party...

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April 29, 2009 in The Note | Permalink | User Comments (45)

LIVE COVERAGE OF PRESIDENT OBAMA'S PRESS CONFERENCE

ABC News' Rick Klein reports: Join us at 8 pm ET on ABCNews.com and ABC News NOW for live coverage of President Obama's press conference, held tonight to mark his first 100 days in office. Click HERE to watch the...

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April 29, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (10)