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Clem's Chronicles: Health Care Reform/More arrests in Billings Killings/Sotomayor

Lots and lots of news tonight. Here's what we got.... HEALTH CARE REFORM-It was the Senate’s turn to step up to the plate on health care reform today albeit on the committee level. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions...

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Is it Ever Ok for Someone to Take His Own Life?

Were covering a story tonight about a couple who committed suicide together. When Sir Edward Downes and his wife Joan learned that she had terminal cancer, they traveled to a clinic in Zurich and drank a fatal dose of barbiturates...

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What Caused the Hole in That Southwest Plane?

ABC's Lisa Stark tonight with an update on where the investigation stands: ABC News has learned that investigators can see no obvious signs of corrosion or metal weakness in the area of the 14 by 17 inch hole. Sources say...

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WATCH: Michael Jackson's 1984 Pepsi Ad Accident

US Magazine has obtained and posted footage of the 1984 accident that left Michael Jackson with severe burns. Jackson was filming a television ad for Pepsi when he caught on fire. Watch here.

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Sotomayor Asked About 'Temperament'. Sexist Question?

Judge Sonia Sotomayor would very much like to be the nation's new Supreme Court Justice. She would be one of only two women on the high court. At yesterday's Senate confirmation hearings Sotomayor was asked a question that is being...

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Jim Sciutto Reports: Government Guidebook for Dealing with Dissent

ABC's Senior Foreign Correspondent Jim Sciutto reports: I’ve spent a lot of time in police states in the last couple of years -- a few trips each to Zimbabwe, Myanmar, Iran, and some more. It strikes me that each place...

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Should the Rich Pay to Fix Health Care?

There are a couple health care reform bills working through Congress right now. The goal is to provide basic coverage to all (or almost all) Americans. But a central, vexing question is how to pay for it. A plan by...

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Must See Web TV: American Town in 2009 Without Running Water

Steve Osunsami brings us a report of a town left high and dry. In 2009 there are still Americans unable to get something that most of us take for granted. Take a look:

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What Recession?

Couple small notes in the news today... While the nation continues to be mired in a deep recession there are some who are bucking the trend. Goldman Sachs has paid back its bailout money, rebounded and is now reporting stunning...

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Robert Redford's Secret Hamburg Wedding

ABC's Christel Kucharz reports: U.S. actor Robert Redford, 71, and his 51-year-old German fiancée Sibylle Szaggars got married at a secret wedding ceremony in Hamburg, Germany, last Saturday. Evangelical pastor Frank Engelbrecht of St. Katharinen Kirche presided over the private...

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