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| Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:00:00 EST Hostage on the runway |
| Our chief White House correspondent recaps the ABC series Commander in Chief, assessing how closely the TV drama matches up with real life. Kenneth T. Walsh has covered the White House for U.S. News since 1986. |
| Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:00:00 EST A highly frustrating benefit |
| More than three weeks after the implementation of the new Medicare prescription drug benefit, seniors and state governments have plenty of complaints about how well it's working. Most seriously, states and advocacy groups are saying that the new program is faltering in its commitment to provide drugs to the poorest people. So-called dual eligibles, people who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid by virtue of being both elderly (or disabled) and poor, used to get their prescriptions through Medicaid, which offered comprehensive coverage. As of January 1, they were to instead receive the new Medicare benefit, with very low copayments and low or no premiums; if they didn't sign up on their own, they were automatically assigned a plan. |
| Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:00:00 EST Rove makes his return |
| Karl Rove is back in the limelight, but White House insiders say he was never out of the loop. |
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| Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:24:42 EST Seven kids from one family killed in 'mangled, fiery crash' |
| Seven children from one family died Wednesday when a tractor-trailer rear-ended their vehicle, slamming it into a school bus that had stopped to let off children. Lt. Mike Burroughs of the Florida Highway Patrol said the kids, aged 15 years to 21 months, died when their Pontiac burst into flames. No adults were in the car. Fifteen-year-old Nicole Mann was at the wheel, said Tina Mann, her aunt. "The same thing would have happened had there been an adult in the car with her. We'd just have one more death in the family," Tina Mann said. |
| Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:21:30 EST Doctor: Mine survivor out of coma and can swallow food |
| The doctor treating Randy McCloy, the lone survivor of the Sago Mine disaster earlier this month, said Wednesday that McCloy "can no longer be described as being in a coma." |
| Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:50:24 EST Rumsfeld denies military near breaking point |
| Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday disputed a Pentagon-commissioned study that warns the Army needs more troops for Iraq and Afghanistan, telling reporters the service is nowhere close to its breaking point. |
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