The Senate on Thursday began what promises to be a long, bitter battle over the future of health care, and taxes, abortion, affordability and federal deficits emerged as key flash points.

Gov. Bev Perdue's third take: Prison officials never doled out credits for good behavior to those sentenced to life in the 1970s.

S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford wants to report previously unrecorded flights he took on planes owned by friends and campaign donors, a state ethics official said Thursday even as the governor's lawyer continued to defend his travel practices.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Harrison told The Associated Press he is appointing an ad hoc committee of four Republicans and three Democrats who will begin meeting Tuesday. He said he expects to have a resolution to impeach ready before Christmas for the full Judiciary Committee to consider.



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Democrat John Edwards tried to cut a secret deal with Barack Obama and perhaps Hillary Clinton during last year's presidential primaries, offering his endorsement in exchange for the vice presidential nomination, according to a new book by Obama's campaign manager.

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