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  Obama's Chinatown stop serves ban-facing shark fin

  President Obama purchased lunch at a San Francisco restaurant that serves shark fin soup, after signing a law last month that protects sharks from being harvested for their fins.

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  Amid political posturing, GM announces record year

  Buoyed by strong sales in North America and Asia, General Motors Co. on Thursday announced a record profit of $7.6 billion in 2011, a $2.9 billion increase over 2010 and another sign that the world's largest carmaker has bounced back after nearly going under three years ago.

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  Obama's visit to Boeing plant viewed as a 'victory lap'

  The White House says President Obama's visit to a unionized Boeing Co. plant near Seattle on Friday will focus on the economy, but the event also is being viewed as a victory lap for Mr. Obama with labor unions that successfully fought the aerospace company's plans to move jobs to a nonunion plant.

• From New York to Asia, Lin is a hoops sensation

  Bigger than Shaq? Larger than LeBron? The Knicks as NBA champions?

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  Defiant Iran claims major steps in nuclear fuel

  In defiant swipes at its foes, Iran said Wednesday it is dramatically closer to mastering the production of nuclear fuel even as the U.S. weighs tougher pressures and Tehran's suspected shadow war with Israel brings probes far beyond the Middle East.

• From New York to Asia, Lin is a hoops sensation

  Bigger than Shaq? Larger than LeBron? The Knicks as NBA champions?

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  LAMBRO: Obama's proposed budgetary house of cards

  Two things you need to know about President Obama's nearly $4 trillion budget for fiscal 2013: It will likely add another $1 trillion to a $15.3 trillion debt, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he will not act on any full budget plan this year.

• Furor on dictate over contraception coverage intensifying

  There are no signs the national furor is ebbing over the Obama administration's plans to require that either employers or their insurance companies provide birth-control services at no extra cost to their female employees.

• Obama's prayers with Whitney Houston's family

  The White House says President Barack Obama's thoughts and prayers are with Whitney Houston's family, especially her daughter.

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  Social Security reserves forecast to run dry in 2022

  Social Security's bank account will go bust in 2022 — the first time the program's combined trust funds will run a deficit, according to President Obama's budget released Monday.

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  PRUDEN: Condoms are only part of it

  Barack Obama thought he was only picking a fight with the Roman Catholic bishops. He thought he could limit the argument over his health care mandate to a controversy over condoms. He's getting a bigger fight than he imagined.

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  Critics slam Obama's handling of Arab Spring

  Growing instability from Syria to Egypt highlights the Obama administration's failure to develop a consistent strategy for promoting democracy in the wake of popular uprisings in the region, analysts say.

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  Cantor strips stricter lobbying rules from STOCK Act

  House Republicans will try Thursday to push through a popular bill that ensures insider-trading rules apply to members of Congress after GOP leaders ditched a provision to expand the definition of who qualifies as a lobbyist.

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  U.S. searches for strategy to halt Syria violence

  The Obama administration says it is not considering invading Syria or arming its rebels to remove President Bashar Assad from power. Diplomatic efforts at the U.N. have collapsed.

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  Obama seeks compromise on contraception furor

  Advisers to President Obama sent signals Tuesday that the administration is considering a compromise with Catholic-affiliated institutions following an uproar over the administration's plans to force them to offer birth control with employees' health-care coverage.

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