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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller says his family benefited from Medicaid and a state-run health care program for low-income children and pregnant women.
                                                                    
                                        LONDON - David Cameron addresses his party's annual conference Wednesday for the first time as Britain's prime minister - with a message that tough spending cuts will likely stir public unrest.
                                                                    
                                        LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Fresh television advertising in the Kentucky Senate race began airing Tuesday as national Democrats swooped in to aid Jack Conway while Republican Rand Paul's latest commercial uses the voice of a Barack Obama impersonator.
                                                                    
                                        WASHINGTON - The government's giant bank bailout may well have averted a second Great Depression, economists say, but a lot of voters aren't buying it.
                                                                    
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