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- Obama to seek $1.35 billion more for education
President Barack Obama will ask Congress for $1.35 billion in his 2011 budget proposal to extend an education grant program for states, although the Education Department remains months away from announcing its first round of awards, senior administration officials said. - Gates says US not planning policing role in Haiti
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday the U.S. forces in Haiti for earthquake relief can defend themselves and innocent Haitians or foreigners if lawlessness boils over. - Report: FBI illegally collected phone records
The FBI violated the law in collecting thousands of U.S. telephone records during the Bush administration, The Washington Post reported Monday. - Obama honors slain civil rights leader
President Barack Obama served plates of steaming hot lunches to the needy Monday, one of several ways the nation's first black president paid tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. on the federal holiday honoring the slain civil rights leader. - Magazine raises questions over 3 detainee deaths
Three Guantanamo Bay detainees whose deaths were ruled a suicide in 2006 apparently had been transported from their cells hours before their deaths to a secret site on the island, an article in Harper's magazine asserts.
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