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U.S. Recommends Flu Shots for All, Says Vaccine Makers Can Meet Demand

U.S. health officials broadened national flu vaccination recommendations Monday while acknowledging that fears of a potential bird flu pandemic have complicated their efforts. The government issued a planned expansion of its flu shot recommendations about a month after first restricting shots to high-risk people because of uncertainties over vaccine supplies. …

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Explosion Kills One at University of Oklahoma

NORMAN, Okla. – One person was killed in an explosion near a packed football stadium at the University of Oklahoma (search) on Saturday night in what authorities said appeared to be a suicide. The blast, in a traffic circle about 100 yards from Oklahoma Memorial Stadium (search), could be heard …

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FEC Allows Candidates to Attend Soft Money Fund-Raisers

WASHINGTON – Election officials decided Thursday to stand by a rule allowing the president and members of Congress to attend state party fundraisers where “soft money” (search) is raised, even though they cannot raise the big donations for themselves. A judge last September ordered the Federal Election Commission to either …

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