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Obama picks Colorado's Salazar as Interior head

 
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will nominate Sen. Ken Salazar of Colorado, who once practiced as an environmental lawyer, to be his interior secretary, a senior Democrat said on Monday. (link)

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