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updated 2:00 p.m.EDT, Tue July 12, 2011

Social Security checks in doubt, Obama says

President Obama warns in a CBS News interview that, absent a deal on the debt, he can't guarantee Americans will continue to receive Social Security checks. FULL STORY

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