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Bush aides concede failure in
fight with al-Qaeda in Pakistan
President Bush’s top counterterrorism advisers acknowledged Tuesday that the strategy for fighting Osama bin Laden’s leadership of Al Qaeda in Pakistan had failed.
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If this is such a rich country, why are we getting squeezed?
The commercial media is telling us two perfectly contradictory stories about the American economy. The first is how wonderfully rich we are in the United States.
But, at the same time, we're also told that we don't have the money to pay for a robust social safety net.
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Publisher implies US deaths in Iraq not bad, because they're volunteers
 Fox News contributor and Forbes Magazine publisher Rich Karlgaard asserted that the deaths of U.S. troops in Iraq weren't so bad because, hey, they volunteered to serve their country.
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White House gets more time
to respond to subpoenas
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy granted the Bush administration more time on Tuesday to respond to congressional subpoenas demanding documents in a probe of its warrantless domestic spying program.
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Obama tries to peel
away Clinton backers
  Barack Obama says people are sure to love him once they get to know him. For now, though, Democrats seem to love Hillary Rodham Clinton more, so Obama is trying to turn heads with select jabs at his chief rival.
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Edwards ad touts
him as a tough guy
Elizabeth Edwards tells voters her husband, Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards, is a tough guy "who can stare the worst in the face and not blink" in an ad set to start airing Wednesday in New Hampshire.
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Poverty tour returns
to Kentucky
As a 17-year-old living in one of the poorest counties in Appalachia, Evelyn Cosgriff eagerly listened to Robert F. Kennedy's early morning speech on Feb. 14, 1968 at the Letcher County Courthouse.
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Oprah Winfrey to raise
money for Obama
Forget the girl of YouTube videos. The real Obama girl is doing her part for the candidate. Talk show host Oprah Winfrey plans to hold a Sept. 8 fundraiser for Democratic hopeful Barack Obama at her palatial estate near Santa Barbara, Calif., according to campaign spokesman Dan Pfeiffer.
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Scaife newspaper questions Bush's mental stability
A newspaper owned by billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, backer of conservative causes, has called the Bush administration's plans to stay the course in Iraq a "prescription for American suicide." The Tribune-Review said "we have to question his mental stability."
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20.5 million decisions
to classify documents
There were 20.5 million decisions to classify government secrets last year, and a report to the president found serious shortcomings in the process.
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Report: Anti-gang
strategy failing badly
Anti-gang legislation and police crackdowns are failing so badly that they are strengthening the criminal organizations and making U.S. cities more dangerous, according to a report being released Wednesday.
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Sick 9/11 workers sue
$1 billion insurance fund
Ailing ground zero workers are going to court to demand that the company overseeing a $1 billion Sept. 11 insurance fund uses it to pay for their health care.
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NYC traffic fee
proposal is all but dead
With his traffic-fee proposal all but dead, Mayor Michael Bloomberg lashed out Tuesday at lawmakers who blocked it, saying they were gutless and had jeopardized a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."
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TB patient undergoes
successful surgery
Andrew Speaker, the tuberculosis patient who caused an international public health scare in May, underwent successful surgery Tuesday to remove a diseased portion of his right lung, hospital officials said in a statement.
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GA district voters
pick new congressman
Voters turned out Tuesday to choose a successor to the late U.S. Rep. Charlie Norwood, and one thing was certain - the winner will be another Republican.
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Miers’ second
subpoena rejection
The Committee has previously warned that if Miers does not comply with the subpoena, she may face contempt of Congress.
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Afghanistan breaks
opium record
Afghanistan's heroin-producing poppy crop set another record this season
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Scandal-prone Nicholson
resigns Veterans Affairs post
Nicholson’s primary qualification for the VA job was serving as chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1997 to 2000, “raising close to $380 million for the 2000 cycle.”
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Hackers steal US government,
corporate data from PCs
 Hackers stole information from the U.S. Department of Transportation and several U.S. companies by seducing employees with fake job-listings on advertisements and e-mail, a computer security firm said.
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KKR considers
Macy's bid: report
Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts is considering a bid for retailer Macy's , according to the online edition of Women's Wear Daily magazine.
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Delta swings to profit
in second quarter
Delta Air Lines Inc., the nation's third-largest carrier, cited a 5.5 percent gain in sales as it reported Wednesday that it swung to a profit in the second quarter, which saw it emerge from bankruptcy after shaving billions of dollars in costs.
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Murdock gets the
Wall Street Journal
 Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has reached a tentative agreement to buy Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, the Journal reported on its Web site.
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AP Poll: GOP pick
is 'none of the above'
The latest Associated Press-Ipsos poll found that nearly a quarter of Republicans are unwilling to back top-tier hopefuls
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E A R L I E R H E A D L I N E S
GOP's Vitter denies
prostitution accusations
 Sen. David Vitter on Monday denied having relationships with New Orleans prostitutes, a week after admitting links to a Washington escort service that federal prosecutors allege was a prostitution ring.
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GOP's Rep. Renzi low
on campaign funds
Renzi, whose family business was raided by the FBI last April, ended the last quarter with $20,418 in the bank, according to campaign finance reports covering April 1-June 30.
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GOP's Jean Schmidt
behind in cash
What's unusual is that Jean Schmidt, (R-Cincinnati) the incumbent, raised considerably less money in the second quarter - and has less in the bank - than any of her opponents: Republican Phil Heimlich and Democrats Victoria Wulsin and Steve Black.
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Democrats attack
Gonzales, Supreme Court
Democrats running for president used a national meeting of trial lawyers on Sunday to attack other lawyers, pillorying Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and ridiculing recent decisions by the conservative-tilting Supreme Court.
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Campaign silence belies
importance of China
Food safety fears and broad economic concerns keep China in U.S. headlines, but the epochal rise of America's greatest potential rival has barely rated a blip so far in the 2008 presidential campaign.
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Army's middle ranks
are dwindling
More than five years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan have put the all-volunteer Army under tremendous strain. Time at home is supposed to be longer than time at war — two years to one. Instead, deployments are longer than respites — 15 months versus a year. And there is little or no R&R in combat.
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Hamilton worries about
prospects in Iraq
Former Rep. Lee Hamilton, co-chairman of the Iraq Study Group, said Monday he's "extremely doubtful" that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will be able to secure the country and allow American forces to leave any time soon. President Bush, however, reaffirmed his strong support for al-Maliki.
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Hundreds of Iraqis
protest draft oil law
About 300 oil industry workers gathered in Iraq's main oil port of Basra on Monday to protest a draft law that they said would allow foreigners to pillage the country's wealth.
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DC will ask court
to preserve gun ban
District of Columbia officials said Monday they will ask the Supreme Court to preserve the city's 30-year-old ban on private ownership of handguns.
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Trump to Rosie:
'You're hired,' if you want
Trump was inviting his archfoe, actress-comic Rosie O'Donnell, to join the cast of Apprentice. O'Donnell's spokeswoman immediately dismissed the idea.
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Microsoft's Vista blocks other
equipment from operating
Chris Pirillo leaned away from his webcam and pointed to his printer/scanner/fax machine, which stopped scanning and faxing after he installed Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows Vista operating system.
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Voinovich: Bush
has 'f **ked up' the war
Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH) warned that conservative support is quickly eroding for the war, and to stem the tide, Bush must institute a plan that begins the withdrawal of U.S. troops
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More newspapers call
for Iraq withdrawal
Until recently, few papers, no matter how critical of the conduct of the war, had backed a withdrawal of any kind.
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Tonkin Gulf II and
guns of August?
As Congress prepares for its August recess, the probability of U.S. air strikes on Iran rises with each week. A third carrier, the USS Enterprise, and its battle group is joining the Nimitz and Stennis in the largest concentration of U.S. naval power ever off the coast of Iran.
Need a passport in a hurry?
Good luck
You can pay extra for expedited service from the State Department, but there are no guarantees. You can ask for an appointment at a passport center, but you may not get one. You can ask your congressman to intervene. Or you can hire a private expediter.
Heart X-ray raises cancer
risk for young, women
A special type of X-ray used to diagnose heart disease may cause cancer in women and young adults and should be used with caution, U.S. doctors reported on Tuesday.
Fruits, veggies don't
stop cancer return
Hopes that a diet low in fat and chock-full of fruits and vegetables could prevent the return of breast cancer were dashed Tuesday by a large, seven-year experiment in more than 3,000 women.
Almost 200 feared dead
in air crash
A Brazilian airliner skidded off a slick runway, crossed a busy road and plowed into a gas station. All 176 people aboard were feared dead and an official said Wednesday that at least 15 others were killed on the ground.
Tiny tax bill gives
couple big trouble
A missing property tax bill for $1.63 has given Kermit and Dolores Atwood "seven years of emotional hell" in a fight to keep their home.
China limits teenage
Internet gaming
The Chinese government has launched a campaign to limit the number of hours teenagers spend online playing games.
Harry Potter spoilers
proliferate
In the final days before the world learns whether Harry Potter lives or dies, spoilers — or those pretending to spoil — are spreading on the Internet.
Cuba enjoys publicity
from Moore's film
Michael Moore's new documentary film "SiCKO" has given Cuba's free health system its best publicity since Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution, a Cuban doctor who hosted the filmmaker's visit said on Monday.
Claws out in Florida Keys
over Hemingway cats
A game of cat and mouse is under way between the U.S. government and Florida's Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum over the fate of dozens of felines roaming the former home of the Nobel Prize-winning author.
Larvae take up residence
on man's head
Doctors thought the strange, bleeding bumps on Aaron Dallas' head might be from gnat bites or shingles. Then the bumps started moving.
130-year-old outhouses
yield treasures
A spot where a pair of outhouses stood 130 years ago is proving to be a treasure trove for archaeologists who braved the lingering smell in the dirt to uncover some 19th Century artifacts — and a mystery.
Police excuse angry
computer user for outburst
A man who startled his neighbors when he hurled his computer out of the window in the middle of the night, was let off for disturbing the peace by police who sympathized with his technical frustrations.
Army starting brain
injury education
The Army is launching an education program to teach 1 million soldiers how to recognize symptoms of brain injuries and Post Traumatic Stress disorder, the two signature injuries of the Iraq war.
Company says radioactive
leak was bigger
The company that operates an earthquake-ravaged nuclear plant said Wednesday that a radioactive leak was bigger than first reported but still below danger levels, escalating the showdown over a long list of problems at the facility.
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A new appraisal that Al-Qaeda is back in business fueled an angry Democratic clamor for President George W. Bush to end the war in Iraq and focus on eliminating Osama bin Laden's resurgent network.
The White House’s latest spin on the National Intelligence Estimate is that it’s Pakistan’s fault for allowing Osama bin Ladin to reemerge as strong as ever along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border
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