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Republican on trip to Saddam's
palace: It's like visiting Mall Of America
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) traveled to Iraq with a congressional delegation. In an interview with the Minnesota Star Tribune, Bachmann said that after her trip, she remains firm in her support for Bush’s escalation.
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Paula Zahn leaving CNN to
make way for Campbell Brown
Paula Zahn is leaving Atlanta-based CNN, turning her prime-time slot over to Campbell Brown.
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Judge refuses to stop states
from probing domestic spying
A US judge Tuesday refused pleas by federal lawyers to stop officials in five states from investigating what roles telecommunications firms played in anti-terror domestic spying.
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Senators challenge
White House briefings
Political briefings given by Bush White House aides to high-ranking diplomats "were probably inappropriate" and should stop, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Tuesday.
The comments by Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind.
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'Heated exchange' in
rare Iran talks
US charges that Iran was fueling sectarian strife in Iraq and terrorism in the Middle East led to tense and heated debate in rare talks Tuesday between the two arch enemies, US officials said.
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Chairman Leahy to
Gonzales:
I don't trust you
"I don't trust you," Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., told Gonzales, who succeeded Ashcroft as attorney general.Gonzales' credibility remained at issue throughout today's proceedings.
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News report claims 'firestorm' about Obama comment
 Barack Obama's offer to meet without precondition with leaders of renegade nations such as Cuba, North Korea and Iran touched off a war of words, with rival Hillary Rodham Clinton calling him naive and Obama linking her to President Bush's diplomacy.
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Edwards returns
donations from lobbyists
Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards, who reiterated his commitment Tuesday to never accept campaign donations from special interest groups, recently returned $3,400 from lobbyists.
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Fred Thompson shakes
up campaign staff
Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson is shaking up his still-unofficial campaign, replacing his top aide with a former Michigan senator and a veteran Florida strategist.
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Dem debate attracts
2.6 million viewers
The melting snowman, Tennessee rednecks and the novelty of the CNN-YouTube Democratic debate attracted 2.6 million television viewers, a slight drop from the numbers who tuned in for a more traditional exchange last month.
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Gloves off as Clinton,
Obama spar over worst 'dictators'
Democratic White House rivals Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama ripped into each other in their first big showdown of the 2008 race, over when to talk to US enemies like Iran and North Korea.
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Apple shares fall on
lower iPhone sales
AT&T Inc. wiped some of the glow off Apple Inc.'s iPhone on Tuesday, releasing numbers that showed fewer people than expected signed up for service in the first two days of the multimedia cell phone's release.
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Tobacco may be put
under FDA control
 A Senate panel is nearing a vote on a proposal to put tobacco under Food and Drug Administration regulation despite objections that such a move would only entrench the market position of the nation's No. 1 tobacco company.
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House Democrats offer
child health plan
House Democrats would rely less on tobacco taxes than the Senate would and more on cuts to Medicare insurers to pay for a proposed $50 billion expansion of a children's health insurance program.
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Congress wants answers
on Tillman death
Congressional investigators told the White House on Tuesday that they intend to question several former Bush administration officials about their knowledge of Pat Tillman's death, escalating their inquiry into the high-profile friendly fire case.
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FEMA reviewing
policy on trailers
Days after the Federal Emergency Management Agency's chief spokesman said concerns about formaldehyde would not stop it from selling or donating surplus disaster trailers, the agency said Tuesday that it is reviewing the policy.
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Panhandlers get
class-action status
A federal judge on Tuesday granted class-action status to thousands of suspected panhandlers arrested or forced off streets over the past 15 years by police who used a law that was declared unconstitutional.
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San Francisco power
outage knocks out Web sites
Sporadic power failures cascaded across San Francisco for two hours on Tuesday, causing minor disruptions in the downtown business district and knocking out major Web sites including Craigslist.
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Students, schools fear
end of racial diversity
Seventeen-year-old Quantae Williams doesn't understand why the U.S. Supreme Court struck down his school district's racial diversity program.
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Forecaster cuts 2007
hurricane outlook
 The 2007 hurricane season may be less severe than forecast due to cooler-than-expected water temperatures in the tropical Atlantic, private forecaster WSI Corp said on Tuesday.
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Don’t demean almost half the country on impeachment
When some polls now show that impeachment is supported by close to 45 percent of the entire nation, that is not only an extraordinary situation, it is a leading indicator of huge voter turnout among those who favor change.
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The Politico continues
to misreport
Congressman Dingell warming to GOP the plan on auto-mileage? Not so, says the Congressman.
"Had the Politico asked me, they would have heard a simple answer: no."
The Politico is emerging as little more than a print version of FOX News.
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Executive odor: Bush order to
seize protesters' assets
 The order prohibits prior notice to any person Bush feels has contributed to his problems in Iraq.
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Oil could hit
$95 this year
Jeffrey Currie, a London-based commodity analyst at the world's biggest securities firm, says $95 crude is likely this year unless OPEC unexpectedly increases production.
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E A R L I E R H E A D L I N E S
No indictment in
Katrina hospital deaths
A grand jury Tuesday declined to indict Dr. Anna Pou, the surgeon accused of killing four seriously ill patients in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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Giuliani's former SC campaign
chairman indicted
He also has stepped down as state campaign chairman for Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani.
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Watergate figure in
hospital after crash
Jeb Stuart Magruder, an aide to President Nixon who spent seven months in prison for his role in covering up the 1972 Watergate break-in, was hospitalized after a car crash, authorities said.
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Sheehan arrested in
impeachment protest
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested Monday at the Capitol for disorderly conduct.
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Poll: Americans want Congress,
not Bush, to decide on Iraq
Most Americans see President Bush as intransigent on Iraq and prefer that the Democratic-controlled Congress make decisions about a possible withdrawal of U.S. forces.
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Tired of journalists' softballs, YouTube questions were refreshing
Democratic White House hopefuls made history Monday, parrying Internet video questions from voters soured on modern politics, in a sign of the Web's booming role in elections.
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Faltering CNN threw
softballs after the debate
 After last night’s YouTube debate, CNN ran a segment critiquing the candidates on their body language and dress. Wolf Blitzer introduced it, stating, “Candidates also sighed, they rolled their eyes, they looked at their watches during the debate.” CNN’s Carol Costello commented, “Look at how the candidates were dressed. The men wore dark suits, but Hillary Clinton wore a brightly-colored jacket.”
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Bush's era of repression
has stolen your liberties
Today’s America is a much less free place than the America of 2000. Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush administration has, by word and by deed, erected an edifice of repression here in the United States.
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Bush offers of air support,
'supporting fires' to Pakistan
The US military has offered to provide air support and "supporting fires" for Pakistani military operations against Al-Qaeda but in the past has been rebuffed, US defense officials said Monday.
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Bush’s incompetence
gives al-Qaida new life
The White House hints at military action as the terror organization regroups in northern Pakistan and the Musharraf government begins to wobble.
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Cheney once considered
vice presidency 'cruddy job'
Dick Cheney once considered the vice presidency a "cruddy job" but got over his misgivings and went on to be arguably the most powerful No. 2 in U.S. politics, and one of the most heavily criticized.
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Political spouses in
public eye early in race
 Candidates' spouses may not determine voters' choices on Election Day but in these early months of campaigning, they are playing central roles as Americans meet the contenders in the 2008 presidential race.
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Bancroft family to mull
Wall Street Journal sale
The far-flung family that controls financial publisher Dow Jones & Co. is expected to decide within days whether it will relinquish its stake and let Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. get the company for $5 billion.
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Poll: Coastal residents
won't evacuate
About one in three people living in Southern coastal areas said they would ignore hurricane evacuation orders if a storm threatened their community, up from about one in four last year, a poll released Tuesday shows.
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FDA says food recall
is urgent health threat
A recall of canned meat products and dog food made at a Georgia plant due to botulism fears could involve tens of millions of cans that pose an urgent public health threat, U.S. officials said on Monday.
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Bush at 25%
Among all Americans, 25% approve of the way Bush is handling his job as president and 71% disapprove. When it comes to Bush's handling of the economy, 23% approve and 73% disapprove.
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Injured Iraq war
veterans to sue VA head
Frustrated by delays in health care, a coalition of injured Iraq war veterans is accusing VA Secretary Jim Nicholson of breaking the law by denying them disability pay and mental health treatment.
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Gingrich to Bush:
Shut up about Iraq
This morning, Steve Thomma of McClatchy wrote that “When pressing a tough sale, Bush is a lousy salesman.”
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Conyers needs 3 more to
begin Cheney impeachment
John Conyers has said that he will open impeachment hearings into the crimes of Dick Cheney if three more members of Congress sign onto House Resolution 333. That resolution already has 14 sponsors. The magic number, it seems, is 17.
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Bush’s torture ban is full of loopholes
Once upon a time, a U.S. official’s condemnation of torture was a statement of moral principle. Today, it is an opportunity for obfuscation.
NYC buildings use
ice to keep cool
As the summer swelters on, skyscrapers and apartments around the city will crank up air conditioners and push the city's power grid to the limit — but some have found a cool alternative.
Hey big spender,
$210,000 drinks bill
A Middle Eastern businessman spent over $210,000 in a five-hour, champagne- and vodka-fuelled spending spree in a London nightclub at the weekend.
Noted psychologist
Albert Ellis dies
Albert Ellis, founder of a renowned psychotherapy institute who is considered by many to be among the most influential figures in modern psychology, died Tuesday, the institute announced. He was 93.
Lawsuit seeks to
shut down Facebook
The owners of a rival social networking Web site are trying to shut down Facebook.com, charging in a federal lawsuit that Facebook's founder stole their ideas while they were students at Harvard.
Oprah tops list of
highest paid TV stars
Talk might be cheap, but Oprah is not, topping a list of the highest-paid television stars in the United States.
Voracious jumbo squid
invade California
Jumbo squid that can grow up to 7 feet long and weigh more than 110 pounds is invading central California waters and preying on local anchovy, hake and other commercial fish populations, according to a study published Tuesday.
Panel looks at revamping
parole systems
About 1,600 people get out of prison every day, and more than half are back within three years — a problem researchers say might be reduced if offenders got more help right after release.
Countrywide profit sinks,
defaults rise
Countrywide Financial Corp. said Tuesday its second-quarter profit shrank by nearly a third as softening home prices led to rising delinquencies and mortgage defaults among the most creditworthy borrowers.
Conn. city offers
illegal immigrants IDs
Dozens of people lined up at City Hall on Tuesday for municipal identification cards, the first city-issued ID cards specifically designed to bring illegal immigrants out of the shadows and give them access to community services.
Colorado prof fired
after 9-11 remarks
The University of Colorado's governing board on Tuesday fired a professor whose essay likening some Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi leader provoked national outrage and led to an investigation of research misconduct.
Illegal workers in US
troll for jobs in plain sight
For the scores of illegal migrants looking for a day job on a bustling highway outside Washington, any small risk of arrest was far outweighed by the potential reward: 10 to 20 times better pay for a day's work than if they were at home.
Starbucks label signs
Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell is following the lead of Paul McCartney in joining with the coffee giant Starbucks to release her comeback album.
Toyota unveils plug-in
hybrid, to test on roads
Toyota Motor Corp. unveiled a "plug-in" hybrid car based on its popular Prius model on Wednesday, saying it would test the fuel-saving vehicle on public roads -- a first for the industry.
Rats and cats work
to sniff out mines
Who says Tom and Jerry can't be friends? For the past year, a special Colombian police unit has been locking rats in cages with cats as part of a project to train the rodents to sniff out the more than 100,000 landmines planted mostly by leftist rebels across this conflict-wracked Andean country.
Fitness means less
belly fat at any weight
"Fat and fit" men are likely to have a lower risk of heart disease and diabetes because they're relatively trim around the waist, a new study shows.
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House Democrats have targeted two of President Bush's longtime aides for criminal contempt against Congress, escalating a legal fight over executive privilege and access to White House deliberations on the firings of federal prosecutors.
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