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| 1 in 20 Americans not literate in English |
bout one in 20 adults in the U.S. is not literate in English, meaning 11 million people lack the skills to handle many everyday tasks, a federal study shows.
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| ACTION ALERT! House Appropriations Committee approves a funding bill for FY 2007 that would slash public broadcasting and arts education programs. |
The full Appropriations Committee approved the cut made by the subcommittee last week and provided zero funds for the Arts in Education program at the U.S. Department of Education. The arts education program was funded at $35.6 million in FY 2006 and over the past five years has made 122 grants to school districts and local arts education partners around the country. These investments in arts education and research have produced model programs that help schools improve achievement across the board. Without any funding in FY 2007, these model grants will come to a complete stop.
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| Another Blow to U.S. Superpower Image |
"Nature Lays a Superpower Low" reads the headline of an editorial in The Hindu, a daily in Chennai. Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, commenting in another article in the paper, writes that Katrina exposed "squalor that would shame a Third World country, as well as racial and political divisions reminiscent of apartheid South Africa."
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| Big Brother in the Classroom |
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- A conservative activist dropped his offer to pay students up to $100 per class for providing information on what he called "radical" professors at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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| Billionares are us |
In 2004, after three years of economic recovery, the U.S. Census reports that poverty continues to grow, while the real median income for full-time workers has declined. Since 2001, when the economy hit bottom, the ranks of our nation's poor have grown by 4 million, and the number of people without health insurance has swelled by 4.6 million to over 45 million.
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| Budgets cut student experience |
Praeger said she wishes art could play a regular part in her lesson plans. The students' interest in reading, writing and math increase when she employs creative methods.
But, she can't afford it. She bought the construction paper, markers and glue with her own money because she doesn't have an expense account.
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| Bush's new economic plan cuts funding for arts, education |
Yet another victim of the Bush economic plan, funding for the arts in education has been cut considerably. Because of Bush's unfair tax cuts for the wealthy, the United States is now forced to make up for the large deficit by slashing various programs. Although he ran on a platform that emphasized education, President Bush sadly sees the arts as an expendable part of a child's learning process.
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| Education Laws Leaving Children Behind |
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Not a single state will have a highly qualified teacher in every core class this school year as promised by President Bush's education law. Nine states along with the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico face penalties.
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| Faith Based America |
Why not just streamline hiring at federally funded faith-based organizations by requiring that everyone's religious affiliation be tattooed on their arms?
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| Fiscal oversight |
"Neither DOD nor Congress can reliably know how much the war is costing and details of how appropriated funds are being spent," the report to Congress stated.....The report comes as budgetary pressures are mounting on the Pentagon from Gulf Coast hurricanes and the ongoing fighting in Iraq.
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| Gov. Mitt Romney proposes cuts to MA Cultural Org, he's going to run for president in '08 get ready U.S.! |
Governor Romney’s proposed FY 07 budget, released yesterday, would reduce state cultural funding for fiscal year 2007, which begins in July, through the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) by $2.4 million. This is the first step in a long process as the Legislature ultimately decides the appropriation for state agencies such as the MCC, but it is clear that we must increase our advocacy efforts.
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| Halliburton Cashs in on New Orleans |
The chairman and CEO of Halliburton Inc. has made an estimated $60 million in four months due to the fuel crisis, a Herald review reveals.
David Lesar, who runs the Houston-based contractor, has made $15.9 million in gains on his shares and options, or $5.3 million a week, just since Katrina made landfall.
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| if it wasn't difficult enough to pay for college... |
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As Congress moves to slash $40 billion in spending, no program will take a bigger hit than college loans, where almost $13 billion would be cut over five years.
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| Kansas school board redefines science |
"This is a sad day. We're becoming a laughingstock of not only the nation, but of the world, and I hate that," said board member Janet Waugh, a Kansas City Democrat.
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| Teaching in America: The Impossible Dream |
Many public school teachers today must work two jobs to survive, and can't afford to buy homes or raise families. A new book asks why we treat our teachers so poorly.
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| Secret Service visits art show at Columbia |
Y NATASHA KORECKI Federal Courts Reporter
Organizers of a politically charged art exhibit at Columbia College's Glass Curtain Gallery thought their show might draw controversy.
But they didn't expect two U.S. Secret Service agents would be among the show's first visitors.
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| 911 Report Intelligence Overhaul Deal Falls Through |
By JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - House Republicans on Saturday blocked passage of legislation addressing the Sept. 11 Commission's terror-fighting recommendations to President Bush (news - web sites), but GOP leaders said they would press the effort later this year.
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| ACLU Launching Don't Spy on Me Campaign |
By LARRY NEUMEISTER
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK
A civil rights group was launching a nationwide Don't Spy On Me campaign Wednesday to urge the public to demand that the Federal Communications Commission and state utility commissions probe whether phone companies broke laws by sharing customer records with the government's biggest spy agency.
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| Atty. General Gonzales Pressures Telecoms To Record Customers' Internet Activities. |
U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller on Friday urged telecommunications officials to record their customers' Internet activities, CNET News.com has learned.
In a private meeting with industry representatives, Gonzales, Mueller and other senior members of the Justice Department said Internet service providers should retain subscriber information and network data for two years, according to two sources familiar with the discussion who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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| Bush administration eliminating 19-year-old international terrorism report |
By Jonathan S. Landay Knight Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON - The State Department decided to stop publishing an annual report on international terrorism after the government's top terrorism center concluded that there were more terrorist attacks in 2004 than in any year since 1985, the first year the publication covered.
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| Bush asks for another 80 billion |
The US administration is expected to ask Congress for an additional $80bn for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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| Bush payola scandal deepens as third columnist admits being paid |
Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
Saturday January 29, 2005
The Guardian
The Bush administration was confronted with fresh evidence of a far-reaching clandestine campaign to influence public opinion yesterday after a third conservative commentator admitted receiving payments for championing its policies.
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| Bush picks Gonzales as new attorney general. |
Note: Gonzales found "legal" ways for our government to torture prisoners.
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| Bush rejects greenhouse gas curbs |
By JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press
First published: Sunday, November 7, 2004
WASHINGTON -- President Bush is holding fast to his rejection of mandatory curbs on greenhouse gases that are blamed for global warming, despite a fresh report from 300 scientists in the United States and seven other nations that shows Arctic temperatures are rising.
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| Bush to Seek Gay-Marriage Ban in New Term |
(Reuters) - President Bush will renew a quest in his second term for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage as essential to a "hopeful and decent" society, his top political aide said on Sunday.
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| DeLay Indicted in Campaign Finance Probe |
By LARRY MARGASAK
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON
A Texas grand jury on Wednesday charged Rep. Tom DeLay and two political associates with conspiracy in a campaign finance scheme, forcing the House majority leader to temporarily relinquish his post.
DeLay, 58, was accused of a criminal conspiracy along with two associates, John Colyandro, former executive director of a Texas political action committee formed by DeLay, and Jim Ellis, who heads DeLay's national political committee.
DeLay is the first House leader to be indicted while in office in at least a century, according to congressional historians.
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| Democrats question Kerry's campaign nest egg |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Party leaders said Wednesday they want to know why Sen. John Kerry ended his presidential campaign with more than $15 million in the bank, money that could have helped Democratic candidates across the country.
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| Documents Suggest Bigger DeLay Role in Donations |
By PHILIP SHENON
Published: March 9, 2005
WASHINGTON, March 8 - Documents subpoenaed from an indicted fund-raiser for Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, suggest that Mr. DeLay was more actively involved than previously known in gathering corporate donations for a political committee that is the focus of a grand-jury investigation in Texas, his home state.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (AP) - The Sierra Club filed a lawsuit on Wednesday contending that the Bush administration had quietly changed a rule so oil and gas producers could more easily drill under national parks from outside their boundaries.
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| FEMA Blocks Photos of New Orleans Dead |
By E&P Staff
NEW YORK Forced to defend what some critics consider its slow response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said on Tuesday it does not want the news media to take photographs of the dead as they are recovered from New Orleans.
FEMA, which is leading the rescue efforts, rejected requests from journalists to accompany rescue boats as they went out to search for storm victims, Reuters reported.
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| Hundreds Gather At Ohio Statehouse To Demand Recount Of Votes |
About 400 people gathered at the Ohio Statehouse to demand a recount of Ohio's presidential election, or at least a look into Election Day irregularities around the state.
The crowd listened to speakers who claimed Ohio voters were the victims of a fraud that took votes from John Kerry and gave them to President Bush.
One group says it plans to contest the election in the Ohio Supreme Court and that the fraud details would come out in its court filing, expected Monday.
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| Hundreds March In Anti-Bush And Anti-War Protest
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By KOMO Staff & News Services
SEATTLE - About 500 protesters marched through downtown Seattle Saturday, venting their frustration over President Bush's re-election and calling for United States troops to be pulled out of Iraq.
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| In Depth Analysis of American Income and Taxation |
by Geoff Price - September 23, 2003
Updated - November 17, 2004
The following is an in depth analysis of income and taxes in America, primarily over the past 20 years. The data shows that the tax burden has been shifted from both the highest and lowest income earners towards middle income earners, specifically upper middle income earners, those in the 75th to 94th percentile, i.e. those making between about $65,000 and $150,000 a year.
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| Infant mortality ticked upward in 2004 for the first time in 40 years. |
Tuckson also says that experts are "startled" that infant mortality ticked upward in 2004 for the first time in 40 years. Rising poverty levels, less access to health insurance, and stagnant smoking rates appear to be playing a role, according to the report.
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| Interim Army secretary gets pushed aside |
By ROBERT BURNS
AP MILITARY WRITER
WASHINGTON -- The commemorative coins that Les Brownlee hands to soldiers he visits in the field bear the words, "Secretary of the Army (Acting)." You could say he's a parenthetical secretary, the longest-serving stand-in as civilian leader of the Army in its history.For the past 553 days, since the May 9, 2003, firing of Thomas White as Army secretary, Brownlee has performed the duties of that office, while also serving in the No. 2 job as Army undersecretary.
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| Iran Reaches Preliminary Nuclear Accord With Europe, IRNA Says |
Nov. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Iranian and European officials reached a preliminary agreement on the Islamic nation's nuclear program after two days of talks in Paris, the state- owned Iranian news agency said, citing an Iranian official
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| Jerry Falwell announces new Moral Majority to build on evangelical momentum |
By Hank Kurz Jr., Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va. - Seeking to take advantage of the momentum from an election where moral values proved important to voters, the Rev. Jerry Falwell announced Tuesday he has formed a new coalition to guide an "evangelical revolution."
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| Journalist recalls nearly 45 years as White House correspondent |
By: Robert Cristo, The Record
03/05/2005 LOUDONVILLE - For 57 years former White House reporter Helen Thomas had a front row seat to history unfolding before her eyes, but she said the current administration is making her wish she was blind.
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| New Orleans: No One Can Say they Didn't See it Coming |
By Sidney Blumenthal
In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war.
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| Ohio offers lessons for 2008 Several factors contributed to 'lost' voters |
By Michael Powell and Peter Slevin
Updated: 11:31 p.m. ET Dec. 14, 2004
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Tanya Thivener's is a tale of two voting precincts in Franklin County. In her city neighborhood, which is vastly Democratic and majority black, the 38-year-old mortgage broker found a line snaking out of the precinct door.
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She stood in line for four hours -- one hour in the rain -- and watched dozens of potential voters mutter in disgust and walk away without casting a ballot. Afterward, Thivener hopped in her car and drove to her mother's house, in the vastly Republican and majority white suburb of Harrisburg. How long, she asked, did it take her to vote?
Fifteen minutes, her mother replied.
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| Poll: Students don't understand First Amendment |
WASHINGTON (AP) - The way many high school students see it, government censorship of newspapers may not be a bad thing, and flag burning is hardly protected free speech.
It turns out the First Amendment is a second-rate issue to many of those nearing their own adult independence, according to a study of high school attitudes released today.
The original amendment to the Constitution is the cornerstone of the way of life in the United States, promising citizens the freedoms of religion, speech, press and assembly.
Yet, when told of the exact text of the First Amendment, more than one in three high school students said it goes "too far" in the rights it guarantees. Only half of the students said newspapers should be allowed to publish freely without government approval of stories.
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| Recounts and retractions (Keith Olbermann) |
NEW YORK— John Kerry or no John Kerry, there could still be recounts in Ohio and New Hampshire— courtesy of the two candidates who got far more grief than votes during the presidential campaign.
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| Rigged polls, rigged networks |
By Nicholas Stix
web posted December 6, 2004
... As Dick Morris pointed out, there is no excuse for bad exit poll data. The problem with many polls during the campaign is that pollsters frequently include all eligible voters, rather than only likely voters. The opinions of eligible voters who won't be voting tell us nothing about the likely results if the election were held that day, and are thus worse than no response. In an exit poll, you know the respondent has voted. And exit pollsters know not to interview disproportionate members of any one group. Once you have your quota on female voters, for instance, you stop interviewing females.
Similarly, in an unsigned story from Newhouse/Knight Ridder that ran in the November 4 Seattle Times, political scientist Dennis Simon of Dallas' Southern Methodist University argued, "If we go back in history to prior presidential elections, those exit polls were dead on. Something has changed to make them less dead on."
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| Senate OKs $800B Debt Limit Hike |
Nov 17, 8:21 PM (ET)
By ALAN FRAM
WASHINGTON (AP) - A divided Senate approved an $800 billion increase in the federal debt limit Wednesday, a major boost in borrowing that Sen. John Kerry and other Democrats blamed on the fiscal policies of President Bush.The mostly party line, 52-44 vote was expected to be followed by House passage Thursday. Enactment would raise the government's borrowing limit to $8.18 trillion - $2.23 trillion higher than when Bush became president in 2001, and more than eight times the debt President Reagan faced when he took office in 1981.
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| Terror Informant Ignites Himself Near White House |
By Caryle Murphy and Del Quentin Wilber
Washington Post Staff Writers
Yemeni Was Upset at Treatment by FBI. A Falls Church man who worked as a federal informant on terrorism set himself on fire in front
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| Unrivaled Security Planned for Inauguration |
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| Venezuela to sell cut-price heating oil to U.S. poor |
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said on Monday his government plans to sell as much as 66,000 barrels per day of heating fuel from its U.S. Citgo refinery to poor communities in the United States.
The offer, made after populist Chavez held talks with U.S. civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson, would represent 10 percent of the 660,000 bpd of refined products processed by Citgo. The deals would cut consumer costs by direct sales.
Venezuela's Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez said officials were still working on the details on how the oil would be sold from Citgo, a unit of the state oil firm PDVSA.
"We are going to direct as much as 10 percent of the production, that means 66,000 barrels, without intermediaries, to poor communities, hospitals, religious communities, schools," Chavez told reporters at a press conference.
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| 2 C.I.A. Reports Offer Warnings on Iraq's Path |
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 - A classified cable sent by the Central Intelligence Agency's station chief in Baghdad has warned that the situation in Iraq is deteriorating and may not rebound any time soon, according to government officials.
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| Allawi gives green light for assault on Fallujah |
By Philippe Naughton, Times Online, and James Hider near Fallujah
More than 4,000 US Marines and troops entered Fallujah today, beginning a massive ground assault against Sunni Muslim insurgents in the biggest military operation since last year's invasion.
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| Analysis: Marine scandal could roil Iraq |
By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer Sat May 27, 7:15 PM ET
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military is bracing for a major scandal over the alleged slaying of Iraqi civilians by Marines in Haditha — charges so serious they could threaten President Bush's effort to rally support at home for an increasingly unpopular war.
And while the case has attracted little attention so far in Iraq, it still could enflame hostility to the U.S. presence just as Iraq's new government is getting established, and complicate efforts by moderate Sunni Arab leaders to reach out to their community — the bedrock of the insurgency.
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| Another pyrrhic victory |
By B Raman
If the George W Bush administration in the US were wise, it would have waited for the current holy fasting period of Ramadan of the more than a billion Muslims of the world and their Eid festivities to be over before launching its much-publicized and much-hyped offensive to pacify Fallujah, the Sunni stronghold in Iraq, which is apparently perceived by the Pentagon as the nerve center of anti-US resistance and jihadi terrorism in Iraq.
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| Backing Bush has won you nothing, Chirac tells Britain |
By Charles Bremner in Paris and Philip Webster, Political Editor
JACQUES CHIRAC dealt a blow to Tony Blair’s attempt to heal the wounds between the US and Europe last night by saying that the Prime Minister had won nothing for supporting the war against Iraq.
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| Battle rages in centre of Falluja |
BBC - US marines have taken the mayor's office in central Falluja and say they now control 70% of the Iraqi city, with rebels hemmed into a narrow strip.
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| Cameraman Details Marine's Role in Mosque Shooting |
By JAMES GLANZ and EDWARD WONG
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 21 - A marine who appears to shoot and kill an unarmed and wounded Iraqi prisoner in an NBC News video was not aware that the incident was being recorded, and moments later approached the cameraman with seemingly remorseful words - "I didn't know, sir, I didn't know" - according to the first public description of the events by the cameraman, Kevin Sites, since his brief and somewhat ambiguous initial report.
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| Car bomb in heart of Baghdad kills 17 |
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Police said a car bomb triggered in the heart of Baghdad on Thursday killed 17 people, sending up plumes of thick black smoke above the central part of the Iraqi capital.
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| China has exceeded all predictions on textile exports to the United States since the lifting of global quotas in January |
By Elizabeth Becker and David Barboza The New York Times
Thursday, March 10, 2005
WASHINGTON China has exceeded all predictions on textile exports to the United States since the lifting of global quotas in January, according to industry figures released Wednesday, confirming fears of American textile manufacturers.
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| Darfur death toll 'may be 300,000' |
LONDON, England (Reuters) -- As many as 300,000 people may have died in Sudan's western Darfur region in a conflict the international community is doing too little to stop, a British parliamentary report said on Wednesday
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| Dollar expected to fall further amid China's rumoured selling |
The dollar could slide still further, in spite of hitting an all-time low against the euro last week in the wake of George W. Bush's re-election, currency traders have said.
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| Gathering Highlights Power of the Blog |
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
Published: June 10, 2006
LAS VEGAS, June 9 — If any more proof were needed of the rising influence of bloggers — at least for the Democratic Party — it could be found here on Friday on the Las Vegas Strip, where the old and new worlds of American politics engaged in a slightly awkward if mostly entertaining clash of a meeting.
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| Halliburton operates in Iran despite sanctions |
By Lisa Myers & the NBC investigative unit
Updated: 12:24 a.m. ET March 8, 2005
It's just another Halliburton oil and gas operation. The company name is emblazoned everywhere: On trucks, equipment, large storage silos and workers' uniforms.But this isn't Texas. It's Iran. U.S. companies aren't supposed to do business here.
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| I want to help young fathers |
Kevin Brazant was just 17-years-old when his girlfriend gave birth to their daughter.
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| Iran Says It Won't Halt Uranium Enrichment |
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran said Saturday it will never agree to a permanent halt on enriching uranium and warned that a more unstable Middle East would result from a U.S.-backed effort to haul Tehran before the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions.
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| Iraq declares state of emergency |
Iraq's government has declared a 60-day state of emergency in response to the escalation of violence by militants.
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| Italian Former Hostage Returns to Rome |
By MARIA SANMINIATELLI
ROME (AP) - Draped in a blanket and apparently hooked up to an intravenous drip, former hostage Giuliana Sgrena was carried off a plane upon returning from Iraq on Saturday, hours after American troops fired on the car taking her to Baghdad's airport, wounding her and killing the Italian intelligence officer protecting her.
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| Italy 'to pull troops from Iraq' |
Italy is to begin withdrawing its troops from Iraq in September 2005, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has said.
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| Saudis Kill 3 Gunmen to Quell Attack on U.S. Mission |
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JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Muslim militants stormed the heavily fortified U.S. consulate in Jeddah Monday before Saudi security forces regained control, shooting dead three attackers and capturing two.
Security sources said the attackers had killed four Saudi guards. A State Department official said several guards had been killed and some Americans were lightly wounded.
It was the first major assault by suspected al Qaeda militants in the kingdom since May.
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| Seven Spanish Cities Hit by Blasts After ETA Warning |
Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Seven devices exploded in Spanish cities, the Interior Ministry said, after anonymous callers, speaking in the name of Basque terrorist group ETA, told the Gara newspaper that seven bombs had been planted around Spain.
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| The Memo |
The secret Downing Street memo
SECRET AND STRICTLY PERSONAL - UK EYES ONLY
DAVID MANNING
From: Matthew Rycroft
Date: 23 July 2002
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| The World's Economic Hit Men |
The author of the gripping new book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, reveals how the U.S. became the world's largest superpower: by forcing developing countries into debt.
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| U.S aid chief defends Iraq reconstruction |
By NICK WADHAMS
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A top U.S. aid official acknowledged Monday that Iraqis have reasons to be impatient with the pace of reconstruction since the U.S.-led war to oust Saddam Hussein, but said $4.3 billion had been earmarked for projects and promised improvement despite the insurgency.
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| U.S. forces attack Mosul rebels |
By Maher al-Thanoon
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. and Iraqi forces have launched an offensive in Mosul to retake control of rebel-held areas after a week of anarchy with insurgents rampaging through Iraq's third largest city.
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| U.S. Redesigning Atomic Weapons |
Worried that the nation's aging nuclear arsenal is increasingly fragile, American scientists have begun designing a new generation of nuclear arms meant to be sturdier and more reliable and to have longer lives, federal officials and private experts say.
The officials say the program could help shrink the arsenal and the high cost of its maintenance. But critics say it could needlessly resuscitate the complex of factories and laboratories that make nuclear weapons and could possibly ignite a new arms race.
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| U.S. Seeking New Strategy for Buttressing Iraq's Government |
By DAVID E. SANGER and JAMES GLANZ
Published: June 11, 2006
WASHINGTON, June 10 — President Bush's two-day strategy session starting Monday at Camp David is intended to revive highly tangible efforts to shore up Iraq's new government, from getting the electricity back on in Baghdad to purging the security forces of revenge-seeking militias, White House officials said.
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| U.S. to Probe Shooting of Wounded Iraqi |
STEVEN R. HURST
Associated Press
NEW YORK - The U.S. military is investigating the videotaped fatal shooting of a wounded and apparently unarmed Iraqi prisoner by a U.S. Marine in a mosque in Fallujah, a Marine spokesman said.
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| US accused of Afghan jail deaths |
By Andrew North
BBC correspondent in Kabul -The New York-based campaign group Human Rights Watch says it has uncovered evidence that three more prisoners have died in US detention in Afghanistan.
In a damning open letter to US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, it says the US is continuing to fail to investigate abuses or punish the guilty.
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| US: Iraq WMD search over |
The White House has confirmed that the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has been given up by the United States. White House spokesman Scott McClellan on Wednesday said that for the Iraq Survey Group, which was leading the search for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, a lot of their mission is focused elsewhere now.
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| VOA's Baghdad Bureau Still Closed After Six Months |
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, May 23, 2006; A12
The Voice of America's bureau in Baghdad has been closed for the past six months, ever since the government-funded agency withdrew its only reporter in Iraq after she was fired upon in an ambush and her security guard was later killed.
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| Wolfowitz Gets EU Blessing for World Bank Job |
Wolfowitz told Congress the Iraq war would be "a matter of weeks, not months'" and that Iraq could pay for its own reconstruction tells the European Union he can be trusted to head the World Bank.
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| How to Boil a Frog |
A social commentary on the emerging police state that are own government is striving for.
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