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32 mins ago - Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is no longer appealing his conviction in the CIA leak case, a tacit recognition that continuing his legal fight might only make things worse.
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1 hr 8 mins ago - White House lawyers have advised President Bush's spokeswoman not to answer specific questions about why the CIA destroyed tapes of terror suspects under interrogation, as Congress seeks answers about the matter.
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1 hr 26 mins ago - After the state Legislature found an eleventh-hour replacement for its ludicrous tax on services, Gov. Jennifer Granholm brushed aside worries about the chaotic process that led to Michigan again dancing at the brink of tax-policy disaster.
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2 hrs 28 mins ago - Laura Bush on Monday used International Human Rights Day to call on Myanmar's military-run government to step aside if it cannot help bring about a democratic transition in the Southeast Asian nation.
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2 hrs 41 mins ago - Rep. John Kline is one of just a dozen House members to decline to accept congressional earmarks - also known as "pork-barrel" spending - calling them a "corrupting" influence in Congress.
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2 hrs 42 mins ago - Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is dropping his appeal in the CIA leak case, his attorney said Monday.
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4 hrs ago - Oil prices edged up Monday as traders tried to figure how last week's U.S. jobs report might affect this week's interest rate decision by the Federal Reserve.
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6 hrs ago - Oil prices slipped Monday, extending a decline that began Friday after a November U.S. jobs report turned out to be less robust than expected.
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7 hrs ago - Oil prices slipped Monday, extending a decline that began Friday after a November U.S. jobs report turned out to be less robust than expected.
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8 hrs ago - Oil dropped below $88 a barrel in Asian trade Monday, extending a decline that began Friday after a November U.S. jobs report turned out to be less robust than expected.
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9 hrs ago - After 19 books and thousands of articles and other writings spanning 70-plus years, the question is how many undiscovered nuggets of insight researchers may yet find in the private papers of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
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10 hrs ago - Congressional leaders are pressing to find out who knew what about the CIA's destruction of interrogation videotape and whether justice was obstructed in the process.
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10 hrs ago - Barack Obama once came close to injecting heroin, but balked when a junkie pulled out the needle and rubber tubing. Obama and Mitt Romney are descended from polygamous great-grandfathers who had five wives apiece. Rudy Giuliani’s first wife was his second cousin. Liberal Democrat Hillary Clinton was once a conservative Republican “Goldwater girl.”
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10 hrs ago - Patricia Murphy is the editor of Citizen Jane Politics, a Web site for women at citizenjanepolitics.com.
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16 hrs ago - The nation's capital rolled out the red carpet - and holiday garlands - Sunday for music stars like Alan Jackson and Katharine McPhee, who performed for President Bush and the first lady at the annual "Christmas in Washington" concert.
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16 hrs ago - The nation's capital rolled out the red carpet - and holiday garlands - Sunday for music stars like Alan Jackson and Katharine McPhee, who performed for President Bush and the first lady at the annual "Christmas in Washington" concert.
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18 hrs ago - A Senate Democratic leader said Sunday the attorney general should appoint a special counsel to investigate the CIA's destruction of videotaped interrogations of two suspected terrorists.
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22 hrs ago - A Senate Democratic leader said Sunday the attorney general should appoint a special counsel to investigate the CIA's destruction of videotaped interrogations of two suspected terrorists.
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22 hrs ago - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign is airing a new ad in New Hampshire and Iowa that sums up the broad themes she has emphasized on the stump.
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22 hrs ago - Intelligence findings that Iran stood down on nuclear weapons development have sharpened the debate in Washington as well as the presidential campaign over whether U.S. officials should talk directly with Iran after shunning its leaders for a generation.
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22 hrs ago - Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Sunday defended the expenses incurred by his security detail as he was beginning an extramarital affair with current wife Judith Nathan, saying police made the decision after she received threats.
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22 hrs ago - Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Sunday defended the expenses incurred by his security detail as he was beginning an extramarital affair with current wife Judith Nathan, saying police made the decision after she received threats.
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1 day ago - The United States will come up with its own plan to cut global-warming gases by mid-2008, and won't commit to mandatory caps at the U.N. climate conference here, the chief U.S. negotiator said Saturday.
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1 day ago - Talk-show diva Oprah Winfrey said worry about the direction of her country and a personal belief in Barack Obama pushed her to make her first endorsement in a presidential campaign, invaluable support in a tight race for the Democratic nomination.
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1 day ago - The Justice Department and the CIA's internal watchdog announced Saturday a joint inquiry into the spy agency's destruction of videotaped interrogations of two suspected terrorists as the latest scandal to rock U.S. intelligence gathered steam.
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1 day ago - Hillary Rodham Clinton was joined by her mother and daughter Saturday as she vowed "change across the generations" and stepped up her pitch to the women voters who could hold the key to Iowa's caucuses.
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