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Residents scramble as landslide threatens San Diego neighborhood
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By ALLISON HOFFMAN, AP Writer Residents of million-dollar homes in a hilltop La Jolla neighborhood scrambled to rescue pets and secure belongings Wednesday after a landslide cut a 50-yard-long chasm in a four-lane street, destroying one home and …
Calif. Landslide Damages Homes, Road
Two homes destroyed, 15 uninhabitable after Mount Soledad slide
read comments (0)House Democrats Plan to Stall - Wall Street Journal
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House Democrats Plan to Stall
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By DAVID ROGERS WASHINGTON — Frustrated by the stalemate over Iraq, House Democrats spelled out a strategy that would stall action on President Bush's 2008 war budget and rely on incremental funding to sustain troop operations in until next spring.
House Appropriations Chairman to Introduce War Tax Bill
US House Democrats seek Jan 2009 Iraq pullout
read comments (0)Accuser says she told truth on Thomas harassment - ABC News
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By James Vicini WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Anita Hill said on Tuesday she testified truthfully in 1991 in accusing Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment and responded to a new book by the US Supreme Court justice by saying he had unfairly attacked her ...
Preview: Clarence Thomas Interview
Clarence Thomas and Rupert Murdoch
read comments (0)Convicted Killers Caught After Escaping From Utah Jail - FOX News
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AP MANILA, Utah - Authorities say a pair of convicted killers who escaped from a Utah jail a week ago have been caught on a Wyoming highway after leading police on a chase that ended in gunfire and left one of the convicts wounded.
Escapee in Utah hospital, new details about capture emerging
Escaped murderers caught in Wyoming
read comments (0)Obama stuck in 2nd place; hasn't risen in polls - New York Daily News
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Obama stuck in 2nd place; hasn't risen in polls
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BY MICHAEL SAUL Barack Obama is the campaign rock star. But Hillary Clinton is still the woman to beat. Despite leading all of his rivals in the race for money, and boasting the largest grass-roots organization in modern political history, …
Edwards’s Embrace of Public Money May Be Limited
Poll: Iowans Buck the 2008 CW
read comments (0)Gingrich to stay out of US poll - MSNBC
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By Andrew Ward Newt Gingrich, former US House Speaker, has ended months of speculation by ruling out joining the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
Gingrich Won't Run for President, Cites Finance Laws (Update1)
Gingrich: $30 million will get me
read comments (0)Edwards’s Embrace of Public Money May Be Limited - New York Times
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By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 - A day after John Edwards said he had decided to participate in public campaign financing as a matter of principle, his campaign manager appeared to scale back the candidate’s initial commitment.
Time running out for the making of a black President
Edwards Campaign Accepts Public Funds
read comments (0)Poll: Iowans Buck the 2008 CW - Newsweek
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By Brian Braiker Sept. 29, 2007 - Sen. Hillary Clinton holds a double-digit lead over her rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination in many national polls.
For McCain, it's make or break time
Romney seeks to assure supporters over campaign
read comments (0)Defense secretary seeks $42B for wars - USA Today
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By Tom Van Den Brook, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Robert Gates asked a Senate committee Wednesday for $42 billion in additional funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan next year.
US Needs ‘Long-Term Presence’ in Iraq, Gates Says
Gates: Pass war funding bill
read comments (0)Craig’s Reversal Dismays Many Back Home in Idaho - New York Times
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By WILLIAM YARDLEY MIDVALE, Idaho, Oct. 5 - Dismissing the wishes of the bigwigs in Washington often scores points for politicians here in the reluctant stretch of the Republic known as the state of Idaho.
Craig's decision to stay a headache for GOP
GOP lawmakers weigh in on Craig's decision to remain in Senate
read comments (0)NY Times admits it erred on MoveOn ad - San Jose Mercury News
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By Howard Kurtz WASHINGTON - After two weeks of denials, the New York Times acknowledged that it should not have given a discount to Move-On.
NY Times Calls MoveOn Ad a Mistake
MoveOn to Pay Full Times Ad Rate
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By LEAH RAE New Yorkers will soon be able to get driver's licenses regardless of their immigration status, Gov. Eliot Spitzer announced yesterday in a follow-up to a campaign pledge.
Spitzer Policy Will Let Illegal Immigrants Get Driver's Licenses
NY Changes Rules for Licenses
read comments (0)During big speech, Giuliani answers the call of the wife - Boston Globe
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Rudy Giuliani answered a call from his wife on his cellphone while speaking before the National Rifle Association. (GERALD HERBERT/ASSOCIATED PRESS) WASHINGTON - For a presidential candidate whose messy personal life has been an issue, former New York ...
Giuliani's migrating position is in dispute
Giuliani declares fealty to gun ownership
read comments (0)Her Taste in Art? Scary, Police Say - New York Times
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Lisa Poole/AP By BRENDA GOODMAN It was an art project, meant to entertain career-day visitors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MIT sophomore assured security officials after she had been arrested at Boston’s airport yesterday.
Woman in Boston bomb scare known for smarts and swimming records
Socket to Me: Star Simpson Follow-Up
read comments (0)MoveOn Unfazed By Furor Over Ad - CBS News
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MoveOn Unfazed By Furor Over Ad
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President Bush at a White House news conference, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2007. Mr. Bush said he was disappointed that more Democrats did not condemn an ad by MoveOn.
MoveOn and the Kabuki Congress
Senator votes against group that helped fund election campaign win
read comments (0)Hsu Is Held Without Bail in 1992 Fraud Conviction - New York Times
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By CAROLYN MARSHALL REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sept. 21 - Norman Hsu, the fund-raiser for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and other Democrats who was charged with defrauding investors in a multimillion-dollar scam, was ordered held without bail here on ...
Democratic fundraiser Hsu ordered held without bail
Hsu ordered held without bail
read comments (0)Bush urges permanent wiretapping legislation - Indianapolis Star
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Bush urges permanent wiretapping legislation
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By Maura Reynolds WASHINGTON — President Bush plunged directly into the campaign to save his warrantless wiretapping program, arguing Wednesday that telecommunications companies that cooperated with spy agencies should be granted retroactive immunity …
Bush Urges Congress To Further Expand Spy Powers
Bush Calls for Expansion of Spy Law
read comments (0)Fund Firm Names Hsu in Suit - Wall Street Journal
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By Politicians to Get Rid By IANTHE JEANNE DUGAN A New York fund manager has filed a lawsuit seeking about $40 million he invested with Norman Hsu, crimping efforts by politicians to rid themselves of the Democratic donor's money.
Democratic fundraiser was 'sick and confused'
Hsu to head back to California today
read comments (0)Police wrong in silencing student - Towerlight
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At the University of Florida a 21-year-old student Andrew Meyer was Tasered after he would not stop asking senator John Kerry why he didn't contest the 2004 presidential elections outcome.
Police Suggest Student Staged Taser Incident
Comment by Benjamin N. Dictor Student, University of Floridaread comments (0)McCain's Primary Concern: Iraq - Wall Street Journal
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McCain's Primary Concern: Iraq
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By NEIL KING JR. EAST ROCHESTER, NH — Dana Hussey, quartermaster of the VFW Post 1772, is nostalgic about the fall of 1999, when Sen. John McCain packed the post's bingo hall "so tight, it was standing room only, and with a line out the door.
Re-Elections Loom as Senators Weigh Iraq Shift
No Surrender in New Hampshire
read comments (0)Bush rallies support for Iraq policy - Fox 12 Boise
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Bush rallies support for Iraq policy
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AP - September 15, 2007 4:13 AM ET WHITE HOUSE (AP) - President Bush says Iraq is making crucial progress, even though an administration report card to Congress shows Iraq's government is not meeting key security and political benchmarks.
Iraq Makes Limited Progress Toward Goals, Bush Says (Update3)
In Report, White House Offers Mixed Review of Progress by Iraqi …
read comments (0)US Court Backs States’ Measures to Cut Emissions - New York Times
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By FELICITY BARRINGER A federal judge in Vermont gave the first legal endorsement yesterday to rules in California, being copied in 13 other states, that intend to reduce greenhouse gases emitted by automobiles and light trucks.
Emission ruling is a victory for state's policy
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By Seth McLaughlin Former Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner today announced his bid for the US Senate with an online message to voters, saying he hopes to end the "partisan bickering" on Capitol Hill with the same moderate approach that made him so popular ...
Former Va. Gov. Warner Makes it Official
Comment by Dr. Larry J. Sabato Author, A More Perfect Constitutionread comments (0)Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel to retire: reports - MarketWatch
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By MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel plans to retire and has decided not to run for president next year, according to media reports Saturday.
Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel to retire
Hagel Will Not Seek Re-Election to His Senate Seat
read comments (0)Reid Urges Republicans to Divert War to Bin Laden From Iraq - Bloomberg
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By Ryan J. Donmoyer Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid urged Republican colleagues to help end the war in Iraq and redeploy the US military to defeat al-Qaeda.
Major withdrawal of ground troops unlikely before April
Democrats Already Discrediting Upcoming Petraeus Report
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