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26 November Friday
omaha.com |
U.S. faces new trade sanctions
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GENEVA (AP) - The World Trade Organization on Friday approved stiff sanctions on a wide range of American exports that could include cod, heavy machinery and apples intended to punish the United States for failing to repeal what it considers protectionist legislation, a trade diplomat said
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26 November Friday
omaha.com |
U.S. to comply with WTO trade sanctions
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration, responding to sanctions imposed against U.S. exports, said Friday it was consulting with Congress on ways to comply with World Trade Organization rules while protecting America's interests
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29 November Monday
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Court declines to hear gay marriage case
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Monday sidestepped a dispute over gay marriages, rejecting a challenge to the nation's only law sanctioning such unions
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29 NOvember Mon
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Bush chooses Kellogg CEO to be commerce secretary
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush on Monday chose Carlos Gutierrez, a native of Cuba and now the chief executive officer of Kellogg Co., to be secretary of Commerce, administration officials said.
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29 NOvember mon
omaha.com |
Two killed in Colorado jet crash; NBC Sports chief among survivors
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MONTROSE, Colo. - NBC Sports Chairman and President Dick Ebersol survived a charter plane crash that killed at least two people Sunday, NBC said in a statement through its Denver affiliate KUSA-TV.
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29 November MOn
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Nichols admits to major role in '95 bombing
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Terry Nichols admitted during plea negotiations in his state trial last year that he played a major role in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, a newspaper reported Sunday.
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29 Nov Mon
omaha.com |
Justices ask about potential abuse in medical marijuana case
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court questioned whether state medical marijuana laws might be abused by people who aren't really sick as it debated on Monday whether the federal government can prosecute patients who smoke pot on doctors' orders.
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29 NOv Mon
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Violent crime at schools falls 50 percent
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Violent crime against students in schools fell by 50 percent between 1992 and 2002. Young people were more often targeted for violence away from school.
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30 November, Tuesday
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Bush heading north to mend fences
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WASHINGTON (AP) - After years of bickering, President Bush is hoping to soothe relations with Canada when he arrives in Ottawa today to discuss trade and security issues with Prime Minister Paul Martin
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30 Nov Tues
omaha.com |
Gutierrez brings well-rounded resume
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush on Monday chose Carlos Gutierrez, a native of Cuba who rose from truck driver to chief executive officer of Kellogg Co., to be secretary of commerce
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29 Nov MOn
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6 in 10 favored mandatory retirement for justices
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Six in 10 Americans say there should be a mandatory retirement age for U.S. Supreme Court justices, according to an Associated Press poll.
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29 Nov Mon
omaha.com |
ACLU: U.S. opposed privacy for passports
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration opposed security measures for new microchip-equipped passports that privacy advocates contended were needed to prevent identity theft, government snooping or a terror attack, according to State Department documents released Friday
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29 Nov Mon
omaha.com |
Bush looks to quickly overhaul his economic team for second term
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WASHINGTON - President Bush plans to overhaul his economic team for the second time in two years and wants to tap prominent figures outside the administration to help sell rewrites of Social Security and the tax laws to Congress and the country, White House advisers said.
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29 NOv mon
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Bush urged to push intelligence overhaul
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WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Sept. 11 commission urged President Bush on Sunday to intervene to break the congressional deadlock over the panel's intelligence and domestic security recommendations, warning that failure to pass the plan soon would risk American lives
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29 NOv
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Court declines to hear gay marriage case
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Monday sidestepped a dispute over gay marriages, rejecting a challenge to the nation's only law sanctioning the unions.
The court had been asked by conservative groups to overturn the year-old decision by the Massachusetts Supreme Court legalizing gay marriage. The justices declined, without comment. |
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29 Nov
omaha.com |
High court sidesteps campaign fund caps
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court passed up a chance Monday to revisit the constitutionality of campaign spending limits in a closely watched case from New Mexico.
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29 Nov
omaha.com |
Investigators head to crash site where Ebersol's son is missing
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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) - NBC Sports Chairman Dick Ebersol and his college-age son emerged Sunday from the wreckage of a corporate jet after it crashed during takeoff and burst into flames, killing two crew members
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29 NOv mon
omaha.com |
Most polled want justice who favors Roe vs. Wade
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WASHINGTON (AP) - A majority of Americans say President Bush's next nominee for an opening on the Supreme Court should be willing to uphold the landmark court decision protecting abortion rights, an Associated Press poll has indicated
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29 Nov Mon
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Seven killed in army helicopter crash in Texas
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BRUCEVILLE-EDDY, Texas (AP) - An Army helicopter crashed and burned Monday after hitting a TV transmission-tower wire in the fog, killing all seven soldiers aboard, military officials said
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30 November Tuesday
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Bush heads north to Canada to seek a thaw in relations
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OTTAWA (AP) - President Bush and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin sought Tuesday to mend fences after four years of strained relations between the two neighbors, aggravated by the Iraq war
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30 NOvember Tues
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Ridge will resign, says we're safer
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, whose name became synonymous with color-coded terror alerts and tutorials about how to prepare for possible attack, resigned Tuesday, saying he was confident that the United States is significantly safer than before the 2001 terrorist strikes
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30 Nov
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Court dismisses novel effort to overturn gay marriage law
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WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday dismissed without comment an appeal from a conservative Florida group that sought to overturn the ruling of Massachusetts' highest court that gave gays and lesbians a right to marry.
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30 Nov
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Justices seem skeptical of medical marijuana
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WASHINGTON - Angel Raich smokes marijuana every two hours to control pain from an inoperable brain tumor and other ailments, and she sees only one outcome if the U.S. Supreme Court allows federal agents to prosecute medical marijuana users
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30 Nov
omaha.com |
Peterson won't get a new jury
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) - The California Supreme Court on Monday rejected a request from Scott Peterson's attorneys that a new jury be selected to decide whether he should get the death penalty.
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30 Nov
omaha.com |
Gutierrez touted for multicultural ease
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MIAMI - Carlos Gutierrez showed an affinity for new cultures early on - when, as a 6-year-old Cuban exile in 1960, he first learned English from a hotel bellhop in Miami.
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30 NOv
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U.S. death toll in November nears record
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. military death toll in Iraq rose by at least three Monday and the November total is approaching the highest for any month since the American-led invasion was launched in March 2003
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30 Nov
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U.S. has reservations about Iranian nuke deal
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VIENNA, Austria - Despite a pledge by Iran on Monday to suspend all uranium-enrichment activities, the United States warned that it reserved the right to refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council
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Bush
1 Dec omaha.com |
Bush, Canadian leader find common ground
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bush
1 Dec omahacom |
Bush, Canadian leader find common ground
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OTTAWA - President Bush and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin proclaimed a new era of good will between the two neighbors Tuesday, agreeing to set aside differences over Iraq and pledging to resolve lingering trade and security issues
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bush -cheney
1 Dec omaha.com |
Cheney aids talks on mired 9/11 bill
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WASHINGTON - Leaders of the commission that investigated the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks met Tuesday with Vice President Dick Cheney to discuss ways to end the impasse in Congress over a bill that would overhaul the intelligence bureaucracy
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Iraq detainees
Dec 1 omaha.com |
Generals told early of abused detainees
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WASHINGTON - A confidential report to U.S. Army generals in Iraq in December 2003 warned that members of an elite military and CIA task force were abusing detainees. The finding was delivered more than a month before Army investigators received the photographs from Abu Ghraib prison that touched off investigations into prisoner mistreatment
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drugs
1 Dec omaha.com |
Illicit drugs' prices fall to 20-year low
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WASHINGTON - Prices for cocaine and heroin have reached 20-year lows, according to a report released Tuesday
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civil rights
1 Dec omaha.com |
NAACP leader seeks quality time
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WASHINGTON - Kweisi Mfume, the president of the NAACP, said in a surprise announcement Tuesday that he was stepping down from the helm of the nation's oldest civil rights organization because he wanted a "break" from the job he has held for nine years.
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Ridge
1 Dec omaha.com |
Successor to Ridge has big job
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WASHINGTON - Tom Ridge, who shepherded the largest reorganization of federal government since World War II, will leave behind a Homeland Security Department that has achieved some of its core missions but still has far to go, security experts say
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Ridge
1 Dec omaha.com |
Text of Ridge's resignation letter
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Text of the resignation letter sent Tuesday from Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge to President Bush, as released by the White House:
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iraq
1 Dec omaha.com |
Enemy becomes more effective
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WASHINGTON - November was the bloodiest month for U.S. troops in Iraq since April, with at least 135 losing their lives and more than 50 falling in the two-week battle to evict insurgents from Fallujah
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Iraq
1 Dec omaha.com |
Troops to be bolstered for election
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon is sending elements of the 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg, N.C., to Iraq to bolster security before Iraq's election Jan. 30, an Army official said Wednesday
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immigrants
1 Dec omaha.com |
Trial opens for 3 charged in deaths of 19 immigrants
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HOUSTON (AP) - Three people involved in the nation's deadliest smuggling attempt were part of a scheme that treated immigrants "worse than cattle on the way to the slaughterhouse," a prosecutor said Tuesday in opening statements
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Bush - osbourne - energy bill
1 DEc omaha.com |
Osborne sees hope to revive energy bill
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KEARNEY, Neb. - Rep. Tom Osborne, R-Neb., said Tuesday that he expects Congress early next year to break its gridlock over an energy bill that would significantly boost ethanol production
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Bush - agriculture
2 Dec omaha.com |
Governor named U.S. ag secretary
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WASHINGTON - Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns, tapped Thursday by President Bush as the next U.S. secretary of agriculture, said he would work hard to advance the administration's ag agenda.
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ACLU
2 Dec omaha.com |
WASHINGTON - Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns, tapped Thursday by President Bush as the next U.S. secretary of agriculture, said he would work hard to advance the administration's ag agenda.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The American Civil Liberties Union is seeking information from the FBI on why bureau task forces set up to combat terrorism also looked into anti-war, animal rights and environmental groups
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Tax
2 Dec omaha.com |
Justices ponder: Can creditors seize IRAs?
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court considered Wednesday how much retirement savings people can shield when they file for bankruptcy, an important question as more Americans go into debt
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Drugs
3 Dec omaha.com |
Ads to tell teens that pot, driving don't mix
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Many teen drivers believe it's less dangerous to drive after smoking marijuana than after drinking alcohol, a perception the government wants to change
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Bush
3 Dec omaha.com |
Bush announces appointment of Kerik for homeland security
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush picked former police commissioner Bernard Kerik, the steady former military man who helped New York get back on its feet after the Sept. 11 terror attack, to head the federal agency charged with making sure it never happens again
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Bush
3 Dec omaha.com |
Bush asks Rumsfeld to stay on
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush asked Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who directed American military forces in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, to remain at the Pentagon and he agreed to stay, a senior administration official said Friday
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Bush
3 Dec omaha.com |
Bush plans economic forum
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WASHINGTON - The White House announced Thursday that President Bush will convene a high-profile forum later this month to lay the groundwork for his top economic initiatives: the partial privatization of Social Security and an overhaul of the tax code.
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Bush
3 Dec omaha.com |
Few knew Johanns was under consideration
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WASHINGTON - Over breakfast Nov. 17 in Omaha, an idea bubbled up between Nebraska GOP operatives David Kramer and Chris Peterson: Gov. Mike Johanns for U.S. agriculture secretary
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Bush
3 Dec omaha.com |
HHS Secretary Thompson resigns
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson resigned Friday, broadening an exodus that has emptied more than half of President Bush's Cabinet before he starts his second term
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Bush
3 Dec omaha.com |
Kerik named Homeland Security director
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush has chosen former New York police commissioner Bernard Kerik, who helped supervise the city's response to the attacks of Sept. 11, to run the Department of Homeland Security, a senior administration official said Thursday
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Bush - Johanns
3 Dec omaha.com |
Nomination was news to Hagel in Iraq
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U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel learned that Gov. Mike Johanns had been tabbed for secretary of agriculture when the rest of the country found out - but the senator was half a world away
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Bush - Johanns
3 Dec omaha.com |
Stephanie Johanns' job status remains unclear
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President Bush said Thursday in announcing his nomination of Mike Johanns:
"I am grateful to Mike and to Stephanie, his wife, for their willingness to come to Washington." That prompted a question: Will Stephanie Johanns quit her job as an executive at Alltel Communications in Lincoln? |
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Supreme Court
3 Dec omaha.com |
Supreme Court to hear Internet access case
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court said Friday it will consider whether Internet providers should be allowed to sell their high-speed service over the cable television system
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Court
3 Dec omaha.com |
Wichita police: No arrest in serial killings
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Authorities were testing the DNA of a man taken into custody on minor charges, but police officials Thursday insisted that there had been no arrest in the notorious BTK serial killings case
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Plane Crash
3 Dec omaha.com |
Church officials die in plane crash
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COLLEGEDALE, Tenn. (AP) - A small plane carrying Seventh-day Adventist Church officials crashed Thursday soon after taking off from an airport in a rural, mountainous area, killing all but one of the six people on board
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Spy Satellites
3 Dec omaha.com |
Control of spy satellites is an issue blocking intel bill
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Two issues have House Republicans tied in a knot on the intelligence bill President Bush says he wants: military control of spy satellites and provisions that, some lawmakers say, let terrorists shield themselves with claims of political asylum
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Bush - Johanns
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Johanns says Cabinet office is his 'dream job'
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LINCOLN - It doesn't get much better than being named the top agriculture official in the country
Not if you grew up with the rhythm of an Iowa dairy farm and went on to become governor of a state whose heart and soul are agriculture. "If there was one dream job that I had, it was to be secretary of agriculture," Gov. Mike Johanns said Thursday shortly after President Bush announced his nomination. "It's something that I love because my roots are there |
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Peterson and Laci
3 Dec omaha.com |
Peterson's sister-in-law recalls meeting Laci
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) - In testimony occasionally marked by tears from the defendant and his family, Scott Peterson's sister-in-law and friends described him as friendly, thoughtful and sincere Thursday as his attorneys tried to persuade jurors to spare his life
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Plane (helicopter) crash
4 Dec omaha.com |
2,500 in Texas mourn 7 GIs killed in air crash
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KILLEEN, Texas (AP) - More than 2,500 troops and other mourners packed a church Friday to honor seven Fort Hood soldiers, including an Iowan, killed when their helicopter crashed after apparently striking cables supporting a TV transmission tower
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Hazardous waste cleanup
4 dec omaha.com |
EPA: Cleanup may hit $280 billion
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WASHINGTON (AP) - At the current pace of cleanup work, it could take up to 35 years and $280 billion to fix most of the nation's existing and yet-to-be-discovered hazardous waste sites, the government said Friday.
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Bush
4 DEc omaha.com |
Bush will appeal for anti-terror bill passage
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush will make a final appeal to Congress to find a way to pass legislation before the end of the year that would make the Sept. 11 commission's terror-fighting recommendations law, White House officials said Friday
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Iraq - elections
4 Dec omaha.com |
Hagel: Jan. 30 vote can turn the tide
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Security in Iraq continues to deteriorate, Sen. Chuck Hagel said Friday, which makes holding the Jan. 30 elections there even more essential.
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Peterson
4 Dec omaha.com |
Peterson relative says killer has 'much to share' in prison
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) - Scott Peterson could be a good influence on fellow prison inmates if jurors spare his life, Peterson's half brother testified Friday in the penalty phase of the convicted killer's trial
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Bush - cabinet
4 Dec omaha.com |
Rumsfeld one of few to stay as Thompson joins exodus
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WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will be allowed to remain for a second term, President Bush's aides said Friday, hours after Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson resigned with a dire warning about the nation's vulnerability to flu pandemic and terrorist attack on the food supply.
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Iraq - soldiers
4 Dec omaha.com |
Soldiers' hearing halted over access
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DENVER (AP) - An Army appeals court stopped a key hearing Friday for three soldiers charged with killing an Iraqi general during an interrogation and ordered the military to explain why the proceedings have been closed to the public.
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Bush - cabinet
4 DEc omaha.com |
Thompson quits Cabinet job with warning of vulnerability
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson announced his resignation on Friday, warning as he left of dangers from a global flu outbreak and a possible terror attack on the nation's food supply
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Bush - Johanns
5 DEc omaha.com |
Johanns cautioned on wild ride ahead
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Mike Johanns, get ready for 16-hour days. Secretary of agriculture days
Days with 10 meetings from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., followed by signing 100 letters and reading briefing papers for the next day. Get ready for pleasing some people and frustrating many. |
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Bush
5 Dec omaha.com |
'I don't' from House would pre-empt Bush honeymoon
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WASHINGTON (AP) - If President Bush gets a second-term honeymoon, it may not last long. Or it may already be over
A failure in the coming days to win congressional passage of the intelligence reorganization bill he supports would not bode well for political bliss when the new Congress convenes next month. Some House Republicans are standing in the way of the bill |
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Bush - Food supply
5 Dec omaha.com |
Safe food supply difficult, Bush says
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush on Saturday played down a stark warning from his resigning health chief that the nation's food supply is largely unprotected from terror attack.
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Social Workers in NyC
5 Dec omaha.com |
Social workers seek out homeless who take shelter at NYC airports
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NEW YORK (AP) - It's easy - particularly during the holidays - not to notice the homeless inside New York's two airports.
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Bush - cabinet
3 DEc nytimes.com |
Bush Set to Name Ex-Chief of Police for Top Security Post
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 - Bernard B. Kerik, the street-savvy former New York City police commissioner, has been selected by President Bush to replace Tom Ridge as secretary of homeland security, a senior administration official and associates of Mr. Kerik said Thursday
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Bush - cabinet health chief
4 Dec nytimes.com |
U.S. Health Chief, Stepping Down, Issues Warning
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ASHINGTON, Dec. 3 - Tommy G. Thompson, the secretary of health and human services, announced Friday that he was resigning, and he expressed grave concern about the threat of a global flu epidemic and the possibility of a terrorist attack on the nation's food supply
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Bush - intelligence bill
5 Dec nytimes.com |
Bush Pressuring G.O.P. to Approve Intelligence Bill
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Rresident Bush sought to stem a near-rebellion by members of his own party in Congress yesterday by describing a sweeping intelligence-overhaul bill they oppose as an effort "to do everything necessary to confront and defeat the terrorist threat" and calling for its passage during a brief Congressional session this week
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Surpreme Court
5 Dec nytimes.com |
Death Sentences in Texas Cases Try Supreme Court's Patience
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In the past year, the Supreme Court has heard three appeals from inmates on death row in Texas, and in each case the prosecutors and the lower courts suffered stinging reversals
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Bush - cabinet - Kerik
5 Dec nytimes.com |
For Kerik, a Blunt New Yorker, a Complex Washington Task
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Police Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik looked out at the commanders assembled in his office. He had heard enough. New York City lawmakers were complaining that it was taking too long, 12 minutes, for patrol cars to respond to reported crimes. Mr. Kerik ordered the commanders to deliver a blunt message to the rest of the force: Every crime scene had to be reached within eight minutes, or he wanted an explanation from the precinct commander
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Bush - cabinet Thompson
3 Dec msnbc.com |
Farewell to the Cabinet
Tommy Thompson discusses his resignation as HHS secretary and the biggest health challenges still facing the nation |
Dec. 3 - Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson became the eighth member of George W. Bush’s cabinet to resign on Friday afternoon. As governor of Wisconsin for 14 years, Thompson gained a reputation as a no-nonsense welfare reformer. In Washington, he initially chafed at working in a huge bureaucracy. But then he navigated terror threats—he built a high-tech HHS war room outside his office—and controversies like stem-cell research.
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Bush - cabinet Kerik
13 Dec msnbc.com Newsweek |
Enter the 'Mayhem Magnet'
Out with the mild pol. In with the streetwise leg breaker. Can anybody fix Homeland Security? |
Dec. 13 issue - The Department of Homeland Security is a bureaucratic nightmare. Cobbled together out of 22 government agencies with 180,000 employees, it was guaranteed to generate epic turf struggles. Well-meaning and decent, but maybe a little too nice, the first secretary of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge, always seemed slightly overwhelmed by his job during his two years in charge. To replace him, President Bush last week picked a very different sort of character
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Military - gays
6 Dec Mon omaha.com |
'Don't ask, don't tell' policy being challenged
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military - gays
6 Dec Monday omaha.com |
'Don't ask, don't tell' policy being challenged
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy is being challenged by 12 gays who have been separated from the military because of their homosexuality
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INtelligence bill
6 Dec omaha.com |
Lawmaker blocking intelligence bill seen as principled
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WASHINGTON - Congress' chief opponent of legislation to revamp the intelligence community says he remains unmoved, leaving the White House scrambling for a solution to the impasse that has frustrated the bill's backers and raised questions about President Bush's clout among Republican lawmakers
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Peterson
6 Dec omaha.com |
Some live with Peterson trial addiction
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) - She is a regular at the Scott Peterson murder trial, rising before dawn to try to win a seat in the gallery, but Ginger Hood-Akers wants to make it clear she is not crazy and she is not a loser who needs to get a life.
The 49-year-old nurse just happens to be a hard-core Peterson trial addict |
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Intelligence bill
7 Dec nytimes.com |
Accord Reached on Overhauling U.S. Intelligence
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 - Congressional leaders reached final agreement Monday allowing passage of a bill to overhaul the nation's intelligence community and enact the major recommendations of the independent Sept. 11 commission, including creation of the job of national intelligence director to force the C.I.A. and other government spy agencies to share intelligence about national security threats
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Intelligence bill
7 DEc nytimes.com |
Elements of the Intelligence Bill
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Following are some major provisions of the intelligence overhaul awaiting Congressional approval, in addition to the reorganization of intelligence agencies and creation of a national intelligence director
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Social Security
7 dec omaha.com |
Social Security plan expected to cost trillions
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WASHINGTON - The federal government would have to borrow money over the next decade to finance President Bush's plan to create private Social Security accounts, the White House acknowledged Monday
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INtelligence bill
7 dec omaha.com |
Intelligence deal wins praise
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Republican-controlled House agreed Tuesday to vote to overhaul the nation's intelligence agencies now that President Bush and House Armed Services chairman Duncan Hunter have endorsed a provision guaranteeing battlefield commanders access to top-secret information
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INtelligence bill passed
7 Dec omaha.com |
House agrees to reorganize U.S. intelligence
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The House voted Tuesday to overhaul a national intelligence network that failed to prevent the Sept. 11 attacks, combining under one official control of 15 spy agencies, intensifying aviation and border security and allowing more wiretaps of suspected terrorists.
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Cyber-atack
8 Dec omaha.com |
Cyber-terror attack called growing threat
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Executives from computer security companies warned Tuesday that the Bush administration is moving too slowly to prevent and prepare for terrorist attacks aimed at U.S. computer networks.
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Miltary - pearl harbor
8 Dec omaha.com |
USS Oklahoma honored 63 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor
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HONOLULU (AP) - Sixty-three years after the sneak attack that plunged the United States into World War II, hundreds of men who died aboard the battleship USS Oklahoma are finally getting their own special tribute.
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Bush - Johanns
7 Dec omaha.com |
Johanns making rounds of senators
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WASHINGTON - Dressed in a dark suit, white shirt and red tie, Gov. Mike Johanns hit the campaign trail again Tuesday.
It's a small trail this time, not the whole state of Nebraska. It's confined to a series of well-appointed offices in three buildings on Capitol Hill. Nominated last week by President Bush to become U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Johanns began making rounds to sit down individually with senators who will vote on his nomination probably early next year |
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Miltary sex abuse
8 Dec omaha.com |
Commanders turned blind eye to sex abuse, report says
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon's inspector general says a series of commanders at the U.S. Air Force Academy failed to recognize and deal with reports of sexual assaults against female cadets on campus, officials said Tuesday.
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Iraq - CIA assessment
7 Dec omaha.com |
CIA official's cable gives bleak assessment of Iraq
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WASHINGTON - A classified cable sent by the CIA'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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Peterson trial
7 Dec omaha.com |
Educators speak for Peterson
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) - Scott Peterson fit in well with his classmates and never caused any problems, a former principal at his middle school testified Monday at the penalty phase of the former fertilizer salesman's double murder trial.
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Food terrorism
7 Dec omaha.com |
Food supply protections strengthened
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WASHINGTON - Top federal officials sought to reassure Americans on Monday that the food supply was well protected against a bioterrorism attack, as the government issued new regulations to help disease detectives track the source and destination of foodstuffs.
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Bush - senator nelson
7 Dec omaha.com |
Nelson gets commerce panel seat
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WASHINGTON - Sen. Ben Nelson has landed a plum seat on the far-ranging Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, which overseas the nation's consumer products, trains, buses, trucks, rural airports, sports, oceans, telecommunications and NASA.
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Supreme court
7 Dec omaha.com |
Supreme Court refuses to speed up terror case
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court refused Monday to speed up consideration of a challenge to the government's plans to try foreign terror suspects before military tribunals.
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Intelligence bill
8 Dec msnbc.com |
Senate tackles intelligence bill
Far-reaching overhaul legislation nears its final passage Wednesday |
WASHINGTON - Four months after the Sept. 11 commission urged drastic changes to protect the nation from another terror attack, Congress neared final passage Wednesday of far-reaching legislation overhauling the nation’s intelligence network and instituting new border and aviation security safeguards.
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