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Sunday, May 21, 2006
Kuwaiti emir dissolves parliament
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The emir of Kuwait has dissolved parliament and called elections, a week after lawmakers and the government clashed over an election reform bill.
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Plea of the Democratic Pariah: Forgive My Defeat
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As a general rule, it can be an unpleasant career move for a Democrat to run for president, streak to primary victories, win his party's nomination and, ultimately, fall short. For his troubles, he will automatically be consigned by large sectors of his party to a distinctive Democratic pariah status...
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Israel resumes talks with Abbas
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The Palestinian president and Israel's foreign minister have met the highest-level talks between the two sides since the Islamist group Hamas formed the Palestinian government in March.
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Kuwait court clears Guantanamo inmates
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A Kuwaiti court has acquitted five men formerly held at the US Guantanamo Bay facility who were accused of fundraising for al-Qaida.
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Hey Millennials, Debt Becomes You
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Twenty-somethings face a life of looming loans...The children of baby boomers are the new debtor class. Buckling under a heavy weight of debt, new workers step into an economy of low-wage and contingent work, a combination that makes the basics of adulthood increasingly unattainable.
Sunday, May 21, 2006
ABCs Ross: Surveillance of Journalists Makes Me Feel
As If We Are Drug Dealers or Terrorists
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This morning on CNNs Reliable Sources, ABCs Brian Ross who this week learned he was the target of federal surveillance operations described the effect that unchecked spying is having on journalists VIDEO
Sunday, May 21, 2006
White House In Disarray
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Contradicting Snow, Gonzales Says Bush Opposes Making English The National Language
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Warning on market risks as prices fall
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A turbulent week in the financial markets ended on Friday with sharp falls in gold, oil and copper prices and warnings from central bankers and Wall Street strategists that investors are misreading the risks.
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Rushed Social Services Privatization Condemned
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In Indiana, critics are condemning a rushed $1 billion privatization of the states' social services work -- despite the fact that the companies bidding on the contract have mismanaged similar contracts in other states and, more tellingly, no one even bothered to determine whether the companies could do the job cheaper than current state employees
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Iraq is Disintegrating - Ethnic Cleansing Takes Hold
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Across central Iraq, there is an exodus of people fleeing for their lives as sectarian assassins and death squads hunt them down. At ground level, Iraq is disintegrating as ethnic cleansing takes hold on a massive scale.
Sunday, May 21, 2006
An Immigration Bottom Line
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Months of debate have come down to this: whether the comprehensive solution at the core of the Senate bill will survive the hostile attentions of those who do not want real reform at all.
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Hayden looks good to go for confirmation
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Big Mistake...he forced Bush illegal wiretappings at NSA
Sunday, May 21, 2006
The ''Moderate'' Arlen Specter - Bush and GOP Front Man
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In Republican and media circles, Specter is considered a "moderate," which is coded language for a GOPer willing to do and say whatever it takes to appear to be mainstream, while in reality furthering the most stygian policies of the Party.
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Afghanistan gripped by worst fighting since 2001
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Two French special forces troops and a US soldier were among 34 combatants killed in Afghanistan in a fresh upsurge of the deadliest fighting since the removal of the Taliban in 2001. In the worst clash, militants hiding in a vineyard ambushed an Afghan army convoy, shooting dead four soldiers but losing 15 of their own.
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Voters Re-elect Nagin as Mayor of New Orleans
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C. Ray Nagin, the unpredictable mayor who charted a sometimes erratic course for his city through Hurricane Katrina and after, won a narrow re-election victory here Saturday.
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Iraq vows "maximum force" as bombs kill 19
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Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki vowed to use "maximum force against terrorism" on Sunday, as bombs killed at least 19 people in Baghdad during the first meeting of his national unity cabinet.
Sunday, May 21, 2006
EU hasn't presented Iran plan to US yet
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Europe wants the United States to back some kind of security framework in nuclear talks with Iran despite Washington's insistence it will not provide a security guarantee.
Sunday, May 21, 2006
More Bush Misjudgments Marred U.S. Plans for Iraqi Police
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As chaos swept Iraq after the American invasion in 2003, the Pentagon began its effort to rebuild the Iraqi police with a mere dozen advisers. Overmatched from the start, one was sent to train a 4,000-officer unit to guard power plants and other utilities. A second to advise 500 commanders in Baghdad. Another to organize a border patrol for the entire country. IDIOTS
Sunday, May 21, 2006
FBI searches congressmans office
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FBI agents searched the congressional office of Rep. William Jefferson of Louisiana Saturday evening in connection with a public corruption investigation that has already netted two guilty pleas by two associates
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Libby lawyers oppose Cheney notes as evidence
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Defense attorneys argue vice presidents ex-aide hadnt seen document - Attorneys for I. Lewis Scooter Libby attacked plans by prosecutors in the CIA leak case to submit a New York Times op-ed containing handwritten notes by Vice President Dick Cheney.
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Saddams Mercedes seized from U.S. soldier
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Reservist says he paid $5,000 for armored luxury car while serving in Iraq
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Despite Bush Pledge, Taxes Increase for Teenagers
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The $69 billion tax cut bill that President Bush signed this week tripled tax rates for teenagers with college savings funds, despite Mr. Bush's 1999 pledge to veto any tax increase.
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Bush exercising his options in interpreting laws
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Bush signed a military spending bill in December that included a hard-fought amendment banning the cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of foreign prisoners. Then he put a statement in the Federal Register asserting his right to ignore the ban when necessary, in his judgment, to protect Americans from terrorism. More than 700 memos amount to partial vetoes...
Sunday, May 21, 2006
McCaskill Proposes Military Bill of Rights
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Even after three years of fighting in Iraq, thousands of troops are still without adequate body armor to protect them in combat. McCaskill's Military Bill of Rights will put an end to unnecessary fatalities by demanding adequate funding for body armor for all of our servicemen.
Sunday, May 21, 2006
U.N. panel presses the U.S. to close Guantanamo prison
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Panel urges Bush to outlaw torture, transfer of suspects
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Roughly 10 percent of Mexico's population living in US
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The current migration of Mexicans and Central Americans to the United States is one of the largest diasporas in modern history, experts say.
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Baghdad deal raises hope for British troop cuts
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Iraq's first democratic postwar government was finally sworn in yesterday, a critical step raising the prospect of British troop withdrawals.
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Nurse exodus leaves Kenya in crisis
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Poor pay and lack of jobs are forcing workers to abandon their country's health service to seek work in the UK
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Mexico Works to Bar Non-Natives From Jobs
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Even as Mexico presses the United States to grant unrestricted citizenship to millions of undocumented Mexican migrants, its officials at times calling U.S. policies ``xenophobic,'' Mexico places daunting limitations on anyone born outside its territory.
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Kentucky Town Mourns 5 Coal Miners
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The cause of the blast at the Darby Mine No. 1 in Harlan County was not immediately known.
Sunday, May 21, 2006
McCain Speech Heckled by Graduates
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The jeers, boos and insults flew, as caustic as any that angry New Yorkers have hurled inside Madison Square Garden. The objects of derision yesterday, however, were not the hapless New York Knicks, but Senator John McCain, the keynote speaker at the New School graduation, and his host, Bob Kerrey, the university president.
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Growing number of GOP seats in doubt
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Some Republican veterans of the 1994 GOP takeover of Congress see worrisome parallels between then and now, in the way once-safe districts are turning into potential problems. Incumbents' poll numbers have softened. Margins against their Democratic opponents have narrowed. Republican voters appear disenchanted. The Bush effect now amounts to a drag of five percentage points or more in many districts.
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Gitmo prisoners reportedly ambush guards
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6 detainees hurt after luring guards with fake suicide attempt, military says
