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US, Central America discuss security cooperation
KEY BISCAYNE, Florida (Reuters) - U.S. and Central American security leaders on Wednesday discussed closer ties in battling drug trafficking, terrorism and other crime, including the ...
Bush warns Syria over Lebanon, Iraq
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush declined to comment on the suicide on Wednesday of a Syrian government minister who had been questioned by a U.N. probe about the ...
Key trade meetings end without breakthrough
GENEVA (Reuters) - Trade ministers from leading nations failed on Wednesday to make a breakthrough in troubled farm talks, the cornerstone of a hoped-for global trade pact, with many ...
Professor slams intelligent design in Penn. schools
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - A professor on Wednesday slammed the teaching of intelligent design as a blow to science education as he testified in a lawsuit over whether the ...
White House approves plan to bolster CIA
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House has approved a plan to install CIA Director Porter Goss as the manager of traditional spying operations across the 15-agency intelligence ...
US top court hears whistle-blower case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court justices expressed reservations on Wednesday about giving free-speech protections to government whistle-blowers who try to expose possible ...
Bush defends Miers nomination, noting her religion
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush said on Wednesday that religion is part of Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers' life as he tried to counter complaints that she may ...
N.Y. Times reporter completes testimony in CIA case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Under pressure from prosecutors, a New York Times reporter testified on Wednesday to a federal grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA operative's identity ...
Bush approval rating dips to 39 percent - poll
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush's job approval rating has fallen to a new low of 39 percent in an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released on Wednesday.
Cheney aide a key focus in CIA leak probe: lawyers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff could face obstruction and other charges over exchanges with a New York Times reporter as prosecutors wind up an ...
New Orleans mayor says city finances still bleak
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said on Saturday the city's financial condition remains bleak and that he is still looking for funds that will prevent further ...
Hawks center Jason Collier dies suddenly
TORONTO (Reuters) - Atlanta Hawks center Jason Collier died suddenly in his sleep early on Saturday.
Some US Christians say Katrina was God's handiwork
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - When Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans, submerging entire neighborhoods for weeks with its ferocious tidal surge, some say it was not a freak act of ...
Cox pledges swift action on any fraud
XIANGHE, China (Reuters) - The chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Christopher Cox, on Sunday pledged swift action against U.S. financial fraud but declined ...
4 Adults, 1 Child Killed in Wis. Bus Crash (AP)
AP - A bus carrying high school students home from a band competition crashed into a tractor-trailer that had jackknifed on the interstate early Sunday, killing five people, including the ...
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