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Senate gets FCC nominees for vote
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday sent to the full Senate for a vote the nominations of Republican Tennessee state regulator Deborah Tate to serve on the Federal ...
Pension bill likely in House this week
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A major union endorsed U.S. House legislation aimed at shoring up the traditional pension system on Tuesday, breaking a logjam that had blocked progress on the ...
Gonzalez pushes for Patriot Act renewal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales traveled to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to increase pressure on legislators to renew the USA Patriot Act and warned that ...
No Rove influence seen in US public TV boss hiring
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Corporation for Public Broadcasting's inspector general found no evidence in correspondence that White House adviser Karl Rove or other White House ...
Specter seeks Alito's views on power of precedent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Republican who will preside over Judge Samuel Alito's Supreme Court confirmation hearings next month asked him on Tuesday about the role of ...
Bush to stress why US must stay in Iraq
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A day before Iraq's election, President George W. Bush will stress on Wednesday why he thinks the United States must stay in Iraq, in the last of a series of ...
Air Force eyes fleet of 183 F-22 fighters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Moseley on Tuesday said he hopes to buy 183 Lockheed Martin Corp. F-22A fighter jets, four more than currently budgeted ...
Gas blast wrecks N.J. apartment building, kills 3
BERGENFIELD, New Jersey (Reuters) - A gas explosion ripped through a three-story apartment building in New Jersey on Tuesday, starting a huge fire and killing three people, officials ...
Man pleads guilty in child bride sex case
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - A Nebraska man who impregnated and married a 14-year-old pleaded guilty to sexual assault on Tuesday for his relationship with the girl and faces up ...
Swamp thing? No, a woodpecker researcher
HICKSON LAKE, Arkansas (Reuters) - Nathan Banfield knew he looked like some swamp creature, in head-to-toe forest camouflage with all-over feathery fringe and a camo-mask that ...
Air marshals to join land and sea patrols: paper
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. air marshals, who usually provide security on jetliners, will join law enforcement agents on other forms of mass transit beginning this week in a test of ...
Great Lakes water pact signed
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. and Canadian governors signed a pact on Tuesday blocking exports of water from the Great Lakes and calling for efforts to preserve the world's largest body of ...
New interrogation rules could hurt talks: paper
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Army has approved a new set of interrogation techniques that could complicate talks between Congress and the White House on legislation that would ban the ...
Gerald Ford released from hospital
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Gerald Ford, 92, was released from a California hospital on Tuesday after undergoing medical tests during what his office said was a ...
Village buries man shot dead in Miami
CARIARI, Costa Rica (Reuters) - A man shot dead by air marshals in Miami airport last week was buried amid palm trees by tearful Costa Rican villagers on Tuesday as relatives ...
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