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Report: Spying Broader Than Acknowledged (AP)
AP - The National Security Agency has conducted much broader surveillance of e-mails and phone calls — without court orders — than the Bush administration has acknowledged, The ...
Air Force Academy cadets see harassment decline
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sexual harassment has declined as a problem at the U.S. Air Force Academy after stepped up official attention to the issue, according to a student survey ...
Foxy Brown sticks tongue out at NY judge
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A judge on Friday ordered hip-hop artist Foxy Brown handcuffed to her seat in court until she apologized for sticking out her tongue during a hearing stemming ...
Bin Laden niece poses for sexy photo shoot
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Her uncle may be the world's most elusive fugitive, but Osama bin Laden's niece is about as conspicuous as she can be in a sexy photo shoot in the January ...
Immigrants find opportunity in ruined New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Much of New Orleans lies abandoned and destroyed after Hurricane Katrina struck nearly four months ago, but for Latin American immigrants the storm-ravaged city ...
Doping controversy overshadows American sports
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The long-simmering controversy over doping in sport reached a crescendo in North America in 2005, overshadowing some colossal on-the-field performances.
Rumsfeld eats Christmas dinner with troops in Iraq
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld wrapped up his visit to Iraq at a Christmas eve dinner with American troops in Mosul, the country's second largest city ...
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 ...
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