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General sees 'downward trend' in US Iraq presence
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States should be able to continue to cut troop levels in Iraq, the general overseeing U.S. forces there said on Thursday, while stressing the need ...
House panel clears consumer data security bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. House panel on Thursday approved a bill aimed at protecting consumers from identity theft and credit-card fraud after a string of high-profile data ...
US-Oman deal should survive ports furor: lawmaker
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congress is likely to approve a free-trade pact with Oman this year despite the furor over a state-owned Arab company managing American ports, a Democratic ...
Pentagon to weigh in on US rocket-launch merger
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pentagon officials will present long-awaited recommendations on Friday on a proposed merger of the struggling government-rocket launch arms of Boeing Co. and ...
News outlets subpoenaed in CIA leak case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawyers for former vice presidential aide Lewis "Scooter' Libby are seeking records from reporters at several news organizations that might help in his perjury ...
Bush clings to pre-emptive force
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush clung to his doctrine of using preemptive force against threats of weapons of mass destruction on Thursday despite his experience in ...
Bush picks Kempthorne for Interior
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush chose Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne on Thursday to replace Gale Norton as Interior secretary, saying his nominee had a "long and abiding ...
House approves $91.9 bln for wars, Gulf Coast
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday easily approved $91.9 billion that President George W. Bush sought for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and for ...
Senate passes $2.8 trillion budget
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday narrowly passed a $2.8 trillion election-year budget that would continue a string of huge deficits while rejecting some of President ...
Suspected Colombian drug lord extradited to US
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A suspected Colombian drug kingpin said to have smuggled $100 million worth of cocaine and heroin into the United States has been extradited to New York to face ...
Senators near compromise on immigration
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Under pressure to produce broad immigration reform legislation by the end of the month, a U.S. Senate panel on Thursday neared agreement on a proposal that ...
Cash still king in money-laundering operations
HOLLYWOOD, Florida (Reuters) - Michael McDonald, a 27-year veteran of the Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Investigation division, still remembers what he calls his "Miami Vice ...
Bomb dog's alert delays NCAA game
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A San Diego arena was evacuated for about two hours on Thursday, delaying a first-round game in the hugely popular national college basketball championship ...
Alabama church fire suspects to remain in jail
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Three U.S. college students accused of burning nine churches in Alabama chose on Thursday to reject posting a bond and to remain in jail because they ...
VaxGen again delays anthrax vaccine: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - California pharmaceutical firm VaxGen Inc. has further delayed shipment to the U.S. government a new version of its anthrax vaccine, an element of the U.S. ...
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