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Howard Dean, the Democratic National Committee chairman, said,”I hate what the Republicans are doing to this country, I really do.”
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A group of 14 centrist senators from the Republican and Democratic parties last night came to temporary compromise on judicial filibustering.
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A public high school in Texas apologized for referring to the only African-American in the school’s National Honor Society as “Black Girl,” in its yearbook.
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Syria severed all links with the US because they wouldn’t stop complaining.
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Since April 27, insurgents have targeted government and military officials in a campaign of assassinations and kidnappings. There have been at least 28 such incidents, including 18 assassinations, six attempted assassinations, three kidnappings and assassinations, and one kidnapping, according to an Associated Press count.
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The US plans to build four new giant military bases inside Iraq.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai met with President Bush today in Washington. (more…)

A 16-year-old girl was arrested and charged with being part of a group of youths that attacked another girl in Manchester while filming the incident on a mobile telephone. The assault was the latest example of an apparent British craze known as “happy slapping,” in which youths randomly attack passers-by and then use their mobile phones to circulate pictures of the victims

The Food and Drug Administration is slated to approve a new treatment for depression. There is no evidence that it works.

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no one was recruited for the army today.

The CIA assassinated a suspected member of Al Qaeda in Pakistan by firing a missile at him using an unmanned CIA Predator drone.
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The U.S. plans to spend $50 million dollars to build more prisons in Iraq because there isn’t enough room for the 11,000 detainees. The number of detainees has doubled over the last 6 months.

The Air Force said it must secure space in order to protect the United States from attack.
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The CIA refused to hand over control of Iraq’s intelligence service to the newly elected Iraqi government. An Iraqi Politician said, “If they insist on keeping it to themselves, we’ll have to form another one.”
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Millions of people went to work and sent their children to school and arrived home safely this evening.

British MP George Galloway went to Washington, D.C., to respond to allegations that he profited from the U.N.-managed Iraq oil-for-food program. “I met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him,” said Galloway. “The difference is that Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns, and to give him maps the better to target those guns.”
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In Mexico, President Vicente Fox has apologized for saying that Mexicans in the United States do the work that African Americans won’t. Last week Fox said “There’s no doubt that Mexican men and women — full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work — are doing the work that not even Blacks want to do in the United States.” In telephone conversations with the Reverend Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, Fox said he “regretted any hurt feelings.”

In response to a magazine article, Donald Rumsfeld said “People need to be very careful about what they say and just as people need to be careful about what they do.”
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Wal-Mart apologized for running an advertisement that equated current Arizona zoning ordinances with the Nazi regime. Using a photo of a 1933 book burning in Berlin, the ad read: “Should we let government tell us what we can read? Of course not . . . So why should we allow local government to limit where we shop?” The ad, which ran May 8 in the Arizona Daily Sun, was “reviewed and approved by Wal-Mart, but we did not know what the photo was from.” said Daphne Moore, Wal-Mart’s director of community affairs.

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Michael Jackson used chimpanzees to dust his house, clean his windows, and brush his toilets. ‘They are very smart. Their DNA is identical to humans when you look under a microscope,’ he said.