The Republican-led House of Representatives has passed a resolution condemning news organizations for reporting on classified information that the government wants to keep secret.
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A new poll of one hundred leading counter-terrorism and national security experts has found that 84 percent believe the U.S. is not winning the war on terror.
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Romania has become the latest country to announce it is planning to withdraw its troops from Iraq.
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In Iraq, a top Sunni leader with ties to leading insurgent groups says rebels have rejected Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s national reconciliation plan. They rejected it because it fails to offer a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign troops.
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Environmental groups accused the US Congress of selling out to the energy lobby after the House of Representatives voted to lift a 25-year moratorium on offshore oil and natural gas drilling.
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The Supreme Court declared Thursday that President Bush had overstepped his authority in the war against terrorism, ruling he does not have the power to set up special military trials at Guantanamo Bay without the approval of Congress.
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A Medicaid rule takes effect tomorrow that will require more than 50 million poor Americans to prove their citizenship or lose their medical benefits or long-term care.
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With the arrest and detention of dozens of senior Hamas officials and its military hunkered down, Israel appeared to delay any ground incursion into northern Gaza on Thursday, but it continued to pound Palestinian territory with artillery fire. Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya denounced Israel’s offensive in Gaza as an attempt to bring down the Hamas-led government.
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U.S. soldiers may have raped an Iraqi woman and then murdered her and three members of her family, including a child, U.S. army officers said on Friday.
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter said he is seriously considering suing the White House over President Bush’s use of signing statements.
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The Senate has rejected a proposed constitutional amendment to ban the desecration of the American flag. The Republican-led initiative fell a single vote short of passing.
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A major new report on electronic voting has concluded that the three most common types of electronic voting machines are all vulnerable to software attacks.
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Israeli tanks and helicopter gunships have invaded the Gaza Strip for the first time since withdrawing ten months ago. Israel says it’s launched the raid to recover captured soldier Gilad Shalit. Israel opened the attack with a series of air strikes on three bridges and Gaza’s main power station. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas deplored the incursion as a “crime against humanity.”
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In a full car, some poor soul is relegated to the middle of the back seat, the least desirable, most uncomfortable, most “un-cool” spot in the vehicle. It also happens to be the safest.
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The New York Times accused President George W. Bush of executive arrogance amid a row over the newspaper’s disclosure of a secret government program to monitor international finances.
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Iraq is producing an average of 2.5 million barrels of oil a day, its highest level since the war began in 2003, an oil ministry spokesman said Wednesday.
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The U.S. military, in the spotlight over murder charges against its troops accused of killing Iraqis, said it had killed a “non-combatant” during a raid in which an al Qaeda militant was detained on Wednesday.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has vowed the US will not abandon its fight against militants in Afghanistan. “We are not going to tire. We are not going to leave,” she told a joint news conference, shortly before leaving the country.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury proposed a plan yesterday that could force the Episcopal Church in the United States either to renounce gay bishops and same-sex unions or to give up full membership in the Communion.
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Iraq’s prime minister said on Wednesday that armed groups had contacted him on peace efforts.
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