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As many as 60 bodies, many of them shot in the head at close range and bearing signs of torture, were discovered across the city on Thursday, an Interior Ministry official said.
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Under a broad new set of laws criminalizing speech that ridicules the government or its officials, some resurrected verbatim from Saddam Hussein’s penal code, roughly a dozen Iraqi journalists have been charged with offending public officials in the past year.
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The House voted on Thursday to give the president the formal power to order wiretaps on Americans without a court order for 90 days.
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A bipartisan Congressional report documents hundreds of contacts between White House officials and the corrupt lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his partners, including 82 with Karl Rove’s office.
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A few weeks before hurricane season, the Commerce Department blocked the release of a document describing possible links between global warming and hurricanes, according to a news article today in the journal Nature.
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Some scientists formed a group to try and get people who will listen to them elected.
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In California, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a landmark measure to curb global warming. The law commits California to the goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions 25 percent by 2020. It also mandates that California establish emission controls on large industrial sectors including utilities, oil refineries and cement manufacturing. The legislation is widely considered the country’s most ambitious effort so far to combat global warming.
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The US military reported that the past week saw the highest number of suicide bomb attacks of any week since the American-led invasion in 2003.
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Six in ten Iraqis approve of attacks on US troops.
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In Iraq, the US military is being accused of killing an entire family in an attack on the town of Baquba Wednesday. The Pentagon says it killed eight “terrorists” who had fired at US troops. But family members and witnesses say the victims were a family of seven and a neighbor hiding in their home.
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The Senate approved legislation this evening governing the interrogation and trials of terror suspects.
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Donald Rumsfeld said it is impossible to know precisely whether wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are resulting in more terrorists being killed than they are creating.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld agreed Thursday to put 12,000 American combat troops in eastern Afghanistan under NATO command, possibly as soon as next month, officials said.
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The average American home now has more television sets than people.
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President Bush said he could not let Democrats gain control of Congress because they would raise taxes.
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Richard Branson had breakfast with Al Gore and decided to donate 3 billion dollars to alternative energy development.
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Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf said it was “very rude” for former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage to threaten to bomb his country “back to the Stone Age.”
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A spokesman for the Iraq Study Group, a think tank created to analyze events in Iraq, announced that it had “made no judgment of any kind at this point about any aspect of policy with regard to Iraq.”
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The White House acknowledged Monday that Iraq was among several factors that “fuel the spread of jihadism,” but said that winning the war would dishearten potential terrorists.
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Three retired military officers who served in Iraq called on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign during a hearing on Capitol Hill on Monday.
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