Why Did 26 Republicans Vote Against Extending the Patriot Act?
WASHINGTON -- House Republican leaders expecting an easy two-thirds vote to extend key provisions of the Patriot Act were handed a rude surprise when 26 of their own opted to side with Nancy Pelosi...
House Republicans Revive Abortion as Hot-Button Issue
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WASHINGTON -- The annual March for Life disbanded on Capitol Hill last month, but the controversy over abortion lingers on as Republicans in Congress put the perennial hot-button issue at the top of...
Egypt, Deficit Bring Calls to End Foreign Aid -- But Should We?
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WASHINGTON -- The unrelated crises roiling Egypt and the federal budget have at least one thing in common: They both have brought calls to eliminate foreign aid. Just as Punxsutawney Phil crawled...
What Can US Do if Mubarak Won't Leave Egypt?
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WASHINGTON -- Now that the United States has made it clear it is time for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to go, what happens if he refuses? On the second day of clashes between pro-Mubarak forces...
Son Says Reagan Would See Today's GOP as 'Mean-Spirited and Stupid'
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WASHINGTON -- If President Ronald Reagan were alive to celebrate his 100th birthday this week, "he would be disturbed by the level of vitriol" coming from his own Republican party. He also would...
Pentagon Outlines Plans to Implement 'Don't Ask' Repeal
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WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon, releasing the first details of its plan to implement a new law that will allow gays to serve openly in the military, said today it could begin training troops in February...
Bill Nelson on Challenger Disaster: 'Why Were We Spared?'
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WASHINGTON -- Many have called Jan. 28, 1986, a "fateful day." Bill Nelson is one of the few who saw in the breakup of the space shuttle Challenger a fate that might have been his own. Nelson had...
State of the Union Reaction Falls Along Party Lines
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WASHINGTON -- Reaction to Tuesday night's State of the Union address, the most-wired ever and perhaps the most measured and mild in memory, echoed a predictable plethora of previews and prebuttals...
Tamara Chalabi Writes of Another Iraq Before the War
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WASHINGTON -- To most Americans, "Iraq" is a war. But for Tamara Chalabi, it is more than "a desert of tanks, screaming women and barefoot children." It is the homeland she never knew, "a modern...
Palin Charge of 'Blood Libel' Provokes Controversy
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If Sarah Palin's seven-minute video blaming the media was meant to tamp down the rhetoric in the aftermath of the assassination attempt against Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, she may have added fuel to the...
Giffords Shooting Raises Questions About Guns and Mental Illness
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WASHINGTON -- It takes a lot to be considered too crazy to own a gun in Arizona. As authorities investigate the mass shooting that killed six people and left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords critically...
Giffords Proud to Be Arizona's First Jewish Congresswoman
Matt York, AP
WASHINGTON -- Her family name doesn't "sound Jewish," but Gabrielle Giffords was proud of the identity her grandfather tried to hide years ago when he changed it from Hornstein to avoid the wrath of...
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