ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) ‘” Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is going on the offensive against news organizations and bloggers she says are perpetuating malicious gossip about her and her children. But political observers say the former Republican vice … (more…)
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WASHINGTON -Leaving the White House for the last time on Tuesday, President George W. Bush blew a kiss out the window of his presidential limousine, a gesture that capped an eight-year administration marked by two wars, recession and the biggest … (more…)
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Hillary Clinton won U.S. Senate approval as secretary of state on Wednesday despite renewed Republican concerns about potential conflicts of interest created by her husband’s foreign fundraising. The Senate easily approved … (more…)
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GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba – A tiny crack appeared in Ottawa’s long-standing reluctance to bring Omar Khadr home Wednesday after a military judge called a 120-day halt to the Guantanamo Bay prisoner’s war-crimes trial at the behest of U.S. President Barack … (more…)
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Washington – Shortly after noon EST (1700 GMT) January 20, Barack Obama took the presidential oath of office, becoming the 44th president and first African-American leader of the United States. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts … (more…)
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NICODEMUS, Kan. (AP) — Descendants of freed slaves who came here after the Civil War to farm the wind-swept Kansas prairie cheered and cried Tuesday as Barack Obama became president, while 200 miles away dozens of people gathered at an important … (more…)
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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba ‘” A judge today quickly granted President Barack Obama’s request to suspend the war crimes trial of a young Canadian in what may be the beginning of the end for the Bush administration’s system of trying alleged … (more…)
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NORTON, Kan. – Barack Obama has the presidency. John McCain has a framed photograph next to one of John Kerry at a rural northwest Kansas bank. First State Bank’s “They Also Ran” gallery, a tribute to losing presidential candidates, added the … (more…)
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WASHINGTON ‘” If the scene at the National Mall was an indication, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. ’s dream, for one day at least, became a reality. Nearly 46 years ago, during the March on Washington, King spoke about a day when people of all races … (more…)
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates’” An atomic energy deal between the U.S. and the United Arab Emirates, signed in the waning days of the Bush administration, could give Mideast nations a significant boost toward acquiring nuclear technology if Iran … (more…)