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Senate Judiciary Committee OKs Subpoenas In U.S. Attorney Probe (AP)
Committee postpones authorizing subpoenas for President Bush's top aides
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MIT panel provides policy blueprint for future use of coal (Energy Bulletin)
Leading academics from an interdisciplinary Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) panel issued a report today that examines how the world can continue to use coal, an abundant and inexpensive ...
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How The Right Went Wrong (Karen Tumulty)
"We're in the political equivalent of a world without the law of gravity," says Republican strategist Ralph Reed. "Nothing we have known in the past seems relevant."
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Gonzales's Hold on Job Slips Over Prosecutor Firings (Robert Schmidt)
U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's hold on his job is slipping after President George W. Bush, his chief benefactor, said he has some explaining to do and a Republican senator joined Democrats ...
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Pentagon Issues Dire Look At End of '06 in Iraq (Ann Scott Tyson)
The Pentagon yesterday released its bleakest assessment of Iraq yet, reporting record levels of violence and hardening sectarian divisions in the last quarter of 2006 as rival Sunni and Shiite ...
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Dem Party Chairman Dean Meets World Leaders "To Repair The Extraordinary Damage" (Roger Simon)
"I am trying to build relationships with other governments in preparation for a Democratic takeover," Dean said. "I want to make clear that there is an opposition in America and that we are ready to ...
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U.S. Producer Prices Rise 1.3%; Core Rate Rises 0.4% (Shobhana Chandra)
Prices paid to U.S. producers rose in February by the most in three months, boosted by higher costs for energy, cigarettes and toys.
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Housing Price Declines May Set Off U.S. Recession, Merrill Lynch Says (Sharon L. Crenson)
Tighter credit standards among mortgage lenders might lower U.S. home prices by 10 percent this year and push the economy into recession, a Merrill Lynch & Co. analyst said in a report.
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Republican says Gonzales should be fired (Lauri Kellman)
A Senate Republican is calling for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' dismissal as Democrats weigh subpoenaing President Bush's top aides in the escalating political furor over the firing of eight ...
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Leahy says he will subpoena Rove (CNN)
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, said Wednesday that he will subpoena Karl Rove to appear before his panel regarding the Bush administration's firing of eight U.S. ...
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U.S. Stocks Advance as Banks, Homebuilders Help Spark a Rebound
U.S. banks and homebuilders carried stocks to their second gain this week after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. said bad home loans won't curtail earnings, helping erase a 136-point tumble in the Dow ...
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