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National ID Card Regulations Issued (Ryan Singel, Luke O'Brien, and Kevin Poulsen)
The Department of Homeland Security released long-delayed requirements for the standardization of state identification documents Thursday. States must start issuing the new internal passports by May ...
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Asian Stocks Extend Global Equity Losses; Sony, BHP Decline (Darren Boey and Patrick Rial)
Asian stocks dropped, extending the biggest weekly losses for global equities in eight months, on concern the U.S. economy will fall into recession.
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Judiciary Subcommittee Issues Subpoenas for Hearing on Case of Fired U.S. Attorneys (Karina)
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Thursday issued subpoenas against certain former U.S. Attorneys who were recently fired by the Bush Administration. The subpoenas were authorized by ...
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Democrats send out first round of subpoenas (Susan Crabtree)
A House Judiciary subcommittee approved Thursday the first in what is expected to be an avalanche of subpoenas to Bush administration officials. They will likely explore corruption and mismanagement ...
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Exxon to Cede Oil Project Ops to Venezuela by May (Reuters)
Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM.N) plans to hand operations of a multibillion-dollar oil project to the Venezuelan state before a May 1 deadline imposed by President Hugo Chavez.
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Arthur Schlesinger, Historian of Power, Dies at 89 (Douglas Martin)
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., the historian whose more than 20 books shaped discussions for two generations about America’s past and who himself was a provocative, unabashedly liberal partisan, most ...
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The Words None Dare Say: Nuclear War (George Lakoff)
It is time for America's journalists and political leaders to put two and two together, and ask the fateful question: Is the Bush administration seriously preparing for nuclear war and nation ...
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UN Human Rights Chief Blasts United States For Treatment Of Detainees (Edith M. Lederer)
The U.N. human rights chief expressed concern Wednesday at recent U.S. legislative and judicial actions that she said leave hundreds of detainees without any way to challenge their indefinite ...
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New Profiling Program Raises Privacy Concerns (Ellen Nakashima and Alec Klein)
The Department of Homeland Security -- testing a new data-mining program -- may already have violated privacy laws by reviewing real information, instead of fake data, according to a source familiar ...
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Construction Begins on New Soyuz Launch Site in French Guiana (Kerwin Alcide)
Russia began construction of its Soyuz spacecraft launch base in French Guiana Monday, deepening collaboration between Europe and Russia in space.
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Alaska And Fire-Ice (Charles E. Hill)
Lest we forget, geological studies believe that twice in the distant past abrupt releases of mass quantities of methane from these submarine hydrates cause the worst extinctions this planet has ever ...
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