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Alito Often Defers to Religious Groups
AP - Though abortion has dominated the early politicking over Samuel Alito's Supreme Court nomination, another hot-button issue — religion — has cheered conservatives and worried liberals.
Ill. Lawmaker Keeps in Touch With Voters
AP - In hundreds of homes across Rep. Melissa Bean's district, her constituents' phones are ringing more than a year before voters head to the polls for the next election.
Highway Fund Could Hit $0 Balance in 2008
AP - Taxing hybrids and other fuel-efficient cars and billing drivers for miles driven are among the approaches being suggested to avert a shortfall in money to maintain the nation's highways.
Merkel Calls for Closer Ties With U.S.
AP - Angela Merkel reached out Wednesday to the United States in her first foreign trip as German chancellor, saying it was time to heal the trans-Atlantic rift caused by Germany's opposition to the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
Alito Debate Turns to Rulings on Religion
AP - Though abortion has dominated the early politicking over Samuel Alito's Supreme Court nomination, another hot-button issue — religion — has cheered conservatives and worried liberals.
Industry Group Says Highway Funds Scarce
AP - Taxing hybrids and other fuel-efficient cars and billing drivers for miles driven are among the approaches being suggested to avert a shortfall in money to maintain the nation's highways.
Research halves Bosnia war death toll to 100,000
Reuters - The death toll from the Bosnian war,
which ended 10 years ago this week, was half of the widely used
figure of about 200,000, a leading Bosnian war crimes
researcher said in an interview on Wednesday.
Uzbekistan: No More Help on Afghanistan
AP - Uzbekistan has told NATO allies they can no longer use its territory or airspace to support peacekeeping missions in neighboring Afghanistan — an apparent retaliatory move against a West critical of the former Soviet republic's human rights record, alliance officials said Wednesday.
Iraq a Tricky Issue for Ambitious Democrats
AP - Sen. John Kerry initially voted in favor of a Republican-sponsored resolution calling on President Bush to explain his strategy for success in Iraq. Minutes later, the Democrat changed his vote.
U.N. Welcomes Nepal Deal to End Civil War
AP - The United Nations welcomed an agreement between Nepal's top political parties and its communist rebels to work together to restore democracy and end a civil war that has killed about 12,000 people.
Democratic Lawmaker Lament Iraq War Vote
AP - Three years ago, Massachusetts congressmen Martin Meehan, Stephen Lynch and Edward Markey bucked their state Democratic colleagues and cast votes to give President Bush a green light to go to war in Iraq.
Army Tries to Track Sexual Assaults
AP - An Army plan to develop a database of sexual assaults is meeting some resistance from members of Congress and an advocacy group who say it could violate victims' privacy.
Ex-Lebanese Security Head Quizzed in Death
AP - The former head of the wiretapping unit for Lebanon's army was questioned Thursday by members of a United Nations commission investigating the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, officials said.
Site Chosen for Eisenhower Memorial
AP - Dwight D. Eisenhower had been dead for more than a decade before scholars began calling him one of the greatest presidents in American history.
Judge Comes From Rough-And-Tumble Roots
AP - U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton grew up on the rough streets of a Pennsylvania steel town, far from his courtroom in downtown Washington where the Bush administration may be called to account in the Valerie Plame affair.
Iraq a Tricky Issue for Dems Eyeing 2008
AP - Sen. John Kerry initially voted in favor of a Republican-sponsored resolution calling on President Bush to explain his strategy for success in Iraq. Minutes later, the Democrat changed his vote.
Ethiopian Troops Briefly Enter Border DMZ
AP - Ethiopian troops briefly entered the demilitarized zone along the disputed border with Eritrea, but the soldiers left after United Nations peacekeepers intervened, a U.N. spokeswoman said Thursday.
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