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Flap may threaten justice official's job
AP - The flap over fired prosecutors is jeopardizing confirmation of President Bush's pick for the No. 3 official at the Justice Department.
Democratic budget plan nears passage
AP - Senators face votes regarding taxes on tobacco products and large estates as a $2.9 trillion Democratic budget outline nears a final vote.
GAO: Reading program improperly managed
AP - Education Department officials and their contractors appear to have improperly backed certain types of instruction in administering a $1 billion-a-year reading program, congressional investigators found.
U.N. rights envoy likens Israeli actions to apartheid
Reuters - A United Nations human rights envoy on
Thursday likened Israeli treatment of Palestinians in occupied
territory to apartheid, and said its settlement policy amounted
to colonialism.
Khalilzad to leave Iraq in a few days
AFP - The outgoing US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, who is the White House's nominee as ambassador to the United Nations, said on Thursday he would soon be heading home.
Dems kill effort to cut taxes on estates
AP - Senate Democrats killed a move to cut taxes on large estates as a $2.9 trillion Democratic budget outline neared a final vote Friday.
Dems want Rove to testify under oath
AP - Democrats are pressing President Bush to allow his political guru Karl Rove and other top aides to answer questions under oath about the firing of federal prosecutors.
White House spokesman to undergo surgery
AP - Presidential spokesman Tony Snow is undergoing surgery Monday to remove a small growth in his lower abdomen, a procedure he said was being done 'out of an aggressive sense of caution' because he had colon cancer two years ago.
Senate approves Democratic budget plan
AP - The Senate approved a Democratic budget plan Friday that promises a balanced budget in five years by mixing spending increases with partial renewal of expiring tax cuts.
Blair calls for tough UN sanctions against Sudan
AFP - Prime Minister Tony Blair ratcheted up the pressure on Sudan to halt the bloodshed in Darfur Thursday by calling for tough new United Nations sanctions.
Gitmo to remain open during Bush years
AP - The detention center for terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, probably will remain open beyond the end of President Bush's term despite his stated desire to close it, the White House said Friday.
Task Force Formed to Investigate Florida 13th Election
CQPolitics.com - Nearly five months after Florida Republican Vern Buchanan narrowly defeated Democrat Christine Jennings in the state’s 13th District, a congressional committee has organized a task force to investigate the controversial election.
Justice Breyer goes 0-3 on NPR news quiz
AP - Here's what Justice Stephen Breyer revealed about the Supreme Court in his appearance on a radio quiz show: His judicial robe gathers no lint because it's synthetic.
EU should look outwards more: Hoon
AFP - The European Union should look outwards more in its next 50 years, British Europe minister said Thursday as the bloc prepared to mark its 50th birthday.
US lauds EU green light for 'open skies' pact
AFP - The US government and airlines Thursday hailed the EU's adoption of an "open skies" accord that allows more competition in transatlantic aviation, especially at London's coveted Heathrow Airport.
Obama denies ties to anti-Clinton Web ad
AP - Sen. Barack Obama said Friday that his campaign had nothing to do with a Web ad portraying his chief rival for the Democratic presidential nomination as an Orwellian figure. Nevertheless, Obama declined to denounce the ad, which depicts New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton as Big Brother. He said the ad apparently 'captured the public's imagination.'
Iraq, immigration threaten McCain bid
AP - Immigration and Iraq present opposite threats to John McCain's presidential candidacy. The former could undercut his bid for the Republican nomination; the latter, his chances for winning the White House.
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