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Ex-White House Aide Charged in Corruption Case — WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 - A senior White House budget official who resigned abruptly last week was arrested Monday on charges of lying to investigators and obstructing a federal inquiry involving Jack Abramoff, the Republican lobbyist …
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Bush Official Arrested in Corruption Probe — The Bush administration's top federal procurement official resigned Friday and was arrested yesterday, accused of lying and obstructing a criminal investigation into Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff's dealings with the federal government.
BBC:
UK soldiers 'freed from militia' — Two British soldiers whose imprisonment prompted UK troops to storm a Basra police station were later rescued from militia, the Ministry of Defence says. — Brigadier John Lorimer said it was of "deep concern" the men detained by police ended up held by Shia militia.
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Official: British troops freed in jailbreak — Saddam nephew gets life; suicide bombs kill 10 south of Baghdad — BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — A British armored vehicle escorted by a tank crashed into a detention center Monday in Basra and rescued two undercover troops held by police, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official told CNN.
Barton Gellman / Associated Press:
Recruits Sought for Porn Squad — The FBI is joining the Bush administration's War on Porn. And it's looking for a few good agents. — Early last month, the bureau's Washington Field Office began recruiting for a new anti-obscenity squad. Attached to the job posting …
Washington Post:
Immigration Nominee's Credentials Questioned — The Bush administration is seeking to appoint a lawyer with little immigration or customs experience to head the troubled law enforcement agency that handles those issues, prompting sharp criticism from some employee groups, immigration advocates and homeland security experts.
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Paul J. Gough / BREITBART.COM:
Emotional Rather blasts 'new journalism order' — NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather said Monday that there is a climate of fear running through newsrooms stronger than he has ever seen in his more than four-decade career. — Rather famously tangled …
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Kerry, Edwards Criticize Bush Over Response to Hurricane — President Bush came under withering criticism for his handling of Hurricane Katrina yesterday, with Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) charging that the storm exposed the administration's incompetence and ideological blinders …
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Mary Curtius / Los Angeles Times:
House GOP Scraps Plan for Joint Probe on Hurricane Response — WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans signaled today that they have abandoned their plan to conduct a joint House-Senate probe of the government's response to Hurricane Katrina. — In announcing a joint probe this month …
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Adam Bernstein / Washington Post:
Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal Dies at 96 — Simon Wiesenthal, 96, the controversial Nazi hunter who pursued hundreds of war criminals after World War II and was central to preserving the memory of the Holocaust for more than half a century, died today in Vienna, Austria, his base of operations.
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Jim Landers / Dallas Morning News:
From N. Korea: an agreement and a demand — Nuclear weapons pact in sight, but nation wants reactor from U.S. — WASHINGTON - North Korea pledged Monday to eliminate its nuclear weapons and nuclear programs in exchange for energy and security, but a day later it demanded that the U.S. give …
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Nick Schulz / Tech Central Station:
Poverty and Governance: Two Sides of the Same Coin — NEW YORK — The Clinton Global Initiative wrapped up in New York over the weekend. The three-day confab, created by the 42nd president, brought together political and corporate leaders, Hollywood stars and philanthropists for a kind of American Davos.
David Lombino / New York Sun:
Former Air America Executive Denounces Transfers of Funds From Bronx Club — A Clinton administration official who served as a top executive of Air America, the politically liberal radio network, says he was "sickened" to his core by the thought that the network was funded by money taken from a Bronx Boys & Girls Club.
Brendan Miniter / Opinion Journal:
We're All in the Same Bloat — Republicans have abandoned small government. Why shouldn't voters abandon them? … In the presidential campaign last year, Democrats were said to be counting on some misfortune—terrorists attacking on American soil, the Iraq War taking a turn for the worse …
Marc Kaufman / Washington Post:
FDA Rethinks Women's Chief — Toigo Is Acting Head; Agency Denies Naming Veterinary Official — One week ago, the Office of Women's Health of the Food and Drug Administration sent an e-mail notice to women's groups and others announcing the appointment of Norris Alderson as its new acting director.
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Ian Williams / Guardian:
Annan has paid his dues — The UN declaration of a right to protect people from their governments is a millennial change — By the time John Bolton had hacked large parts out of the UN's 60th anniversary draft declaration, and then had to agree to much of it going back in after Condoleezza Rice told …
Jessica Thierman / gelfmagazine.com:
Touched by His Noodly Appendage — An interview with the Prophet Bobby Henderson, the voice of Flying Spaghetti Monsterism. — It's not every day you get to speak to a prophet. Most of them are too dead—or at least too busy—to chat about their respective religions with a reporter from an online magazine.
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