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U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 14, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- The leader of the world's Roman Catholics has been to the White House only once in history. That changes this week, and President Bush is pulling out all the stops: driving out to a suburban military base to meet Pope Benedict XVI's plane, bringing a gian.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 2, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

SF Gate -- The Pentagon made public a now-defunct legal memo that approved the use of harsh interrogation techniques against terror suspects, saying that President Bush's wartime authority trumps any international ban on torture. The Justice Department memo, date.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Dec 4, 2007 @ 2:29pm neoform

Yahoo News -- President George W. Bush Tuesday said Iran was still a danger and refused to take military options off the table, despite a US intelligence report saying it had halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003. "The best diplomacy, effective diplomacy, is on.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Sun Sep 30, 2007 @ 5:00pm neoform

New York Times -- Not long ago, the satirical newspaper The Onion ran a fake news story that began like this: “At a well-attended rally in front of his new ground zero headquarters Monday, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani officially announced his plan to run f.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Aug 6, 2007 @ 8:09am neoform

CNN -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy lost his temper with two American news photographers covering his vacation Sunday, jumping onto their boat and scolding them loudly in French. The confrontation came Sunday afternoon as Sarkozy and companions were headed f.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 29, 2007 @ 12:44pm neoform

FOX News -- A Purdue University graduate student was convicted of threatening to kill President Bush, vice president Dick Cheney and others in postings on the Internet. Vikram Buddhi, 35, an Indian national who was attending advanced engineering classes at Purdue'.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 23, 2007 @ 9:36am neoform

Forbes -- Campaigning in 2000, Texas Gov. George W. Bush would repeatedly raise his right hand as if taking an oath and vow to "restore honor and integrity" to the White House. He pledged to usher in a new era of bipartisanship. The dual themes of honesty and bi.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Wed Mar 7, 2007 @ 12:51pm neoform

Slate -- The U.S. attorneys purge scandal is heating up. The House and Senate have convened hearings for Tuesday, promising an orgy of named names and pointed fingers. Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., now admits what he once denied: that he may have had a hand in the r.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Feb 15, 2007 @ 9:38am mrmdc

CNN -- The U.S. Mint said it launched a $1 coin on Thursday featuring George Washington, the first in a series honoring former U.S. presidents aimed at collectors and intended for use in vending machines and parking meters. Modeled on the mint's popular 50 St.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 2, 2007 @ 4:24pm neoform

Everything New Orleans -- President Bush is expected to shift $1.3 billion away from raising and armoring levees, installing floodgates and building permanent pumping in Southeast Louisiana in order to plug long-anticipated financial shortfalls in other hurricane-protection projec.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jan 25, 2007 @ 4:30pm mrmdc

CBS News -- The White House reaction to the Senate resolution opposing President Bush's decision to send more troops to Iraq came from Vice President Dick Cheney. In a word, he was defiant, saying about the general idea of a resolution, "It won't stop us.".. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jan 15, 2007 @ 8:33am neoform

SF Gate -- President Bush, facing opposition from both parties over his plan to send more troops to Iraq, said he has the authority to act no matter what Congress wants... Read More

U.S. / OPINION Sun Jan 7, 2007 @ 5:57pm neoform

Alter Net -- On December 31 at midnight, hundreds of millions of pages of secret government documents were automatically declassified -- the result of President Bush's Executive Order on Declassification, which covers all national security documents 25 years old or o.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Dec 27, 2006 @ 12:03am neoform

Yahoo News -- Gerald R. Ford, who picked up the pieces of Richard Nixon's scandal-shattered White House as the 38th and only unelected president in America's history, has died, his wife, Betty, said Tuesday. He was 93... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Nov 29, 2006 @ 11:05am mrmdc

Reuters -- A federal judge in Los Angeles, who previously struck down sections of the Patriot Act, has ruled that provisions of an anti-terrorism order issued by President George W. Bush after September 11 are unconstitutional... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Nov 28, 2006 @ 12:10am neoform

Reuters -- The U.S. Embassy in Argentina rejected reports that it had told President George W. Bush's twin daughters to leave the country after a widely publicized purse-snatching incident... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Nov 19, 2006 @ 3:30pm neoform

Globe and Mail -- U.S. president George W. Bush, on his first visit to a country where America lost a two-decade-long fight against communism, said Friday the Vietnam War's lesson for today's confounding Iraq conflict is that freedom takes time to trump hatred... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Nov 18, 2006 @ 9:02am neoform

Yahoo News -- Americans' approval of President Bush's handling of Iraq has dropped to the lowest level ever, increasing the pressure on the commander in chief to find a way out after nearly four years of war... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Nov 3, 2006 @ 8:09am neoform

FOX News -- A school bus driver fired after she reportedly made an obscene gesture at President Bush has filed a union grievance in an attempt to get her job back... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 30, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

SF Gate -- Plans to demolish the building where a gunman killed five Northern Illinois University students have been scrapped after the university community overwhelmingly opposed it, the school's president said Tuesday. It was also apparent, however, that the co.. Read More