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Vice President Dick Cheney's role in the Valerie Plame CIA criminal investigation is widened as a result of newly disclosed notes showing that Cheney personally asked whether Wilson had been sent by his wife on a "junket" to Africa. In the margins of Joe Wilson's op-ed, Cheney scribbled a series of ... |
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George W. Bush delivers his State of the Union address. He briefly mentions North Korea, saying Washington was "working closely with governments in Asia to convince North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions." |
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Viktor Yushchenko has been sworn in as Ukraine's new president, following months of protest and political dispute at the end of a fraud-plagued election. |
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U.S. Federal Reserve raises Fed Funds Rate by 0.25% to 2.25% and signalled there had been no change in its assessment of economic conditions. |
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Speaking in Europe, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warns that the U.S. must deal with the causes of the weak dollar or the country could run into economic problems down the line. Specifically, he recommends that that the U.S. budget deficit be cut and preferably moved to a surplus, a move ... |
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Some members of the Fed's top policymaking committee also expressed concerns about the strength of the expansion and suggested they might want to slow the pace of future increases if it appeared to be weakening, |
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U.S. Federal Reserve raises Fed Funds Rate by 0.25% to 2.0% from 1.75%. |
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EPA Administrator Mike Leavitt signs a final regulation that helps improve the health of the nation’s beaches on coastal and Great Lakes waters. |
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The BBC reports that a panel investigating the Afghan presidential elections finds that President Hamid Karzai is the winner with 55% of the vote. |
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On a record turn-out election day, several US polling stations experience embarrassing problems. Tension is particularly high in Ohio, a key battleground state, and in Cleveland a Democratic official claimed to have been thrown out of a church basement by a screaming poll judge before another told ... |
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During nationwide elections in the United States, voters in 11 states passed state constitutional amendments defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Those states include: Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon and Utah. |
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Former ballet dancer Norodom Sihamoni is selected to succeed his father as Cambodia's new king. |
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U.S. Federal Reserve raises Fed Funds Rate by 0.25% to 1.50% from 1.25%. |
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Bill Cosby draws a standing ovation at the Rainbow-PUSH Coalition conference in Chicago when he infers that children who cannot read and degrade each other with racial slurs betrays the sacrifices made during the Civil Rights Movement. |
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Radio shock Jock Howard Stern lashes out at the Bush Administration on everything from censorship and the environment to the war in Iraq. |
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U.S. Federal Reserve raises Fed Funds Rate by 0.25% to 1.25% from 1.00%. It is the first U.S. interest rate rise in almost four years. |
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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, often rumoured to be seriously ill, cancels meeting with Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei. |
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US President George W. Bush insists al-Qaeda and Iraq had ties, despite some media interpretations of the pronouncement from the 9/11 commission that "We have no credible evidence that Iraq and al-Qaeda co-operated on attacks against the United States." |
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With the words "This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation," conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh dismisses the Abu Ghraib Prison Torture scandal. |
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U.S. Federal Reserve leaves Fed Funds Rate Unchanged at 1.0%; |
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U.S. Federal Reserve leaves Fed Funds Rate Unchanged at 1.0%; Drops "for a considerable period" Line. |
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U.S. Federal Reserve leaves Fed Funds Rate Unchanged at 1.0%; |
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U.S. Federal Reserve leaves Fed Funds Rate Unchanged at 1.0%; |
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U.S. Federal Reserve lowers Fed Funds Rate by 0.25% to 1.00% from 1.25%. |
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Iran bans the advertising of US products. |
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U.S. Federal Reserve lowers Fed Funds Rate by 0.50% to 1.25% from 1.75%. |
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U.S. Federal Reserve leaves Fed Funds Rate Unchanged at 1.75%. |
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Eric Schaeffer, head of te EPA's Office for Regulatory Enforcement resigns in protest over the Bush Administration's "90 Day Review" of the Clean Air Act. |
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U.S. Federal Reserve lowers Fed Funds Rate by 0.25% to 1.75% from 2.00%. |
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U.S. Federal Reserve lowers Fed Funds Rate by 0.50% to 2.0% from 2.50%. |
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