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Rep. Mark Foley (Republican, Florida) resigns in the wake of questions about personal e-mails he sent to a 16-year-old former congressional page. Ironically, Foley was a six-term congressman and co-chairman of the Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus. |
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The House Government Reform Committee releases a draft report indicating that convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff had hundreds (485) of contacts with White House officials, which brought only limited success for his clients. |
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Texas’ highest criminal appeals court agrees to consider reinstating a dropped conspiracy charge against former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, likely delaying his trial on felony money laundering and conspiracy counts until next year. |
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez denounces President Bush from the podium of the UN General Assembly, calling him ``the devil himself" and ``a world dictator" in an impassioned speech that drew both laughter and applause. |
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Rep. Cynthia McKinney of Georgia has lost her Democratic primary runoff election to foe Hank Johnson |
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Gunmen kill the son of Iraq’s top judge as the country’s newly designated Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki struggles to form a national unity government. A May 22nd constitutional deadline to form the new Cabinet is rapidly approaching. |
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Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., delivers the commencement address to the graduating class of Jerry Falwell's Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA. Six years earlier, John McCain denounced the conservative Christian leader as "evil." Conservative Christian voters effectively undermined McCain's president ... |
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Denmark urges its citizens to leave Indonesia. Denmark's Foreign Ministry cites threats from an extremist group over the publication of drawings of Islam's Prophet Mohammed in a Danish newspaper. |
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In a letter to Scooter Libby’s lawyers, Patrick Fitzgerald says he has learned "that many e-mails from Cheney’s office at the time of the Plame leak in 2003 have been deleted contrary to White House policy." Administration cirtics suggest this would implicate Vice President Cheney in criminal obstr ... |
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After Democrats failed to garner sufficient support to maintain a filibuster in the Senate, Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. was sworn in this morning as the Supreme Court's 110th Justice replacing Sandra Day O'Connor. |
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Peace activist Cindy Sheehan, who was invited to attend the State of Union Address, is arrested in the House gallery after refusing to cover up a T-shirt bearing an anti-war slogan. Capitol Hill police will later apologize and state that the House Rules were "unwritten." |
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At the same time that Exxon Mobil is reporting record profits and suggesting that production be cut to preserve those profits, US President George W. Bush tells congress in his State of the Union Address "Here we have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstab ... |
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The Islamic Palestinian resistance group Hamas claims 76 of the 132 seats in the second Palestinian Authority (PA) election. In spite of the democratic victory, the Bush administration balks at continued economic support to Palestine because Hamas does not recognize Israel's right to exist in the r ... |
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Michelle Bachelet, the first woman to be elected president in Chile, won 53 percent of the vote in Sunday's runoff, compared to 46 percent for Sebastian Pinera, a conservative wealthy businessman, according to official results. |
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U.S. Representative Tom DeLay (Republican, TX) announces through a spokesperson that he will not attempt to regain his post as House majority leader. |
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Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.) pleads guilty to conspiracy and tax charges and resigns from office, after admitting he took $2.4 million in bribes to steer defense contracts to conspirators. He agrees to forfeit to the government his Rancho Santa Fe home, worth more than $1.8 millio ... |
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In a massive failure of security, a judge and an attorney are shot and killed by gunmen outside their home in Adhamiy, a Sunni neighborhood. Seven Iraqi police officers are killed in various attacks. The US Media mistakenly reports that the judge that will try Saddam has been killed. NBC News, thi ... |
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The pro-Syrian government of Lebanon resigns after an aggressive session of parliamentary debate. Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters had been demanding the action along with the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon. |
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US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher announces that the US is recalling ambassador Margaret Scobey from Syria. The state department expresses "profound outrage" at the massive bombing that killed Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. The US, however, stopped short of directly acc ... |
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A US appeals court upholds contempt charges against Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper and New York Times reporter Judith Miller who refuse to reveal their sources in the case involving White House "outting" of undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame. The two could now face jail unless they agree to ... |
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New York congresswoman Louise Slaughter reveals that GOP activist James Guckert reported from the White House for the Talon News Service under the alias Jeff Gannon. "It appears that 'Mr. Gannon's' presence in the White House press corps was merely as a tool of propaganda for your administration," ... |
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White House adviser Karl Rove, often credited with being the true intellect in the Bush adminstration, is promoted to deputy chief of staff. The titles comes in addition to his current role as Bush’s chief political strategist. Rove will have oversight of policy councils advising George W. Bush on n ... |
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US President Bush delivers his proposed $2.57 Trillion budget to Congress. The austere plan seeks deep spending cuts across 150 government programs and will cut health care payments for veterans and the poor and trim spending on education and the environment. Oddly, the budget does not include pro ... |
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Ignoring lessons learned in the early 20th century with regard to "Arabia", US Vice President Dick Cheney maintains that "This is going to be Iraq. It's going to be written by the Iraqis, for the Iraqis, implemented and executed by them." In the early 20th century, Britain and France created natio ... |
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Senator Mike DeWine and Representative Carolyn Maloney discuss with CIA officials their belief that the US Central Intelligence Agency is withholding further details on its employment of Nazi war criminals during the Cold War. The Associated Press reports that an anonymous CIA contact has confirmed ... |
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Iraq's Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi echoed US President Bush's declaration of success in the Iraq Election. Allawi called Iraq's national elections a defeat for insurgents who had promised to disrupt voting and a victory for those Iraqi people who showed the world their courage. "The terrorist ... |
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US Senator Hillary Clinton, 57, collapses at the start of a speech on Social Security Reform as a result of a 24-hour flu bug. She is able to walk out of the room and later presents a talk on health care reform to a Catholic college. |
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Ghazi al-Yawer tells the media that that many people will not take part in the Iraqi election scheduled for January 30th. Specifically, he suggests that voters will probably stay away from polling stations over safety concerns not as a protest. |
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Ghazi al-Yawer, who earlier had predicted a very low turn-out in the Iraqi Election, changes his prediction to a 2/3 turnout inspite of continuing violence in country leading some to conclude that he was "coached." |
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Former Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang is laid to rest in a quiet ceremony at Beijing's Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery, nearly two weeks after his death on January 17th. Mr. Zhao spent 15 years under house arrest for advocating reform during the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy demonstratio ... |
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