Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson blamed Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday for the publicity surrounding his remark suggesting Cuban immigrants are bringing suitcase bombs to the United States
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At nearly $5 a meatball, it better be sitting on some pretty good pasta. An internal audit of Justice Department travel included the the pricey food item as one of several instances of apparent overspending related to conference activities
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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales bid goodbye Friday on his last day as head of the Justice Department.
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Pilot project for nonviolent offenders in Orange and San Bernardino counties is expected to be approved next week.
SACRAMENTO -- The Schwarzenegger administration is set to launch a program in Southern California that ultimately could free tens of thousands of ex-convicts from parole years earlier than scheduled.
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An accord to spend about $35 million more to expand coverage sets up a showdown with President Bush.
-- House and Senate Democratic leaders are on the verge of a deal to expand the popular state-federal health insurance program for the children of working parents, setting up a major confrontation with President Bush, senior congressional aides said Friday.
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Before a largely black crowd, the former Laker focuses on the Democratic candidate's experience -- making no mention of Obama.
Barack Obama's name was never mentioned. In the meeting room at King/Drew Magnet High School in Willowbrook, the word on everyone's lips as they lauded Democratic presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday was experience .
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The decision to drop Erwin Chemerinsky as dean could delay the 2009 opening. In the wake of the turmoil, some faculty members have called for Chancellor Michael V. Drake's resignation.
For decades, UC Irvine has aspired to open Orange County's first top-flight law school, declaring it to be the university's glaring "missing piece."
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Apparent suicide of Cook County insider came after Nevada probe heated up
Orlando Jones, the top aide and godson of former Cook County Board President John Stroger, parlayed his connections into a lucrative career as a behind-the-scenes government consultant with ties stretching from Chicago to Springfield and Las Vegas.
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Rudolph Giuliani stepped up his presidential campaign in Illinois on Friday, launching a blitz of telephone banks targeting 20,000 Republican voters and releasing a list of 154 GOP leaders who are jumping on the former New York mayor's bandwagon.
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Reluctant officials take 2008 money to avoid transit cuts
In taking a $91 million cash advance to hold off "doomsday" cuts, the Regional Transportation Authority reluctantly stepped into a deeper financial hole Friday and raised the stakes for lawmakers who are deadlocked on transit funding.
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Agency boss tells steps taken since '06
Missing and falsified maintenance records and slipshod work on the Chicago Transit Authority's rail system were a "disgrace," Mayor Richard Daley said Thursday.
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Defense secretary says he would urge president to veto legislation from Democratic senator requiring troops to spend as much time as home as between deployments overseas.
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A senior U.S. nuclear official said Friday that North Koreans were in Syria and that Damascus may have had contacts with "secret suppliers" to obtain nuclear equipment
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Conservatives line up for and against potential attorney general nominee Michael Mukasey, the man they believe has risen to the top of President Bush's list of replacements for Alberto Gonzales.
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Former federal district judge Michael Mukasey is expected to be nominated by President Bush as the next attorney general, as early as Monday.
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Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan says in his long-awaited memoir, to be released tomorrow, that oil was the prime motivating factor for the war in Iraq.
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Lawmakers complete their task and adjourn, leaving Schwarzenegger to sign or veto their legislation.
Before adjourning Wednesday, the Legislature passed 962 bills and sent them to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. He has acted on some and has until Oct. 21 to sign or veto the rest.
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Associates describe the disgraced Democratic fundraiser as charming and self-effacing, but deceptive.
Last year, to celebrate New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's reelection victory, Norman Hsu capped an amazingly successful year as a Democratic fundraiser by treating members of her campaign staff to several days at the glitzy Mandalay Bay hotel and casino in Las Vegas, complete with free show tickets and dinners at posh restaurants.
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The candidate tries for a comeback in the crowded GOP field, flanked by friends from his POW days in North Vietnam.
NASHUA, N.H. — Locked in the North Vietnamese prison camp they called the Hanoi Hilton, John McCain and fellow prisoners craved any scrap of information that might stoke their morale and help them persevere.
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Some believe they must curb their activism in the interest of their institution; others say they retain their right to speak freely.
When Christopher Edley Jr. became dean of the Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley three years ago, he regretfully gave up his presidential appointment to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
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Some openly lobby for a change in Iran; others are cautious, preferring to be able to visit their homeland without fear of arrest.
USC professor Muhammad Sahimi knew he risked interrogation or arrest while visiting Iran because of his outspokenness about the need for political reform in his homeland.
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Family, business partner part of wife's non-profit
Without fanfare, the wife of Rep. Jerry Weller (R-Ill.) formed a not-for-profit corporation this summer dedicated to helping children in her native Guatemala. Her board of directors includes Weller's mother, his brother and a New York man who has partnered with Weller to buy land in Nicaragua.
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Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers filed a lawsuit against God on Friday, asking for an injunction to prevent 'certain harmful activities and the making of terroristic threats,' according to court documents.
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President Bush has chosen former federal district judge Michael Mukasey to be the next U.S. attorney general.
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Democratic presidential hopefuls on Monday brandished their labor credentials before two of the nation's more powerful unions in a hunt for endorsements
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Monday proposed a health care plan that would require every American to have health insurance just like states require drivers to buy auto insurance.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should not be allowed to address the U.N. General Assembly next week, but instead should be greeted "with an indictment under the Genocide Convention," Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney said Monday
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Sixty-six-year-old New Yorker was chief judge in Manhattan, handled national security cases.
President Bush has settled on Michael B. Mukasey, a retired federal judge from New York, to replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general and will announce his selection Monday, a source familiar with the president's decision said this evening.
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The oracle speaks on life, money and politics.
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Bush is reportedly ready to nominate Michael Mukasey, a retired federal judge, as the next attorney general.
WASHINGTON — President Bush is preparing to nominate Michael B. Mukasey, a retired federal district court judge from New York, to succeed Alberto R. Gonzales as U.S. attorney general, people familiar with the president's thinking said late Sunday.
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A broad overhaul failed this summer, but an array of smaller measures is under discussion, including ways to legalize certain workers.
WASHINGTON — Three months after Congress failed to pass a broad immigration overhaul, lawmakers are quietly returning to the hot-button issue, discussing narrower measures that address illegal immigrants and low-skilled laborers.
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Could have fooled me, and did. Was I ever gullible.
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Criticized by some as lean on experience, the Democrat has drawn a huge circle of advisers with expertise honed in the circles of power
Barack Obama's presidential bid may have a well-cultivated insurgent feel, as the candidate both benefits and suffers politically from a relatively thin record of experience in Washington.
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President Bush on Tuesday defended himself from criticism by former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan that he has not been a good shepherd of the economy.
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