May 30 2005
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| White House Researching Potential Justices photo WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House has laid the groundwork to place more conservatives on the Supreme Court, scrutinizing the backgrounds and legal views of a shrinking list of candidates amid speculation that ailing Chief Justice William Rehnquist soon will step down. Keenly aware that a chapter… |
| Socialist Leads U.S. Senate Race in Vt. BARRE, Vt. (AP) – Bernie Sanders jabs at the air, his flushed face a sharp contrast to his unruly white hair. Yet again, he pummels Washington, the Congress and the president. “The government that we have today in the White House, the House of Representatives with Tom Delay, the Senate with Bill… |
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| Brown Sells Home to Be Used As Shelter photo OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) – Mayor Jerry Brown has angered some of his neighbors by selling his multimillion-dollar home to a group that wants to make it into a homeless shelter. The two-time governor and three-time presidential candidate’s 7,000-square-foot warehouse home is in Jack London Square,… |
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| Newsview: Bush’s Global Clout Seen Growing photo WASHINGTON (AP) – In the rarified club of world leaders, President Bush has taken his share of lumps. Critics have railed against his handling of Iraq, his perceived disdain for the United Nations and what they say is a swaggering approach to foreign policy. But Bush probably would not want to… |
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| Judicial Nominees Compromise Was Hard-Won photo WASHINGTON (AP) – The signatures of 14 Senate centrists, seven from each party, spilled across the last page of a hard-won compromise on President Bush’s judicial nominees. But whatever elation the negotiators felt, the Senate’s Democratic leader did not share it. In the privacy of his Capitol… |
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| Bush Honors War Dead in Radio Address photo WASHINGTON (AP) – President Bush is marking this Memorial Day weekend with words honoring men and women who have died in the nation’s service to provide freedom for Americans today. “Our citizens live in freedom because patriots are willing to serve and sacrifice for our liberty,” Bush said… |
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| Tenn. State Senator Resigns After Arrest photo NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – State Sen. John Ford, a member of one of Tennessee’s most powerful political families, has resigned after being placed under house arrest facing charges from a two-year FBI sting, the lieutenant governor said Saturday. Ford announced his resignation in a letter Lt. Gov…. |
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| Texas Lawmakers OK Life Without Parole Bill photo AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – A bill that would give jurors in the No. 1 death penalty state the option of sentencing murderers to life in prison without parole is headed to the governor’s desk. The state Senate on Saturday approved the measure on a 25-6 vote. Republican Gov. Rick Perry has said the issue… |
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| NYC Mayoral Candidates Learning Spanish photo NEW YORK (AP) – When you’re running for mayor, it helps to be a smooth talker. And this year, candidates are having to work a little harder at it. The competition for New York’s Latino voters is so fierce among Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the four Democrats vying to unseat him that most of the… |
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| Path Cleared for Rehnquist’s Retirement photo WASHINGTON (AP) – Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist may feel freer to step down with the Senate judicial standoff muted and the Supreme Court weeks away from the end of its term. A compromise forged by centrist senators on Monday averted a showdown over President Bush’s judge nominees and the… |
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| Ill. Lawmakers Vote on Video Game Sales Ban SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Lawmakers voted Saturday to ban the sale of violent or sexually explicit video games to minors in Illinois, a move other states and cities have tried but federal courts have repeatedly struck down. The measure now goes to Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who proposed the… |
