Passport Rules to Be Suspended

The Bush administration is poised to suspend a major post-Sept. 11 security initiative in response to increasingly angry complaints from Americans whose summer vacations are threatened by new passport rules.
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G-8 Ends With Pact To Fight Diseases

ROME, June 8 — President Bush arrived here Friday night after concluding a summit where leaders of the world’s wealthiest industrialized countries pledged $60 billion to fight AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in impoverished nations around the world.
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Bush Vows to Revive Immigration Plan, Backs Gonzales

SOFIA, Bulgaria, June 11– President Bush vowed Monday to do all he can to revive his plan to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws, while dismissing as meaningless a planned Senate vote of no-confidence in his embattled Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales.
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Clinton Overhauls, but Doesn’t Exit, in Iowa

With seven months until the Iowa caucuses, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) is shaking up her Iowa campaign, announcing new leadership at her caucus headquarters.
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Sens. Obama, Menendez Probe AID Pick’s Diversity Record

Henrietta Holsman Fore, who was nominated to replace the deputy secretary of state for foreign assistance after he resigned in late April over an escort scandal, made racially charged remarks about the work ethics of blacks, Hispanics, Asians and whites two decades ago, prompting two key Democratic…
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Christian Journalism

When the three top Democratic presidential candidates talked about faith last week at a forum moderated by CNN’s Soledad O’Brien, David Brody recalls being “flabbergasted.”
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From the Local News To a Higher Calling

When the three top Democratic presidential candidates talked about faith last week at a forum moderated by CNN’s Soledad O’Brien, David Brody recalls being “flabbergasted.”
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Jefferson Vows to Fight Federal Charges

Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.) spoke publicly yesterday for the first time since Monday’s indictment on bribery, racketeering and money-laundering charges, vowing to “sell every stick of furniture in our home and anything else we may own” to fight the government’s accusations.
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Immigration Reforms Shot Down By Senate

President George Bush’s proposed reform of America’s crisis-hit immigration system was in tatters today after a comprehensive defeat in the Senate.
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A Foreign Policy, In Two Words

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, countering criticism that the Bush administration has fundamentally broken with past U.S. foreign policy, asserted in a speech last night that the administration’s policies are instead part of a 100-year-old tradition that she labeled “American realism.”
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