Republicans on Friday looked to wrest a political victory from a legal defeat in the Supreme Court, serving notice to Democrats that they must back President Bush on how to try suspects at Guantanamo Bay or risk being branded as weak on terrorism.
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The father of Republican Senate hopeful Kathleen Troia “KT” McFarland publicly denied allegations that he beat her during her childhood _ the latest twist in a series of dramatic disclosures about that have rocked the campaign of the woman hoping to unseat Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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A Department of Justice report says lobbyist Jack Abramoff wanted to take the credit for getting rid of the chief federal prosecutor for U.S. territories in the Pacific Ocean but actually played no role at all in it.
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David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times:
Stating that American law outweighs an international treaty, the Supreme Court said Wednesday that foreign criminals held in state prisons did not have a right to reopen their cases if their rights under the Vienna Convention had been violated.
The 6-3 ruling spares state prison officials a major headache. If the high court had ruled the other way, thousands of state inmates who were not U.S. citizens could have sought to have their convictions reversed.
The international treaty, drafted in 1963, seeks to protect foreigners, including Americans traveling or living abroad. It requires that officials notify the home-country consulate when a foreigner is arrested or held for “pending trial.”
Despite its clear terms, police and prosecutors in the United States have failed to notify foreign criminal suspects that they have a right to the help of their nation’s consulate.
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Vice President Dick Cheney will undergo routine tests Saturday to check on repaired aneurysms on the backs of his knees and the condition of a high-tech pacemaker that was placed in his chest in June 2001.
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Can political candidates lie about their opponents and chalk it up to free speech?
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Congress falls short once again of achieving one of its prime goals: coming up with a bill to assure 44 million workers who depend on employer-based pension plans that they will get their promised retirement benefits.
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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist urged President Bush on Friday to intensify efforts to put interceptor missiles at a site in Europe to protect against potential attacks from Iran.
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USA Today acknowledged that it could not establish that BellSouth or Verizon contracted with the National Security Agency to provide it with customer calling records.
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President Bush takes Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to Graceland on Friday to treat the leader to visit the home of music legend Elvis Presley.
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Will the mystery behind missing honeymooner George Smith ever be solved?
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President Bush is pressing a deeper imprint on the Federal Reserve Board, the largely secretive institution that sets America’s monetary policy.
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President Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visited Graceland on Friday.
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June 30: The Supreme Court rules that President Bush overstepped his authority in setting up military tribunals for terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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June 30: Arizona Senator John McCain talks with the “Today” show’s Campbell Brown about the Guantanamo rulings and what implications will it have, if any, for President Bush.
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No matter where your holiday travel takes you, ‘FOX & Friends Weekend’ Zone is there!
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See if you can spot what’s wrong with this script
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H. Josef Hebert, Associated Press:
The House voted yesterday to end a quarter-century offshore drilling ban and allow energy companies to tap natural gas and oil beneath waters from New England to Alaska.
Opponents of the federal ban argued that the nation must move closer to energy independence and insisted the gas and oil could be taken without threatening the environment and coastal beaches. They said a state choosing to keep the moratorium could do so.
The measure was approved 232 to 187.
But the bill’s prospects in the Senate were uncertain. Florida’s two senators have vowed to filibuster any legislation that would allow drilling within 125 miles of Florida’s coast.
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The Supreme Court ended its session on Friday with two rulings on the death penalty in Texas and Arizona.
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The Bush administration has been unable to muster even half the 2,500 National Guardsmen it planned to have on the Mexican border by the end of June, officials in the border states said.
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The Supreme Court’s rebuff of the Bush administration’s Guantanamo military tribunals knocks the issue into the halls of Congress, where GOP leaders are already trying to figure out how to give the president the options he wants for dealing with suspected terror detainees.
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Fateh Mohammad, a prison inmate in Pakistan, says he woke up last weekend with a glass lightbulb in his anus.
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Voters increasingly see Democrats as the party best able to handle the top problems confronting the U.S., as Republicans struggle to hold their congressional majorities in midterm elections little more than four months away.
Registered voters favor Democrats over Republicans in contests in their congressional districts by 49 percent to 35 percent, a Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times poll finds. Fifty-four percent want to see Democrats control Congress, while 34 percent prefer that Republicans stay in power. In April, Democrats led Republicans 51 percent to 38 percent on the issue.
Democrats have opened up a 16-point lead on the question of which party is best equipped to tackle the nation’s most urgent challenges. Democrats, who have long enjoyed a decided edge on issues such as health care and the economy, now find themselves preferred on the Iraq war, ethics and immigration — issues where Republicans had been ahead, or where the public was more divided.
The turnaround suggests Republicans “are headed for very difficult fall elections,” said Stuart Rothenberg, editor of the nonpartisan Rothenberg Political Report. “The House of Representatives is in play, and the Democrats have a real chance” to sweep back to power.
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The United States is losing its fight against terrorism and the Iraq war is the biggest reason why, more than eight of ten American terrorism and national security experts concluded in a poll released yesterday.
One participant in the survey, a former CIA official who described himself as a conservative Republican, said the war in Iraq has provided global terrorist groups with a recruiting bonanza, a valuable training ground and a strategic beachhead at the crossroads of the oil-rich Persian Gulf and Turkey, the traditional land bridge linking the Middle East to Europe.
“The war in Iraq broke our back in the war on terror,” said the former official, Michael Scheuer, the author of Imperial Hubris, a popular book highly critical of the Bush administration’s anti-terrorism efforts. “It has made everything more difficult and the threat more existential.”
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The House approved a bill Thursday that would end a ban on offshore oil and gas drilling but it faces opposition in the Senate.
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