Col. Aleksandr Feklisov directed Julius Rosenberg?s spying for the K.G.B. and acted as an intermediary between the White House and the Kremlin during the Cuban missile crisis.
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In the Democratic debate Tuesday night, Tim Russert, the moderator, tried to pin Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton down on letting illegal immigrants obtain driver?s licenses.
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A House committee chairman demanded that the White House turn over hundreds of pages of material about Jack Abramoff, the disgraced lobbyist, and his contacts with administration officials.
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Hundreds of young American children suffered hardship and psychological trauma after immigration raids in the last year in which their parents were detained or deported.
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The House Transportation Committee approved scaled-back a bridge safety bill that would authorize $2 billion to fix the worst bridges, to be paid for from general funds.
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Oct. 31: Congressional Quarterly’s Craig Crawford takes a look at the hits the Democratic presidential candidates took on Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Rudy Giuliani during Tuesday’s debate. (Countdown)
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Oct. 31: Karen Hughes resigned today as Under Secretary of Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. James Moore talks to “Countdown’s†Keith Olbermann about the Bush-Hughes relationship, what it means for President Bush’s final years, and the failed projects Hughes has led over the years. (Countdown)
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Oct. 31: Congress won’t give Pres. Bush what he wants so he plans to bypass Congress as much as possible, through governing by administrative order. Newsweek’s Howard Fineman discusses. (Countdown)
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Oct. 31: Democrats express reservations about attorney general nominee Michael Mukasey over his stance on torture. NBC’s Jeannie Ohm reports. (MSNBC)
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Talks between King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and the British government centered on terrorism, Middle East peace issues, health and education, but not human rights.
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Three men were found guilty of murder and 18 others were convicted of lesser charges, but none of the accused ringleaders of the attack were convicted.
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Two months before the first votes are cast, no Republican presidential candidate has been able to break loose from the crowded field, with Rudy Giuliani leading nationally but facing an uncertain path to victory.
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Oct. 31: President Bush makes a Halloween costume joke about Vice President Dick Cheney. NBC’s Jeannie Ohm reports. (MSNBC)
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Firefighters say they have put out an oil refinery blaze sparked after an explosion which shook homes up to 14 miles away.
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Edward T. Schafer, a former two-term Republican governor of North Dakota, will head the vast bureaucracy that is the Department of Agriculture.
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A boy playing with matches has confessed to starting a wildfire that destroyed 63 structures near Los Angeles, officials said on Tuesday.
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Forty-six years ago and a day, the
biggest bomb ever exploded was
tested. It was a Soviet 50-Megaton bomb.
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With the Iraq war still raging and Afghanistan nowhere near being stable, why have presidential candidates decided to begin debating Iran? Can overplaying the issue in the primary leave the eventual nominees with a bad hand come next fall?
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There’s a vigorous debate going on these days over whether national polls that suggest Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., is running away with the Democratic presidential nomination are correct or even relevant.
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Several hundred U.S. diplomats vented anger and frustration Wednesday about the State Department’s decision to force foreign service officers to take jobs in Iraq, with some likening it to a “potential death sentence.”
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As head of public diplomacy, Karen P. Hughes had focused on improving America?s image in Muslim countries.
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His name only came up once in passing during Tuesday night’s presidential debate, but in a way, Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Democratic presidential contender himself in 2004, was very much present.
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The prospects of Michael Mukasey’s confirmation as the nation’s 81st attorney general grew dimmer Wednesday after he again declined to call waterboarding torture and endorsed many of President Bush’s positions on executive power.
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Oct. 31: MSNBC’s Monica Novotny talks to Newsvine’s Viki Gonia about Web users’ comments on the Democratic presidential debate. (MSNBC)
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President Bush on Wednesday nominated Edward Schafer, a former two-term Republican governor from North Dakota, to lead the Agriculture Department, which is hoping to influence the outcome of a new five-year farm bill.
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