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The Bush administration will open negotiations that would pave the way for Russia to become one of the world's largest repositories of spent nuclear fuel.
White House officials are planning for new Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to take up the president's antitax crusade and swiftly move for new tax cuts and a possible major reform of the system, including the curtailing or elimination of the alternative minimum tax.
American companies continued to hire workers at a solid pace last month, but at a slower rate than economists had been expecting. The Labor Department said this morning that nonfarm payrolls grew by 121,000 in June. The unemployment rate remained steady at 4.6 percent. Many analysts had been expecting job growth in the 175,000 to 200,000 range. Expectations got a real boost earlier this week when the ADP employment report—developed by Automatic Data Processing and Macroeconomic Advisers and covering some 225,000 companies—showed an increase of 368,000 jobs in June. That was the most in its five-year history.
As U.S. and other intelligence agencies scrutinize North Korean preparations for a possible long-range missile launch, the Bush administration is readying a response if North Korea does fire – and puzzling over the rogue nation's motives.
AP - U.S. investigators have asked Iraqi authorities to help them navigate cultural sensitivities to exhume the body of a teenager allegedly raped and murdered with her family by American soldiers, a military official said Saturday.
AP - A key test of a daring yet wobbly spacewalking technique that could be used someday to repair space shuttle heat shields worked well Saturday and got good reviews from two astronauts from the shuttle Discovery, NASA officials said.
AP - More than 100,000 defiant supporters of leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador massed Saturday in a bid to overturn his narrow election defeat with protests that threatened to widen Mexico's regional and class divisions.
A woman died after the Coast Guard chased and captured a speedboat carrying 31 Cuban migrants and three suspected immigrant smugglers about 4 miles off the coast of Boca Chica, Florida, on Saturday, the Coast Guard said.
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya on Saturday urged a halt to all military operations and a return to calm following a two-week standoff between Israelis and Palestinians ignited by the capture of an Israeli soldier. The appeal came hours after Israeli forces launched a new offensive on the eastern outskirts of Gaza City.
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