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| Mon, 15 May 2006 16:00:00 EST The week ahead |
| Last week, the Federal Reserve said future decisions on interest rate hikes would depend heavily on new economic data. Well, this week, a whole slew of new economic surveys is scheduled to be released, including three key reports on inflation. And several Fed officials, including Chairman Ben Bernanke, will be on the lecture tour this week. That should give the financial press ample opportunity to pepper them with questions about their true feelings on the economy. |
| Mon, 15 May 2006 16:00:00 EST Pentagon launches Guantanamo PR campaign |
| The Pentagon has launched a public relations campaign to offset the negative publicity about its terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. |
| Mon, 15 May 2006 14:00:00 EST Mortimer B. Zuckerman: Hypocrisy on stilts |
| The American public, not to speak of its elected officials, has been stunningly indifferent to our reckless fiscal course of the past five years. Maybe it's because our focus has been so much on terrorism, but the numbers are terrifying, too. President Bush inherited a budget surplus estimated at $5.6 trillion over 10 years. He has converted that giant plus into a giant minus--deficits estimated at $5 trillion over those same 10 years. Talk about a U-turn! |
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| Tue, 16 May 2006 00:44:39 GMT Bush to Send Up to 6,000 Troops to Border
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AP - President Bush, trying to build support for a major overhaul of the nation's tattered immigration laws, said Monday night he would order as many as 6,000 National Guard troops to secure the U.S. border with Mexico and urged Congress to give millions of illegal immigrants a chance at citizenship.
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| Mon, 15 May 2006 23:58:24 GMT Pentagon Releases Gitmo Detainees' Names
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AP - The Pentagon gave The Associated Press on Monday the first list of everyone who has been held at Guantanamo Bay, more than four years after it opened the detention center in Cuba. But none of the most notorious terrorist suspects were included, raising questions about where America's most dangerous prisoners are being held.
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| Mon, 15 May 2006 23:58:45 GMT U.S. to Restore Diplomatic Ties With Libya
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AP - The United States will restore full diplomatic relations with Libya and remove it from a list of terrorism sponsors, the Bush administration said Monday, rewarding Moammar Gadhafi's government for renouncing weapons of mass destruction and cooperating in the hunt for terrorists.
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