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| Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:00:00 EST Democrats plan to grab seats in Northeast |
| With Americans more frustrated with the ruling party in Congress than at any point since 1994, the talk in Washington is about whether Democrats in the '06 midterms can replicate the Republican revolution, when the GOP picked up 54 House seats and took control of the chamber for the first time in 40 years. While Democrats are still fighting internally over whether to produce their own version of the Contract With America, the party has decided to take another page from their opponents' 1994 playbook: concentrating on winning back districts in the "blue state" Northeast, just as the GOP did in the "red state" Deep South in 1994, picking up 16 previously Democratic districts in the region. |
| Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:00:00 EST Bush battles with press |
| White House reporters were buzzing Tuesday about what they considered President Bush's testiness and impatience with their questions at Bush's news conference Tuesday morning. |
| Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:00:00 EST Gay marriage now, polygamy later |
| Bloggers are probably getting too worked up over the new polygamy TV show, Big Love. One show doesn't create a real-life trend. But critics are right (as Rick Santorum was right) when they say the gay marriage debate opened the door to legal approval of polygamy. |
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| Thu, 23 Mar 2006 04:06:21 GMT Iraqi Insurgents' Raid on Jail Thwarted
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AP - Emboldened a day after a successful jailbreak, insurgents laid siege to another prison Wednesday. This time, U.S. troops and a special Iraqi unit thwarted the pre-dawn attack south of Baghdad, overwhelming the gunmen and capturing 50 of them, police said.
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| Thu, 23 Mar 2006 02:34:05 GMT GM, Delphi Offer Buyouts, Early Retirement
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AP - In one of the largest buyout programs ever, more than 125,000 hourly workers of General Motors Corp. and auto supplier Delphi Corp. are being offered up to $140,000 to give up their jobs to help cut the companies' crippling labor costs.
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| Thu, 23 Mar 2006 03:16:13 GMT Chile Bus Crash Kills 12 American Tourists
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AP - A bus carrying cruise ship tourists plunged 300 feet down a mountainside in northern Chile Wednesday, killing 12 Americans, U.S. and Chilean officials said.
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| Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:08:00 EST Tour bus plummets into canyon, killing 12 people |
| A bus carrying cruise ship tourists on a side trip through the mountains of northern Chile plunged off a cliff, killing 12 people, all of them U.S. citizens, authorities said. The bus was returning to the ship from a national park near the Bolivian border when it swerved off the highway and into a 260-foot canyon, said Maj. Carlos Valcarce, an Arica police spokesman. |
| Wed, 22 Mar 2006 21:54:31 EST FAA's missed chances to stop 9/11 hijackers detailed |
| Jurors in the Zacarias Moussaoui death penalty trial were expected to hear more on Wednesday about how some of the September 11, 2001, hijackers got flight training in the United States. |
| Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:42:29 EST Gonzales: Largest-ever narcotics-trafficking indictment |
| The rebel leaders are accused of flooding U.S. streets with cocaine to fund their guerrilla warfare in Colombia. The indictments against dozens of top FARC members also detail vicious tactics they allegedly used to keep coca farmers in line -- including dismembering them while they were still alive. |
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