The Senate vote on the detainee bill shows that party leaders believe the president’s power to wield national security as a political issue is diminished.
Jostling between officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and researchers who say the agency is ignoring evidence that stronger hurricanes are tied to global warming came into public view again his week when the journal Nature alleged that the agency quashed a report suggesting such a link.
As America's 504,000-person Army is stretched ever thinner–some 80 percent of troops have done combat tours and one third of those have done two or more–Army planners are drafting proposals to add 30,000 troops to the Army's ranks, say defense officials.
Christopher Kimball thought it would be so easy: Point out that school lunches are unhealthful, and taste awful, too, and the Tater Tots would disappear from the menu. But with legislation he backed to reform the federal school-lunch program sidelined in Congress's rush to adjourn this week and hit the campaign trail, Kimball feels it's time to move the battle to the home front. "This is not going to be an easy thing to solve," he says.
AP - President Bush can count on Congress for the sort of military tribunals he wants, although the White House likely will have to await a lame duck session after the election to get authorization for warrantless wiretaps.
AP - The gunman who took six girls hostage in a high school classroom and killed one of them before taking his own life left a suicide note, the sheriff said Friday.
The sheriff said Friday he would "put in jail" anyone who helps an unidentified man who is the focus of an intensifying manhunt and accused of killing a police officer and wounding another.
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