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White House budget director Rob Portman is resigning and will be replaced by former Iowa Rep. Jim Nussle, Bush Administration officials said Tuesday.
Nussle ran for governor of Iowa last year and was defeated. He has been serving in Iowa as an adviser in former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s campaign for the Republican Presidential nomination. [...]

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Two space shuttle Atlantis astronauts have floated outside the International Space Station for a fourth and final space walk before the shuttle departs on Tuesday (US time).
Patrick Forrester and Steven Swanson left the station’s airlock about 12:40pm (US time) to finish work on a rotary joint so a pair of electricity-producing wing panels can track [...]

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The collapse of immigration legislation in the Senate this week is a monument to President Bush’s enfeebled clout on Capitol Hill, the searing power of hostility toward illegal immigrants, and the difficulty of crafting a compromise on an emotional issue that touches so many diverse economic and political interests.
The fragile bipartisan deal on immigration was [...]

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The fierce rivalry between the chip makers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices is ratcheting up as both companies claim superiority in technology used for notebook computers.
On Wednesday, Intel introduced an upgrade to its popular Centrino chip set for notebook computers that it says is far more energy-efficient, uses a faster processor and features much improved [...]

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Representing America’s anguish, President Bush told Virginia Tech students and teachers at a somber convocation Tuesday that the nation was praying for them and “there’s a power in these prayers.””It’s impossible to make sense of such violence and suffering,” Bush said at a memorial service on the campus where 33 people, including the suspected gunman, [...]

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DEATH OF A PRESIDENT follows the investigation of the fictional assassination of President George W. Bush in October 2007. Combining real archival footage with a [...]

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The double Oscar win for “An Inconvenient Truth,” former Vice President Al Gore’s expanded slide-show on global warming, could spur grassroots support for the fight against climate change, environmental advocates said on Monday.That’s because a movie, especially one that many Americans have seen on home video, takes the issue beyond the realm of distant policymakers [...]

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Over Valentine’s weekend, I came to a startling personal realization. My boyfriend fathered Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, the infant daughter of recently deceased international famous person Anna Nicole Smith.
It’s not the undeniable resemblance that tipped me off. Sure, both my gentleman friend and Dannielynn are pasty and bald. But if that were the sole [...]

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A Texas judge has dismissed a lawsuit against MySpace that had blamed the popular Web site for not establishing enough safeguards to protect underage users.
The family of an underage girl — referred to as “Julie Doe” in the lawsuit — had sued MySpace last year after she lied [...]

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Peyton Manning and Tony Dungy got their first real taste of being a champion — from an invitation to the White House to the all-night parties to the requisite morning-show interviews.
President Bush called Colts owner Jim Irsay on Monday to congratulate him on the team’s Super Bowl victory. Then, in a separate phone call, Bush [...]

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Anti-war protesters from across the nation including Jane Fonda rallied in the shadow of the Capitol building in Washington today to demand that Congress block President George W. Bush’s new plan to send more troops to Iraq and withdraw those already there.The demonstration, the first national peace rally since voters gave Democrats a majority in [...]

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