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Bush's troop withdrawal modest because gains in Iraq are fragile, officials sayByWASHINGTON - President Bush's announcement Tuesday that he'll maintain troop levels in Iraq through the end of his presidency suggests that despite his claim that the surge of additional U.S. troops in Iraq has succeeded, the security gains could be temporary, defense officials and experts said. |
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Federal deficit soaring, but McCain, Obama offer no answersByWASHINGTON - Just weeks before the government's fiscal year ends Sept. 30, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on Tuesday projected a near-record federal budget deficit of $407 billion, sharply higher than White House projections six weeks ago and more than double last year's figure. |
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Hurricane Ike weakens after causing havoc in CubaByMIAMI - Hurricane Ike left western Cuba Tuesday afternoon after making landfall a second time in the storm-wrecked nation. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center said Ike's eye emerged in the Gulf of Mexico about 90 miles west of Havana Tuesday afternoon. |
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Judge rules Florida ban on gay adoptions unconstitutionalByMIAMI - A Monroe Circuit Court judge has ruled Florida's 31-year-old gay adoption ban "unconstitutional" in an order that allows an openly gay Key West foster parent to adopt a teenaged boy he has raised since 2001. Declaring the adoption to be in the boy's "best interest," Circuit Judge David J. |
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Prosecutors recommend sentence reduction for AbramoffByImprisoned Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff won't be in federal court in Miami on Wednesday, but he will finally see his 70-month sentence reduced after serving almost two years behind bars in the SunCruz Casinos fraud case. Federal prosecutors have recommended cutting to 45 months Abramoff's prison term, imposed after his conviction for his and a New York businessman's fraudulent purchase of the South Florida fleet of gambling ships. |
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Texas judge, prosecutor admit to affair; inmate granted stay of executionByCHICAGO - A former judge and a former district attorney in Texas broke a lengthy silence and admitted under oath that they had engaged in a years-long sexual relationship, yet still presided over the trial of a man convicted of a 1989 double murder and sentenced to death, according to a reprieve request filed Tuesday. |
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Trial of 5 men accused in alleged Fort Dix plot won't be postponedByCAMDEN, N.J. - A federal judge denied a defense motion Tuesday seeking to postpone the trial of five suspected terrorists who allegedly plotted an attack on the Fort Dix military complex. Judge Robert F. Kugler said he was not convinced that the unavailability of an expert defense witness warranted delaying the trial, which is scheduled to start Sept. |
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