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Wednesday, February 18, 2004
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The F.E.C. chairman scolded Republicans for trying to prohibit groups from spending corporate and union campaign donations. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
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A panel concluded today that the president's plan for examining climate change can succeed only if it is shielded from politics and if budgets grow. By Andrew C. Revkin. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
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The group, which included 20 Nobel laureates, said that the White House has deliberately and systematically distorted scientific fact in the service of policy goals. By James Glanz. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
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The United Auto Workers union and the Sierra Club are joining to oppose a Bush administration plan to overhaul federal fuel economy regulations. By Danny Hakim. [New York Times: Business]
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[Washington Post: Editorial]
It should not take a court order to force the state to delay these executions until it knows whether they are legal. But Texas, in its unrivaled enthusiasm for capital punishment, sees few corners that it cannot cut to get convicts to the death chamber quickly. Texas has executed more than half the total number of juvenile offenders put to death in this country since capital punishment's reinstatement.
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Treasury Secretary John Snow distanced himself from the Bush administration's prediction that the nation would add 2.6 million jobs this year. By Edmund L. Andrews. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
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[AP Politics] MONTPELIER, Vt. - A judge ruled Tuesday that neither former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean (news - web sites) nor the secretary of state had authority to agree to a blanket seal covering 145 boxes of records from his 11 years as governor.
Superior Court Judge Alan W. Cook said Dean and the state must identify the roughly 600,000 sealed documents and describe why each of them is protected by executive privilege. An appeal of the ruling to the state Supreme Court is likely.
"Howard Dean is now getting a lesson in government openness," said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, which last fall filed the suit seeking to open the papers.
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[AP Politics] By PETE YOST
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department (news - web sites) has exaggerated its performance in the war on terrorism, interfered with a major terror prosecution and compromised a confidential informant, a federal prosecutor has alleged in an extraordinary lawsuit against Attorney General John Ashcroft (news - web sites).
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[AP Politics] By JUSTIN BERGMAN
RICHMOND, Va. - Gay rights proponents scored victories in the conservative-leaning House of Delegates on measures involving access to health insurance and home loans.
The House, which last week passed a bill reaffirming the state's ban on gay marriage, narrowly passed legislation Monday that would allow employers to offer group insurance benefits to gay partners who live together. It rejected a measure seeking to make state mortgage loans available only to married heterosexuals or blood relatives.
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World: Senator John Kerry has castigated George Bush for pushing the Northern Ireland peace process down the White House's foreign policy agenda. [Guardian Unlimited]
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A club has stirred things up at Roger Williams University in Bristol, R.I., with its scholarship for whites. By Elissa Gootman. [New York Times: Education]
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The story of how a hollow's residents finally got clean water speaks volumes about disparities in living standards that are related to the color of one's skin. By James Dao. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
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Last update: 3/1/2004; 1:25:19 PM.
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