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AP - Law enforcement officials get to keep their antiterror tools, but
 with some new curbs, under the USA Patriot Act renewal passed by the
 House in a cliffhanger vote.

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AP - Iran threatened the United States with "harm and pain" Wednesday
 for its role in hauling Tehran before the U.N. Security Council over
 its disputed nuclear program.

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AP - Six months after Hurricane Katrina left its mark on the Gulf Coast,
 President Bush was returning again to the slowly rebuilding region
 Wednesday for another progress report.

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AP - In his first election since he was indicted and forced to step
 aside as majority leader, Rep. Tom DeLay held off three challengers to
 keep the Republican nomination to the U.S. House. Now he faces what
 many consider the real contest -- a general election fight against an
 organized, well-funded Democrat with a score to settle.

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Reuters - North Korea cannot return to six-way talks on its nuclear
 programs unless the United States ends its financial crack down on
 Pyongyang's assets, Yonhap news agency quoted a senior North Korean
 official as saying.

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AP - Here's a real caffeine jolt -- heart attacks might be a risk for
 coffee drinkers with a common genetic trait that makes caffeine linger
 in their bodies, a study suggests.

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AP - In its latest bid to catch up with rivals Google Inc. and Yahoo
 Inc., Microsoft Corp. is launching a revamped Internet search engine it
 says will help computer users find information faster, view it more
 easily and organize it better.

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AP - The American Medical Association is warning girls not to go wild
 during spring break. All but confirming what goes on in those "Girls
 Gone Wild" videos, 83 percent of college women and graduates surveyed
 by the AMA said spring break involves heavier-than-usual drinking, and
 74 percent said the break results in increased sexual activity.

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AP - Teri Hatcher, one of the stars of ABC's "Desperate Housewives,"
 says in the upcoming issue of Vanity Fair that her uncle sexually
 molested her 35 years ago.

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AP - Barry Bonds continues to be the talk of the San Francisco Giants'
 training camp, even if his manager and general manager don't want to
 discuss him. A soon-to-be-released book claims the Giants slugger used
 a vast array of performance-enhancing drugs for at least five seasons
 beginning in 1998.

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Reuters - The bodies of 18 men -- bound, blindfolded and strangled --
 were found in a Sunni Arab district of Baghdad, apparent victims of the
 sectarian turmoil gripping Iraq that threatens the formation of a
 coalition government.

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Reuters - The United States warned Iran on Wednesday to expect
 consequences from the United Nations if it failed to halt nuclear
 research but Iran said it was capable of inflicting "harm and pain" and
 could change its oil policy.

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Reuters - A White House-backed bill to bolster protection of civil
 liberties under the anti-terror USA Patriot Act won final congressional
 approval on Tuesday from the U.S. House of Representatives.

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Reuters - President George W. Bush returns to hurricane-ravaged New
 Orleans on Wednesday seeking to fend off the latest fallout from a
 political storm that has battered his popularity and shows no sign of
 blowing over.

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Reuters - A nine-year-old girl has died of bird flu in China, state
 media said on Wednesday, as the United Nations stepped up efforts to
 battle the rapidly spreading virus.

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AFP - The discovery of 18 men, shot or strangled to death, on a Baghdad
 bus raised new fears of sectarian bloodshed in Iraq as the US
 ambassador acknowledged the invasion opened a "Pandora's box" of
 tension.

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AFP - Indian police shot dead an Islamic militant suspected of links to
 a triple bombing that killed 23 people in Hinduism's holy city of
 Varanasi and sparked a nationwide alert.

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AFP - Europe and the United States ratcheted up the pressure on Iran to
 back down over its nuclear ambitions as the UN's atomic watchdog
 studied a key report to be sent to the Security Council.

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AFP - A US prosecutor held a courtroom in thrall with a chilling
 minute-by-minute rundown of the September 11 attacks, on the second day
 of Al-Qaeda operative Zacarias Moussaoui's death penalty trial.

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AFP - Campaigners have marked International Women's Day by vowing to
 fight sexual violence and discrimination in Asia as the United States
 remains locked in debate about abortion rights.

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