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AP - President Bush and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf recommitted
 their nations Saturday to the difficult task of hunting down terrorists
 still hiding here and across the globe.

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AP - Former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham began his first day in prison
 after being sentenced to eight years and four months for taking $2.4
 million in homes, yachts and other bribes in a corruption scheme
 unmatched in the annals of Congress.

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AP - It started as a routine gubernatorial appointment to a feel-good
 commission -- so routine that the governor says he didn't even know the
 details.

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AP - The dealmaking instinct can be hard to shake when one has been
 Senate majority leader and might again seek that post. Exhibit A:
 Former Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., who broke a two-week
 deadlock between his successor, Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., and
 Democratic leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., over the ratio of Republican and
 Democratic negotiators on a bill to secure the future benefits of
 millions with defined benefit pension plans.

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AP - Senate leaders have broken a two-week impasse on a major pension
 overhaul bill, allowing the House and Senate to begin talks on how to
 secure the future benefits of millions with defined benefit pension
 plans.

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AP - A United Arab Emirates company formally submitted Friday to an
 unusual, broader security examination of its plans to assume
 significant operations at six major U.S. ports -- a business deal it
 code-named "Project Thunder."

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AP - A former Pentagon spokeswoman under President Reagan launched a Web
 site Friday to solicit donations for a possible run against Democratic
 Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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AP - Former Sen. Arthur Brown of Utah is a footnote to history -- more
 interesting than most, though, because a woman claiming he had fathered
 two of her children gunned him down in a hotel room in 1906. Brown's
 entry is among the 12,000 or so -- from Aandahl to Zwach -- in the
 Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005, the
 definitive reference book about federal lawmakers, now online for the
 first time.

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AP - A month before he abruptly resigned as Food and Drug Administration
 commissioner, Lester Crawford sold more than $50,000 in shares in a
 company that makes medical devices, according to financial disclosure
 forms obtained Friday by The Associated Press.

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AP - Fifteen states are urging the Supreme Court to take the unusual
 step of immediately intervening to resolve a dispute between states and
 the federal government over the costly new Medicare prescription drug
 program.

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