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AP - Vice President Dick Cheney urged Americans Thursday to do a better
 job of saving and challenged policymakers to strengthen pensions and
 fix Social Security to help people in their golden years.

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AP - On the eve of Hurricane Katrina's fateful landfall, President Bush
 was confident. His homeland security chief appeared relaxed. Louisiana
 officials were heaping praise on the federal government.

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AP - Just 37 percent of California's likely voters are inclined to
 re-elect Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in November, a huge drop from a
 year ago, according to a poll released Thursday.

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AP - The seemingly impossible task of finding a way to tighten borders
 against illegal immigrants while maintaining a flow of low-wage workers
 for U.S. businesses gets under way in Congress, pitting two Republican
 bases against each other.

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USATODAY.com - The Senate added civil liberties protections to the USA
 Patriot Act on Wednesday, clearing the way for renewal of the
 anti-terrorism law passed shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

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AP - President Bush's Republican allies on Capitol Hill are nearing
 votes on his austere budget blueprint for next year, and it's clear it
 will look a lot different by the time they're finished.

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AP - Given his age, Sid Smith's campaign slogan seems obvious: "At 95,
 who needs term limits?"

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AP - Congress acted Thursday to give people thrown out of work by
 hurricanes Katrina and Rita an extra 13 weeks of disaster unemployment
 benefits.

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AP - A second Dubai-owned company confirmed Thursday the Bush
 administration has launched an unusual investigation over the potential
 security risks of its business moves in the United States.

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AP - A key justice questioned the effects on Hispanics of redrawing
 Texas congressional districts, but the full Supreme Court showed little
 inclination to throw out the entire map promoted by former House
 Majority Leader Tom DeLay.

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Reuters - Lawyers representing Slobodan Milosevic have asked the U.N.
 war crimes tribunal to issue a subpoena to force former U.S. President
 Bill Clinton to testify at his trial, documents showed on Tuesday.

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