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    Cheney Defends His Silence on Shooting (AP)

AP - Vice President Dick Cheney rejects any notion that his victim bears
 any responsibility for the shooting accident that turned a weekend
 hunting trip into trauma. "I'm the guy who pulled the trigger and shot
 my friend," he said.

    Cheney Says He Can Declassify Information (AP)

AP - Vice President Dick Cheney says he has the power to declassify
 government secrets, raising the possibility that he authorized his
 former chief of staff to pass along sensitive prewar data on Iraq to
 reporters.

    Chertoff Draws Hurricane Katrina Criticism (AP)

AP - Calling Hurricane Katrina "one of the most difficult and traumatic
 experiences of my life," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff
 says he is fixing failures in his department before next storm season.

    Rice Outlines White House Approach on Iran (AP)

AP - The Bush administration will "walk a fine line" in seeking punitive
 international sanctions against Iran's Islamic government over its
 disputed nuclear program, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said
 Wednesday.

    Patriot Act Moves Ahead Despite Opposition (AP)

AP - The USA Patriot Act is headed toward renewal with broad Senate
 support for a White House-brokered compromise that adds modest new
 civil liberties protections to the terror-fighting law.

    Cheney Mishap Takes Focus Off CIA Leak (AP)

AP - It's not Dick Cheney's hunting mishap that worries Republicans.
 It's his other scandal -- the CIA leak case and the threat it poses to
 the embattled vice president.

    Md. Gov. Doubts State's Election System (AP)

AP - Gov. Robert Ehrlich, citing concerns over electronic voting
 machines and a new early voting law passed by Democrats over his veto,
 said Wednesday that he no longer has confidence in the state's ability
 to conduct fair and accurate elections this year.

    Hillary Clinton Immortalized at Wax Museum (AP)

AP - Add Hillary Rodham Clinton to the pantheon of luminaries
 immortalized in Madame Tussauds' wax museum.

    Justice Alito Hires Trusted Conservatives (AP)

AP - Helping promote Samuel Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court has
 paid off for three conservative lawyers, including a one-time confidant
 of former Attorney General John Ashcroft.

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