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    Poll: Most Americans Doubt Bush's Honesty (AP)

AP - Most Americans say they aren't impressed by the ethics and honesty
 of the Bush administration, already under scrutiny for its
 justifications for an unpopular war in Iraq and its role in the leak of
 a covert CIA officer's identity.

    Senate Bars Detainees From Filing Lawsuits (AP)

AP - The Senate voted Thursday to bar foreign terror suspects at the
 U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from filing lawsuits in American
 courts to challenge their detentions, despite a Supreme Court ruling
 last year that granted such access.

    House Republicans Vow to Revive Budget-Cuts (AP)

AP - Republican leaders on Capitol Hill are vowing to revive a sweeping
 budget-cut bill despite an embarrassing setback this week. But they
 won't have an easy time of it considering divisions within the GOP and
 a revolt by party moderates over cuts to social programs like food
 stamps, Medicaid, and student loans.

    Presidential Aide Takes Aim at Democrats (AP)

AP - Presidential adviser Karl Rove took aim at four of the Bush
 administration's Democratic opponents in the Senate and received a
 standing ovation from a conservative legal group, defying his critics
 as he awaits his fate in the CIA leak investigation.

    Why People Approve, Disapprove of Bush (AP)

AP - Why people approve or disapprove of the job being done by President
 Bush, based on their answers to an open-ended question on their reasons
 for answers to the job approval question. Results come from an AP-Ipsos
 poll of 1,006 adults, taken Oct. 31-Nov. 2, that has a margin of
 sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. In that poll, 37
 percent approved of Bush and 59 percent disapproved of Bush.

    Teen Holds Two-Vote Lead in Mich. Race (AP)

AP - An 18-year-old high school student held on to a two-vote lead to
 become mayor of this southern Michigan town.

    Tom DeLay's Attorneys Request Documents (AP)

AP - Rep. Tom DeLay's attorneys asked for internal documents from the
 local prosecutor, hoping to show he went after the powerful Republican
 despite opposition from grand juries.

    Robes Muslims Gave Christians on Exhibit (AP)

AP - It may be difficult to envision a Muslim leader today sponsoring
 Christian religious objects. But 500 years ago the Sultan of Turkey,
 ruler of mosque and state, shipped luxurious robes from his prized silk
 mill in Istanbul to Christian countries, robes laden with Christian
 symbols and an abbreviation for "Christ is victorious."

    Alito denies conflicts of interest (Reuters)

Reuters - U.S. Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, seeking to avert a
 possible controversy, said on Thursday he never to his knowledge ruled
 in a case in which he had an obligation to recuse himself -- and had
 been "unduly restrictive" in a 1990 vow on possible conflicts of
 interest.

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