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    Blanco Goes to D.C. to Answer Brown Charge (AP)

AP - Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco will appear before a Senate panel
 this morning, but she's already come out swinging against former FEMA
 head Michael Brown.

    Auditors Vow to Probe Katrina Contracts (AP)

AP - A day after castigating the federal government's ousted disaster
 chief, a House panel is hearing pledges from government auditors that
 they will closely examine millions of dollars in contracts the Bush
 administration awarded to politically connected companies for Hurricane
 Katrina relief.

    Grand Jury to Wrap Up DeLay Investigation (AP)

AP - The Texas grand jury investigating House Majority Leader Tom
 DeLay's state political organization was completing its term Wednesday
 after demonstrating a recent interest in conspiracy charges that could
 bring more indictments.

    Howard Dean Backs Bloomberg Challenger (AP)

AP - The national leader of the Democratic party threw his weight behind
 the underdog candidate hoping to oust Republican Mayor Michael
 Bloomberg.

    White Lawmaker Likens Black Colleagues, KKK (AP)

AP - A white Tennessee lawmaker lamenting his exclusion from the state's
 Black Legislative Caucus claimed Tuesday the group was less
 accommodating that even the Ku Klux Klan.

    First Lady Makes Her Reality TV Debut (AP)

AP - First lady Laura Bush made her reality TV debut Tuesday, helping
 with a taping of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" in a sweltering
 community building as she toured hurricane relief sites on the
 Mississippi coast.

    Sen. Hillary Clinton Seeking Donations (AP)

AP - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is asking her backers to step up their
 donations, saying opponents of her 2006 re-election effort "will raise
 and spend hundreds of millions of dollars against me."

    Bolton Asseses Progress Toward UN Changes (AP)

AP - President Bush's hard-charging ambassador to the United Nations hit
 a bureaucratic wall this month as he failed to persuade other nations
 to go as far as the United States wanted toward overhauling the world
 body's management and operations.

    Senator Claims Backing on Medicare Changes (AP)

AP - An Oregon senator says he has enough votes in the Senate to pass an
 amendment allowing the government to negotiate Medicare drug prices
 directly with pharmaceutical companies, a change opposed by President
 Bush and other Republicans as well as the drug industry.

    High Court Selection Process Winds Down (AP)

AP - President Bush, nearing the end of his search for a successor to
 retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, has whittled his list to a
 handful of candidates and could announce his decision by week's end.

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