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April 12, 2013

• Caught in the Middle of a Drone War; Are Targeted Killings Effective?; RNC Holding Fast on Same-Sex Marriage; Doctor's "House of Horrors"
• North Korean Crisis; Debating Drones; Psy Time or "Sigh" Time?; Generation Jihad

April 11, 2013

• Latest Social Media Craze; Pakistan Agreed to Secret U.S. Drone Deal; Bugged by a Progressive Group; Rift Over Same Sex Marriage; The Cicadas Are Coming; What's in the Box?
• Gun Control Filibuster Blocked; Interview with West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin; Interview with Defense Department Spokesman George Little; Jay-Z's "Open Letter" to Congress

April 10, 2013

• Gun Control Compromise; Interview With Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey; Anthony Weiner for Mayor?; Rand Paul Reaches Out to Black Community; Obama's Budget Wish List; CNN's "Parts Unknown" Begins Sunday; Where Have You Gone, Jackie Robinson?

April 09, 2013

• JCPenney's Johnson Ousted; McConnell Campaign: We Were Bugged; "Accidental Racist" Song Creates Controversy; Pitino's Promise: I'll Get A Tattoo
• Interview With Michigan Congressman Mike Rogers; Mass Stabbing at Texas College; North Korean Crisis; Reporter Ruling Delayed

April 08, 2013

• Interview With Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal; President Obama Pushes Gun Control; North Korean Crisis; Margaret Thatcher, 1925-2013; WhatsApp with Google?; Protecting A Lead Source; Risking It All For The Facts; Christie Calls Coach An "Animal"

April 05, 2013

• Morning After Pill Now Available to Teens; Caught in a Taliban Ambush; Getting More Oil from Canada; What We've Learned Since "Jurassic Park"
• President Obama's Apology; Federal Judge Rules on Morning After Pill

April 04, 2013

• On the Set of "Mad Men"; "Liking" Facebook's Latest Toy; After Newtown, a New Law; Meat Labeling Examined; Mysterious New Bird Flu Proving Deadly; Bitcoin ATMs Are Coming Soon
• Roger Ebert Dies; Facebook Phone; Interview with Former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson; Clinton Writing New Book; Inside the NFL

April 03, 2013

• The Politics Of Forgiveness; Obama Takes A Pay Cut; Chopper Crashes In Miami-Dade; The Cell Phone Turns 40; Ware Speaks About Horrific Injury; Abuse Backlash
• Interview With Former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford; North Korean Nuclear Threat; North Korea Approves Nuclear Attack on U.S.; Difficulty of Enforcing Gun Laws

April 02, 2013

• Gun Fight In America; Big Money, Bizarre Bedfellows; Jon Stewart Sticks Up For Egyptian Counterpart; Show Me The Money!
• Interview With Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Guns in Schools; Interview with Randi Weingarten of American Federation of Teachers; The Plot to Rig the Race; What's Behind Auto Industry's Comeback?

April 01, 2013

• Horrific Sports Injury; To Japan With Love; Feds Investigating Murder of Texas D.A.; Apple Says Sorry to China; Tensions On The Rise On Korean Peninsula; Responding To North Korean Threats; Chinese Version Of "Iron Man 3"; Big Night For Cable TV

March 29, 2013

• Is Billionaire Buying Off U.S. Government?; Billion Bitcoins; UPS Fined $40 Million for Illegal Pharmacy Shipments; Gadgets You Can Wear; The Marriage Wars; Last Minute Legislation: Bad for Our Health?; The Real Cost of Obamacare; Fifteen Minutes of Fame and Then Some
• Interview With Derek Jeter; North Korean Threat; Is North Korea Bluffing?; Derek Jeter the Next Steinbrenner?

March 28, 2013

• Interview With Newtown Father; Netflix Soars; Obama Goes It Alone; Reports: Barbara Walters Retiring

March 27, 2013

• I Am Palin, Hear Me Roar!; O'Reilly: Gay Marriage Opponents' "Thump" Bible; The Toughest Abortion Law In America; "The Walking Dead" Killing The Competition; Hostages Want Payback; Virtual Nuclear Bomb Hits Internet
• Supreme Court Examines Same-Sex Marriage; Viagra Turns 15; Viagra for Women?; Desperate Marlins Turn to Groupon

March 26, 2013

• Tiger Woods Regained Number One World Ranking; Senator Rand Paul Plans to Filibuster Again; David Petraeus Apologized to the Public; Where We Stand On Guns Now; Presidential Perks; Oldies But Goodies
• Italy to Retry Amanda Knox; New Revelations About Death of Osama bin Laden; Same-Sex Marriage Gets Its Day in Court; Dow Hits New Record High; Big Score for Pro Leagues

March 25, 2013

• "Kid President," at White House Easter Egg Roll; CBS Apologizes to Veterans; Jim Carrey Takes on Gun Lobby; Silicon Valley's Money and Power Play; Cinderella Men; Rethinking the War on Drugs; Changing Face of the GOP
• Supreme Court Examines Same-Sex Marriage; Criticizing Russia Hazardous to Your Health?; Don't Mess with Putin; Kerry Visits with Karzai; Hollywood Targeting the Oval Office

March 22, 2013

• The Growing Business Of Marijuana; You Don't Know Me!; "The Dream Team" That Wasn't
• FAA to Close Towers; President Obama in Middle East; Interview with Frederick, MD, Mayor; Israel's Apology to Turkey; L.A. Mayor Takes Center Stage; Jeb Bush on Brother's Art

March 21, 2013

• Too Much Salt?; Interview With Jimmy Kimmel; Jimmy Kimmel Ready for Late-Night Battle; Interview with Ben Carson; Conservatives Swoon Over Carson; No Signs of Chemical Attack in Syria; "Two States, Two Peoples"; Twitter's Jack Dorsey: Hip to Be Square

March 20, 2013

• Interview With House Speaker John Boehner; Controversial Autism Numbers; What's Happened Since Heat's Last Loss; Report: "Tonight Show" Moving To NYC; Diplomat's Wife's Rock Goddess Past; Suing World Banks, Spies In The Cloud; Alison Hickey Speaks On Capitol Hill After Damning Report On Veterans' Claims

March 19, 2013

• Chemical Weapons in Syria?; Interview With Florida Senator Marco Rubio; Interview With White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough; March is About to Get Mad; Jordan's Warning to the U.S.; Interview With Senator Marco Rubio; What Happened To Just Making Music?

March 18, 2013

• A Warm Welcome From TV's Fake News Pundit; Mugabe Slips Into Italy For Pope Francis' Installation; Trouble Ahead For The GOP; The Republican Autopsy Report; One On One With King James; Nobody Works During "March Madness"; On With Vonn
• Interview With New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Interview With Stephen Colbert; Stocks Hold Steady; Cruising for a Bruising; Baseball Stalker's Quite Death

June 25, 2005

• Durbin's Apology to the Senate; Is Jack Abramoff a Thief?; Goodbye from the Gang of Five

June 18, 2005

• The debate over whether the detention center at Guantanamo should be close to reaching the Senate floor. With the release of Terri Schiavo's autopsy, debate is reignited on Capitol Hill. Is Hillary Clinton moving to the center to run for president? Pat Buchanan visits with "THE CAPITAL GANG"

June 11, 2005

• British prime minister Tony Blair meets with President Bush in advance of the G-8 summit in Scotland; Are Senate Democrats rethinking the deal they cut on judges? Florida's notorious Representative Katherine Harris prepares to run for the Senate against Democratic Senator Bill Nelson; Interview with Tom Foley

June 04, 2005

• Deep Throat Highlights Role of Anonymous Sources; Amnesty International Calls Guantanamo Bay an American Gulag; Supreme Court Throws Out Arthur Andersen Conviction; 20th Anniversary of Watergate with Senator Lott; European Union Constitution Rejected by France and the Netherlands.

May 28, 2005

• A Showdown over Filibustering President Bush's Judicial Nominees was Averted By 14 Senators; House Approves a Bill Extending Federal Funding of Stem Cell Research

May 21, 2005

• A look at Battle Over Judges and Filibusters

May 20, 2005

• Sentate Filibuster Showdown Approaching; U.S. Military Sees Long Road to Iraqi Self-Sufficiency; Dean Blasts DeLay on Ethics Probe; Kansas Continues to Debate Place of Religion in Science; U.S. Officials Attack "Newsweek" after Retracted Story Sparks Deadly Riots; Priscilla Owen, Back in the Ring

May 14, 2005

• Senate Foreign Relations Committee Holds Final Debate on John Bolton; President Bush ruffles Russian Feathers

May 07, 2005

• What Has Been Accomplished in President Bush's Second Term? A Military Judge Throws out PFC Lynndie England's guilty Plea

April 30, 2005

• President Bush Holds First Primetime Press Conference in a Year; House Republican leadership Abandoned Changes in House Ethics Committee

April 23, 2005

• Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany becomes Pope Benedict XVI; John Bolton's nomination to be ambassador to the U.N. runs into big trouble in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

April 16, 2005

• Is House majority leader Tom DeLay in trouble? Is John Bolton the right choice for U.N. ambassador?

April 09, 2005

• The death of Pope John Paul II: Legacy, Possible Successors, American Political Implications

March 26, 2005

• Republicans go out on a limb on the Terri Schiavo case; President Bush's approval on Social Security continues to erode; President Bush hosts a mini-summit in Crawford with Mexican President Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Martin

March 19, 2005

• Congress Holds Hearings on Steroid use in Major League Baseball; Polls Show Approval of President's Social Security Plan Falling; Senate Votes To Open the ANWR

March 12, 2005

• President Bush demands the Arab world take steps toward peace; The Senate passed a tough new bankruptcy law' John Bolton is named U.N. ambassador

March 05, 2005

• Senate continues to struggle with changing Social Security/Pressure mount on Syria to remove its troops from Lebanon/Republicans threaten to abolish filibuster rule for judicial confirmations

February 26, 2005

• President Bush visits old Europe; Religious Shi'ite party poised to name Ibrahim Jaafari Iraqi prime minister; Some Republicans express reservations about Bush proposal to privatize Social Security

February 19, 2005

• Lebanon's former prime minister is assassinated; President Bush withdraws the U.S. ambassador to Syria; President Bush names John Negroponte as the first national intelligence director; Alan Greenspan gives equivocal support to Social Security privatization

February 12, 2005

• President Bush presented his 2006 budget to Congress. Condoleezza Rice makes her first trip abroad as secretary of state, and North Korea withdraws from talks and announces it already possesses nuclear weapons. Democrats object to Republican attacks on Senate majority leader Harry Reid.

February 05, 2005

• Howard Dean's Rise to DNC Chairmanship; Super Bowl Talk; Pope's Health Crisis

January 29, 2005

• On the eve of national elections, violence continues in Iraq. Condoleezza Rice is confirmed as secretary of state, with 13 Democratic senators voting no. Senator Ted Kennedy offers a plan to withdraw U.S. Troops from Iraq by the end of 2006.

January 22, 2005

• Did George W. Bush's inaugural address set an effective agenda for his second term? Secretary of state-designate Condoleezza Rice faced two days of Senate confirmation hearings. Democrats ponder picking a new national chairman.

January 15, 2005

• Bush Nominates Chertoff as Secretary of Homeland Security; Republicans, Democrats Gear Up for Fight Over Social Security

January 08, 2005

• Analysis of President Bush's response to the tsunami disaster/Analysis of the position of embattled United Nations secretary general Kofi Anna/Analysis of confirmation hearings for White House counsel Alberto Gonzales for attorney general

December 25, 2004

• Suicide Bomber Blows Up U.S. Military Mess Tent in Mosul; Bush Presents Outlines of Second-Term Domestic Agenda

December 18, 2004

• Republican Senators Join Criticism of Defense Secretary Rumsfeld; Discussion of Past and Present Economic Summits

December 11, 2004

• Bernard Kerik withdraws as homeland security secretary nominee/Soldiers headed to Iraq ask Secretary Rumsfeld why their vehicles aren't armored/Intelligence reform bill passes in the Senate and House

December 04, 2004

• Congress wrangles over intelligence reform bill/Comings and goings in the Bush cabinet/President Bush visits Canada

November 27, 2004

• Intelligence Bill Killed By Dissenting Republicans; 2005 Spending Bill Would Allow Appropriations Committee Chairman To Question Any Tax Return; Tom Vilsack Bows Out Of DNC Chairman Election

November 20, 2004

• Rice To Replace Powell As Secretary of State; Congressional Republicans Wrestle With Arlen Specter, Majority Leader Tom Delay; Clinton Presidential Library Opens In Little Rock

November 13, 2004

• Analysis of the Effect of the Death of Yasser Arafat/Analysis of the Effect of Bush Cabinet Resignations/Analysis of Possible New Democratic National Committee Chairman

November 06, 2004

• Analysis of Republican Election Wins in White House, House and Senate, and the Future of the Democratic Party; Arafat's Health Creates Concerns On Both Sides

October 30, 2004

• The Presidential Race Is Down To The Wire. How will the Senate, House Seats Shake Out?

October 23, 2004

• The Presidential Campaign Enters Its Final Week; Polls Mostly Show Race A Dead Heat; Flu Vaccine Shortage Becomes Political Issue

October 16, 2004

• Analysis of Presidential Debates & State of Race for White House

October 09, 2004

• How will Events In Iraq, Afghanistan Impact Presidential election? Does Anyone Have The Momentum Going Into Final Stretch of Campaign?

October 02, 2004

• Senator John Kerry, President Bush Hold First Debate; Vice President Cheney, Senator John Edwards Hold Their Vice Presidential Debate Next Week; American, Iraqi forces Make Assault on Insurgents in Samarra

September 25, 2004

• Bush and Kerry clash over Iraq. Bush and Kerry camps agree on debate schedule. Congress overwhelmingly approves extending some tax cuts.

September 18, 2004

• News National Intelligence Report Offers Pessimistic View Of Iraq's Future; New Democratic Ads Attacks Vice Preident Cheney's Halliburton Connection; Bush Supporters, Media Continue Onslaught Of CBS News

September 11, 2004

• CBS Aires Controversial Story; Assault Weapons Ban Set To Expire Monday; President Bush Wants Two Debates, Kerry Says Not Enough

September 05, 2004

• Winners and Losers At The Republican National Conventions; President Bush Shores Up Base With Conservative Acceptance Speech; Ohio Still Strongly Contested State

August 28, 2004

• Special Edition: Live From Madison Square Gardens

August 21, 2004

• President Bush Unrolls Plan To Move Troops From Germany, South Korea; Should Alan Keyes Have Entered Senate Race In Illinois? Bill McCollum, Betty Caster Favorites To Win Respective Primaries In Florida Senate Race

August 07, 2004

• Government Issues New Terror Alert; John Kerry Gains Modest Bounce From Democratic Convention; Incumbent Missouri Governor Loses Primary Election

July 31, 2004

• After Democratic Convention Bush, Kerry Start Dualing Bus Tours; Analysis Of Democratic National Convention

July 24, 2004

• Democratics Still Concerned With Nader Factor; Police Union President Still Upset With Boston Mayor; Republican Critics Claim Too Few Conservative Voices At Republican Convention

July 17, 2004

• DeLay Under Investigation For Enron Tie; Same-Sex Marriage Ban Rejected In Senate; Rumors Fly Over Dick Cheney

July 10, 2004

• Kerry's Choice Of Edwards Gives Him 5 Point Bounce; Senate Intelligence Committee Condemns CIA Intelligence Leading To Iraq War; Ken Lay Indicted, Pleads Not Guilty To Charges

July 03, 2004

• U.S. Hands Over Sovreignty To Iraq Early; Supreme Court Rules Suspected Terrorist Detainees Have Legal Rights; John Kerry Cancels Speach, Refuses To Cross Picket Line

June 26, 2004

• What Will Bill Clinton's Memoir Do For His Place In History; Bush Administration Disavows Memo Authorizing Torture; John Kerry Returns To Washington To Vote For Veteran's Health Benefits

June 19, 2004

• Analysis of 9/11 Commission Findings; Does Bill Clinton's Exposure Threaten Presidential Election; Texas Democrats Angered By Republican Redistricting of State

June 12, 2004

• Reagan's Funeral Discussed; Afghan Elections Delayed Due to Security Concerns; Some Positive Diplomacy Comes Out Of G-8 Summit

May 29, 2004

• World War II Memorial Dedicated in D.C.; Spitzer vs. Grasso

May 22, 2004

• Bush Cuts Deal with Congress on Judges; Will Gas Pump Prices Influence November Elections?; Political Writer Analyzes South Dakota Special Election

May 15, 2004

• Taguba Testifies Before Congress; Video Shows American Beheaded; Approval of Iraq War Down to 41 Percent

May 08, 2004

• The Women Behind the Candidates; Gov. Romney Proposes 'Foolproof' Death Penalty for Mass.

May 01, 2004

• Should Pro-Choice Pols be Denied Communion? 'Mission Accomplished' 1 year later; Gadhafi Makes First European Visit In Decades

April 24, 2004

• Kissinger Weighs in on Iraq; What Does Arab Street Think of U.S.?

April 17, 2004

• Voting Without Citizenship?; Arnold's First 6 Months

April 10, 2004

• Bush Strategy to Pick Campaign Battles; Afghanistan Lapsing Again into Narco-Terror State?

April 03, 2004

• OPEC To Cut Oil Production; Pat Toomey Challenges Incumbent Arlen Specter For PA Seat In Senate

March 27, 2004

• Current, Former Cabinet Members Continue Testimony Before 9/11 Commission; Sen. Kerry Unveils New Economic Plan; Ousted President Aristide May Return To Haiti

March 20, 2004

• Pakistani Army Engaged With al Qaeda Forces; New Bush Ad Attacks Kerry's Defense Record; Medicare Administrator Accuses Bush Administration of Suppressing Actual Budget Costs; Interview With Howard Dean

March 13, 2004

• ETA Leaders Deny Responsibility For Madrid Bombings; Gay Couple Sues New York For Marriage License; Presidential Campaign Starting Early This Year

March 06, 2004

• Kerry Sweeps on Super Tuesday; Edwards Drops Out

February 28, 2004

• Will Edwards Be Kerry's Running Mate? Colin Powell Urges President Ariside To Step Down; America Divided On How Government Should Handle Same-Sex Marriage