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November 01, 2005
• Senate Forced into Closed Session; Republicans Cry Foul; Harry Reid Media Availability; Avian Flu Discussed
• Senate Forced into Closed Session; Democrats Use Arcane Rule; Avian Flu Pandemic?; Charles and Camilla in New York


October 31, 2005
• Bush Nominates Alito to Supreme Court; Interview With Joe Wilson
• President Bush Taps Alito For Supreme Court; Lewis "Scooter" Libby Arraigned Today On Five Counts; Iraq Continues Violent Trend
• Interview with Joe Wilson; White House Nominates Judge Samuel Alito To Supreme Court
• Interview With Illinois Senator Dick Durbin; Samuel Alito's Paper Trail


October 28, 2005
• Libby Indicted, Resigns; Rove Remains Under Investigation
• Scooter Libby Indicted on Perjury Charges; Differing Opinions Are Voiced on the Investigation


October 27, 2005
• Harriet Miers Withdraws; Sources: Fitzgerald May Indict Rove
• D.C. Chatters Over Miers Withdrawal & Possible Pending Indictments
• Supreme Court Pick Harriet Miers Withdraws Nomination; Interview With Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy; Prosecutor Wraps Up CIA Leak Investigation; President Bush Visits Florida


October 26, 2005
• CIA Leak Cliffhanger; After Hurricane Wilma; New Bird Flu Cases; Air Force Academy Coach's Remarks
• Paulison and Chertoff Tour Hurricane Zone; CIA Leak Investigation Detailed
• Florida Residents Rocked By Wilma Wait Hours For Water and Ice; White House Anxiously Awaiting CIA Leak Probe Outcome; Bomb Rips Through Crowded Israeli Marketplace; Air Force Academy Coach Makes Controversial Comments About Race; Wal-Mart Might Change Health Care Benefits For Its Workers; BlackBerry Involved In Law Suit


October 25, 2005
• Interview With Acting FEMA Director David Paulison; Some American Tourists Stranded in Cancun
• CIA Leak Investigation; Bush Approval Down Further; Hurricane Wilma Aftermath; Congress Marks 2000 US Military Deaths in Iraq; Rosa Parks Passes Away
• President Bush's Poll Numbers Inch Up; Wilma Leaves Millions in the Dark; 2,000 U.S. Troops Now Killed in Iraq War; McDonald's Opens the Curtain on Ingredients


October 24, 2005
• Wilma's Damage; Interview With Lieutenant Governor Toni Jennings
• Hurricane Wilma Devestates Southern Florida; American Public Thinks Federal Government Ready For Wilma Damage; Speculation Heats Up Surrounding Possible Indictments In CIA Leak Probe
• Explosions Rock Baghdad; Florida Authorities Survey Hurricane Wilma Damage; Interview With West Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel
• Hurricane Wilma Pounding the East Coast of Florida; Baghdad Blasts


October 21, 2005
• Tracking Hurricane Wilma
• Hurricane Wilma Centered on Yucatan; Suspicious Package Near Capitol; Tom DeLay Says Charges Are Wrong And Politically Motivated.
• Tom DeLay Makes First Court Appearance; Hurricane Wilma Batters Mexico; Russia Issues Quarantine Amid Bird Flu Fears; Interview With Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt


October 20, 2005
• Tracking Hurricane Rita; FEMA Could be Back in Spotlight; Wilma Has Record-Setting Pressure For The Atlantic; Frozen Body Could Be WWII Airman
• Rep. Tom DeLay Fingerprinted Today; Hurricane Wilma Churns Towards Mexico; Pressconference with National Hurricane Center Dir. Max Mayfield
• Congressman Tom DeLay Turns Himself In; Mexico and Florida Prepare For Hurricane Wilma; Defense Attorney in Saddam Hussein Trial Kidnapped


October 19, 2005
• Hurricane Wilma Most Intense Atlantic Storm on Record; Katrina Response; Saddam on Trial; Florida Keys Have Mandatory Evacuation; Public Transportation Is Good Way To Travel
• Hurricane Wilma At Record Intensity And Barreling Closer To Land; Date Set For Senate Showdown Over Harriet Miers; Bush Awaits Legal News On Top Aides
• Florida Braces For Hurricane Wilma; Saddam Hussein Trial Begins; Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Tells Iran and Syria to Choose War or Peace; California Shark Attack


October 18, 2005
• Tunnel Threat in Maryland; Interview With Afghan Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah
• Baltimore Tunnel Threat; CIA Leak Investigation; Harriet Miers and Abortion
• Baltimore Tunnels Shut Down; Change in U.S. Immigration Policy?; Saddam Hussein Set to Face Trial


October 17, 2005
• Bird Flu Discovered in Greece; Saddam Hussein Likely Plotting Own Defense; CIA Leak Cliffhanger; Seeking Justice; Saddam's Trials; DeLay Nixed Deal; Avian Flu in Europe
• White House Reworks Harriet Miers Nomination Spin; President's Approval Ratings Continue Slump
• Bird Flu Discovered in Greece; Saddam Hussein Likely Plotting Own Defense; Forecasters Track Tropical Storm Wilma


October 14, 2005
• Power Lines Sabotaged in Baghdad; Rove Testifies Before Grand Jury for Fourth Time
• Karl Rove's Fate in Question; Blackout in Baghdad; Vote In Iraq Tomorrow; Patrick Fitzgerald Profiled; Conflicts Over President's Teleconference
• Resistant Strain of Bird Flu Virus Discovered in Vietnam; Karl Rove Faces Grand Jury For Fourth Time; Iraqi Constitutional Referendum Vote Set to Begin; Zalmay Khalilzad Interview; Daniel Craig to Play James Bond


October 13, 2005
• Vatican Offers Training Course In Exorcism; Fats Domino Returns to New Orleans
• Could 2006 Mid-Term Elections Be Nightmare for Republicans? Interview with Louis Farrakhan
• Southeastern New Hampshire Floods; Some New Jersey Communities Issue Voluntary Evacuations; U.S. Preparedness For Influenza Pandemic; Companies Fix Computer Memory Prices


October 12, 2005
• Pakistan Aftershocks; More IEDs in Iraq; Miers Nomination Opposition; Flooding in New England
• Harriet Miers Nomination; CIA Leak Investigation; Interview with Texas Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht; Smurfs and UNICEF Commercial
• Will Harriet Miers Separate Church From State?; Interview with Syrian President; Government Warns of High Energy Bills; Pakistan Earthquake Details


October 11, 2005
• Earthquake Leaves Millions Homeless in South Asia; Interview With Mike Wallace, Art Buchwald
• Inside Information on Miers; Fighting Culture Wars at Air Force Academy
• International Aid Arrives in Earthquake-Ravaged Pakistan; Terror Threat in New York Turns Out to be Hoax; Bush Supports Miers in Face of Conservative Opposition


October 10, 2005
• South Asia Quake; Interview with Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Afairs Spokesperson Tasnim Aslam; End of Days?; Interview with Reverend Jerry Falwell; Cronyism and a Possible Flu Pandemic
• South Asian Earthquake; Supreme Court Nomination Controversy
• Desperate Rush to Aid South Asian Earthquake Survivors; Interview with Pakistani Information Minister; Hundreds Buried in Guatemalan Mudslide; Interview with General Craddock; Interview with U.N. Disaster Assessment and Coordination Team Officer; New Orleans Police Officers Charged with Battery; NY Subway Alert Examined


October 07, 2005
• Investigation Of Possible New York Subway Attack; Starting Correspondence By Al Qaeda
• Harriet Miers Nomination; Roy Moore Interview; NYC Transit Threat; Rove to Testify
• New York Subway Commuters Ride With Caution; Federal Officials Question Legitimacy of Subway Threat; Washington Monument Evacuated; Discussion With Commerce Secretary; Clear Water And Postal Service In New Orleans


October 06, 2005
• Rove to Testify Before Grand Jury in Plame Leak Case; Vaccine Offers Hope for Cervical Cancer
• Karl Rove To Testify Again For Grand Jury; President's Speech Leaves Public Wanting For New Information; Interview with Senator Patrick Leahy
• Former U.S. Marine Under Investigation For Espionage; New Cancer Drug Unveiled


October 05, 2005
• Mexican Wildfire Jumps Border, Threatens San Diego; Avian Flu Debate; War on Drugs: Protecting Children; Some Question Validity of Miers Nomination; Florida Crocodile Hunter
• Harriet Miers Nomination; Problems Facing Tom DeLay; Mystery Illness In Toronto Nursing Home; Harriet Miers Makes Courtesy Call On Hill; Polls Show Public Views On Miers, Roberts Widely Different; Former White House Insider Says Miers Not The Best GOP Has To Offer; Interview with Sen. Dick Durbin
• Nation Prepares For Bird Flu Threat; Toronto Health Officials Investigate Mysterious Sickness; Investigators Look for Cause of Tour Boat Tragedy


October 04, 2005
• New Orleans to Lay Off Workers; Bush Holds Press Conference; DeLay's Attorney Discusses Charges
• A discussion of Bush's political situation; Roy Moore is running for mayor of Alabama; Both sides weigh in on Harriet Miers
• New Orleans Lays Off 3,000 City Employees; U.S. Government Prepares For Potential Bird Flu Epidemic; Interview With Franklin Graham


October 03, 2005
• Tour Boat Raised out of Lake George; Small Plane Crashes During Takeoff at Deland Airport
• Bush Picks White House Counsel for Supreme Court; Plane Crash in Florida
• President Bush Chooses White House Insider to Replace Sandra Day O'Connor; Authorities Investigate New York Boating Accident; Will New Orleans Levees Hold?


September 30, 2005
• Wildfires Burning Outside Los Angeles; Judith Miller Testifies in CIA Leak Probe; Pentagon Mixed on Iraqi Military Forces
• Judith Miller Testifies in CIA Leak Case; Bill Bennett Defends Comments; Second Wildfire Flares Near L.A.
• Wildfires Rage in Southern California; Reporter Judith Miller Testifies in CIA Leak Investigation; Bennett Remarks Spark Controversy


September 29, 2005
• Fire Crews Battle Major Wildfire Outside L.A.; Interview with Tom DeLay; Gay Penguin Couple Separates
• Will President Bush choose a woman or a minority to fill out the Roberts Court?
• Speculation on Next Supreme Court Nomination; Wildfire Rages in Southern California; United Nations Gears Up to Counter Threat of Bird Flu


September 28, 2005
• Residents head back into New Orleans; Blaze in California; U.S. soldiers may have exchanged pictures of dead Iraqis for access to ponography site; Angelina Jolie discusses Africa; Tom DeLay steps down
• Tom DeLay Indicted, Steps Down as House Majority Leader; Governors from Gulf States Appeal to Congress; Haley Barbour Interview
• House Majority Leader Tom DeLay Indicted; Gas Shortage Imminent?


September 27, 2005
• Former FEMA Director Questioned by Congress; New Orleans Police Superintendent to Step Down
• Brown Blames Others for Slow Response to Katrina
• Congress Investigates Katrina Response; President Bush Visits Disaster Zone; Katrina Chaos Exaggerated by Local Officials?


September 26, 2005
• Devastation in Louisiana; Bill Frist Comments on Stock Sale; Interview With Education Secretary Margaret Spellings
• President Could Announce Supreme Court Nominee Friday; Erath Suffers Flood Damage; New Orleans Pumping Water Out Again After Rita; Looking at the President's Respone To Hurricanes
• Houston Residents Return Home; New Orleans Pumping Out Water Once Again; Lynndie England Convicted on Six of Seven Counts


September 23, 2005
• Hurricane Rita Makes Turn Towards Louisiana Coast
• Hurricane Rita Drops to Category 3; Ward 9 Levee Overflowing; President Bush Heads to Colorado
• Bus Carrying Rita Evacuees Explodes; New Orleans Levee Fails; Millions Flee Ahead of Hurricane Rita


September 22, 2005
• Hurricane Rita; Fuel Crisis; McCain's Position
• Rita Bears Down on Texas; Houston Evacuations Cause Traffic Jams
• Millions Flee Hurricane Rita; U.S. Gas Crisis Imminent?; Interview With Houston Police Chief


September 21, 2005
• Hurricane Rita Heads Towards Texas Coast
• Huricane Rita Upgraded To Category 5
• Hurricane Rita Targets Texas; Gas Prices Headed For $5 a Gallon?; New Orleans Rushes to Shore Up Levees


September 20, 2005
• Mayor Nagin, Governor Blanco and Adm. Thad Allen Briefing
• Hurricane Rita Lashes Keys; Bush Visits Mississippi; Navy to Leave New Orleans; Jeb Bush Orders Evacuations
• Hurricane Rita Lashes Florida Keys; New Orleans in Path of Another Hurricane?


September 19, 2005
• A New Hurricanes Threaten the Already Devastated Gulf Coast.
• Algiers Residents Return Home; President Bush Voices Caution on Repopulation Efforts; Tropical Storm Rita Update; Florida Keys Evacuating; Al-Jazeera Airs Al-Zawahiri Videotape; Rove to Help Manage Hurricane Spending Funds; New Orleans Might Face Another Hurricane; President's Approval Rating Drops
• Following the Path of Tropical Storm Rita; Interview With Ted Turner


September 16, 2005
• Rebuilding of New Orleans
• Is New Orleans Ready for Returnees?; Tax Increases to Rebuild New Orleans?; Senators View Destruction
• Bush Hosts Putin; Clean Up of New Orleans; Schwarzenegger to Seek Re-election


September 15, 2005
• Katrina Officially Declared the Most Destructive Hurricane to Ever Hit U.S.; Bush to Address Nation From New Orleans Tonight


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