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September 21, 2006
• GOP Senators Reach Deal on Terror Detainee Legislation; Two Of President Bush's Biggest Foreign Foes Keep Up Drumbeat of Defiance; Bush Said He Would Send Forces Over Pakistani Border To Get Osama bin Laden; Madeleine Albright Interview
• Ahmadinejad and Chavez Find New Forums To Display Defiance; Republicans Trying To Work Out Compromise In Treatment of Terror Suspects; New Poll Numbers Concerning November Elections; George Allen Interview


September 20, 2006
• Exclusive Interview with President Bush; Hugo Chavez Delivers Tirade at United Nations; Oprah in '08?
• Interview With President Bush; NATO Allies Agreeing To Send More Troops to Afghanistan; Chavez Likens Bush To The Devil
• George W. Bush Interview; Chavez Likens Bush To Devil; New Chief Judge in Hussein Case Asserts Authority; Dueling Republicans Try To Reach Compromise Over Terror-Fighting Tactics Before Leaving Washington For Campaign Trail


September 19, 2006
• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Addresses the United Nations General Assembly
• President Bush Offers Warm Embrace to Iranian People, Cold Shoulder to Their Leaders; Case Against Iran; Mutiny in Thailand; Curiosity and Criticism Of Former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey's New Memoir
• Iranian Leader Was A No-Show For Bush's Address To U.N. General Assembly; White House Attempts To Reach A Deal on Treatment of Terror Suspects; John Bolton Interview; George Allen Being Questioned About His Religious Roots; Bill Frist Interview


September 18, 2006
• Bush Administration Reacts to Iranian Showdown; President Bush Hails Global Literacy As Weapon Against Terrorism; President Chirac Says France Willing to Work with U.S. on Iraq
• President Bush Meets World Leaders on Eve of Speech to United Nations; UN-Welcome in NYC?; Bursting Into Capitol Hill
• President Bush at the U.N.; Armed Intruder Breaks into Capitol; Interview with Ken Mehlman


September 17, 2006
• Five Duquesne University Basketball Players Shot; Search On For Missing Missouri Baby; South Carolina Teenager Uses Text Message for Kidnapping Rescue


September 15, 2006
• U.S. Troops Diverted to Baghdad to Stem Bloodshed; Dozens More Bodies Found in Baghdad; President Bush Fights Republican Senate Rebellion on Terror Suspect Interrogation; President Bush Says Suspects Won't be Interrogated Unless Congress Acts; Muslims Criticize Comments by Pope; Don't Eat Spinach; Outbreak Linked to Spinach From Natural Selection Foods
• President Bush Taking Aim at Fellow Republicans Who Oppose His Plan For Tougher Treatment of Terror Suspects; Death Squads Roam Streets in Baghdad; Most Countries Participating in Nonaligned Summit in Cuba Have Good Relations With United States; FDA Warns Fresh Bagged Spinach May Contain E. coli; Joseph Biden Interview; George Soros Interview
• Revolt in Republican Party Over Detainees; Summit of Non- Aligned States in Cuba; Representative Ney May Face Charges in Abramoff Scandal


September 14, 2006
• Powell, McCain Come Out Against Bush Administration on Handling of Detainees; Interview With Barack Obama
• Senate Panel Approves Terror Bill Opposed by President Bush; Series of Shattering Attacks Across Iraq Today; Are Some U.S. Officials Exaggerating Extent of Iran's Nuclear Activities; John McCain Interview; Barack Obama Interview; David Petraeus Interview
• Colin Powell Against Key Provision of Bush's Plan To Create Military Tribunals for Suspected Terrorists; Robert Novak Taking Direct Aim at Richard Armitage in CIA Leak Case; Barak Obama Interview; California Governor's Race Controversy; Jim Webb Apologizing For Long-Ago Claim That Women Not Fit For Combat


September 13, 2006
• Suspected Taliban Gathering Spotted by U.S. Intelligence; NATO Commanders Say Need More Troops to Battle Insurgency; At Least 50 Reportedly Killed Across Afghanistan Today
• Bitter Fighting as NATO Forces Try to Counter Taliban Insurgency; 20 Wounded in Montreal School Shooting; Measure Honoring 9/11 Causes Skirmish in Congress; Jimmy Carter's Disagreement with Bush Administration; NASA Loses Another Bolt From International Space Station; Keith Ellison Interview; Leaders of Cuba, Iran and Venezuela Gather In Havana
• Democrats Take New Aim at Donald Rumsfeld; Republicans and Democrats Argue over War on Terror and Iraq; National Republican Party Did Not Get What It Wanted In Arizona Primary; Jack Murtha Interview; Duncan Hunter Interview


September 12, 2006
• Iraqi, Iranian Leaders Meet; A Look at the Afghan-Pakistan Border
• U.S. Embassy Attack; Classified Intelligence Report Gives Sober Assessment of Iraqi Security; Terror Threats in English
• Critics Accuse Bush of Using 9/11 Speech to Defend Iraq War; Campaign Trail Heats Up in Rhode Island; Hillary Clinton Likely To Win; Dick Durbin Interview


September 11, 2006
• Taliban Making Comeback in Afghanistan; President Bush Prepares to Address Nation
• Afghanistan Attacks; New al Qaeda Threat; Anniversary of 9/11
• Americans Mark Five Year Anniversary of 9/11; New Public Opinion Poll on President Bush; Interview with Longtime Bush Adviser Karen Hughes; Rocket Fire Hits Afghanistan During 9/11 Commemoration


September 08, 2006
• Senate Report Denies Saddam-9/11 Connection; Clinton Urges ABC to Tell the Truth
• Bipartisan Report Concludes Saddam Hussein Had No Relationship With Former Head Of Al Qaeda in Iraq; Taliban Claiming Responsibility For Suicide Car Bombing in Kabul; Thomas Kean Interview; Controversy Surrounds ABC Docudrama About 9/11; Ground Zero Air Quality; Samuel Berger Interview
• Some Top Democrats Calling New Senate Report On Iraq Devastating Indictment of Bush Administration; President Bush Prepares For Fifth Anniversary of 9/11; New 9/11 Poll Numbers; Michael Chertoff Interview


September 07, 2006
• New Video Shows bin Laden Planning 9/11 Attacks; Former Clinton Aides Outraged About New ABC Mini Series
• Al Qaeda Speaks out Before 9/11 Anniversary; Bush Updates War on Terror Efforts; NATO Troops Meeting Resistance in Afghanistan; President Bill Clinton's Former National Security Team Taking ABC To Task Over Miniseries "The Path to 9/11"
• Chilling New Video Purportedly Shows Terror Leaders Preparing For 9/11 Attacks; Democrats And Some Republicans Disagree With President Bush's Latest Anti-Terror Moves; Bush Urges Congress To Move Quickly On Legislation Dealing With Military Court Trials For High- Level Terror Suspects; Barbara Boxer Interview; Hot Button Issues Important in Upcoming Elections


September 06, 2006
• Israel Lifting Blockade of Lebanon; Top Terror Suspects Moved from Secret Prisons to Guantanamo Bay; President Bush Says Al Qaeda Suspects Will Face Military Tribunals; Senate Debates Democrats No Confidence Measure; Steve Irwin's Manager Shares New Details About His Death
• President Bush Admitting United States Has Secret Overseas Prisons; One of Iraq's Top Political Leaders Suggesting Iraq Could Collapse If Bickering Political Leaders Do Not Reconcile; Mahmud Durrani Interview; Jane Harman Interview
• President Bush Finally Acknowledging Existence Of Secret CIA Prisons All Around The World; Senate Debating Measure by Democrats Calling to Remove Rumsfeld; Many Republicans Distance From President Bush For Midterms; Growing Divide Between Bush Administration and Public's View of War in Iraq; Saxby Chambliss Interview


September 05, 2006
• Interview With Alberto Gonzales; Allied Forces on the Offensive in Afghanistan
• White House Issues Updated Counterterror Strategy; White House: Rumsfeld no 'Bogeyman'; Older Dads, Higher Risk?; Alberto Gonzales Interview; Max Cleland Interview; New Study Has Sobering Diagnosis for Some People Who Worked at Ground Zero
• White House Reacts to War on Terror; New Poll Shows Congress Fares Poorly in Job Performance; Democrats Heat Up Battle on National Security; Tony Snow Interview; Iraq and Terrorism May Frame Midterm Elections; Some Candidates Making Immigration an Issue on Campaign Trail; Katherine Harris Hopes To Win Senate Seat


September 04, 2006
• Stingray Attacks: Could It Happen to You?; United Dems Blast Bush on Iraq; Fmr. Iranian Pres. States Iran Doesn't Seek Nuclear Weapons
• "Croc Hunter" Steve Irwin Killed by Stingray in Australia; Democrats Say Bush Administration must change Iraq Policy; Gunman Opens Fire on Tourists in Jordan; Iran's Former President Criticizes President Bush While in U.S.
• Steve Irwin Dies of Sting by Stingray in Australia; Voter Discontent increases as Election Nears; John King Discusses Iraq with Major General William Caldwell; Conflicting polls tell Different Stories in Connecticut Senatorial election


September 01, 2006
• Storm Emergencies on Two Coasts; New Warning About Civil War in Iraq
• Hurricane John and Tropical Depression Ernesto Hitting Both Coasts; Pentagon Out Now With Sobering Assessment Iraq Situation; Christopher Van Hollen Interview
• In Iraq, Attacks Up 15 percent In Past Three Months And Iraqi Casualties Up 51 Percent; Bush's Latest Sales Pitch For Iraq Mission; New Pentagon Report on Iraq Giving Democratic Critics Something New to Pounce On; Ernesto Soaking Mid-Atlantic States; How the Economy May Effect Elections


August 31, 2006
• Ernesto About to Make Landfall; Nuclear Standoff With Iran
• Iran Nuclear Showdown; War on 'Fascism'; Interview With Congressman Christopher Shays; Storms Strike Both Coasts; New Therapy Promising for Skin Cancer
• Mortar Attacks and Bombings Kill 45 Across Baghdad; President Continues Series of Speeches in Salt Lake City; Democrats Finding New Ammunition In President's Iraq Defense; Battle For Congress in Bucks County; California Trying To Make Change In Road to White House; Dan Bartlett Interview


August 30, 2006
• Relatives of Kentucky Crash Victims Attend Private Service; New Immigration Route for Cubans; Effects of Anti-Drug Campaign
• When Will The Iraqi Army Be Ready To Protect Its Own People?; President Bush Launching New Campaign to Boost Public Support For War; Investigators Trying to Figure Out Why a Comair Plane Crashed; Annan Is In Israel; Jesse Jackson Interview; Nick Burns Interview; Iran Ignores Demands to Stop Enriching Uranium; Chavez Visits Syria
• Peter Hoekstra Interview; Fresh Iraq Attacks on Battlefield; Democrats Pounce on Donald Rumsfeld; Ernesto Still Packs Flooding Threat


August 29, 2006
• Iran's President Calls for Debate with President Bush; Tropical Storm Ernesto Moves Toward Florida Keys; Unidentified Senator Puts Hold on Government Contract Legislation; Polygamist Fugitive Warren Jeffs Nabbed in Nevada
• Iran's President Shrugs Off U.N. Nuclear Deadline, Proposes One-on-One Televised Debate With President Bush; Wanted Polygamist Warren Jeffs Captured Near Las Vegas; Iraqi Military Battered by Die- Hard Shiite Militia Forces; Donald Rumsfeld Lets Loose on War Critics; Tropical Storm Ernesto Churns its Way Toward Florida; A Look at Katrina, One Year Later
• President Bush Spends Second Day on Gulf Coast; What John McCain's 70th Birthday Means For His Political Future; Michael Brown Interview; Armitage May Be Source for Robert Novak's Column That Revealed Identity of Valerie Plame


August 28, 2006
• Prosecutors say Karr's DNA Doesn't Match Crime Scene; President Bush Visits Gulf Coast; Tropical Storm Ernesto Lashes Cuba; NTSB Investigating Comair Crash
• No Charges for John Mark Karr; NTSB Looks for Cause of Comair Flight 5191 in Kentucky; President Bush Still Paying Price for Failures in Katrina
• President Bush Visits Gulf Coast One Year After Katrina; Karr's DNA: No Match; Evacuation Order in Effect in South Florida


August 25, 2006
• State Department Probes Israel's Cluster Bombs; Congressman Shays Urges Troop Withdrawal
• Allegations Israel Used American-Made Cluster Bombs Against Targets in Civilian Areas of Southern Lebanon; Israeli Public Fuming Over Outcome of Indecisive War Against Hezbollah; Tropical Storm Ernesto Strengthens; Donald Rumsfeld Says More U.S. troops Can Limit Violence in Iraq, Suggests Iraqis Have to Handle More Security; Iranian Nobel Laureate Warned to Halt Activities; Oprah Winfrey Builds School for Girls in South Africa
• Congressman Shays Urging Administration To Set Timeframe for Withdrawing U.S. Troops from Iraq; McCain Denying He's Changed Position on Iraq War; New Report Out On What Went Wrong When Katrina Hit; Democrats Worried About Losing New Jersey Senate Seat; Senator Barack Obama Traveling to Kenya


August 24, 2006
• France To Send More Troops To Lebanon; Iran Wants More Nuclear Talks; FDA Approves Over The Counter Morning After Pill
• Chirac Announces He's Upping France's Commitment of Forces To Lebanon; Washington Suspects Iran May Be Trying To Destabilize Iraq; More Ominous Signs North Korea May be Preparing to Test a Nuclear Bomb Underground; "The Jerusalem Post" Reporting Israel Prepared To "Go It Alone" Against Iran If World Doesn't Halt Nuclear Program; Five Years After 9/11, Osama bin Laden Remains at Large; The Hunt for Osama bin Laden; Displaced Iraqis are Refugees in their Own Country; Controversy Surrounding the FDA's Decision on Morning-After-Pill; Pluto No Longer Classified as a Planet
• Emergency Team in Arizona Helps People Stranded in Two Cars During Flood; FDA Approves Sales of Morning-After Pill To Women 18 and Over; Some Changes Being Made in Policies Governing First Line Of Defense On Planes; Republicans May Cut into Democrats' Lead For Midterms; Ken Mehlman Interview


August 23, 2006
• State Department Says Iran's Nuclear Offer Falls Short; House Panel Says Iran Has Key Ingredients for 12 Bombs; Syrian President Says Border Deployment Would Be Considered Hostile
• Showdown With Iran; Northwest Plane Diverted Due to In-flight Disruption; Interview With DNC Chairman Howard Dean; In the Footsteps of Osama bin Laden; Kidnapped Fox Journalists Appear in Hostage Video
• White House Has Declared That Offer of More Negotiations With Iran Not Good Enough; Rockey Vaccarella Meets President Bush; Emphasis on Terrorism in Pennsylvania Congressional Race; Reverend Jesse Jackson Now Set to Return to Middle East; Lincoln Chafee in a Bind


August 22, 2006
• Marine Corps Authorized to Recall Troops to Active Duty; Israel Shows Off Network of Bunkers in Lebanese Village; Wrong Hassan Nasrallah Arrested By Israeli Troops; E-mails and Phone Calls Apparently Between John Mark Karr and Wendy Hutchens Now Attracting Attention
• Marine Corps Recall; Tehran Wants to Keep Talking; Iran's Threat to Israel
• New Comic Book Interprets 9/11 Commission Report; Surprising New Criticism of Bush's Handling of Iraq from Senator McCain; John Mark Karr Waived Extradition; Iran Reportedly Willing To Talk About Nuclear Activities; Some Analysts Forecasting Political Storm This Fall; Some Believe Outing of Valerie Plame Wilson Has Connection to State Department; Growing Concern Over Kidnapped FOX Journalists


August 21, 2006
• President Bush Concerned about Iraq Sliding into Civil War; Will Iran Pursue Nuclear Programs?; Gerald Ford Receives Pacemaker
• Former President Gerald Ford Recovering at Hospital; Deadly Violence Claims Four More in Iraq; Deadline Nears for Tehran to Respond to International Demands
• President Bush Admits Frustration About War; Hillary Rodham Clinton Puts Together Massive Campaign Organization; John Mark Karr in Correctional Facility in Los Angeles


August 18, 2006
• Outspoken Cleric Speaks Out on Hatred for United States; Lebanon Hands out Cash to Help Lebanese Civilians Rebuild; Did John Mark Karr Kill JonBenet Ramsey?
• North Korea May Be Ready to Test Nuclear Bomb; President Bush Strikes Back at Judge's Ruling About Domestic Surveillance Program; Hezbollah Giving Cash to Lebanese Citizens Who Lost Homes
• President Bush Reacts to Domestic Spying Criticism; Interview with Ned Lamont; Civil Rights Leader Steps Down from Position at Wal- Mart


August 17, 2006
• NSA Wiretaps Ruled Unconstitutional; Lebanese Troops Enter Southern Lebanon; Interview with Michael Tracey
• Federal Judge Orders Halt to Wiretapping Without Warrants; Ramsey Case Arrest; Battlefield Tea Party; Violence Continues in Iraq
• Judge Rules NSA Wiretapping Unconstitutional; More Work To Be Done in JonBenet Ramsey Case; Lebanese Troops Moving South of Litani River In Accordance With Cease-Fire; Lieberman, As Independent, Leads In Connecticut Polls


August 16, 2006
• Breakthrough in Murder Mystery of JonBenet Ramsey; Lebanese Troops To Deploy in South Lebanon; Woman Aboard Washington-Bound Plane Faces Charges
• Possible Suspect in JonBenet Ramsey Killing Arrested Last Night in Thailand; Agitated Passenger on United Airlines Flight Causes Fighter Jets to Scramble; In Devastated South Lebanon, Will Hezbollah Be Blamed For Devastation?; John Mark Carr Arrested in Connection with JonBenet Ramsey Case; Terminal at Port of Seattle Evacuated for Bomb Scare
• United Flight from London Due at Dulles in Several Hours; Lebanon Approves Sending Troops to South Lebanon; Questions Being Asked Concerning Israel's Accomplishments in War Against Hezbollah; Alberto Gonzales Interview; Arrest in JonBenet Ramsey Case


August 15, 2006
• Interview With Israeli Foreign Minister; A Look at Airline Security
• Civilians Moving Back to Lebanon Find Massive Destruction; Top Peacekeeping Official Says U.N. Plans to Deploy Thousands of Troops in Southern Lebanon; Iranian and Syrian Presidents Say Hezbollah Won, United States Lost; Tzipi Livni Interview; Abdurrahman Khadr Interview; Some Wonder if Airport Shoe Screening is Necessary; Pat Robertson Questioning Usefulness of Mideast Cease-Fire
• Cease-fire Still Holding in Middle East; Lebanese Refugees Return Home to Devastation; Howard Dean Reacts to Criticism by Republican Party; Tzipi Livni Interview; Endorsements in Connecticut Senate Race; George Allen Apologizes For Racial Slur


August 14, 2006
• Is Olmert's Support Slipping?; Iran Celebrates Mideast Cease- Fire
• Along Israel-Lebanon Border, Cease-Fire Has Brought Peace; In Lebanon, Tens of Thousands Heading Home; Bush Administration Says Cease-Fire Means Diplomacy Is The Winner; Side-By-Side Comparison of U.S. and British Counter-Terror Tools; Grave Concerns About Potential of Terrorists Getting Into U.S. from Canada by Water; Iran Continues to Deny That It's Arming Hezbollah
• Israeli Public Cynical Following Violence; Changes Following Cease-Fire in Israel, Lebanon; Interview with Israeli Foreign Minister; Technology to Detect Liquids in Airplanes


August 11, 2006
• U.N. Security Council Approves Mideast Peace Resolution
• Lebanese Army: Convoy Hit in Western Bekaa Valley; Ehud Olmert May Urge Israeli Government to Accept Cease-Fire Deal; Al Qaeda's Dirty Work?; U.K. and U.S. Airline Travelers Share Their Experiences Following Terror Plot; Gideon Meir Interview; Condoleezza Rice Interview
• No Wide-Scale, Robust Movement of Forces into Lebanon Yet; Margaret Beckett Interview; Two Suspects In Terror Plot May Have Had Contact With Pakistani Suspected Of Being Al Qaeda Operative; National Guard Arriving in California Airports To Beef Up Security; Anthony Weiner Interview


August 10, 2006
• Britain Foils Alleged Terror Plot to Blow Up Airlines; Russia Introduces Resolution Seeking Humanitarian Cease-Fire; Israeli Forces Seize Mostly Christian Town of Marjeyoun
• Alleged Plot To Blow Up As Many As 10 Planes Flying from Britain to United States Foiled; Homeland Security Department Raising Terror Threat Awareness to Highest Level; Update on the Crisis in the Middle East
• 24 Arrested in Terror Plot To Blow Up Trans-Atlantic Flights; Michael Chertoff Interview; Ed Royce Interview; Intense Firefights Raging Across Southern Lebanon as Israel Takes War Against Hezbollah Into New Areas


August 09, 2006
• Fighting Grows More Intense in Southern Lebanon; Most Deadly Day of War for Israeli Military; Lamont Beats Lieberman, Implications?; Israeli Cabinet Approves Expansion of War in Lebanon
• Fierce Explosions Rocking Southern Lebanon; Nasrallah Vowing to Strike Back Hard at Expanded Israeli Military in Lebanon; 15 Israel Soldiers Killed in Fighting Today; Lieberman Loses Primary; Georgia Democrat Cynthia McKinney Loses Race to Newcomer
• Israel Approves Wider Ground War in Lebanon; New Explosions Heard in Southern Lebanon; Miri Eisen Interview; Democrats Support Lamont


August 08, 2006
• Major Shake-Up in Israeli Military Command; U.N. Tries to Keep Mideast Peace Plan Alive
• Arab League Delegates Meet With U.N. Security Council; Israel Interrogates Alleged Hezbollah Fighter
• Israel Launching Deadly New Ground and Air Attacks in Lebanon; Diplomats at U.N. Struggling to Find Peace Plan; Pentagon Says Half of Iraq's Army Division Has Responsibility for Security; Gideon Meir Interview; High Turnout in Connecticut Primary; Senator Lieberman's Dicey Political Fate Putting Democratic Colleagues In Serious Bind; Georgians Decide on Cynthia McKinney


August 07, 2006
• Lebanon Will Send Troops South if Israel Withdraws; Arab League Delegates Will Discuss Middle East Peace Plan; Israeli Strikes Virtually Cut Off Tyre from Surrounding Areas


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