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December 04, 2006
• Bush Meets With al-Hakim; Bloody Battle in Afghanistan
• Iraqi Power Broker Meets President Bush; Is Hillary Clinton Preparing to Announce Presidential Run?
• Will the Bush Administration Change Course in Iraq?; John Bolton Resigns as U.S. Ambassador to U.N.; Gates Confirmation Hearings Begin Tomorrow; Jeb Bush and Michael Bloomberg Team Up


December 01, 2006
• Baker Commission About to Report Findings; Interview With John Murtha
• Fresh Reports Regarding What Iraq Study Group Will Recommend; U.S. Central Command Staying Focused On Military Mission In Iraq; Dina Powell Interview; Wife Of Dead Russian Ex-Spy Tests Positive For Polonium; John Cornyn Interview; Venezuelans Head To The Polls This Sunday
• Bush Administration Confirms That Top Iraqi Shiite Leader To Meet With The President; Nancy Pelosi Ruffling Feathers On Intelligence Committee Chair; John Murtha Interview; Classes For Incoming Congress


November 30, 2006
• Bush Voices Support For Al-Maliki Despite Snub; Muqtada al-Sadr Loyalists Boycotting Iraq Government; Bill Clinton weighs In On Iraq And Afghanistan; Pastor Rick Warren Criticized For Inviting Barack Obama To AIDS Summit; John Kerry Interview
• No Easy Options In Iraq; New Details About What Iraq Study Group Will Be Recommending In Their Report; President Clinton Says Civil War Is Being Waged in Iraq; Alberto Gonzales Interview; British Officials Say Radioactive Traces Found At 12 Sites As Investigation Into Poisoned Russian Spy Continues
• President Bush Back In Washington Without Drastic New Action On Iraq To Show Critics; Parliamentary Revolt Turning Iraqi Government Into Political War Zone; John Kerry Interview; Will Al Gore Run Again?; Tom Vilsack Throws Hat in Ring for '08


November 29, 2006
• Iraqi Prime Minister Skips Dinner With President Bush and King Abdullah of Jordan; Colin Powell Says Violence In Iraq Meets Standard Of Civil War; President of Iran Writes Open Letter To American People; Jim Webb Confirms Angry Exchange With President Bush; David Satterfield Interview; Charles Rangel Interview
• President Bush Will Discuss Ways To Resolve Iraq While In Jordan; Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Pens Letter To Americans; "Happy Feet" Infuriating Some Conservatives; David Satterfield Interview; Charles Rangel Interview
• Iraq Crisis Talks Delayed And Clouded By Leak Of Secret And Stunning Memo; Protest Of Bush-Maliki Summit Could Make Matters Worse In Iraq; Two Democrats Publicly Venting Anger At President Bush; U.S. Forces On The Hunt For Al Qaeda All Across The World; Robert Gates Not Necessarily Eye To Eye With Bush On Iraq


November 28, 2006
• Shiite Militants Get Help From Hezbollah; Interview With Jimmy Carter
• U.S. Pilot Missing in Iraq; Bush Vows to Keep Troops in Iraq Until Mission is Complete
• Bush Draws New Lines in Iraq Strategy


November 27, 2006
• News Networks Declare Iraq in State of Civil War, Iraqi Leaders to Meet With Their Iranian Counterparts, Former Spy's Mysterious Death Strains Russian Relations With West
• Civil War in Iraq?; Richards Apologizes
• Bush Goes on Worldwide Diplomatic Mission; Does Situation on the Ground in Baghdad Qualify as Civil War?


November 24, 2006
• Any Good Options Left in Iraq?; Father of JonBenet Ramsey Speaks Out on John Mark Karr; Former Spy Accuses Russia of Assassination
• Sunnis and Shiites Slaughter Each Other In Iraq; Some Wondering If Al Qaeda Finding Safe Haven In Afghanistan; Former Russian Spy Blames Russia's President Putin For His Death; Father Of JonBenet Ramsey Offers Surprise Sympathy For Man Who Falsely Confessed To Her Murder; Cold Weather Now An Ally For United States In Afghanistan
• Violence Explodes in Iraq; Former Russian Spy Killed By Radiation; Ted Strickland Interview


November 22, 2006
• U.S. Marine Corps Stretched Too Thin?; President Bush to Meet with Iraqi Prime Minister; Whites-Only Scholarship Raises Controversy
• Iraq Civilian Death Tolls Reach New Heights; President Bush To Meet Iraqi Prime Minister; Interview with Chris Shays
• Lebanon Mourns Assassinated Cabinet Minister; Rudy Giuliani's Presidential Chances; Political Turkeys of the Year


November 21, 2006
• Lebanese Cabinet Minister Assassinated; Are Iran, Syria Making Power Play in Iraq?
• Interview With Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger; Guantanamo Bay Detainees Speak Out; Interview With Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns
• President Bush Reacts to Beirut Assassination; Iran, Syria Offer to Tighten Borders; Imad Moustapha Interview; Comparisons of Bush 41 and Bush 43


November 20, 2006
• Interview With New York Congressman Charles Rangel; Iran Offers Invitation to Iraqi President; Obama on Iraq; 'Seinfeld' Star Accused of Racist Rant
• Will the U.S. Boost Troop Levels in Iraq?; Interview With Charlie Rangel
• Congressman Proposes Reinstating Draft; Pentagon Reviewing Iraq Strategy; Barack Obama Considering Presidential Run?; How Do Americans View Iraq War?


November 17, 2006
• Kidnapped Americans Still Missing; Poison-Laced Cookies Sent to Supreme Court
• Interview With Mississippi Senator Trent Lott; FDA Gives Green Light to Silicone Breast Implants; Iraq Another Vietnam?; Tom Vilsack Interview
• Will Republicans Emulate Arnold Schwarzenegger?; Bush Talks About Parallels Between Iraq and Vietnam; Republican Stick With Similar Leaders in Congress


November 16, 2006
• American Contractors Ambushed in Iraq; Arrest Warrant for Sunni Leader Raises Fears of All-Out Civil War
• Is Iraq Heading Toward Civil War?; Hoyer Beats Murtha for Majority Leader Spot
• Democrats Pick Hoyer Over Murtha; McCain Begins Exploring Presidential Run; Steny Hoyer Interview


November 15, 2006
• General Abizaid Reacts to Changing Iraq; Murtha Continues Fight for Top House Position; McCain and Thompson Form Presidential Exploratory Committee
• Senator John McCain To Take First Official Step Toward Run For White House; Congress Takes Up Issue Of Timetables And Troop Levels In Iraq; Michael Steele Interview; Carl Levin Interview; Civilian/Military Tensions Have Been Growing Throughout Iraq War
• Gen. Abizaid Testifies Before Unsatisfied Senate; Sen. Trent Lott Wins Number Two GOP Senate Position; Tight Races for Republican And Democratic House Leadership Positions; John Shadegg Interview


November 14, 2006
• Iraq's Interior Ministry Says Most People Kidnapped in Baghdad Today Were Freed; Rights Group Seeks War Crime Charges Against Donald Rumsfeld; Fight For Majority Leader's Job Getting Ugly; Trent Lott Trying To Make Leadership Comeback; Senate Democrats Give Joe Lieberman Standing Ovation; President Bush Promises To Raise U.S. Auto Concerns On Asian Tour; Evan Bayh Interview
• Dozens of Gunmen In Police Uniforms Abducted Employees At Baghdad Research Facility; U.S. Civil Rights Group Filed Suit in Germany Against Donald Rumsfeld And Other U.S. Officials; Roy Blunt Interview; Evan Bayh Interview; Experts Found Unexplained Traces of Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium At Nuclear Waste Facility in Iran; Senator Hillary Clinton versus Rudy Giuliani in 2008
• Mass Kidnappings in Iraq; Democrats Fight Over House Leadership Positions; Nine Congressional Races Remain Undecided; Senator Lott Trying Leadership Comeback


November 13, 2006
• Could U.S. Troops Start Pulling Out of Iraq?; Giuliani Forms Presidential Exploratory Committee
• Bush Meets With Iraq Study Group
• Iraq Study Group Meets with President Bush; Pelosi Endorses Murtha; Interview with Steny Hoyer


November 10, 2006
• Can Republicans, Democrats Work Together?
• President Bush Meets With Senate Democratic Leaders; Democrats Raise Idea of Bipartisan Congressional Review; Incoming Congressional Freshman Class Has Conservative Democrats


November 09, 2006
• Democrats Take Control of Senate; Has Karl Rove Lost Touch?
• Democrats Capture Last Senate Battleground; George Allen Concedes; Ken Mehlman May Step Down; John Murtha Interview; Robert Gates Could Bring Strategy Change In Iraq; Veteran CBS News Journalist Ed Bradley Passes Away
• George Allen Concedes To Jim Webb in Virginia; Democrats Position Themselves To Jump Into Driver's Seat; President Bush Talking About Partnership And Peace-Making With Democrats; Jon Tester Interview


November 08, 2006
• Recount Vote Expected in Florida's 13th District; Senate Race in Virginia Still Undetermined; CNN Projects Tester Victory in Montana; Interview with John Cornyn
• Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Stepping Down Amid Public Anger Over Iraq War; Henry Kissinger Interview; In Virginia Two Men Carry Fate Of Senate On Their Shoulders; Nancy Pelosi Interview
• President Bush Names Rumsfeld's Successor; Interview with Nancy Pelosi; Virginia Senate Race Still Too Close To Call


November 07, 2006
• America Votes 2006
• America Votes 2006; Interview With Illinois Congressman Rahm Emanuel
• Election '06
• America Votes 2006; Interview With Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean
• Election 2006
• George Allen And Jim Webb Down To The Wire; Tennessee Cliff Hanger Between Bob Corker and Harold Ford, Jr.; In Missouri Jim Talent Faces Tough Challenge From Claire McCaskill
• Election 2006 Coverage; Battles for U.S. Senate Seats Come Down To The Wire; Many Issues Drive Voters in Montana; Exit Polls Held Top Secret; Ken Mehlman Interview


November 06, 2006
• Will Democrats Take Control of Congress?; Interview With Pennsylvania Congressman John Murtha; Interview With South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham and California Senator Barbara Boxer
• Preview of Election '06
• Midterm Elections Tomorrow
• Military Times Papers Call for Rumsfeld Dismissal; Elections Are Closing In


November 03, 2006
• Evangelical Leader Admits Contact With Gay Prostitute;
• Top Evangelist Who Resigned In Disgrace Speaking Out; Howard Dean Interview; Hundreds of Thousands Of Small Arms Provided To Iraq's Army And Police Forces Unaccounted For


November 02, 2006
• Identity of Kidnapped U.S. Soldier Revealed; Interview With Pennsylvania Congressman John Murtha; Iraq and the Midterm Elections
• Stuart Rothenberg Predicts Dems Take House, Senate; The Michael J. Fox Factor
• President Bush Campaigning In Montana and Nevada; Some Asking Who's Accountable For Iraq's Problems; Senator Jim Talent Interview; Tony Snow Interview
• President Bush Continues to Strongly Defend Iraq War; Tom Reynolds Interview; Michael Steele Interview


November 01, 2006
• John Kerry Apologizes For Controversial Remarks; Interview With Ann Coulter
• President Bush Gives Vote of Confidence to Rumsfeld, Cheney; Florida Republicans Have Another Controversy; Will Kerry's Apology Be Enough?
• Kerry Apologizes For Clumsy Attempt At Joke; Some Report Current Level of Violence in Iraq Getting Ominously Close To Chaos; Marty Meehan Interview; Dick Armey Interview
• President Bush Defends Rumsfeld and Cheney; Some Democrats Come Out Against Senator Kerry's Statement; North Korea Returns to the Table; What Would a Democratic Win on Election Day Mean?; John Boehner Interview


October 31, 2006
• John Kerry Defends Controversial Remarks; Interview With Maryland Congressman Ben Cardin; E-Voting Worries
• Missouri One Of Nine Battlegrounds States Being Watched Closely; Democrats Must Gain Five Seats To Win Control Of Senate; Polls Say 53 Percent Of Likely Voters Will Vote Democratic; Charles Rangel Interview; Eric Cantor Interview; North Korea Returns to Six- Party Talks, U.S. Abandons Sadr City Checkpoints
• Fight Between John Kerry And Top Republicans Seems To Carry Over Bitterness From 2004 Campaign; Dead Heat In Missouri Senate Race; Names Of Dead People Potentially Being Used In Elections; Cheney And Rangel Go Head To Head; Charles Rangel Interview; Eric Cantor Interview; North Korea Returns To Talks
• Kerry Refuses to Apologize for Statements Republicans Called Offensive to Servicemen; Senate Races Remain Tight in Missouri and Tennessee; Jim Webb Shows Slight Lead In New Poll For Virginia Senate Race; North Korea Returns to the Table; Iraq Death Toll Mounts


October 30, 2006
• Will Iraq War Sink Republican Party?; Democrats Overconfident?
• Election '06
• President Bush Lends Hand to Campaign Trail; What's Inside Lynne Cheney's Book?; Interview with Duncan Hunter
• Violence Continues in Iraq as Midterms Near; Nancy Pelosi Could Become First Woman Speaker In U.S. History If Democrats Win House Majority; Duncan Hunter Will Explore Presidential Bid


October 27, 2006
• Interview With Lynne Cheney; New al Qaeda Threats
• Wildfire Burning Out Of Control in Southern California; Controversial Comments Made By Vice President Dick Cheney About Torture; Lynne Cheney Interview
• GOP Campaign Touts Embarrassing Passages From Novels By Democratic Senate Candidate Jim Webb; Lynne Cheney Interview


October 26, 2006
• Bush Administration Clarifies Iraq Position; Michael J. Fox Political Ad Stirs Controversy
• Rumsfeld Makes Case That U.S. Military Is Adjusting In Iraq; Growing Number of Negative Ads Close To Election; Four Firefighters Die Battling California Wildfire; Claire McCaskill Interview
• Deadly California Wildfire Forces Residents to Flee Homes; Bush Signs Border Security Bill


October 25, 2006
• Analysis of President Bush's Conference; Interviews with Mike DeWine, Sherrod Brown; Will Democrats Take Control of Senate?
• New Ruling on Gay Rights; President Bush Delivers State of War Conference; Interview with Ken Mehlman


October 24, 2006
• U.S. Officials Set New Timeline For Iraqi Forces To Take Charge; Bob Corker Interview; Harold Ford, Jr., Interview; Mostly Conservative Talk Radio Hosts Invited To Get Up Close Time With Senior Administration Officials; Ohio's DeWine In Uphill Reelection Battle; Michael J. Fox At Center Of Campaign Controversy; Senator Hillary Clinton's Appearance Under Scrutiny
• Bush Administration Shifting Strategy And Language On Iraq; Michael J. Fox At Center Of Campaign Controversy
• Hastert Testifies In Mark Foley Scandal; Congressmen Mike Fitzpatrick Faces Tough Race; Democrats Have Tough Times Trying to Win Elections; Electronic Voting Worries; Conrad Burns Campaigning Fiercely To Try Senate Seat; Mike DeWine In Uphill Reelection Battle


October 23, 2006
• Is President Bush Revisiting Iraq Battle Plan?
• Death Toll Climbing for American Troops in Iraq; CNN Sticks to Decision of Showing Dangers Troops Face; Is Do-Nothing Congress At Heart of Broken Government?
• Speculation Over Change In Strategy Regarding Iraq; Former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling Sentenced To 24 Years In Prison; Tennessee Senate Showdown Bitter and Bruising; Are Americans Disillusioned With Government Power?


October 20, 2006
• U.S. Military Commanders Summoned to White House; Will President Bush Change Course in Iraq?
• Rogue Gunmen Tested Will Of Iraqi Police and Troops In Amara; General Abizaid Meets With President Bush
• President Bush Holding Urgent Talks With General John Abizaid; Some Democrats Denouncing New Republican Ad As Scare Mongering; China Key To Twisting North Korea's Arm; Getting Out The Vote; Senator Clinton More Than 30 points Ahead Of Republican Opponent; War Of Words Between Democrat Jane Harman and Republican Peter Hoekstra


October 19, 2006
• Are Terrorists in Iraq Attempting to Influence U.S. Midterm Elections?; Growing Number of Americans Oppose War in Iraq


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