McCain most popular Sunday talk-show guest
Thursday, February 16, 2006 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the ubiquitous potential 2008 presidential candidate, enjoys special treatment from the Sunday morning television news, asserts a study to be released this week by Media Matters for America, a not-for-profit media-watch group.
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Flake's flip can't save pork bill
Sunday, November 20, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., a prominent critic of runaway congressional spending, including lawmaker earmarks for favorite projects, or "legislative pork," issued a news release on Thursday critical of the $602 billion health, education and labor appropriations bill (HR 3010).
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McCain tries to balance image
Sunday, November 6, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| Sen. John McCain, potential 2008 presidential candidate, is walking a political tightrope.
The Arizona Republican has yet to formally announce he is running. But he already is trying to balance his popular image as a politician who thinks for himself with that of a loyal soldier to President Bush and the GOP.
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Debate may test 'nuclear option'
Tuesday, November 1, 2005 Jon Kamman and Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| "Extraordinary circumstances." Is that what we have here?
A bipartisan pact brokered in May by Sen. John McCain to head off a paralyzing standoff on judicial nominations could be severely tested following Monday's nomination by President Bush of Judge Samuel Alito to succeed Arizona's Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court.
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Public undecided on migrant bills
Sunday, October 30, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| Arizonans do not yet have an overwhelming preference regarding several of the immigration-reform plans put forward in Washington by their members of Congress, a new poll shows.
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Forget about honors, House, get back to work
Sunday, October 23, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| Voting in support of a bill to commemorate the positive contributions of chemistry to our everyday lives and the goals and ideals of National Chemistry Week would not seem to be a particularly repugnant thing to do.
But on Monday Arizona GOP Reps. Jeff Flake and John Shadegg were the only two lawmakers to vote "nay" on House Resolution 457.
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McCain, Flake leading the way for immigration reform
Sunday, October 16, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., are among the prominent congressional advocates for comprehensive immigration reform who are scheduled to speak Tuesday at a forum titled "Fixing a Broken System" in Washington.
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Border agencies' merger gains favor
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| Turf battles, budget fights and lack of coordination between two Department of Homeland Security agencies that both have some jurisdiction over immigration, smuggling and border security are prompting calls for them to be merged.
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'Peace Mom' assails McCain
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| Cindy Sheehan, whose 26-day anti-war vigil this summer outside President Bush's Texas ranch grabbed international attention, met privately for 20 minutes on Tuesday with Sen. John McCain and afterward called him "a warmonger."
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Blitzer zeroes in: Tempe town pork
Sunday, September 25, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| Congressional "deficit hawks" have been beating paths to microphones to lists potential government spending cuts they say could help defray the costs of Hurricane Katrina rescue and recovery efforts, as well as potential costs related to Hurricane Rita.
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Senators spar over scope of inquiry
Tuesday, September 13, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| John Roberts, U.S. Supreme Court chief justice nominee, was attentive but silent for more than three hours on Monday as 18 senators wrangled over how far they can go in pinning him down on his legal views.
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Congress returns to work as nation demands action
Tuesday, September 6, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| Congress reconvenes today after its August break facing a stack of work and worries, including two Supreme Court vacancies and hot-button items that lawmakers don't want to put off beyond December and into the 2006 midterm election year.
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Lobbyist referred to aid from Interior official
Monday, August 29, 2005 Jon Kamman - - Arizona Republic
| A second case has come to light in which once-mighty lobbyist Jack Abramoff asked a conservative environmental organization to prevail on a top-ranking Interior Department official to protect the casino interests of Native American clients.
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Air Force lab's fate pondered
Wednesday, August 24, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| An Air Force research lab at Williams Gateway Airport is among targets of proposed federal cutbacks that will be determined this week by a nine-member commission of former military officials, lawmakers and presidential Cabinet members.
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Ariz. ranks last in road 'pork'
Thursday, August 11, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| Arizona emerges nationally prominent - or peculiar - from a controversial aspect of the six-year, $286.4 billion transportation bill that President Bush signed into law Wednesday.
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Bush returns 15,000 acres to Colorado River Tribe
Wednesday, August 3, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| More than 15,000 acres off Interstate 10 in western Arizona that were taken away from the Colorado River Indian Tribes' reservation 90 years ago are being returned under a bill President Bush signed into law Tuesday.
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House to try immigration bill
Sunday, July 31, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., said Thursday that his chamber will try to come up with a consensus immigration-reform bill this year - something President Bush told lawmakers last week he hopes can occur.
But Hastert, hedging his bets, also noted to reporters the wide array of viewpoints just within the Arizona congressional delegation on the controversial issue.
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Congress OKs transit bill
Saturday, July 30, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| Congress on Friday approved a $286.4 billion highway and transit construction bill that contains hundreds of millions of dollars for Arizona roadways, bridges and other projects.
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NASA studies apparently chipped tile, debris
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
AP's JEFF DONN - - Arizona Republic
| In uneasy reminders of the Columbia accident, a thermal tile apparently got chipped and other debris whirled around Discovery as it rumbled toward space Tuesday, but it wasn't clear if the shuttle's sensitive skin had been jeopardized.
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Migrants to return voluntarily under bill
Wednesday, July 20, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| The millions of undocumented immigrants in the United States would have to agree to first return to their home countries if they ever wanted a chance to work or live here legally, under a new Republican immigration reform proposal.
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McCain joins Love Field fight
Wednesday, July 20, 2005 Dawn Gilbertson - - Arizona Republic
| Southwest Airlines' efforts to lift flight restrictions from its home base in Dallas got a big boost Tuesday with a new Senate bill supported by Arizona Sen. John McCain and others.
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Hayworth plans immigration-reform bill
Tuesday, July 19, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| Rep. J.D. Hayworth plans to introduce major immigration-reform legislation this summer, becoming the latest member of Congress from Arizona to sponsor a bill to tackle the thorny issue.
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Rep. Franks compelled to help Iraqi kids with facial problems
Sunday, July 17, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., underwent his first operation for a cleft palate as age 2 weeks, and since then has had 10 more related operations.
He says he considers himself lucky for the improvements those operations have made.
Now, the two-term congressman is trying to help Iraqi children who have had the same birth defect, as well as other Iraqi children suffering from facial injuries or abnormalities.
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Active military members agree to follow special rules
Wednesday, July 13, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| Active members of the armed services are subject to a special set of legal restrictions. When a person enlists, he or she essentially signs a contract agreeing to obey these laws.
Some of the rules can sharply curtail rights that often are associated with political activity and free speech.
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Military investigating Arizona soldier in Iraq
Wednesday, July 13, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| An Arizona Army National Guardsman whose Web log comments have criticized the Iraq war and who has filed papers to run for the U.S. Senate seat held by Jon Kyl, is the subject of a military investigation in Iraq, the Army said Tuesday.
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Hayworth appears to be target of Dems
Sunday, July 3, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| House Democrats last week began a campaign to promote connections in Arizona voters' minds between Rep. J.D. Hayworth, R-Ariz., and both disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas.
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O'Connor retires
Saturday, July 2, 2005 Jon Kamman and Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| Sandra Day O'Connor, who rode from an Arizona ranch to historic heights as the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, was the crucial vote on scores of rulings that will long shape the character and conduct of the American people.
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Group rips Bush gag on border surveys
Wednesday, June 29, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| A White House-approved gag order was imposed on U.S. Border Patrol agents regarding information that President Bush's "temporary guest worker" proposal inspired more illegal border crossings from Mexico, a group charged Tuesday .
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Measure bars migrants from Social Security pay
Sunday, June 26, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| The House on Friday adopted, with no objections, a measure sponsored by Rep. J.D. Hayworth, R-Ariz., to block Social Security payments for possibly millions of undocumented immigrant workers in the United States.
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More light thrown on lobbyists' tribal 'scam'
Thursday, June 23, 2005 Billy House and Jon Kamman - - Arizona Republic
| What Sen. John McCain described as a multimillion-dollar "scam" of casino-rich Indian tribes by a lobbyist and his partner continued to unfold Wednesday with details of how the duo funneled money to bogus charities, a training program for Israeli snipers, a Jewish boys school and pet GOP front organizations.
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Governor to fight for Mesa lab
Tuesday, June 21, 2005 Billy House and David Madrid - - Arizona Republic
| Gov. Janet Napolitano, possibly with Sen. John McCain, is to testify in New Mexico on Friday before a commission considering whether to go along with a Pentagon proposal to relocate the Air Force Research Laboratory in Mesa to Ohio.
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Dems pounce as Kyl gives 'no' vote on energy plan
Tuesday, June 21, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| With Arizona state Democratic Chairman Jim Pederson expected soon to announce his 2006 bid for the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Jon Kyl, the Washington-based Democratic Senate Campaign Committee is intensifying its scrutiny and criticism of Kyl's votes and other legislative activities.
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Siege on border
Sunday, June 19, 2005 Daniel González and Susan Carroll - - Arizona Republic
| It's a simple idea: Make it tougher to cross the U.S.-Mexican border illegally and fewer migrants will try to sneak in.
For 12 years, the United States has backed that strategy, pumping billions of dollars into fortifying the border. Annual spending on border enforcement has nearly tripled, the Border Patrol has almost tripled its ranks, and the Southwestern border has become heavily militarized with fences, aircraft, sensors and cameras.
It hasn't worked.
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2008: Will it be McCain?
Sunday, June 12, 2005 Billy House and Jon Kamman - - Arizona Republic
| Sen. John McCain is not officially running for president.
Not yet.
He's just making all the moves in that direction and doing nothing to dissuade anyone from considering him a candidate.
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U.S. re-examines proposal to expand passport use
Friday, June 10, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| Federal officials said Thursday they are considering more flexibility in a proposal that, as now written, would require U.S. citizens beginning in 2008 to present passports to re-enter the United States from Mexico and Canada and other U.S. neighbors.
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McCain returning to Mich.
Sunday, June 5, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| Sen. John McCain visits Michigan again on Monday, where he is to be the guest speaker at the Republican Lincoln Day Dinner in Macomb County, outside Detroit.
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U.S. targets human trafficking
Saturday, June 4, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| Mexico is among 41 countries that continue to fall below U.S.-declared minimum standards in efforts to stop human trafficking across their borders, a practice that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday described as "modern-day slavery."
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Ariz. House members agree
Monday, May 30, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| It's not often that Arizona's eight representatives in the U.S. House all agree on any single issue.
But that's exactly what happened last week when Republicans J.D. Hayworth, John Shadegg, Jeff Flake, Jim Kolbe, Rick Renzi and Trent Franks joined with Democrats Ed Pastor and Raul Grijalva in urging a vote this year on legislation to allow importation of drugs from foreign countries.
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Take this on 'Faith': TV movie on McCain's POW years is 'the' film to see
Sunday, May 29, 2005 Robbie Sherwood and Chip Scutari - - Arizona Republic
| We're by no means qualified movie reviewers, but we do watch a lot of television. So believe us when we tell you to run, don't walk to your couch Monday night to catch the premiere on A&E of Faith of My Fathers.
It's the harrowing but inspiring story of Arizona Sen. John McCain's military upbringing and the 5 1/2 hellish years he spent as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, based on his book of the same name.
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Senators offer migrant plan
Friday, May 27, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| More Border Patrol agents and creation of a senior Justice Department position to oversee all immigration enforcement litigation are among several get-tough immigration-reform ideas contained in legislation that two GOP senators say they will introduce by summer's end.
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McCain bill ups ante on steroids
Wednesday, May 25, 2005 Joseph A. Reaves - - Arizona Republic
| The bill Arizona Sen. John McCain introduced Tuesday was the legal equivalent of a 98-mph fastball at the head of the Major League Baseball Players Association.
And, make no mistake, the message was received loud and clear.
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Dad says fallen daughter would hate combat ban
Wednesday, May 25, 2005 Dennis Wagner - - Arizona Republic
| Army Pfc. Sam Huff of Tucson might not be dead today if Congress had passed a law banning female soldiers from combat-support units.
But Bob Huff says his 18-year-old daughter would have hated such a rule, and he shares her umbrage.
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Senate showdown averted
Tuesday, May 24, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| Led by Sen. John McCain, a bipartisan group of 14 senators reached agreement on Monday night to allow confirmation votes on some of President Bush's judicial nominees while preserving the rights of Democrats to block others.
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Exaggeration choked off
Sunday, May 22, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| You want a nuclear option?
Arizona Rep. Rick Renzi admittedly got really hot under the collar last week at fellow Republican Rep. Mark Kirk of Illinois.
But early reports that Renzi actually may have choked Kirk while on the U.S. House floor and that Arizona GOP Rep. J.D. Hayworth had to step in to save the day, appear much exaggerated. Especially since Hayworth's office says he wasn't even there at the time.
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Feds OK $12 mil for Fort Apache
Wednesday, May 18, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| The federal government has agreed to spend $12 million to fix the deteriorating buildings and landscaping at Old Fort Apache, the historic Arizona military outpost on Indian land just south of Whiteriver.
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Franks stands by DeLay
Monday, May 16, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| Just one of Arizona's six GOP House members attended Thursday night's $250-per-plate event at Washington's Capital Hilton honoring Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas: Rep. Trent Franks. And Franks says he's proud of it.
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State bases to stay open
Saturday, May 14, 2005 Billy House, David Madrid, and Jon Kamman - - Arizona Republic
| Arizona emerged as neither a big national winner nor a big loser Friday as the Pentagon proposed that none of the state's five major military bases be shut down, even as 33 major installations in other states were targeted for closure.
But the state would suffer less-dramatic "hits" under Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's proposed changes, including changes at Glendale's Luke Air Force Base that could lead to the loss of as many as 278 there and an additional 274 contractor or other jobs in the Valley tied to the base.
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GOP not convinced governor invincible
Sunday, May 15, 2005 Chip Scutari - - Arizona Republic
| A string of political victories has cast an aura of invincibility around Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano as she heads toward her 2006 re-election bid, leaving Republicans to pin their hopes on candidates who haven't hinted that they will actually run.
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U.S. poll puts McCain No. 2 in GOP primary
Tuesday, May 10, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| Another national poll, this one released on Friday, shows Arizona's Sen. John McCain trailing former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani among early leaders among potential candidates for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination.
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McCain says he 'absolutely' wants to lead country
Saturday, May 7, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| Sen. John McCain says that he "absolutely" wants to be president and that he is qualified for the job but that he is focused on his Senate duties and will "wait a couple of years" to decide about a White House bid in 2008.
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Arizona bases 'optimistic'
Saturday, May 7, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| Arizona officials said they were encouraged Friday to learn that the Pentagon will recommend far fewer military bases to be closed or realigned than anticipated because space is needed for the return of about 70,000 troops from installations overseas.
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Dem video casts McCain as ally
Friday, April 22, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| Democrats unveiled a Web video on Thursday featuring Arizona's GOP Sen. John McCain as among their allies in opposition to any Senate rule change to bar Democrats from using the filibuster to block President Bush's judicial nominations.
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Billboard owner bars ad targeting McCain
Thursday, April 21, 2005 Jon Kamman - - Arizona Republic
| A national organization that campaigns against illegal immigration wants to post a billboard in Phoenix to object to Sen. John McCain's stance, but the owner of the board has rejected the message as "bashing" the Arizona Republican.
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New base-closure wrinkle
Thursday, April 21, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| The Pentagon cannot shut down National Guard installations or relocate Guard units without the approval of governors, who have authority over the Guard during peacetime, U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert contends.
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Border watch to widen
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 Susan Carroll - - Arizona Republic
| Leaders of a controversial civilian border patrol movement on Monday announced plans to extend patrols in southern Arizona and start "copycat" efforts across the country by next fall.
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Mexico investigates allegations against Minutemen
Monday, April 11, 2005
AP's Morgan Lee - - Arizona Republic
| Mexican authorities are investigating reports that 13 migrants may have been apprehended by U.S. civilians guarding the Arizona-Mexico border against illegal crossers, a top foreign relations official said Monday.
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Political cleansing of events draws letter from Grijalva
Monday, April 11, 2005 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| Reps. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., and Diana DeGette, D-Colo., on Tuesday wrote asking the House Government Reform Committee to investigate instances in which they say people were denied entrance to - or were removed from - presidential events open to the public because of their political beliefs.
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Volunteers basking in attention from media
Saturday, April 2, 2005 Susan Carroll - - Arizona Republic
| Organizers of a monthlong civilian border patrol effort claimed victory on the first day, basking in national media attention even before the volunteers fan out to detect undocumented immigrants crossing the border.
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Maybe they're nuts but Minutemen have been effective
Saturday, April 2, 2005 Laurie Roberts - - Arizona Republic
| Say what you want about the Minuteman movement.
Call the people involved vigilantes. Call them gun nuts. Call them crackpots in camouflage.
I'd call them fairly effective. Before they even set foot among the scrub oak and chaparral of southeastern Arizona, they have done what politicians and policymakers in this part of the country have been unable to do.
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U.S. focusing on security in summit; Mexico, Canada on trade
Wednesday, March 23, 2005 Chris Hawley and Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| When the leaders of North America meet here today under the big skies of central Texas, they'll be talking about big visions: of a continent united against terrorism and bound for a new age of prosperity.
But are the big visions just big talk? That's the real question as President Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin swap wish lists for the future.
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McCain takes shots at AARP
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
AP's DEB RIECHMANN - - Arizona Republic
| Sen. John McCain, sitting alongside President Bush at a Social Security event here Tuesday, threw a few punches at those he says are blocking change.
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5 percent of undocumented immigrants living in Arizona, report finds
Monday, March 21, 2005
AP's Genario C. Armas - - Arizona Republic
| The nation's undocumented immigrant population surged to 10.3 million last year, spurred largely since 2000 by the arrivals of unauthorized Mexicans in the United States, a report being released Monday says.
The report says about 5 percent of that total, or roughly 500,000, live in Arizona.
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Arizona family has lived Schiavo nightmare
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 Connie Cone Sexton - - Arizona Republic
| Art Webb understands the heartache of Terri Schiavo's parents.
He knows what it means to stand over your brain-damaged child not wanting each breath to be the last. He knows what it means to have hope when others have told you not to expect any change. And he knows what it means to hold on, determined not to let go.
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Governor taking right turn?
Monday, March 7, 2005 Chip Scutari - - Arizona Republic
| These days, Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano talks about the benefits of tax cuts instead of the evils of corporate tax loopholes.
She recently sided with a conservative family group in supporting the Ten Commandments in a Supreme Court case about religious monuments near state capitols.
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Shooting by U.S. angers Italy
Monday, March 7, 2005
AP's Angela Doland - - Arizona Republic
| Italy demanded answers Saturday as former hostage Giuliana Sgrena was taken off a flight from Iraq wrapped in a plaid blanket and hooked to an intravenous drip for a shoulder wound inflicted when American troops fired on a car taking her to the Baghdad airport.
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Biosphere 2 on market
Tuesday, January 18, 2005 Susan Carroll - - Arizona Republic
| The company that owns the complex, Texas-based Decisions Investments Corp., hopes a research or educational institution will resurrect the 140-acre campus, but it also is soliciting interest from buyers who may have in mind other uses for the property, which includes the world's largest greenhouse and 70 other buildings.
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Eyewitness to a disaster: Thai man e-mails Mesa family about devastation
Monday, December 27, 2004 David J. Cieslak - - Arizona Republic
| Walking near his Thailand home a few hours after Sunday's massive earthquake, Steve Soper couldn't help but overhear the same puzzling phrase again and again.
"We'd been hearing that 'water broke' but I wasn't really sure what that meant," Soper, an engineer in the Thai resort town of Phuket, wrote in an e-mail to friends and family in Mesa.
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Army revisits Tillman death
Tuesday, December 7, 2004 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| The Army has opened a new investigation into football star Pat Tillman's friendly-fire death in April while serving as a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan, amid questions raised by Tillman's family and others about why the Pentagon deliberately held back or distorted some details.
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Facing a big league crisis
Friday, December 3, 2004 David Vest and Bob McManaman - - Arizona Republic
| News of Jason Giambi's admission to a federal grand jury that he used steroids did not exactly stagger the baseball community on Thursday.
Giambi is the first active baseball star to admit using steroids, but questions remain as to whether Major League Baseball will take any serious action to combat the problem.
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U.S. not split vs. terror, McCain tells Europeans
Thursday, December 2, 2004 Billy House - - Arizona Republic
| Americans are more unified in fighting international terrorism and in their core political values than commonly depicted, but the world also needs to see the United States and European countries standing side by side, Arizona Sen. John McCain insists.
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World record for caroling is pursued
Friday, December 3, 2004 Michael Clancy - - Arizona Republic
| Come, all ye faithful, and fa-la-la your way to a record.
That is the Christmas wish of the people at Phoenix's First Christian Church, 6750 N. Seventh Ave. The church needs more than 1,175 carolers to sing for more than 28 minutes today to seal its place in history, as recorded in the Guinness World Records book.
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Bush continues shaping new team for 2nd term
Friday, December 3, 2004
AP's DEB RIECHMANN - - Arizona Republic
| Bernard Kerik's expected nomination to run the Homeland Security Department and Mike Johanns' nomination to be Agriculture secretary come as President Bush reshapes his team for his second term in office.
Seven members of the 15-member Cabinet have submitted their resignations; Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson also appears to be preparing to leave.
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Almost half of U.S. food is tossed
Thursday, November 25, 2004 William Hermann - - Arizona Republic
| A University of Arizona scientist has some food for thought for all of us who will sit down to tables groaning beneath the weight of the Thanksgiving feast.
Much of that food likely will be thrown away; in fact, says UA anthropologist Timothy W. Jones, almost half of all food in America never gets eaten. Jones' research evolved from work done in the 1970s by UA archaeologists who began evaluating garbage to see what was being thrown away.
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