Alito wife has a battle cry
Thursday, January 12, 2006 MICHAEL McAULIFF - - New York Daily News
| Samuel Alito's wife fled weeping from her husband's high court confirmation yesterday as the hearing erupted in angry partisan bickering and Democrats all but called Alito a liar.
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Bush takes blame
Thursday, December 15, 2005 Kenneth R. Bazinet - - New York Daily News
| President Bush blamed himself yesterday for going to war based on lousy intelligence, another in a string of mea culpas that may be helping sway public opinion his way.
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Pirro has a 'go' - to AG race
Tuesday, December 13, 2005 Joe Mahoney - - New York Daily News
| State GOP leaders tried to give Jeanine Pirro the heave-ho from the Senate race yesterday, while William Weld emerged as the strongest candidate in the governor's contest.
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Bush sticking to his guns
Tuesday, December 13, 2005 Kenneth R. Bazinet - - New York Daily News
| President Bush insisted yesterday that knowing what he knows now - that Saddam Hussein didn't have weapons of mass destruction - he would still invade Iraq if he had to make the choice again.
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Feds back jet shooting
Friday, December 9, 2005 ROSE DAVIS and BILL HUTCHINSON - - New York Daily News
| Law-enforcement officials insisted yesterday that two federal air marshals followed "textbook" procedures when they gunned down an airline passenger claiming to have a bomb - even as some on the plane said there was no need for deadly force.
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Death at airport
Thursday, December 8, 2005 BILL HUTCHINSON - - New York Daily News
| A passenger who claimed to have a bomb and ran "like a crazy man" through a parked American Airlines jet was shot dead yesterday by federal air marshals at Miami International Airport.
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Rummy exit rumored; Lieberman eyed for job
Thursday, December 8, 2005 THOMAS M. DEFRANK and Kenneth R. Bazinet - - New York Daily News
| White House officials are telling associates they expect Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to quit early next year, once a new government is formed in Iraq, sources said yesterday.
Rumsfeld's deputy, Gordon England, is the inside contender to replace him, but there's also speculation that Sen. Joe Lieberman - a Democrat who ran against Bush-Cheney in the 2000 election - might become top guy at the Pentagon.
That's not as farfetched as it might first appear.
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Watchdog sez Hil pacs it in
Tuesday, November 22, 2005 MICHAEL McAULIFF - - New York Daily News
| A committee formed by Sen. Hillary Clinton to boost other Democrats is barely treading water, with just $3,000 free and clear in its bank account.
According to federal filings, the New York Democrat's "Hill Pac" political action committee has about $91,000 in cash - and $88,000 in debts.
And while its stated purpose is to help elect Democrats, it has given candidates just $85,000 out of the more than $1.2 million it has raised this year.
Campaign finance watchdogs say the PAC's finances betray its real purpose: to promote Hillary Clinton.
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State GOP headache
Sunday, November 20, 2005 Joe Mahoney - - New York Daily News
| In less than a year, the state Republican Party will face its first gubernatorial election in more than a decade without Gov. Pataki.
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Pol shifts, hints Alito filibuster
Monday, November 21, 2005 DAVE GOLDINER - - New York Daily News
| The fight over controversial Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito flared yesterday when a key Democrat said he would consider a filibuster if the judge does not disavow his opposition to equal voting rights decisions.
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Pirro camp slams Hil for Byrd bash
Wednesday, November 16, 2005 Joe Mahoney - - New York Daily News
| Republican Senate hopeful Jeanine Pirro's campaign slammed Sen. Hillary Clinton yesterday for helping out at a birthday bash for West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd, who was briefly a Ku Klux Klan member more than 60 years ago.
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Senate spanking
Wednesday, November 16, 2005 RICHARD SISK - - New York Daily News
| In another setback for a reeling White House, the Senate yesterday approved a GOP-sponsored resolution to start bringing the troops home next year as Iraqi forces prove they can take up the fight.
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Feds may yank 125M for 9/11 responders
Wednesday, November 16, 2005 Joe Mahoney - - New York Daily News
| Congress is poised to strip New York of $125 million in aid that was earmarked for treating injured workers who responded to the 9/11 attacks - all because the state hasn't spent the money yet.
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Israelis sing Hil to chief
Tuesday, November 15, 2005 MICHAEL McAULIFF - - New York Daily News
| Sen. Hillary Clinton flew home from Israel yesterday, after an emotional trip that was packed with political benefits for her reelection campaign and a possible White House run.
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W hit with parting shots
Tuesday, November 15, 2005 Kenneth R. Bazinet - - New York Daily News
| As President Bush left yesterday for Asia, Democrats gave him a prickly sendoff, demanding quarterly progress reports on the Iraq war and calling on Iraqis to take charge.
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FDA quick to kill pill, sez panel
Tuesday, November 15, 2005 JORDAN LITE - - New York Daily News
| The Food and Drug Administration may have decided to block the over-the-counter sale of a morning-after pill even before an agency panel completed its review, congressional investigators said yesterday.
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Dem chief: We've gotta KO the GOP
Monday, November 14, 2005 JANE H. FURSE - - New York Daily News
| Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean says his party has a plan for running the country, but for now the plan is to stop Republicans from running the country into the ground.
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She was devil in denim dress
Monday, November 14, 2005 MICHAEL McAULIFF - - New York Daily News
| She wore a white head scarf and a long denim dress, clothing that let her blend in with the wedding guests in the ballroom of the Radisson hotel in Amman, Jordan.
But hidden under that innocuous outfit, the Iraqi housewife sported a deadly accessory: a handmade belt crammed with TNT and ball bearings, wrapped with duct tape and red cord.
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Pirro's cash plea
Friday, November 11, 2005 Joe Mahoney - - New York Daily News
| Republican Jeanine Pirro, running an uphill race to unseat Sen. Hillary Clinton, yesterday made an emergency appeal for campaign cash - and took a backhand swipe at her opponent's famous husband.
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City woman dodges death
Friday, November 11, 2005 DEREK ROSE - - New York Daily News
| Death walked right past Columbia University teacher Dana Burde in a doomed Jordanian hotel.
The only thing that saved her in the suicide blast were some potted plants and the bodies of those who died.
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Bloodbaths at Yank hotels
Thursday, November 10, 2005 JAMES GORDON MEEK and HELEN KENNEDY - - New York Daily News
| Suicide bombers fueled fears that the Iraq conflict was spilling over its borders yesterday when they attacked three American chain hotels in Jordan's capital, slaughtering scores of revelers at two wedding receptions.
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Bombings spur security here
Thursday, November 10, 2005 KERRY BURKE, ALISON GENDAR, and LEO STANDORA - - New York Daily News
| Terrorist bombings in Amman yesterday spurred the NYPD to beef up security at hotels here based on information gathered firsthand by a city cop stationed in Jordan's capital.
But authorities stressed that the show of manpower around the city last night was a precaution, not a response to a specific threat.
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Big boost in output of anti-bird flu drug
Thursday, November 10, 2005 PAUL H.B. SHIN - - New York Daily News
| The maker of a drug that can combat bird flu said yesterday it will increase its output nearly sixfold by 2007 and enlist generic firms to boost production even more if a flu pandemic should sweep across the globe.
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Obama: Oh boy, the rent!
Tuesday, November 8, 2005 DAVID SALTONSTALL and MICHAEL SAUL - - New York Daily News
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Fernando Ferrer gets a big hand from Democratic star Sen. Barack Obama while stumping on Eighth Ave. in Chelsea.
Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois may be a rising star in the national Democratic Party, but it turns out he once felt New York City's housing pinch firsthand.
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Bush denies U.S. tortures
Tuesday, November 8, 2005 Kenneth R. Bazinet - - New York Daily News
| Despite repeated allegations of prisoner abuse, President Bush claimed yesterday the U.S. doesn't use torture, but he still argued against a proposed congressional ban on the practice.
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W pals to get lesson in ethics
Sunday, November 6, 2005 Kenneth R. Bazinet - - New York Daily News
| Karl Rove and other White House aides have been ordered to attend mandatory refresher classes on ethics and the safe keeping of classified information amid the continuing CIA leak probe that's embarrassed the Bush administration.
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Capt. tortured by Army abuse of prisoners
Sunday, November 6, 2005 HELEN KENNEDY - - New York Daily News
| Army Capt. Ian Fishback is smart, honest and brave, with the face of a Boy Scout and a spine of steel.
A devout Christian, he's a West Pointer from a small Michigan town who does everything strictly by the book. After tours in both Afghanistan and Iraq, the 26-year-old wants to go back with the Special Forces.
Fishback is everything the Army could want. But this perfect soldier is giving the Pentagon serious agita: He's accused Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of lying to Congress about prisoner abuse.
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Hil camp eyes Va. Gov race has 2008 fallout
Monday, November 7, 2005 Kenneth R. Bazinet - - New York Daily News
| Hillary Clinton boosters will be watching tomorrow's race for governor in Virginia as the outcome could boost the fortunes of a potential opponent in the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries, outgoing Virginia Gov. Mark Warner.
And if Democrats retain control of the governor's office, it's also more bad news for President Bush.
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Bird flu plan may cage in sick people
Thursday, November 3, 2005 PAUL H.B. SHIN - - New York Daily News
| If a super-flu outbreak is rampant in a neighborhood or region, the government could seal off the area and force people to stay in or out, according to the federal flu pandemic plan released yesterday.
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Bird flu war
Wednesday, November 2, 2005 PAUL H.B. SHIN and Kenneth R. Bazinet - - New York Daily News
| President Bush asked Congress to approve $7.1 billion in emergency funding yesterday to prepare for a bird flu pandemic that experts fear could leave millions of Americans sick or dead.
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'Grand slam home run'
Tuesday, November 1, 2005 RICHARD SISK - - New York Daily News
| President Bush picked a fight yesterday, tapping conservative Judge Samuel Alito for the crucial swing vote seat on the Supreme Court and setting up a potential bitter filibuster battle in the Senate.
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Mom: 'He's against abortion'
Tuesday, November 1, 2005 JAMES GORDON MEEK - - New York Daily News
| Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito opposes abortion: Just ask his mom.
"Of course, he's against abortion," 90-year-old Rose Alito said yesterday of her son, who President Bush picked yesterday to replace Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Mama Alito's assertion has abortion-rights activists trembling.
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W urged to chain Cheney
Monday, October 31, 2005 RICHARD SISK - - New York Daily News
| President Bush should rein in Vice President Cheney and bring in new staff to "talk reality" to an out-of-touch administration, Democrats and Republicans said yesterday.
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Pol: W benched O'Connor
Monday, October 31, 2005 DAVE GOLDINER - - New York Daily News
| Senate heavyweight Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) said yesterday that President Bush rejected a plan to have Sandra Day O'Connor serve out the entire Supreme Court session.
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Dubya's uh-oh moment
Friday, October 28, 2005 THOMAS M. DEFRANK - - New York Daily News
| The Bush presidency already resembled Fiasco Central well before Harriet Miers' bungled nomination reached its point of incineration.
Now Bush faces the herculean - but not hopeless - task of reversing a free fall that not only threatens his legacy but also his ability to be taken seriously the next three years.
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UN's 1.8B mess
Friday, October 28, 2005 PAUL H.B. SHIN - - New York Daily News
| Nearly 2,400 companies involved in the UN's oil-for-food program paid $1.8 billion in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's corrupt regime, according to a probe that highlights the staggering extent of fraud.
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Fed up with FEMA
Thursday, October 27, 2005 JEANNE DeQUINE and PAUL H.B. SHIN - - New York Daily News
| Another feeble response by FEMA, this time in the wake of Hurricane Wilma, had Floridians fuming as thousands lined up for hours yesterday for their first rations of ice, water and gas.
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2,000 heroes
Wednesday, October 26, 2005 RICHARD SISK - - New York Daily News
| An Army sergeant wounded last week in Iraq has died in a Texas hospital, bringing the U.S. death toll to 2,000 and reviving a bitter debate on whether the war has been worth the price.
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VA faces hurdles treating wounded
Wednesday, October 26, 2005 RICHARD SISK - - New York Daily News
| More than 15,000 troops wounded in Iraq have come home to an already overburdened Veterans Affairs system that could need up to $315 billion to pay for care and benefits over their lifetimes.
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Rosa Parks is dead at age 92
Tuesday, October 25, 2005 LEO STANDORA - - New York Daily News
| The mother of America's civil rights movement died last night.
Rosa Lee Parks, who inspired an entire race to stand up for its rights by refusing in 1955 to give up her bus seat to a white man in Alabama, was 92.
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W's legacy threatened
Monday, October 24, 2005 THOMAS M. DEFRANK - - New York Daily News
| Top White House imagemakers and Republican political operatives say the steadily rising Iraq death toll is a sobering reminder that an unpopular war not only threatens the remainder of President Bush's term, but also jeopardizes his legacy.
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Dems urge Iraq vets to enter House
Sunday, August 21, 2005 RICHARD SISK - - New York Daily News
| Democrats are putting out the message that Iraq war vets can be all they want to be in the House.
Buoyed by the hot-button campaign of Marine Reserve Maj. Paul Hackett in Ohio, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is looking to recruit angry vets for runs at House seats next year, while Republicans are mostly taking a pass - for now.
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Bombers on tape
Sunday, July 17, 2005 ELLEN TUMPOSKY - - New York Daily News
| Investigators tracing the last hours of the London suicide bombers released an image yesterday of the four young men entering a train station, looking like casual commuters as they began their murderous mission.
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U.S. general never ran jail before Gitmo
Saturday, July 16, 2005 JAMES GORDON MEEK - - New York Daily News
| When the Army went looking in late 2002 for the right person to take over the vital job of extracting from terrorist detainees timely intelligence about future attacks on the homeland, they picked a general without any experience in prisons, terrorism or interrogations.
And now Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller faces a third potentially career-killing probe.
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Taliban called copycats
Wednesday, July 6, 2005 RICHARD SISK - - New York Daily News
| Taliban fighters in Afghanistan have copied plans from Iraqi insurgents in recent attacks that killed at least 18 U.S. special-ops troops and left one missing, a top White House official said yesterday.
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Reporter still may be jailed
Wednesday, July 6, 2005 DEREK ROSE - - New York Daily News
| Even though his bosses have handed over his notes, Time reporter Matthew Cooper should still be jailed if he refuses to testify before a grand jury looking into who exposed a CIA operative's identity, a federal prosecutor said yesterday.
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$50M reward & still zip on Osama
Friday, June 10, 2005 JAMES GORDON MEEK - - New York Daily News
| Though the U.S. recently upped the bounty on Osama Bin Laden to $50 million, the fat reward hasn't netted a single tip that the Al Qaeda overlord is hiding in Pakistan, the country's foreign minister told the Daily News yesterday.
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C why Kerry sat on grades?
Wednesday, June 8, 2005 CORKY SIEMASZKO - - New York Daily News
| So much for the notion that President Bush is a dunce compared with Sen. John Kerry.
Newly released records reveal that the tangle-tongued Texan and the loquacious liberal senator from Massachusetts were both C students at Yale.
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'Deep Throat' had help, says editor
Monday, June 6, 2005 JAMES GORDON MEEK - - New York Daily News
| W. Mark Felt, the deputy FBI director unveiled last week as Watergate source "Deep Throat," had help as he blew the whistle on White House wrongdoing, the editor who oversaw reporting on the caper said yesterday.
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Bitter battle over 'Happy Birthday' millions
Sunday, June 5, 2005 CORKY SIEMASZKO - - New York Daily News
| Generations of Americans have crooned "Happy Birthday" before blowing out the candles and cutting the birthday cake.
Now a legal battle over the iconic song — involving millions of dollars in royalties — is sounding a sour note.
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Keep WTC health aid - Chuck
Friday, June 3, 2005 Paul D. Colford - - New York Daily News
| Not so fast, Mr. President.
That was the message yesterday from Sen. Chuck Schumer and a group of labor leaders, who asked President Bush to nix a pullback of $125 million set aside for health claims tied to recovery work at Ground Zero.
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I'm the guy they call Deep Throat
Wednesday, June 1, 2005 THOMAS M. DEFRANK - - New York Daily News
| Former FBI Deputy Director W. Mark Felt was unmasked yesterday as Deep Throat, the shadowy government official who helped The Washington Post unravel the coverup that forced President Richard Nixon's resignation.
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