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BOZEMAN - Vice President Dick Cheney is scheduled to attend a fundraiser for the Montana GOP later this month in Bozeman. Cheney's office says details of the Aug. 27 event are still being worked out. ...
A widely circulated draft U.S. regulation that would define many forms of contraception as abortion will not be proposed in that form, if at all, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said on Thursday.
Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt attempted to ease concerns Thursday that the Bush administration is planning to issue new rules that would limit women's access to birth control.
U.S. President George W. Bush flew in for China's Olympics party on Thursday fresh from criticizing its rights record -- but attention finally swung to sport with soccer powerhouses Brazil and Argentina off to winning starts.
Three Fulbright scholars from Gaza appealed to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday to reissue their entry visas, denying they were security threats.
Aug. 7 (Bloomberg) -- An election-year standstill in Senate confirmation of George W. Bush's judicial nominees will give the next president a chance to tip the ideological balance of U.S. appeals courts that decide such issues as job discrimination, national security and pollution-cleanup disputes.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice threatened Iran with more sanctions Thursday after it failed to give an adequate response to the latest bid by Western powers to induce it to freeze uranium enrichment.
Aug. 7 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush arrived in Beijing to attend the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games after criticizing the Chinese earlier today for restricting individual liberties.
US President George W. Bush arrived in Beijing Thursday to attend the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games after raising fresh concerns about China's attitude towards human rights.
Trade officials expect some Doha diplomacy on the sidelines of the Olympics, where Brazil's president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, will be joined by President George W. Bush and many other leaders.
U.S. President George W. Bush arrived in Beijing on Thursday to attend the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the nation would be safe under a Barack Obama presidency and that she is ruling out a shot at the vice presidency under either Obama or Republican John McCain.
Just hours before flying to Beijing for the Olympics on Thursday, U.S. President George W. Bush used some of his bluntest language yet in publicly pressing China to improve its human rights record.
Aug. 7 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush called on China to respect the rights of its citizens in a speech detailing the U.S.'s ``deep concerns'' over religious freedom and human rights in the world's most populous country.
China rejected U.S. President George W. Bush's criticism Thursday of its human rights record and restrictions on religion, diplomatically telling him to stay out of its affairs, even as he arrived in Beijing to attend the Olympics.
President George W. Bush on Thursday marked the tenth anniversary of the bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania by emphasizing the role of the Al-Qaeda terror network in the attack.
China stages the most expensive opening ceremony in Olympic history on Friday, keen to put the world spotlight on its modern face and the sports action after a build-up that fired up the Communist government's critics.
Aug. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Burmese democracy activists told President George W. Bush today that he should pursue ``more assertive diplomacy'' with the military regime in Myanmar.
Iraq and the U.S. are near an agreement on all American combat troops leaving Iraq by October 2010, with the last soldiers out three years after that, two Iraqi officials told The Associated Press on Thursday. U.S. officials, however, insisted no dates had been agreed.
A man who authorities said was keeping weapons and military-style gear in his hotel room and car appeared in court Thursday on charges he threatened to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Mauritanian police on Thursday broke up a protest by hundreds of people against an army coup in the West African nation which has been internationally condemned despite a junta promise to hold new elections.
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