TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - A Polk County Christian school accepted state voucher money for disabled children who didn’t attend the school, leading to seven arrests Tuesday, authorities said.
Faith Christian Academy in Bartow also defrauded a voucher program in which corporations receive tax credits for providing private school scholarships to poor children, according to an affidavit filed [...]

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President Bush’s job approval rating has fallen to the lowest level of his presidency, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. The poll found Americans stiffening their opposition to the Iraq war, worried that the invasion could invite domestic terrorist attacks and skeptical about whether the White House has been fully truthful about [...]

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TORONTO - Paul Martin’s Liberals have survived a near-death experience to win a minority government ? Canada’s first in 25 years.
The CBC decision desk predicted a Liberal minority victory at 10:22 p.m. EDT.
A Liberal minority government means nothing about the country’s immediate political future is certain except the prospect of more uncertainty…{{link http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/06/28/canada/elxn_call040628 MORE}}

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The Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi suffered one of the worst setbacks of his political career yesterday when he was badly defeated in local elections, including in his provincial stronghold around Milan.
In two rounds of elections his centre-Right coalition, which swept to national power three years ago with the largest majority in post-war history, lost [...]

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NATO leaders pledged to back Iraq’s new interim leadership Monday, issuing a strong statement of political support and an offer of military training for the forces of the fledgling government.
Meeting in this former capital of the Ottoman Empire that once also ruled Iraq alliance chiefs sought to use the gathering to stitch closed deep rifts [...]

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he U.S. Supreme Court, denying the Bush administration a “blank check” to fight terrorism, said American and foreign citizens held as enemy combatants have the right to challenge their detention in U.S. courts.
The justices, considering the war on terrorism for the first time since the Sept. 11 attacks, ruled in favor of Yaser Esam Hamdi, [...]

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NEWMARKET-ON-FERGUS, Ireland - President Bush’s brief 18-hour stop in Ireland last week occurred exactly 41 years after John F. Kennedy became the first president to visit the Emerald Isle. And how times have changed.
In 1963 the Irish went wild over the first Irish-American Catholic to occupy the Oval office. Everywhere he went, tens of thousands [...]

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Billions of dollars belonging to Iraq is not accounted for by the Coalition Provisional Authority, which was given responsibility by the United Nations for the country’s finances, British lawmakers and aid activists said Monday.
There are glaring gaps in the handling of $20 billion generated by Iraq’s oil and other sources since the U.S.-led war to [...]

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The handover of sovereignty to Iraq is being brought forward from 30 June to today, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari has said.
Mr Zebari was speaking after talks with the UK Prime Minister Tony Blair in the Turkish city of Istanbul.
Mr Blair said a formal announcement would be made later.
The BBC’s political editor Andrew Marr in Istanbul [...]

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Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” took in a whopping $21.8 million in its first three days, becoming the first documentary ever to debut as Hollywood’s top weekend film.
If Sunday’s estimates hold when final numbers are released Monday, “Fahrenheit 9/11” would set a record in a single weekend as the top-grossing documentary ever outside of concert films [...]

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Saleh Mohammed al Oufi, the new head of “Al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula,” the group that kidnapped and beheaded American Lockheed Martin helicopter technician Paul Johnson, may have received training from a U.S. military contractor while he was being trained as a Saudi public security non commissioned officer and prison guard. Al Oufi took [...]

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After weeks of debate and media coverage, “Fahrenheit 9/11″ opened today far better than expected.
An estimate of just how well it could do is difficult to make, but as of 3 p.m. on the West CoastCoast, it looks as if Michael MooreMichael Moore’s docdoc could sell between $6 million and $8 million worth of tickets [...]

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The same day the Bush campaign released an ad complaining that liberals are negative and pessimistic while associating them with Adolf Hitler, Vice President Dick Cheney got a little angry and negative himself on the floor of the Senate.
Cheney, as the Vice President, is also the president of the Senate and so he was present [...]

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The U.S. economy grew much more slowly than previously thought in the first quarter and inflation was higher, a government report showed yesterday.
The Commerce Department surprised economists with a downward revision to first-quarter gross domestic product, cutting economic growth to a 3.9-per-cent annual rate from the 4.4-per-cent reported a month ago. Wall Street analysts had [...]

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