…Water began to retreat in the submerged low-lying bayou country of South Louisiana on Sunday, but anger welled as residents and officials of Terrebonne Parish, which includes Houma, began to survey the storm-surge damage. This is one place where Hurricane Rita was the worst recent storm; Hurricane Katrina brought only minimal wind damage to the [...]

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Behind the blood and chaos of the insurgents’ bombs, there is an undeclared civil war already underway in Iraq, between the Sunni minority who ruled this country under Saddam and the Shiite majority.
CBS News correspondent Lara Logan reports there is a secret, ruthless cleansing of the country’s towns and cities. Bodies

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A military jury found U.S. soldier Lynndie England guilty on Monday of abusing prisoners at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison in a scandal that caused international outrage.
England, one of a group of reserve soldiers accused of abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib, was found guilty on six of seven charges, including maltreatment of prisoners. She was found [...]

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A military jury found U.S. soldier Lynndie England guilty on Monday of abusing prisoners at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison in a scandal that caused international outrage.
England, one of a group of reserve soldiers accused of abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib, was found guilty on six of seven charges, including maltreatment of prisoners. She was found [...]

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“They say Bush is drinking again… Why do you care, he couldn’t screw up worse than he already has!”

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Whatever the reasons, residents of heavily Republican Texas seemed to get better treatment from the government during Hurricane Rita than the mostly black, poor and Democratic victims of Katrina in Louisiana. The issue of race is likely to linger in the aftermath of the two big storms.
Government mistakes in the first storm, including failure to [...]

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Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, exploring a possible presidential run in 2008, has a message for his fellow Republicans.
Take my state. Please!
“Being a conservative Republican in Massachusetts,” he told a GOP audience in South Carolina, “is a bit like being a cattle rancher at a vegetarian convention.”
Bada-bing. For months, this blue-state governor has been pitching himself [...]

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A leading anti-Iraq war activist has been arrested outside the White House for what supporters say was as an act of civil disobedience.
Anti-war protesters ended three days of demonstrations in Washington by congregating at one of the main gates to the White House.
Police asked them several times to move on, saying they were gathering in [...]

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CBS News correspondent Gloria Borger spoke with a spokesman for FEMA, Russ Knocke, who confirmed that Brown remains on the FEMA payroll. He also said that technically Brown remains at FEMA as a “contractor” and he is “transitioning out of his job.” The reason he will remain at FEMA about a month after his resignation, [...]

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…skewed giving to Red Cross would be justified if the organization had to pay the cost of the 300,000 people it has sheltered. But FEMA and the affected states are reimbursing the Red Cross under preexisting contracts for emergency shelter and other disaster services. The existence of these contracts is no secret to anyone but [...]

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An extraordinary appeal to Americans from the Bush administration for money to help pay for the reconstruction of Iraq has raised only $600 (

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It is safe to say that there were hundreds of thousands of people marching against the war in Iraq today. Police Chief Charles Ramsey’s only statement was that the organizers achieved their goal of 100,000. The DC police refused to make any other estimate. C-SPAN estimated 500,000, a number that I believe was possible from [...]

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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (search) said Wednesday he wants answers from the Defense Department about Able Danger, a secret military unit that is said to have identified four of the Sept. 11 hijackers more than a year before the terrorist attacks.
Pentagon officials blocked five key witnesses from testifying in the Able Danger (search) [...]

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HCA Inc. (HCA) said Friday it has received a subpoena from the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York. The Nashville, Tenn., hospital operator said the subpoena calls for the production of documents, and HCA believes it relates to the sale of HCA stock by Sen. William H. Frist. It plans to [...]

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