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Newsview: Katrina to prompt new borrowing
Sep 16 2005 10:57PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - How much it will cost to clear the debris, detoxify the water, house the homeless and rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast after the Katrina catastrophe is still anyone's guess, but it's clear who's going to pay for most of it: Future generations.
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Bush confident on Iran after Putin meeting
Sep 16 2005 10:48PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush predicted Friday that Iran will be called to account before the United Nations Security Council over what the United States claims is a rogue nuclear program, but he acknowledged that step may not come as quickly as he wants.
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Bush rules out tax hike to fund recovery
Sep 16 2005 10:06PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush on Friday ruled out raising taxes to pay the massive costs of Gulf Coast reconstruction, saying other government spending must be cut to pay for a recovery effort expected to swell the national debt by $200 billion or more.
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Bush plans meeting on O'Connor replacement
Sep 16 2005 10:03PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush is in the early phases of consultations with Congress on filling a second vacancy on the Supreme Court, officials disclosed Friday, as Judge John Roberts coasts to Senate confirmation as chief justice.
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Cheney to have surgery next weekend
Sep 16 2005 10:01PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney will undergo an elective surgery next weekend to treat an aneurysm in an artery behind his right knee. The condition, discovered earlier this year during a routine checkup, needs to be treated "as to not become a problem over time," Steve Schmidt, counselor to the vice president, said Friday.
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China abortion cited in U.N. funds denial
Sep 16 2005 8:22PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - For the fourth consecutive year, the Bush administration has decided to withhold funding from the U.N. Population Fund, saying the agency contributes to China's "coercive abortion" program.
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Bush vows to confront poverty, injustice
Sep 16 2005 3:55PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush, seeking to dispel the widely held notion that poor, black Hurricane Katrina victims were abandoned because of their race, said Friday the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast will be successful only if it eliminates poverty and racial injustice.
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First lady: Prepare kids for disasters
Sep 16 2005 3:47PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - First lady Laura Bush said Friday that young children should learn their full names, addresses and parents' names to speed up reunions after disasters like Hurricane Katrina or anytime a child is lost.
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Bush sends base-closing plan to Congress
Sep 16 2005 6:36AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush has endorsed and sent to Congress a plan to close 22 major military bases and reconfigure 33 others _ the first consolidation of the Pentagon's far-flung network of bases since 1995.
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First Lady discusses African AIDS crisis
Sep 16 2005 6:29AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - First lady Laura Bush, addressing a group of her African peers about the AIDS crisis on their continent, said Thursday that education and compassion were the keys to progress in stopping the spread of the deadly disease.
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