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Scanlon charged with conspiracy to defraud
Nov 18 2005 10:47PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - In a widening scandal on Capitol Hill, the government charged a partner of lobbyist Jack Abramoff on Friday with conspiracy to defraud American Indian tribes of millions of dollars in a scheme that lavished trips, sports tickets and campaign donations on a member of Congress.
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Ed. Dept. to let states define progress
Nov 18 2005 5:39PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Education Secretary Margaret Spellings told state school chiefs Friday that some of them will win freedom in the area they worry about most: showing student progress. But every child, she said, must still be up to par in reading and math by 2014.
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State Dept. offers limited Gitmo access
Nov 18 2005 2:39PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Red Cross is free to visit detainees at Guanatano Bay but the United States will not permit visits by U.N. human rights experts "just to avoid a row," the State Department said Friday.
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Some evidence may be open in CIA leak case
Nov 18 2005 11:44AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The prosecutor in the CIA leak investigation offered a compromise that might give the news media access to some of the evidence against former White House aide I. Lewis Libby before his trial.
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American charged in Iraq scheme an ex-con
Nov 18 2005 4:57AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A former U.S. occupation official in Iraq bought real estate, cars, jewelry and home improvements with the kickbacks he received from a businessman who won more than $13 million in reconstruction work, federal authorities say.
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