Stricter rules delaying passports
New Orleans passport office workers endure 14 hour days to clear a backlog of over 300 000 applications amid a surge from a 2004 law requiring passports for travel by air. Officials warn demand may reach 18 million. hundreds of temporary staff boost processing as the government shifts priorities including Iraq.
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State Department
Passport Office
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Phil Pusateri
Passport Center
Canada
Mexico
Caribbean
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Portsmouth
N.H
Washington
Kennedy
Iraq
Donors Give to Multiple Candidates in Presidential Race
AP analysis finds several thousand donors contributing to two or more presidential candidates this year. More than 6,000 donors account for over $25 million, with nearly 70 percent going to Democrats. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama share the most common donors, with over 1,200 split about $5 million between them.
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Washington
Associated Press
Martin
Hillary Clinton
New York
Barack Obama
Illinois
Feingold plans censure resolutions against Bush administration
Senator Russ Feingold said he would introduce two censure measures in the coming days. One targets Bush and Cheney over wartime conduct and propaganda about Iraq WMDs and planning failures. The other focuses on the administration's attack on the rule of law regarding torture Guantanamo detainees and firings of U.S. attorneys.
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Los Angeles Times
Washington
Senate
Bush
Iraq
Russ Feingold
D-Wis
Feingold
Dick Cheney
Saddam Hussein
Baghdad
Guantanamo Bay
Cuba
U.S
Alberto R. Gonzales
Justice Department drops huge accounting fraud case
Two years into a fraud investigation veteran prosecutor David Maguire described one of his career’s biggest cases targeting a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary and Reciprocal of America. The probe yielded two guilty pleas but was never prosecuted. officials cite lack of crime evidence and reassignments amid debates over resources and politics.
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Justice Department
McClatchy
Washington
David Maguire
Maguire
Arthur Anderson
Enron
Berkshire Hathaway
Warren Buffett
General Reinsurance
Virginia
Stanley Twardy Jr
U.S
Tom Gober
Gober
Tammy Faye Messner to be remembered at public ceremony
Jay Bakker announced a future public ceremony to honor his mother Tammy Faye Messner. He provided a brief note on her July 20 death, saying she died peacefully at 4 a.m. and is no longer in pain, with cremation and family service held.
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Charlotte
N.C
PTL
Tammy Faye Messner
Jay Bakker
Bakker
Governors urge expansion of children's health insurance program
At the National Governors Association meeting in Traverse City Michigan governors urge Congress to extend and enlarge the SCHIP program for low income children. The bipartisan plea comes despite a threatened veto from President Bush and is seen as political leverage in the fight over health coverage.
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Traverse City
Mich
Bush
Congress
National Governors Association
Clinton Obama court Hispanic voter support
Clinton and Obama campaigned in Florida to win Hispanic voters, pledging immigration legislation as a priority to appeal to a fast-growing electorate. Both emphasized outreach and policies aimed at addressing immigration and Latino concerns.
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Obama Court
Fort Lauderdale
Fla
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