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Breaking News of Common Ground Common Sense: February 11, 2005 to February 20, 2005
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Friday, February 11, 2005
Common Ground Common Sense Breaking News Volume 1
Breaking News of Common Ground Common Sense: December 31, 2004 to February 11, 2005
- PLAYWRIGHT ARTHUR MILLER HAS DIED
- Uranium bidding war looms
- World oil prices rise on demand growth forecast
- Trade Deficit Amounts To 5% Of US Economy
- State pension battle begins
- 16 dead, thousands homeless in floods
- Bush Performance Rating Slips; Older Americans Key
- Marine Charged With Murder in Iraq Deaths
- Yahoo getting new hearing on posting Nazi items
- DNC Members Optimistic About Party's Future, but Want Change
- Hundreds missing as dam bursts its banks in Pakistan
- North Korea demands talks with US to defuse tension
- Philip urged Queen time was right
- Blair endorses Annan's leadership
- Indo-Iran gas pipeline agreement by June
- Thai EC announces overall unofficial election results
- Evacuations Under Way in Flood-Stricken Northern Venezuela
- Pakistan opposition parties organize to oust Musharraf
- Royal coup may lead to 'battle royal'
- Manila sends more troops south; 90 dead in clashes
- Iran not to abandon nuclear tech
- Panel: Sinn Fein was behind bank robbery
- US condemns Togo power move, wants elections
- US had 52 pre-9/11 warnings of imminent terror attack
- Suicide Bomber Kills 4 in a Main Baghdad Square
- Pentagon confirms female interrogators used sexual tactics at Guantanamo
- Germany Rejects Call for Rumsfeld War Crimes Probe
- Over 30 people killed in Iraq violence
- UN's Annan Urges N. Korea to Resume Nuclear Talks
- New York Lawyer Stewart Convicted of Aiding Terrorism
- IBM Security Report Predicts Mobile/Satellite Attacks in 2005
- Officials: Abbas Fires Gaza Commanders
- Pope leaves Rome hospital and returns to Vatican
- The House has voted to tighten restrictions on state drivers and to make it easier to deport terrorists easier
- Yahoo Builds Toolbar for Firefox
- Queen gives couple her blessing
- John Edwards Created A New One America Blog
- Franken to announce Senate intentions today
- Bush nearly triples request for tsunami relief
- Report: US Aviation Officials Received Warnings About Hijackings Before 9/11
- Palestinian security officials say Mahmoud Abbas has fired top security commanders in Gaza
- Democrats lose another senator
- Saudi Arabia Holds First-Ever Election
- Prince 'Very Excited' over Wedding
- North Korea: We Have Nukes, Will Defend Selves Against America
- North Korea says it has nuclear weapons and is suspending its participation in six-nation atomic talks
- UK's Charles to Marry Camilla Parker Bowles
- Google's Missing Piece
- Online Reporter Quits After Liberals' Expose
- First democratic-style elections in Saudi
- Recount Delays Iraq Final Election Results
- Iran Risks UN Action on Nuke Plan
- Gaza militants resume fire
- North Korea suspends nuclear talks
- Israel agrees to remove major checkpoints
- Diplomats: US lobbying to oust ElBaradei from IAEA
- WHO Predicts Aids Vaccine in Ten Years
- Violence and scepticism follow ceasefire
- BBC producer shot in Somalia
- Senior Housing Ministry Official Killed in Baghdad
- Schroeder: Iraq elections 'only small progress'
- Hamas member killed in premature bombing
- US Stocks Drop on Profit Concern; Hewlett-Packard Shares Rise
- Low expectations, low-key coverage
- Welcoming in the Chinese New Year of the Rooster
- American cardinal takes pope's place for Ash Wednesday's services
- Fiorina out at Hewlett-Packard
- Blair Apologizes to Northern Irish Men for Wrongful Jailing
- Israel Set to Reopen Gaza Border After Truce Summit
- French press cautiously welcomes Rice doctrine
- Russian mine blast killed 10 in Siberia
- Bush adviser Rove promoted
- ETA Car Bomb Explodes in Madrid Convention Center - Update
- Explosion heard in Madrid
- Chinese New Year celebration kicks off
- 10 Killed in Russian Mine Explosion
- Rice woos Paris with call to build bridges
- Spano wins state Senate race, 3 months after Election Day
- Danish Prime Minister Rasmussen Wins Re-Election
- Togo's new president sworn in
- Rice Urges New Chapter in US-Europe Relations
- Sudan hails southern peace deal
- More Clergy Abuse Cases Pending
- Brush Your Teeth To Protect Your Heart
- Google Releases Test of Mapping Service
- Grace charged with asbestos conspiracy
- Dems Aim to Narrow GOP Congress Majority
- Howard Dean Expected to Lead Democratic Party
- Moscow rejects reports of nuclear-armed Chechens
- US Pulls Funding for Kenyan Government Anti-Corruption Activities
- Ex-WorldCom CFO Testifies Ebbers Pressured Him on Earnings
- Rice Calls for `New Chapter' in US-Europe Alliance
- Amway chief gave state GOP $1-million
- Saudi conference approves proposal for international anti-terror center
- Danish PM set to win election
- US cuts off aid to Kenya's anti-graft agencies
- Iraqi militants claim to have executed journalist
- 16 soldiers die fighting guerrillas in Philippines
- Israel, Palestinians Declare Cease-Fire
- Rice calls for help in spreading democracy
- Hamas says not bound by Palestinian ceasefire
- US's Rice Praises Sharon-Abbas Talks, Warns Syria
- Palestinian President Abbas declares formal end to violence against Israel
- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announce they have agreed to cease-fire
- Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas says he has told Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that Palestinians will halt all violence against Israelis
- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak says the first steps have been taken at the Mideast summit to resume the peace process
- Hoosier ends his bid to lead Democrats
- Baghdad Blast Kills at Least 13 -- Hospital
- Sharon, Abbas to declare truce — but separately
- Highlights of Bush's $2.5 trillion budget
- Join One America For All Of US!
- The sale of beleaguered Riggs National to PNC Financial Services Group is being called off, according to people close to Riggs
- Israeli and Palestinian officials say they will declare cease-fire at Tuesday's summit
- 4-year-old Mich. boy drives mother's car
- Gold Seen Pressured by IMF Sales Study
- Swiss Can't Find Assailants in Consulate
- President Bush sent Congress on Monday a $2.57 trillion budget for 2006 that calls for deep cuts across a large part of government
- President Bush has sent Congress a $2.57 trillion budget that calls for deep spending cuts in many domestic programs
- Police storm the Spanish consulate in the Swiss capital and end a hostage siege, authorities say
- The Vatican is saying it will prolong Pope John Paul II's hospital stay for a few more days as a precaution
- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the United States is appointing a "security coordinator" to help the Palestinian security forces
- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the United States will provide $40 million in aid to Palestinian government
- Iraqi police say a car bomb has killed 13 people outside a police station in the city of Baqouba
- Israel's military has opened the Gaza Strip's key cargo crossing after several weeks of closure
- Police say unidentified hostage-takers have seized the Spanish consulate in Switzerland's capital
- Cheney says US can borrow for retirement reform
- Wanted: Recipe Against Terror
- Pakistan denies nuke tech sale to Arab states
- 20 killed in kites flying fest in Pakistan
- 18 dead from apparent gas leak in Spain
- India begins AIDS vaccine trials on humans
- MSN Search will Boost Microsoft Revenues, Experts Believe so
- Hostage crisis ends at Spanish consulate in Berne
- Guantanamo Briton to sue over three-year detention
- Thai PM wins clear mandate
- Rice sees hard choices for Israel
- Suicide bombs kill at least 25 Iraqis
- China develops new, longer-lasting bird flu vaccine: ministry
- Ask Jeeves Buys Blog Lines
- Lobbying war hits airwaves
- Nepal media fights royal censors
- Rice meets Palestinian leader
- Zimbabwe elections: 'The rulers always win'
- Exit polls give Thai PM victory
- African Leaders Condemn Togo's Transition to Son
- Thai election: Overview
- Shelley resigns in tears
- Dean confident he has lock on DNC chair
- Judge might void election, won't order new one
- G7 sees robust growth this year, issues fresh appeal to China
- Evolutionary Biolologist Ernst Mayr Dies
- Africa's Longest Serving Leader Dies, Son Takes Over
- G-7 Countries Willing to Offer Debt Relief
- Gop Sees Short Time To Sell Soc. Sec. Plan
- Rice to Express Concerns on Russia's Democracy
- Brown urges richest nations to aid poorest
- Afghan airline wreck found
- Israel will release 900 Palestinians after Egypt summit
- New York Judge Says Marriage Licenses Cannot Be Denied To Same-Sex Couples
- President Bush will ask Congress for $419.3 billion for the Pentagon for the next fiscal year
- A federal appeals court has ruled the Justice Department can't seek $280 billion in damages from the tobacco industry.
- NIH reveals open-access policy
- Alcohol a Serious Global Health Threat: Report
- GOP Aide: Medicaid Caps Unlikely
- US Dollar Gains on Euro
- New York-Bound Flights Get Hijack Threats
- John Edwards named to head UNC center on poverty
- Instead of barnstorming the country today to gin up support for privatizing Social Security
- North Korea Threatens Attacks on US Military Bases
- Dayton opposes Bush's Social Security plan
- Mandela Says Poverty the Same as Slavery, Apartheid
- Italian Woman Journalist Kidnapped In Iraq
- MSN Messenger Attacked by Worm
- Gas Princes Becomes Ukraine's Premier
- Rice denies Iran threat
- FBI Shuts Down E-Mail Tip Line due to security breach
- The Labor Department reports that payrolls grew by 146,000 in January as the nation's unemployment rate fell to 5.2 percent.
- Ag chief defends plan to reopen US market to Canadian beef
- Again... more like OLD news
- Democrats to seek dismissal of GOP election challenge
- Japan Confirms First Human Death From Mad Cow Disease (Update1)
- 11 hours later
- 'It's fun to shoot people'
- Rumsfeld Says He Offered to Resign Twice
- Missing Afghan Plane May Have Crashed, Official Says
- About 11 000 tons of H2SO4 leaked from a broken container in Kemira's harbour
- Social Security Q&A
- Head of Oil-For-Food Program Disciplined
- ALBERTO GONZALES WINS SENATE CONFIRMATION AS ATTORNEY GENERAL
- The Senate has confirmed Alberto Gonzales as the first Hispanic attorney general.
- Freedom will beat terror, Bush promises
- A sweeping investigation of the U.N. oil-for-food program accused
- Chechens 'vow Beslan-type attacks'
- Georgia's PM Found Dead
- Georgia PM Found Dead; President Assumes Functions
- Rice: US could help train, equip Palestinian forces
- Iraqis With Fake Passports Detained in Mexico
- Jane's warns of new terror group more radical than Al-Qaeda
- Maoist strike call reported largely ignored in Nepal's capital
- Prime Minister of Georgia dies of gas poisoning
- Pope stays in hospital but there is no cause for alarm, says Vatican
- Bush's second-term 'call to arms'
- The Federal Reserve has raised a key interest by another quarter-point to 2.5 percent.
- Dick Grasso wielded inappropriate influence over the people who set his compensation when he ran the New York Stock Exchange, according to a report commissioned after his ouster.
- PUNXSUTAWNEY PHIL SEES HIS SHADOW, INDICATING SIX MORE WEEKS OF WINTER
- A plane bound for Midway Airport has crashed into a building in New Jersey.
- World condemns Nepal king’s move
- POPE JOHN PAUL II TAKEN TO HOSPITAL, ITALIAN TV SAYS
- Bush to Call for Near-Freeze in Spending: Aide
- Clinton to head UN tsunami team
- REPORT: WEB SITE PURPORTS TO SHOW U.S. SOLDIER HOSTAGE IN IRAQ
- Nepal king sacks government
- Microsoft launching search tool in ad blitz
- 6 killed in Kuwait gunfight
- US Occupation Authority in Iraq Lost Track of Nearly $9B
- Judge declares military tribunals in Guantanamo unconstitutional
- US Denies Guantánamo Inmates' Rights, Judge Says
- REPORT: SEN. HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON TAKEN TO HOSPITAL AFTER COLLAPSING
- Officials lost track of $11bn for reconstruction
- Palestinian police crush illegal cars in southern West Bank
- Marsh & McLennan agreed to pay $850 million in restitution to end an investigation
- Australian killed in Iraq plane crash
- British Military Aircraft Crashes in Iraq, MoD Says
- i had the idea that something that old should be posted on the corresponding NEWS section - and BREAKING news something hours old max
- As yesterday was the first direct flight between P. R. China and Taiwan after 55 years
- Iraqi elections wrap up with high turnout, unabated violence
- BREAKING news???
- First Direct Flight Between China and Taiwan
- Spanish hotel rocked by explosion
- Iraqis voted in large numbers despite a jump in insurgent attacks.
- British transport plane crashes in Iraq: air force
- OFFICIAL: BRITISH MILITARY TRANSPORT PLANE CRASHES IN IRAQ
- Ex-G.I. Writes About Use of Sex in Guantánamo Interrogations
- A U.S. Embassy official says two Americans were killed in a rocket attack on embassy compound in Baghdad.
- OFFICIALS: ROCKET HITS U.S. EMBASSY IN BAGHDAD, KILLING TWO
- Global warming is 'twice as bad as previously thought'
- Dollar rebounds in nervous trading ahead of G7 finance meeting
- US helicopter crashes in Baghdad
- Kennedy Calls for a Phased Withdrawal From Iraq
- White House won't appeal media ruling
- Oh so that's why "the President" needed that oil well that didn't produce any oil back in the day.
- Vienna takes the boldest step of all - asking the users
- Auschwitz anniversary in quotes
- European Jews see new wave of anti-Semitism as world looks back
- World Social Forum opens in Porto Allegre
- Government Seizes Oil Wells It Says Were Bought With Drug Money
- Chirac proposes new tax to fight AIDS
- WEF Meetings Start in Davos
- Rice set to win Senate approval
- The Senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly confirmed Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state
- U.S. Senate votes 85-13 to confirm Condoleezza Rice as U.S. Secretary of State.
- A U.S. Marine helicopter transporting troops in Iraq has crashed,
- A senior Palestinian commander says Israel will hand over four West Bank cities to Palestinian control within 10 days.
- U.S. Marine transport helicopter crashes in western Iraq, as many as 30 believed killed.
- OFFICIALS SAY AT LEAST 31 DEAD IN U.S. MARINE HELICOPTER CRASH
- Condi: less than candid! To regain world's trust, Rice should begin by telling truth at home
- State, Wayne, and Monroe officials were called to the Fermi II nuclear plant in Monroe early Monday evening to investigate what they would only call a "situation".
- CONDOLEEZZA RICE WINS BACKING OF SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE
- Top PLO Body Calls for End to Attacks
- FEDERAL HEALTH ADVISERS RECOMMEND AGAINST OVER-THE-COUNTER SALES OF CHOLESTEROL DRUG MEVACOR
- Report: Sharon Cuts Ties with Abbas
- '2020' report says India, China will be US's economic and political rivals.
- The Supreme Court ruled that federal judges have been improperly adding time to criminals' sentences.
- The U.S. trade gap widened beyond economists' expectations to a record $60.3 billion in November
- Bush has selected Michael Chertoff, a federal appeals-court judge
- REPORT: PRESIDENT BUSH HAS PICKED JUDGE MICHAEL CHERTOFF AS NEW SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY
- Simple math problem:
- Ukraine to bring troops home from Iraq
- now look here Congress we the people (the taxpayers) have spoken
- What if Congress said sorry Mr President we have no more money
- I'd like to read: White House expects Congress to denial request
- Bomb Destroys U.S. Tank, Kills Two Soldiers in Iraq
- Congress expects the White House to request as much as $100 billion
- Coalition bombs wrong house in Mosul
- US nuclear sub runs aground in Pacific, 20 sailors injured
- At least eight killed as storm pounds north Europe
- Ten Killed by Storms
- Sweden shuts down 2 nuclear plants
- U.S. nonfarm employers added 157,000 jobs to their payrolls in December
- A 79-YEAR-OLD REPUTED KU KLUX KLANSMAN IS CHARGED WITH MURDER IN THE 1964 SLAYING OF THREE CIVIL RIGHTS WORKERS
- CONGRESS CERTIFIES BUSH RE-ELECTION, DESPITE DEMOCRATS' PROTEST OVER OHIO VOTE
- The same day that Kerry is in Baghadad!
- SEVEN U.S. SOLDIERS KILLED BY ROADSIDE BOMB IN BAGHDAD
- This still hasn't been confirmed by the State Department or DOD
- Another convenient capture?
- Democrats Force Debate on Election Mishaps
- Senior Democrats Urge DNC Chairman to Stay
- I just read in another post that it has happened once before
- Has a challenge to the Electoral certification ever happened before?
- His capture was reported two days ago internationally, the Repubs just wanted to wait to release this to overshadow election concerns.
- Well that should overshadow anything that goes on today on The Hill
- Texas court reverses murder convictions of Andrea Yates, the woman found guilty of drowning her 5 children in bathtub.
- MURDER CONVICTIONS AGAINST ANDREA YATES HAVE BEEN OVERTURNED
- Al-Zarqawi captured in Iraq
- 30,000 trained terrorists operating in Iraq, intelligence chief says
- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi reportedly arrested in Iraq
- Baghdad Governor Assassinated
- White House: Former Presidents Clinton and Bush to lead nationwide charitable fund-raising effort for tsunami victims.
- Indonesia’s health ministry raises quake, tsunami death toll to more than 94,000, bringing regional toll to more than 155,000.
- The death toll from the Indonesian quakes and tsunamis is nearing 150,000
- VIKTOR YANUKOVYCH SAYS HE WILL RESIGN AS UKRAINE'S PRIME MINISTER
