LOS ANGELES - He says the only thing he's pushing right now is his next film, but Arnold Schwarzenegger gave a campaign-style speech to an anti-tax group and made a quip about Gov. Gray Davis. The 55-year old star of the Terminator movies, who spoke to a taxpayer-advocacy group Tuesday night, brushed off questions about his possible run for governor.
WASHINGTON - Congressional Republicans on Wednesday spurned Democrats' demands for a full-blown probe into whether the Bush administration manipulated prewar intelligence on Iraq's weapons programs, saying Congress's current oversight operations will suffice.
EL PASO, Texas - The outbreak of monkeypox in the Midwest is focusing attention on a thriving cottage industry in Texas, where a handful of prairie-dog businesses catch thousands of the rodents and ship them to pet stores around the nation. Prairie dogs, once rising stars in the exotic-pet industry, have become the top suspects in the Western Hemisphere's first incidence of monkeypox, a milder relative of smallpox.
BAGHDAD - Using jet fighters, tank-buster aircraft, and patrol boats, the U.S. military launched a massive operation to crush opposition north of Baghdad and captured nearly 400 suspected Saddam Hussein loyalists in a bid to end daily attacks against American soldiers.
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