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Memo: 'Good faith' OK defense for torture charges
The U.S. Justice Department in 2002 told the CIA that its interrogators would be safe from prosecution for violations of anti-torture ...

Air Force missile crew falls asleep
Three ballistic missile crewmembers in North Dakota fell asleep while holding classified launch code devices this month, triggering ...

Congress votes to triple money for AIDS victims
The House voted Thursday to triple money to fight AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis around the world, giving new life and new punch ...

Postal Service sets new mark for 1st-class on-time rates
More first-class mail items are getting to their destinations on time than ever before, the Postal Service said.

House votes to boost bridge spending, inspections
The House overwhelmingly passed legislation Thursday aimed at improving the safety of the nation's bridges, nearly a year after ...

Feds: Collapsed Utah mine operator courted danger
Even before the release of a federal report into what went wrong at a deadly Utah mine cave-in last summer, critics were already ...

GOP stops efforts to release U.S. stockpile oil
House Republicans on Thursday scuttled a bill that Democrats hoped would help lower gasoline prices by forcing the Energy Department ...

House panel probes medically unfit truckers
It's so easy to fabricate the medical certificates required to operate commercial trucks on the nation's highways that there's ...

EPA: Few volunteering to cut greenhouse gases
Voluntary pollution-reduction programs touted by the Bush administration as part of the solution to global warming have "limited ...

New disability rules prompt chorus of concern
Thousands of gallons of water pulse through cascading waterfalls and rapids at Adventure Mini Golf in Lake Worth, Fla. The course, ...

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