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• Countrywide gave special treatment to US lawmakers: reports

  - 2008-06-14

  WASHINGTON AFP — Countrywide Financial, the largest mortgage lender at the center of the US housing crisis, regularly gave loans on favorable terms to prominent lawmakers and former cabinet members, according to US media. The preferential treatment for senators including Democrat Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee...

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• Obama brushes off rumors he is secret Muslim

  - 2007-12-21

  WASHINGTON AFP — He's a practicing Christian -- but the idea that Democratic candidate Barack Obama is an Islamic "Manchurian Candidate" keeps getting injected into the presidential race, and from the oddest corners. With the issue a constant theme of Internet campaign gossip, this week it was former Democratic...

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• Americans yearn for change of direction: poll

  - 2007-11-05

  WASHINGTON AFP — Sixty percent of all Americans strongly want the country to change direction after nearly seven years of President George W. Bush's rule, according to a new opinion poll released late Sunday. The survey by The Washington Post and ABC News indicated that only 24 percent of...

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• US govt collects data on Americans overseas: Washington Post

  - 2007-09-21

  WASHINGTON AFP — The US government is compiling electronic files on the travel habits of millions of Americans who take trips overseas, The Washington Post reported Saturday. Citing documents obtained by a civil liberties group and statements by unnamed government officials, the newspaper said the retained data included travel...

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• US examines Iraqi refugees backlog after envoy's complaint

  - 2007-09-17

  WASHINGTON AFP — The US government said Monday it was looking at appointing a new refugees overseer after its Baghdad ambassador complained that red tape is holding up 10,000 Iraqis from entering the country. In a diplomatic cable to the State Department reported by the Washington Post, ambassador Ryan...

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• Heavy Internet users unplugged by US cable company

  - 2007-09-08

  WASHINGTON AFP — Several Internet users in the United States have been unplugged by their service provider because they download too much, a press report said here Friday. Cable Internet and entertainment provider Comcast "has punished some transgressors by cutting off their Internet service, arguing that excessive downloaders hog...

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• Unable to find interpreter, court drops child rape case

  - 2007-07-23

  WASHINGTON AFP — A judge in Maryland dropped child rape charges against a Liberian-born man because court officials could not find an interpreter for the defendant, court officials said Monday. Three years after Mahamu Kanneh was arrested and charged with repeatedly raping a seven-year-old girl, judge Katherine Savage dropped...

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• Wounded US troops tell lawmakers of deplorable medical treatment

  - 2007-03-06

  WASHINGTON AFP — Injuries, then anger and tears: for US troops, their wounds in Iraq and Afghanistan are just the beginning of a painful journey through a daunting medical bureacracy at home. US lawmakers listened Monday to stories of neglect and mistreatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, two...

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• Hungarian PM unapologetic, says 'I did not lie'

  - 2006-09-22

  WASHINGTON AFP — Hungary's Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany, in an interview, said he did not lie but only exaggerated for dramatic effect in a taped conversation that sparked unrest in Hungary and a clamor for his resignation. "It's important to emphasize that I did not lie," he told The Washington...

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• Marion Jones failed drug test: Washington Post

  - 2006-08-18

  WASHINGTON AFP — US sprinter Marion Jones has failed a drug test at the national athletics championships in Indianpolis in June, the Washington Post reports on its website. Quoting "sources with knowledge of the test results," the newspaper said the five-time Olympic medallist had tested positive for the blood...

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