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Associated Press: Washington: White House

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(AP) Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt attempted to ease concerns Thursday that the Bush administration is planning to issue new rules that would limit women's access to birth control.Under federal law, institutions may not discriminate against individuals who refuse to perform abortions or provide a referral for one. The ...

White House press corps plane detained in China

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(AP) A charter airplane carrying the White House press corps was detained for nearly three hours Friday at Beijing's international airport not long after President Bush arrived to attend the Olympic Games.The flight crew of the Northwest Airlines 747 had been expecting to park at a VIP terminal, but after landing ...

Despite demons, Ivins stayed at high-security lab

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(AP) What took so long?Army scientist Bruce Ivins had a history of paranoia, obsession and delusional thinking. And newly unsealed court documents show he didn't keep them to himself.Therapists knew.Doctors knew.Co-workers suspected. One complained he was a "manic basket case." Another recalled him openly weeping at his desk inside one of ...

Seized library computers may hold Ivins clues

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(AP) Computers recently seized from a Frederick, Md., library may hold clues about the 2001 anthrax mailings that killed five people, the FBI said in an affidavit Thursday.Bruce E. Ivins, the Army scientist who investigators say carried out the attacks, used the computers for about 90 minutes on July 24 to ...

Gov't still looking for evidence in anthrax case

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(AP) The government is still searching for evidence that Bruce Ivins was solely responsible for the 2001 anthrax attacks despite declaring the case solved.Search warrants and other documents filed Thursday in federal court in Washington show the FBI wants to look through computers Ivins used at his local library before he ...

Leahy seeks motive in anthrax case

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(AP) Sen. Patrick Leahy says he wants to know the motivation of the man accused of mailing letters in 2001 that contained deadly anthrax spores.One of those letters was addressed to Leahy, who says he got off lucky. The Democratic senator says he hopes former Army scientist Bruce Ivins, who committed ...

Trash soils Bush pledge to protect islands

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(AP) Two years ago with fanfare, President Bush declared a remote chain of Hawaiian islands the biggest, most environmentally protected area of ocean in the world.It hasn't worked out that way.Cleanup efforts have slowed, garbage is still piling up and Bush has cut his budget request by 80 percent.Winning rare praise ...

DNA, odd behavior led FBI to anthrax suspect

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(AP) Advanced DNA testing led federal investigators to suspect a government scientist in the 2001 anthrax killings. The scientist's odd behavior, suspicious e-mails and unusual work hours convinced them they had the right man.The government declared the 2001 attacks solved Wednesday, pointing the blame at former Army scientist Bruce Ivins, who ...

DNA testing led investigators to anthrax suspect

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(AP) Advanced DNA testing led federal investigators to suspect a government scientist in the 2001 anthrax killings. The scientist's behavior, e-mails and unusual work hours convinced them they had the right man.The government declared the 2001 attacks solved Wednesday, pointing the blame at former Army scientist Bruce Ivins, who committed suicide ...

Text of Chinese Foreign Ministry's statement

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(AP) Text of a statement by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang in response to President Bush's speech, posted on the ministry's Web site Thursday and translated from Chinese by The Associated Press:With the common efforts made both by China and the U.S., the Sino-U.S. relationship has developed steadily in the ...

FBI declares anthrax case closed

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Summary of evidence laid out by prosecutors

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(AP) Summary of evidence against suspected anthrax killer Bruce Ivins, as outlined by Jeffrey Taylor, the U.S. attorney in Washington:_Investigators identified in early 2005 that the anthrax used in the mailings came from a single flask of spores known as RMR-1029. Ivins created and solely maintained it. Investigators ruled out others ...

Federal investigators declare anthrax case closed

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Pacific Air Force breaking in new F-22s on Guam

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(AP) The U.S. Air Force has been breaking in its new fleet of F-22s _ the world's most advanced fighter jet _ this summer by sending five of the planes from cool and dry Alaska to hot and humid Guam for the first time.The F-22 Raptors, which have unrivaled ability to ...

Analysis: Case against Ivins not airtight

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(AP) Lacking hard proof, federal prosecutors relied on the process of elimination and circumstantial evidence to finger Bruce Ivins as the anthrax killer.Their case might be compelling, but it is not airtight.Government investigators didn't place Ivins at the Princeton, N.J., mailbox where letters that killed five people were sent. Nor did ...