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Ashcroft, Evans resign positions

By Alyson Brodsy and Terence Hunt · Wednesday, Nov. 10,2004 1:17 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- Attorney General John Ashcroft, a favorite of conservatives, and Commerce Secretary Don Evans, one of President George W. Bush's closest friends, resigned Tuesday, the first members of the Cabinet to leave as Bush heads from re-election into his second term.

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Soldiers happy to be home after tours of duty in Iraq

By Hina Alam · Wednesday, Nov. 10,2004 12:53 a.m.

Sophomore Travis Roll is trading in his knives, goggles, flak jackets, torches and other equipment he has used for the past three months. The lance corporal marine has switched battlegrounds and is now prepared to face another semester of classes after serving in Iraq.

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California stem-cell measure draws academic attention

By Alyson Brodsy and PAUL ELIAS · Tuesday, Nov. 9,2004 11:53 p.m.

SAN FRANCISCO -- A 21st-century gold rush is on in California after voters approved $3 billion for human embryonic stem cell research. At least one out-of-state biotech company is already making plans to move to California. Stem cell start-up businesses are expected to emerge. And universities are hoping to recruit some of the field's brightest minds to take part in the biggest state-run research project in U.S. history.

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16 U.S. soldiers killed as forces push into Fallujah

By Alyson Brodsy and Jim Krane · Tuesday, Nov. 9,2004 11:52 p.m.

NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq -- U.S. forces punched into the center of Fallujah on Tuesday, overwhelming bands of guerrillas in the street with heavy barrages of fire and searching house to house in a powerful advance on the second day of a major offensive to retake the insurgent stronghold.

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Accord guarantees aid to Darfur refugees

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Nov. 9,2004 11:51 p.m.

ABUJA, Nigeria -- Sudan's government and rebel representatives signed accords Tuesday meant to end hostilities and guarantee aid groups access to 1.6 million people uprooted by conflict in Sudan's bloodied western region of Darfur.

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U.S. strikes Fallujah

By Alyson Brodsy and Jim Krane · Tuesday, Nov. 9,2004 1:10 a.m.

NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq -- Thousands of U.S. troops, backed by armor and a stunning air barrage, attacked Sunni insurgents' toughest strongholds in Fallujah on Monday, launching a long-awaited offensive aimed at putting an end to guerrilla control of the Sunni Muslim city.

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Particles

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Nov. 9,2004 12:50 a.m.

IU named in list of top places to work Monday's issue of The Scientist magazine names IU as one of the nation's "Best Places to Work in Academia," according to its survey of 1,456 researchers. IU made No. 10 on the list, while the California Institute of Technology and Purdue University came in at first and second places, respectively.

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Bush, Kerry supporters heavily polarized

By Alyson Brodsy and Nancy Benac · Monday, Nov. 8,2004 11:54 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- The nation is emerging from the 2004 presidential election with two very different portraits of itself sketched by two very different halves of its population. President George W. Bush's voters go to church more often than John Kerry's and are more likely to oppose gay marriage and abortion. They are more likely to own guns and to feel better-off financially than they did four years ago.

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Second term provides Bush more policy freedom

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Nov. 8,2004 11:53 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- Odd things can happen when presidents no longer have to worry about re-election. George W. Bush embarks on another four years in the White House unleashed from election concerns for the first time in his presidency, raising questions about what he will do with the freedom of a second term.

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Ivorians protest possible coup

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Nov. 8,2004 11:52 p.m.

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Thousands of government loyalists massed outside the home of Ivory Coast's president Monday, facing off against French armored vehicles in response to urgent appeals for a "human shield" around the hard-line leader, amid fears of an overthrow.

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Iraqi government declares emergency rule

By Alyson Brodsy and Tini Tran · Monday, Nov. 8,2004 12:29 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Iraqi government declared 60 days of emergency rule throughout most of the country Sunday, and U.S. troops seized a small section of territory in Fallujah ahead of an expected all-out assault on the guerrilla sanctuary. Militants dramatically escalated attacks, killing at least 30 people, including two Americans.

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Knesset speaker: Disengage

By Rick Newkirk · Monday, Nov. 8,2004 12:25 a.m.

A former deputy speaker of the Israeli Knesset urged local Jews Sunday to support an independent Palestinian state as an answer to end the Israel-Palestine conflict.

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Western U.S. a bastion for medical marijuana

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Nov. 4,2004 11:06 p.m.

With Montana's approval of a medical marijuana initiative, nearly three-fourths of Western states now have such laws -- while only two of the 37 states outside the West have adopted them. Why is the West so much more receptive to the idea?

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Rehnquist could retire with Bush win

By Alyson Brodsy and Gina Holland · Thursday, Nov. 4,2004 11:05 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- President George W. Bush's re-election makes it more likely Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist will retire soon. And Republican gains in the Senate mean the president has more flexibility to nominate another strong conservative to fill that vacancy and other federal judgeships. There has been no turnover at the Supreme Court in more than a decade, but a shake-up appears imminent now that Rehnquist is seriously ill with cancer.

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Arafat alive, but in coma

By Alyson Brodsy and Lara Sukhtian · Thursday, Nov. 4,2004 11:05 p.m.

CLAMART, France -- Yasser Arafat was reportedly fighting for his life Thursday at a French military hospital after losing consciousness, as anxious Palestinian officials transferred some of their 75-year-old leader's powers to Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia.

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Afghan president elected

By Alyson Brodsy and Stephen Graham · Thursday, Nov. 4,2004 1:07 a.m.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Hamid Karzai was officially declared Afghanistan's first-ever popularly elected president Wednesday after a weeks-long fraud probe found no reason to overturn his landslide victory.

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Students react to Bush re-election

By Michael Zennie · Thursday, Nov. 4,2004 12:03 a.m.

When news organizations began announcing President George W. Bush the winner of Tuesday's presidential election late in the night and early Wednesday morning, junior Michael Schuler was extremely happy.

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