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CAMPAIGN MEET FOR BUSH, KERRY

WASHINGTON - For the first time in the campaign, President Bush and John Kerry will be at the same place and at the same time - celebrating today's dedication of...

CAMPAIGN-TRAIL CROSSING

WASHINGTON - For the first time in the campaign, President Bush and John Kerry will be at the same place and at the same time - celebrating today's dedication of...

BUSH PUSH CENTERS ON HEALTH CARE

WASHINGTON - President Bush spoke before a Tennessee crowd yesterday about improving health care, saying a big-government approach is not the way to go. "The federal government cannot run the...

AL QAEDA 'READY' - ASHCROFT PUTS NATION ON ALERT

WASHINGTON - Al Qaeda terrorists inside America are "almost ready" for another attack, Attorney General John Ashcroft warned yesterday as he released photos of seven dangerous operatives. Counterterror teams and...

PATRIOT 'MISSILE' BLASTS KERRY; BUSH AD HITS FOE ON TERROR LAW

WASHINGTON - The Bush campaign yesterday launched a new TV attack ad blasting John Kerry for voting for the anti-terror Patriot Act and then speaking out against it. "John Kerry?...

KERRY DODGES CONVENTION-AL WISDOM

WASHINGTON - John Kerry ducked questions yesterday about whether he'll accept the Democratic nomination at the convention in Boston as he faced growing fallout over a possible delay in formally...

HEINZ AIDS HUBBY'S CAMPAIGN ON THE 'FLY'

WASHINGTON - Teresa Heinz Kerry earned more than $100,000 last year on her Flying Squirrel charter jet - which her husband's presidential campaign used to the tune of nearly $300,000,...

KERRY MULLING A $TALL TACTIC

WASHINGTON - In what would be an unprecedented move, John Kerry is considering delaying his acceptance of the Democratic nomination so that he has more time to spend his campaign...

KERRY MEETS WITH NADER

WASHINGTON - John Kerry met yesterday with left-leaning independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader - but denied he's asking Nader to drop out of the race. Kerry said his plan is...

KERRY TALKS TO NICK'S DAD

WASHINGTON - John Kerry told reporters yesterday he spoke with the father of Nicholas Berg, the contractor who was beheaded in Iraq by Islamic terrorists. Asked about the conversation, Kerry...

POLS TURN SHARP EYE ON NIELSEN

WASHINGTON - The chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee says he's asking for a federal study into a controversial new Nielsen TV ratings system. Chairman Joe Barton (R-Texas)...

SHEEPSKIN FLEECE - FEDS NAILED WITH BOGUS DIPLOMAS

WASHINGTON - Investigators have discovered that 28 senior managers at key federal agencies - including three officials with security clearance at a nuclear agency - bought phony advanced degrees from...

LAURA 'CAN'T BEAR TO LOOK' AT IMAGES

WASHINGTON - First Lady Laura Bush said yesterday she "can't bear to look" at the disturbing pictures of American soldiers humiliating Iraqi prisoners. "It's really, really sad. I mean, it's...

MRS. KERRY IN 'PATRIOTIC' WAR

WASHINGTON - The Bush campaign yesterday fired back at John Kerry wife's Teresa for questioning President Bush's and Vice President Dick Cheney's patriotism. The candidate's outspoken wife had called both...

BUSH IN BID TO DEFUSE PALESTINIAN 'ROAD' RAGE

WASHINGTON - President Bush, after meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah at the White House yesterday, assured Palestinians they'll take part in final negotiations with Israel over Middle East territory. "And...

BUSH IN PALESTINIAN PLEDGE

WASHINGTON - President Bush, after meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah at the White House yesterday, assured Palestinians they'll take part in final negotiations with Israel over Middle East territory. "And...

W. VOWS POW JUSTICE - GOES ON ARAB TV TO SOOTHE RAGE AT ABUSE

WASHINGTON - President Bush tried yesterday to calm the storm in the Arab world over the American abuse of Iraqi prisoners, telling two Arab TV stations the misconduct was "abhorrent"...

W. RIBS JOHN OVER 'FALSE' ID

WASHINGTON - President Bush used Day Two of his Midwest bus tour to joke yesterday that John Kerry's claim that unnamed foreign leaders are supporting him could just be a...

VOTERS TURNING AGAINST KERRY

WASHINGTON - Democrat John Kerry has taken a pounding from President Bush's TV ads - and some of the charges are starting to stick, especially in the 18 key battleground...

KERRY'S SWEET SPOTS - ADS PLAY UP SERVICE & 'HEART'

WASHINGTON - John Kerry yesterday launched two new biographical ads to introduce himself to voters - and they focus almost entirely on his Navy service in Vietnam. The 60-second spots,...