Bush has signed an executive order giving the White House more say over how federal departments and agencies carry out laws approved by Congress. Under the order, each department and agency must put a presidential appointee in charge of the rules and the guidance that it plans to issue. Also, under the order, agencies must now satisfy a higher standard of justification before taking any new regulatory action. The order gives the White House budget office more power over guidance documents, which don't have the weight of federal regulations but which still heavily influence how companies, schools and other agencies comply with laws. Significant guidance documents - ones which could have an annual impact of more than $100 million or have other major effects on the public - may now come under scrutiny by the White House budget office before they are released....
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Editor - 08:27:00 01-30-07
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 School Bus Overturns in Missouri; No Children Seriously Hurt but Another Driver Injured |
No children were seriously hurt, but the driver of another vehicle was injured when a school bus overturned Tuesday morning in Jefferson County. About two dozen children in kindergarten through sixth grade were on the bus heading to Maple Grove Elementary and Cedar Hill Intermediate schools in the Northwest R-1 School District south of St. Louis, a school official said. The children, the bus driver and the driver of the other vehicle were taken to St. Anthony's Medical Center, said Sgt. Al Nothum with the Missouri State Highway Patrol. ...
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Editor - 08:25:00 01-30-07
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| Senator: Bush Not Sole 'Decision-Maker' |
A Senate Republican on Tuesday directly challenged President Bush's declaration that ``I am the decision-maker'' on issues of war. ``I would suggest respectfully to the president that he is not the sole decider,'' Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said during a hearing on Congress' war powers amid an increasingly harsh debate over Iraq war policy. ``The decider is a shared and joint responsibility,'' Specter said. The question of whether to use its power over the government's purse strings to force an end to the war in Iraq, and under what conditions, is among the issues faced by the newly empowered Democratic majority in Congress, and even some of the president's political allies as well. No one challenges the notion that Congress can stop a war by canceling its funding. In fact, Vice President Dick Cheney challenged Congress to back up its objections to Bush's plan to put 21,500 more troops in Iraq by zeroing out the war budget. ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6381314,00.html
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Editor - 08:24:00 01-30-07
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| Dangerous World Fuels Conspiracy Theorists From 9/11 To Suri Cruise, Our Muddled World, Internet Help Them Cast Doubt On News Stories |
Five years later, it's the violent rattling of the ground moments before the World Trade Center's South Tower fell, and the subsequent pulverized concrete that blanketed him like snowfall that keeps Gary Welz' raising questions about just what he survived on Sept. 11, 2001. "I felt what was like an earthquake — and I've been in earthquakes before — just before the South Tower fell," recalls Welz, an adjunct math lecturer at John Jay Criminal College and Fordham University. Until recently, Welz was a member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, a group of over 300 professionals that questions the government's explanation of the attacks. "The official explanation that I've heard doesn't make sense because it doesn't explain why I heard and felt an explosion before the South Tower fell and why the concrete was pulverized," said Welz. ...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/29/national/main2411081.shtml?source=RSSattr=U.S._2411081
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Editor - 08:07:00 01-30-07
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| Female peacekeepers reach Liberia |
The first all-female unit of United Nations peacekeepers has arrived in Liberia's capital, Monrovia. The group of more than 100 police women from India will stay in Liberia for six months, helping to train the local police force. They will also carry out security duties in forthcoming local elections. The UN currently has 15,000 peacekeepers deployed in Liberia, which is struggling to recover after a 14-year civil war. The unit is made up volunteers drawn from across India and are experienced in battling insurgencies in Kashmir and the north-east. ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6314263.stm
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Editor - 08:01:00 01-30-07
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| Survey exposes divide between Pope and priests |
A yawning gulf between the stern doctrines preached by Pope Benedict and the advice offered by ordinary Roman Catholic priests has been exposed by an Italian magazine, which dispatched reporters to 24 churches around Italy where, in the confessional, they sought rulings on various thorny moral dilemmas.One reporter for L'Espresso claimed to have let a doctor switch off the respirator that kept her father alive. "Don't think any more about it," she was told by a friar in Naples. "I myself, if I had a father, a wife or a child who had lived for years only because of artificial means, would pull out [the plug]."Another journalist posed as a researcher who had received a lucrative offer to work abroad on embryonic stem cells. With the extra cash, he said, he and his wife could think about starting a family. So should he take up the post?...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/pope/story/0,,2002187,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=12
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Editor - 07:59:00 01-30-07
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