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February 5th, 2011

Cheney calls Mubarak a good friend, US ally (AP)

AP - Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Saturday called Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak a good friend and U.S. ally, and he urged the Obama administration to move cautiously as turmoil continued to shake that nation's government.

February 5th, 2011

Officials confirm 3 cases of cholera in NYC (AP)

AP - New York City officials have confirmed that three New Yorkers contracted cholera while in the Dominican Republic for a wedding.

February 5th, 2011

Reagan centennial endowment reaches $100M goal (AP)

FILE- This Jan. 20, 1981 file photo, shows President Ronald Reagan as he gives a thumbs up to the crowd while his wife, first lady Nancy Reagan, waves from a limousine during the inaugural parade in Washington following Reagan's swearing in as the 40th president of the United States. Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011, marks the centennial anniversary of Reagan's birth. (AP Photo/File)AP - The Ronald Reagan centennial endowment campaign surpassed its $100 million goal Saturday, hours before the Gipper's 100th birthday.


February 5th, 2011

Luxembourg ambassador says she filed rebuttal (AP)

In this Nov. 11, 2010, photo released by the U.S. Air Force, then-U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg Cynthia Stroum speaks to the crowd during the Veteran’s Day ceremony at the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial. Stroum, as a supporter of presidential candidate Barack Obama, was a superstar whose financial backing of the campaign landed her a plum diplomatic posting in Europe. As America's ambassador to Luxembourg, the wealthy Seattle-based businesswoman was a disaster. According to an internal State Department report released Thursday, Feb. 4, 2011, less than a week after she quit, Stroum's management of the U.S. Embassy in the tiny country was abysmal. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Senior Airman Nick Wilson)AP - A superstar donor of President Barack Obama's last campaign who later became ambassador to Luxembourg said Saturday that she has filed a rebuttal to an internal State Department review that found her tenure to be a disaster.


February 5th, 2011

House Republicans go easy on cuts for Congress (AP)

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2011, file photo Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., presides at the Capitol Hill hearing on the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2011-2021 in Washington. Republicans now controlling the House promised Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011, to slash domestic agencies' budgets by almost 20 percent for the coming year. Republicans won't get everything they want. Democrats are in charge of the White House and the Senate, and even House Republicans may have second thoughts when the magnitude of the cuts sinks in. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - Republicans now running the House are barely touching Congress' own generous budget even as they take a cleaver to many domestic agencies.



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