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WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats lashed out Friday against President Bush’s plan to add personal accounts to Social Security and accused his administration of improperly using the Social Security (search) Administration to promote the plan. A pair of Social Security employees told the Democratic Policy Committee that they objected to internal …

Some said Yasser Arafat, deceased PLO leader, was an “obstacle to peace.” Here’s a look at the events since his death leading up to Sunday’s election. Nov. 11: Yasser Arafat, longtime president of the Palestinian Authority, passes away of an unknown illness. Mahmoud Abbas takes over as head of the …

WASHINGTON – Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns (search) began his new job Monday caught in a dispute between meatpackers and some ranchers over reopening U.S. borders to cattle from Canada. He also faced reluctance in Japan to resuming imports of U.S. cattle. Johanns told reporters that in the aftermath of a …