(2005-10-31) — Federal Appeals Court Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., President George Bush’s most recent Supreme Court nominee, is “hopelessly overqualified” for the nation’s highest court, according to Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY.

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(2005-10-30) — In the wake of a special prosecutor’s failure to discover who leaked the CIA identity of Valerie Wilson, Vice President Dick Cheney today announced he would send former ambassador Joe Wilson on a fact-finding mission to resolve unanswered questions about the case.

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(2005-10-29) — President Bush today refused to comment directly on the five-count grand jury indictment that led to the resignation of Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby as the vice president’s chief of staff yesterday. However, he said he was concerned about the suggestion that “anyone in my administration wasted valuable time trying to discredit former ambassador Joe Wilson.”

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(2005-10-28) — Unnamed sources close to Patrick Fitzgerald today said the special prosecutor believes the five-count grand jury indictment against vice presidential Chief of Staff I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby is “a slam dunk.”

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(2005-10-27) — In the wake of Harriet Miers’ aborted Supreme Court nomination, Democrats have urged President George Bush to replace her with Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid’s second choice for the high court.

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(2005-10-27) — Harriet Miers today withdrew her name from consideration as a Supreme Court Justice so she could “spend more time with family and friends, and just humans in general.”

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(2005-10-27) — The United Nations Security Council today took up discussion on what Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad might have meant when he called for Israel to be “wiped out from the map”.

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