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AP - One Hollywood actor, Ronald Reagan, served as president for eight years. So why not an actor who plays a district attorney on TV? Fred Thompson, the character Arthur Branch on NBC's drama "Law & Order," is being urged to pursue the GOP nomination by several Tennessee Republicans who also have been trying to

AP - A House committee voted Wednesday to grant immunity to Monica Goodling, a key aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales during the firings of eight U.S. attorneys. She had refused to testify, invoking her Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.

It does not matter whether the climate experts from all over the world agree that the climate change underway is human caused or not. The much more pressing issue is how to deal with it in a manner that minimizes its proliferation and sets humanity on a sustainable path into the future. The