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At nearly every stop on his tour south, President Bush bristled at criticism. But he also displayed a new recognition that diplomacy can be as effective as domination

CQPolitics.com - To figure out why former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has widened his lead over other Republican presidential contenders in preference polls of GOP voters, take a look just below the surface of those horserace numbers.

AP - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales came under renewed pressure Wednesday, as two more Republican senators came out against him and Democrats challenged his truthfulness about President Bush's no-warrant eavesdropping program.

AP - Pakistan's army denied Friday its peacekeeping troops in Congo had sold guns to militia in return for gold, calling the allegation "malicious."