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CARE, an organization seeking to end global poverty, announced that it will phase out at least $45 million in annual food aid from the United States government. The humanitarian group argues that the aid program puts the interests of local farmers in jeopardy. Helene Gayle, President of CARE explains her group's decision.

The leadership of CARE says it will not accept anti-poverty funding from the U.S. They assert that the U.S. gift threatens resources of those the humanitarian aid group desires to assist. Ellen Levinson, with Alliance for Food Aid, explains why her organization opposes CARE's decision.

An attorney who admitted leaking the confidential grand jury testimony of Barry Bonds and other athletes to a reporter was sentenced Thursday to two and a half years in prison, by far the harshest pen

Cancer claims fashion designer Liz Claiborne at 78. She founded what was for years the largest women's apparel company in the United States, designing of sleek, affordable clothes for the professional woman.

A federal judge hands down a 10-month prison term to the highest-ranking Bush administration official implicated so far in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal. Steven Griles was second-in-command at the Interior Department during President Bush's first term. He was sentenced for lying about favors he did for Abramoff.

Details from financial disclosure forms filed Wednesday by selected members of California's congressional delegation include Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Sen. Barbara Boxer, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rep.

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The former leader of Liberia, Charles Taylor, is on trial for sponsoring rape, torture and murder in the West African nation of Sierra Leone. Africa policy expert Emira Woods and former Taylor prosecutor David Crane discuss the significance of the trial and the former president's lasting mark on West Africa.

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf hailed the progress her country has made since it emerged from civil war in 2003 as she visited the United States this week. She is in the U.S. to consolidate support for her West African nation as it attempts to rebuild.