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A draft flu-pandemic response plan from the federal government says a worst-case scenario could kill as many as 2 million people in the United States. The draft Bush administration plan is an update to the $7.1 billion in pandemic preparations that it proposed last fall. The plan outlines exactly which government agency is responsible for about 300 tasks.

Vice President Dick Cheney will be called as a defense witness in the CIA leak case, an attorney for Cheney's former chief of staff told a federal judge Tuesday. Cheney's former staff member, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, is charged with perjury and obstruction of justice in a case concerning former CIA operative Valerie Plame.

Wildfires continue to burn out of control in Southern California, where at least 346,000 homes have been ordered evacuated and 1,200 homes and buildings have been left in ruins.

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It wasn't the anniversary night Barack Obama likely envisioned a year ago, when anti-Bush sentiment and an economic crisis helped propel him to a historic presidential victory. Democrats Creigh Deeds in Virginia and Jon Corzine in New Jersey — two states the charismatic president carried with ease in 2008 — lost their governor's races.

New charges have been filed alleging that the CIA's former No. 3 official used his influence in that role to support a proposed $100 million government contract for his best friend, a defense contract

Whatever happened to individual responsibility? & Those used to be a Republican buzzwords, but they've faded from the lexicon lately. &

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has suggested that it's time his commission takes up the issue of media deregulation, to allow for further consolidation of media companies.

Police in Belgium picked up 14 suspected al-Qaida-linked extremists in raids Thursday. Six been have been charged with being members of a terrorist organization. The sweep came hours before a European Union summit brought together the heads of 27 countries in Brussels.

Privacy isn't the only concern some have about the new low-energy X-ray scanners introduced at airports across the country. A group of scientists say the amount of radiation the scanners emit may have been understated and wants a more thorough look at the risks of exposing so many travelers to X-rays.