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The Senate is debating a bill that would restrict the Bush administration's broad power to conduct warrantless eavesdropping. One of the most divisive issues is whether to grant telecommunications companies retroactive immunity from lawsuits over their participation in the government's wiretapping program.

Some big players in California are lining up against the current healthcare reform effort in the legislature. One of them is the California Nurses Association. The group says it has a lot of problems

The program takes a look at the life and career of U.S. Rep. Julia Carson, who died Saturday. Carson was the first African-American, and first woman, to represent Indianapolis in Congress.

New Jersey became the first state in more than four decades to abolish the death penalty. Gov. Jon Corzine signed into law a measure that replaced the death sentence with life in prison without parole. The law spares eight men currently on death row.

Iowa's largest newspaper endorses Republican John McCain and Democrat Hillary Clinton. The Des Moines Register's backing comes as Clinton remains in a tight race with Barack Obama and John Edwards. McCain is running well behind GOP candidates.

The Presidential hopefuls from both parties have been spending a lot of time and a great deal of money campaigning in Iowa. And with the Iowa caucuses now less than three weeks away, the state's biggest newspaper has endorsed John McCain on the Republican side and Hillary Clinton for the Democrats.

A letter from a hostage held by Colombian Marxist guerrillas has brought renewed attention to the country's kidnapping epidemic. Noted author and politician Ingrid Betancourt, held by the rebels since 2002, wrote the anguished 12-page letter to her mother.

In the immediate future, the UT won't replace me, but I'm certain the editors won't let theater go uncovered. It's just too important. They're likely to fill the position from the inside, perhaps with Jim Hebert who's a wonderful writer and has done quite a bit of theater reviewing and feature writing. However, neither he nor I know that for sure. We do know that Jim Chute, the arts editor, is committed to getting the beat covered, whether with two or three staffers or Jim and a free-lancer. I just don't know.

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The African National Congress is undergoing a fierce power struggle, as veterans of the fight against apartheid vie for control of the party and of the South African government. The group led black resistance to the country's white-minority government throughout much of the 20th century.