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WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday that the Pentagon is reviewing its practice of paying to plant stories in the Iraqi news media, withdrawing his earlier claim that it had been stopped. Rumsfeld told reporters he was mistaken in the earlier assertion. “I don’t have knowledge as …

WASHINGTON – The White House on Monday rejected the call by several House Democrats for a special counsel to investigate the Bush administration’s eavesdropping program. “I think that where these Democrats who are calling for this ought to spend their time is on what was the source of the unauthorized …

PORT-AU-PRINCE – Haiti‘s success depends on whether its people can unite behind a new government, a top U.S. diplomat said Monday, calling ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide‘s possible return “one of the least important questions” facing the country. Thomas Shannon, assistant U.S. secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, urged Haitians …