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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – President Bush has used a constitutional provision to bypass the Senate and fill a top Justice Department slot with an official whose nomination stalled over tactics at the Guantanamo Bay (search), Cuba, naval facility. Bush used a “recess appointment” Wednesday to name Alice S. Fisher …

HILLSDALE, Mich. – Michael Sessions began talking about running for mayor when he was a sophomore in high school. He realized that dream before he got his diploma. Sessions, an 18-year-old senior, became the city’s youngest mayor on Monday when he took the oath of office. The crowd included city …

KELOWNA, British Columbia – Indigenous leaders came to this former frontier town Thursday to hash out with Canadian officials a multibillion-dollar plan to fight poverty and disease on native reserves and settle damage claims for mistreatment. Prime Minister Paul Martin, participating in the two-day summit along with the premiers of …