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Wednesday, February 22, 2006

TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS Bush Defends U.S. Port Deal President Bush today strongly defended plans to allow a company controlled by the United Arab Emirates to assume management of key U.S. ports, a stance that distanced him from a growing number of Republicans, including the congressional leadership that has threatened to pass legislation to stop the... (By Daniela Deane and Jim VandeHei, The Washington Post) Supreme Court to Consider Law Banning 'Late-Term' Abortions (The Washington Post) Federal Wildlife Monitors Oversee a Boom in Drilling Energy Programs Trump Conservation (The Washington Post) More Today's Highlights POLITICS Bush Defends U.S. Port Deal President Bush today strongly defended plans to allow a company controlled by the United Arab Emirates to assume management of key U.S. ports, a stance that distanced him from a growing number of Republicans, including the congressional leadership that has threatened to pass legislation to stop the... (By Daniela Deane and Jim VandeHei, The Washington Post) Bush Continues Focus On Alternative Fuels He Says Administration Is Committed (The Washington Post) Federal Wildlife Monitors Oversee a Boom in Drilling Energy Programs Trump Conservation (The Washington Post) Supreme Court to Consider Law Banning 'Late-Term' Abortions (The Washington Post) Three Charged With Planning Attacks in Iraq (The Washington Post) More Politics
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NATION Supreme Court to Consider Law Banning 'Late-Term' Abortions The Supreme Court, stocked with two new conservative justices, agreed today to consider the constitutionality of the federal law banning "late-term" abortions. (By Fred Barbash, The Washington Post) Federal Wildlife Monitors Oversee a Boom in Drilling Energy Programs Trump Conservation (The Washington Post) Three Charged With Planning Attacks in Iraq (The Washington Post) Embattled Harvard President To Resign (The Washington Post) Press Can Be Prosecuted for Having Secret Files, U.S. Says (The Washington Post) More Nation WORLD Iran's Delay on Enrichment Deal Seen as Bid to Avoid Sanctions MOSCOW, Feb. 21 -- Iran continued Tuesday to parry a Russian offer to enrich uranium on Russian soil for its nuclear energy program, putting off any move to finalize a deal because it has no real incentive to bend yet, according to diplomats and Russian analysts. (By Peter Finn, The Washington Post) Chinese Media Assail Google Internet Giant Said to Face Probe for Operating Without License (The Washington Post) Ugandans Put 'Big Man' Politics to Vote Having Eliminated Term Limits and Jailed an Opponent, Museveni Seeks to Remain (The Washington Post) British Protect Legend, Tradition From Bird Flu (The Washington Post) Three Charged With Planning Attacks in Iraq (The Washington Post) More World METRO Deadline for MetroAccess Improvement Metro officials announced yesterday that they are forming a group of managers to investigate and reduce the number of MetroAccess trips during which riders are stranded or picked up more than half an hour late. (By Lena H. Sun and Lyndsey Layton, The Washington Post) Pr. William Sizes Up Crowded Housing Problem (The Washington Post) Dual Roles of O'Malley's Running Mate Raise Questions (The Washington Post) Baker Offers Pr. George's Crime Plan Candidate Would Rehire Retired Police Officers (The Washington Post) With a Wink, Alleged Plot To Foil a Trial Set in Motion Woman on D.C. Jury Knew Defendant, Wife (The Washington Post) More Metro BUSINESS Security Programs, Unions Would Stay at Ports As a furor erupted yesterday over the prospective takeover by a United Arab Emirates company of terminal operations at six major U.S. ports, officials from the company and the Bush administration scrambled to assuage fears that the deal would undermine security and antiterrorism efforts at some of... 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(By Yuki Noguchi, The Washington Post) Chinese Media Assail Google Internet Giant Said to Face Probe for Operating Without License (The Washington Post) More Technology SPORTS Court Battle With Apparel Firm Threatens Nats Merchandise The Washington Nationals don't have a stadium, don't have an owner and now may not even have a name. (By Thomas Heath, The Washington Post) Down 19, Wizards Get A Lift From Home Court Wizards 90, Timberwolves 78 (The Washington Post) Cohen Leads After Dazzling Short Program (AP) 76ers, Police Team Up: Tickets for Guns (The Washington Post) All-Star MVP James Powers Cleveland Cavaliers 105, Magic 92 (AP) More Sports STYLE Arctic Monkeys, A Higher Form But Not Yet Fully Evolved Nobody does hype quite like the British music press, which has turned overstatement into an Olympic sport. (By J. Freedom du Lac, The Washington Post) The Reliable Source (The Washington Post) That Wonderful Woman! Oh, How I Loathe Her. The Tricky Emotion Between Idolizing And Despising (The Washington Post) Drop Till You Shop For Skater Johnny Weir, the Gold Is in the Bag. A Louis Vuitton, That Is. (The Washington Post) Domingo Re-Ups With Washington, L.A. Operas (The Washington Post) More Style LIVE DISCUSSIONS Court to Consider Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Washington Post staff writer Fred Barbash discusses the Supreme Court's decision to consider the constitutionality of the ban on partial-birth abortion. Real Wheels (washingtonpost.com) Dirda on Books (washingtonpost.com) Pump and Dump The Rancid Rules of the New Economy (washingtonpost.com) Free Range on Food Dish With the Experts (washingtonpost.com) More Live Discussions EDITORIALS Port Security Humbug YOU KNOW THERE'S something suspicious going on when multiple members of Congress -- House, Senate, Democrat, Republican, future presidential candidates of all stripes -- spontaneously unite around an issue that none of them had known existed a week earlier. 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