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WASHINGTON – Louisiana’s senior senator on Sunday escalated the Democrats’ rhetoric against the Bush administration’s hurricane response, accusing the White House of a “full court press” to blame state and local officials for the initial sluggish rescue effort. The government’s emergency managers came under fire from the lone black senator, …

LOS ANGELES – A concentration camp survivor who joined the U.S. Army out of gratitude, fought in Korea and spent 2 1/2 years in a Chinese prisoner of war camp was awarded a Medal of Honor (search) on Friday, 55 years after his heroism. President Bush gave the nation’s highest …

WASHINGTON – A House committee on Thursday approved a sweeping rewrite of the Endangered Species Act (search) that hands major new rights to property owners while limiting the federal government’s ability to protect plant and animal habitat. The bill by House Resources Committee Chairman Richard Pombo (search), R-Calif., bars the …