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WASHINGTON – Investigators have unearthed e-mails showing Rep. Tom DeLay’s office tried to help lobbyist Jack Abramoff (search) get a high-level Bush administration meeting for Indian clients, an effort that succeeded after the tribes began making a quarter-million dollars in donations. Tribal money went both to a group founded by …

WASHINGTON – Face-to-face meetings with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and probably other senior Bush administration officials await Ahmed Chalabi (search) as the Iraqi deputy prime minister pursues political rehabilitation in Washington. While some Senate Democrats want to probe the role of the Iraqi National Congress (search), an exile group …

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – An Arab-American accused of joining Al Qaeda and plotting to assassinate President Bush declined to take the stand at his trial Wednesday, and the defense rested its case after putting on just three witnesses. Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, 24, had testified at a pretrial hearing last month …