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WASHINGTON – President Bush took his proposals to slow Medicare and Medicaid spending to a new scale in his proposed 2009 budget even though previous, more modest efforts to trim the entitlement programs went nowhere. Over the next five years, the president would reduce by $196 billion the two entitlement …

MANAGUA, Nicaragua – Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega announced Thursday that he is breaking relations with Colombia because of his opposition to the Colombian raid on a guerrilla base in Ecuador. Ortega announced his decision while sitting beside Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa, who is touring the region to rally opposition to …

PHOENIX – The family of a New York woman who died in police custody at the Phoenix airport in September filed an $8 million claim against the city Wednesday, the first step in filing a wrongful death suit. The claim was immediately rejected by the city in a letter to …