February 26, 2002
Download MP3 Bush Wants More “Welfare Reform” President Bush is asking Congress to renew the 1996 law overhauling welfare but to strengthen its work requirements. He also wants to include measures that encourage marriage...
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February 25, 2002
Download MP3 Civil Rights Advocates Ask OAS for Help Critics of the government’s treatment of accused Al-Qaeda and Taliban detainees have taken their legal fight to a new venue. Human rights lawyers filed...
February 22, 2002
Download MP3 Peace and the Killing of Daniel Pearl (2:13) Pakistan’s interior minister said Friday investigators know the names of the militants who abducted and killed American journalist Daniel Pearl and are taking “the...
February 21, 2002
Download MP3 Israeli Army Occupies Nablus Apartment Building, Evicts Residents (this and next story combined 4:37) Early this morning, Israeli forces took over two apartment buildings on the outskirts of Nablus in the...
February 20, 2002
Download MP3 Bush: “No Wonder I Think They’re Evil” President Bush toured the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea today. He reiterated his belief that North Korea is evil but said the United...
February 19, 2002
Download MP3 Bush Goes Just South of “Axis of Evil” (3:52) President George W Bush arrived in South Korea today welcomed by angry demonstrators protesting his references to North Korea as part of an...
February 18, 2002
Download MP3 The Refugees of Northern Afghanistan (4:51) Over six million people from Afghanistan have been displaced by the past 22 years of war. Despite the routing of the Taliban almost three months ago...
February 15, 2002
Download MP3 Ceasefire But Continued Fighting in Afghanistan (5:03) The three warlords who control the northern Afghan city of Mazar i Sharif have hammered out an agreement to start demilitarizing northern Afghanistan’s largest city...
February 14, 2002
Download MP3 Enron “Whistleblower” Before Congress Kata Mester reports from Capital Hill on the testimony of Sharon Watkins before the House of Representitives Milosevic: Clinton’s the War Criminal The Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic...
February 13, 2002
Download MP3 D-Day for Campaign Finance (2:30) The first major change to the American campaign finance system since the mid-nineteen seventies. In an all-day debate, the House of Representatives defeated a pair of Republican...
