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Download MP3 Headlines (4:57) MEXICAN GUERRILLAS CLAIM PEMEX ATTACKS A Mexican guerrilla group has claimed responsibility for a series of attacks on oil facilities that have paralyzed a part of the industrial sector. The...

Download MP3 Headlines (5:00) WARS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN COST $12 BILLION A MONTH A new report puts the price tag for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at $12 billion dollars a month....

Download MP3 Headlines (5:45) EXECUTIVE TO LEGISLATIVE: BRING IT ON! President Bush has once again invoked executive privilege to keep former White House staffers from testifying under oath before open sessions of Congress. The...

Download MP3 Headlines (6:00) WIRETAPPING INJUNCTION OVERTURNED An appeals court has overturned a lower court’s ruling against the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program. Lawyers, journalists and academics won an injunction against the government surveillance program...

Download Audio Headlines (5:42) STANDOFF CONTINUES AT RED MOSQUE A standoff at a controversial mosque in Islamabad is in its third day today. Reports from the area tell of smoke coming from the compound...

Download Mp3 Headlines (6:11) SHOOTOUT AT PAKISTANI MOSQUE At least nine people have died in violence that erupted at a mosque in Islamabad today. Devin Theriot-Orr reports. The Lal Masjid, or “red mosque”, has...

Download MP3 Headlines (6:04) WHITE HOUSE COULD FACE CONTEMPT Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy says he is willing to take the president to court if the White House refuses to comply with congressional...

Download MP3 Headlines SUPREME COURT RECONSIDERS GITMO CASE The Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments regarding whether Guantanamo Bay detainees can challenge their confinement in US civilian courts. The court refused to hear...

Download MP3 Headlines (5:30) WHITE HOUSE DEFIES CONGRESSIONAL SUBPOENAS The White House has moved to block congressional subpoenas issued as part of the investigation into the dismissals of 8 US attorneys. A letter issued...

Download MP3 Headlines (5:00) SUBPOENAS ISSUED IN DOMESTIC SURVEILLANCE INVESTIGATION Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and key White House officials have been served with subpoenas as part of a Congressional investigation into the Bush Administration’s...