Senate leader took free boxing tickets
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Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid accepted free ringside tickets from the Nevada Athletic Commission to three professional boxing matches while that state agency was trying to influence him on federal regulation of boxing.
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The Senate shipped President Bush a wide-ranging &#36;136 billion corporate tax-cut bill and a disaster aid package on Monday, letting lawmakers head home for the finale of the presidential and congressional campaigns.
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His elegant, red-walled Capitol office is filled with boxes of memorabilia and photos and artwork in bubble wrap. At the end of this week, Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., will close the doors for the last time and leave behind the view of the National Mall that he has enjoyed for a decade.
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The NFL's ability to negotiate exclusive sports packages is under fire from the outgoing chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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A champion Australian boxer who left Sydney abruptly weeks ago is one of four men being held in Lebanon on suspicion of terrorist activity, reports said Wednesday.
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Sport: Boxer's promotions company paid $3.1m for 3,900 tickets that were sold on to fans for Mayweather fight
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As the embattled Republican senator asks a court to withdraw his guilty plea, politics in his home state is in a holding pattern.
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JOHN Howard yesterday ended 8Â½ years of Coalition frustration by winning outright control of the Senate. His breakthrough came after Nationals candidate Barnaby Joyce
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that she followed all Senate rules when she accepted rides on a private jet from a longtime benefactor.
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The U.S. Senate has voted to outlaw  several favorite techniques of people who illegally copy and  distribute movies, but has dropped other measures that could  have led to jail time for Internet song-swappers.
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Election-season winds are gusting strongly in the Republican-run Senate, which disregarded a White House veto threat and voted to bar President Bush from giving some federal immigration jobs to private workers.
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One of the closest races for the U.S. Senate is being waged by two men whose fathers were lifelong friends.
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Republicans in tight re-election contests were unloading contributions they received over the years from Mark Foley, the former congressman ensnared in an e-mail sex scandal.
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Senators are now allowed to use taxpayer dollars to travel to the funerals of service members in their home states
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A once-powerful state senator at the center of a corruption scandal was sentenced Wednesday to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for taking payoffs from the health care industry.
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The parliament of Gambia, one of the world's poorest countries, passed a law on Wednesday to give former presidents free foreign holidays, cars and personal staff for life after they leave office.
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President George W. Bush and Democratic hopeful John Kerry have been trading political blows for months -- now they're stealing the punchlines of boxing's greatest heavyweights.