Reid to step down at next poll
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Former home secretary John Reid has announced that he will quit Westminster at the next general election.
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U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns is expected to step down in an announcement to be made on Friday, a U.S. official said.
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BOISE, Idaho  - Long-serving Republican Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho, embroiled in a sex scandal and finding little support from his party, said on Saturday he will resign from the U.S. Senate.
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The chief White House spokesman today announced plans to leave his post on Sept. 14.
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Senate Democrats selected Nevada&#39;s Harry M. Reid as the new Senate minority leader replacing Tom Daschle who lost his bid for re-election.
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President Bushâs nominee to become the next surgeon general said today he would resign rather than allow politics to push aside science.
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Arts Minister Estelle Morris is to leave Parliament at the next election.
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Home Secretary John Reid's handling of last week's alleged terror plot has left him in a good position to run for the leadership of the governing Labour Party once Prime Minister Tony Blair steps down, lawmakers said.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell, widely viewed as the moderate in an administration dominated by hawks, announced Monday he will step down as America&#39;s chief diplomat once a successor is in place.
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After months of struggling to emerge from the lower tier of Republican presidential candidates, Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback is expected to drop his bid for the presidency Friday, according to several news outlets including the Associated Press and NBC.
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The Bush administration's point   person for the Medicare and Medicaid health programs, Mark   McClellan, is stepping down, the White House said on Tuesday.
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Terry Madden will step down as leader of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, ending a seven-year stint running the country's main line of defense against doping in sports.
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WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats yesterday elected Harry Reid of Nevada as their new minority leader, and Reid prodded Republicans to join him in working across party lines over the next two years.
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced today that Marine Gen. Peter W. Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will step down at the end of his two-year term in September, a decision Gates said he made to avoid possibly contentious re-nomination hearings before the...
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LAS VEGAS -- Saying the coming weeks will be "one of the last opportunities" to alter the course of the war, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) said he is now willing to compromise with Republicans to find ways to limit troop deployments in Iraq.
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Home Secretary John Reid has said that he had no intention of standing to succeed Tony Blair, who is to step down as prime minister by September 2007.
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Mohammed Sarwar, Labour MP for Glasgow Central, will stand down at the next General Election, it emerges.