Frist expects a deal on detainee bill
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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said Saturday he has to do more to get Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., in line with other Republicans and the White House on how terrorist suspects should be prosecuted.
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The Bush administration and holdout GOP senators expressed confidence on Sunday they could reach a compromise on rules for CIA interrogations of suspected terrorists.
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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist  said on Monday he favored a plan by President George W. Bush  for trying foreign terrorism suspects but was still discussing  demands by some Republicans to give suspects more legal rights.
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House and Senate negotiators were close to a deal to enact the major recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission.
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A spokesman for the Senate Armed Services chairman says draft legislation is headed to Capitol Hill with "new language," for a proposal that would allow the CIA to continue alternative interrogation techniques on suspected terrorists. Republican senators have voted against legislation on detainees held at the U.S. facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Terror suspects held at the US military base at Guantanamo Bay must be allowed to meet privately with their lawyers, a federal judge has ruled.
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The agreement will allow passage of a bill to enact the major recommendations of the independent Sept. 11 commission.
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The White House, facing a Senate   Republican revolt over CIA treatment of terrorist suspects,   said on Sunday that a compromise can be reached over   legislation needed to continue the interrogation program.
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The US Senate will pass legislation today to reorganize the nation&#39;s intelligence agencies and create a national director of intelligence to oversee efforts to prevent terrorist attacks, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said.
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Republicans and Democrats struggled Wednesday over the final details of an elusive deal that would grant quick legal status to millions of illegal immigrants living in the U.S. and fortify the border
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By NANCY ZUCKERBROD  WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is trying use a bill authorizing U.S. military operations, including in Iraq and Afghanistan, to prohibit people from using credit cards to settle Internet gambling debts.
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BAGHDAD  - A French national who claims he has secured a deal for the release of two French reporters kidnapped in Iraq last month said Wednesday he is waiting for a US authorization to extract the pair by air.
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The White House and maverick Senate Republicans have begun a fresh round of talks over how to handle the nation's most dangerous terrorism suspects, resuscitating GOP hopes for approving a key piece of the president's anti-terror agenda before the November elections.
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Some of the 26 Taliban members Afghan militants have demanded freed as part of a deal to release three kidnapped UN workers could be in the US military jail
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Officials are planning to propose a plea-bargaining system like that used in the United States which could see alleged terrorists get reduced gaol sentences.
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Deals are being sought to allow the UK to deport terror suspects to their home countries.
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As France awaits word on two journalists being held hostage in Iraq, officials have made it clear that they expect to benefit from their stand against the US-led invasion and occupation.