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President Bush told congregants at a Baptist church in Philadelphia that he would like to increase the funding to fight HIV/AIDS in America and abroad. Meanwhile, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., criticized the president's health care policies at a speech in…

The 9/11 Commission questioned the Bush administration's assertion that deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had collaborated with al-Qaida ahead of the terrorist attacks. Following a background report, two political columnists discuss the Bush administration's response to the panel's findings and…

Former President Bill Clinton and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton returned to the White House for the official unveiling of their portrait, which will hang in the presidential residence. Kwame Holman profiles Simmie Knox, a former sharecropper and the first African…