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The president outlines his case against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and calls on congressional and world leaders to pass resolutions setting up strong consequences if Iraq does not disarm.

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Betty Ann Bowser updates a story about the fallout from a lawsuit brought by African-American farmers against the Department of Agriculture three years ago.

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Lee Hochberg reports on the homecoming of a Washington state congressman who returned from a visit to Baghdad suggesting that President Bush is misleading Americans about the need for war in Iraq.

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As a new U.S. Supreme Court term opens, Jan Crawford Greenburg of the Chicago Tribune previews some of the pivotal and controversial cases facing the high court over the next nine months.

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Betty Ann Bowser reports on the hotly contested Senate race in Texas.

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The Capitol Hill report with excerpts from an exchange between two of the Senate's most senior members, Republican John Warner and Democrat Robert Byrd, who stand on opposing sides of the Iraq debate.

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Republicans also plan to file suit in federal district court on behalf of overseas military personnel who received absentee ballots.

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Kwame Holman looks at the Senate debate over a resolution authorizing the U.S. to use military force in Iraq.

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The Senate began considering competing versions of a resolution authorizing military action against Iraq today. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.), a member of the committee, outline the debate.

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The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled unanimously late Wednesday that the Democratic party may replace embattled incumbent Sen. Robert Torricelli's name with that of former Sen. Frank Lautenberg on the Nov. 5 general election ballot.

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