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WASHINGTON – President Bush has approved the nation’s first counterintelligence strategy (search), directing the intelligence agencies to go on the offensive — together — against foreign and terrorist threats. Counterintelligence is the government-wide effort to protect against foreign espionage and intelligence collection. But professionals in this narrow specialty concede the …

JERUSALEM – Jewish settlers should hand over their weapons before the planned Gaza withdrawal this summer to prevent any chance of bloody confrontations with Israeli troops over the dismantling of settlements, a settler leader said Wednesday. The proposal by ultranationalist lawmaker Effie Eitam (search) marked the first time a settler …

DECATUR, Ga. – Emmanuel Hawkins celebrated a birthday Wednesday that he was never supposed to live to see. For 16 weeks after his mother lapsed into a coma brought on by an assault, Emmanuel continued to grow inside her womb. Doctors tried to persuade his grandmother, Nonnie Hawkins, to end …