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WASHINGTON – The Bush administration has started an aggressive campaign to convince skeptical lawmakers of the merits of a landmark civilian nuclear cooperation agreement with India. Nicholas Burns, a top State Department official, told an audience Monday at the Heritage Foundation that a “very intensive debate” looms on the accord …

WASHINGTON – President Bush on Monday begins a series of speeches to convince Americans, worried about reports of daily bombings in Iraq, that the United States is on the right path to defeat terrorists and insurgents there. Bush’s first speech in the new campaign will focus on work that the …

NEW YORK – Stocks finished an erratic session lower Tuesday, with a conflicting report on wholesale inflation and questions about the Federal Reserve’s interest rate policy creating uncertainty for investors. The Labor Department‘s producer price index fell 1.4 percent, the sharpest decline in three years. However, so-called core PPI, with …