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Tomorrow, voters in the 50th Congressional District will go to the polls to choose someone to replace former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, a war hero and popular politician until he was jailed for taking bribes from defense contractors. Candidates have stuffed mailboxes with brochures, paid millions for television commercials, trouped to forums, and constantly pledged to display the integrity Cunningham lacked. But in the past week or so, the tenor of the campaign changed. What had been a largely issue-based race has became a dogfight of negative ads targeting the perceived front-runners: Republican Congressman-turned-lobbyist Brian Bilbray, Republican businessman Eric Roach...

Farmers fear free-range panic in the crucial run-up to Easter By David Derbyshire and Amy Iggulden (Filed: 08/04/2006) The poultry industry will be watching for signs of a consumer backlash against chicken and eggs today following confirmation of the first case of H5N1 bird flu in Britain. As thousands of callers rang the Government's hotline with reports of dead swans, geese, gulls and garden birds, farmers and health officials repeated assurances that there was no risk to public health. The run-up to Easter is traditionally a bumper week for sales of poultry and eggs and a slump in sales could...

INDICTMENT THE HISTORY: ANALYSIS Backstory: The push for war Faulty intelligence in the run-up to invation BY CRAIG GORDON WASHINGTON BUREAU October 29, 2005 WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush's administration did all it could Friday to close the book on I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Don't have any contact with Libby about his indictment, staffers were warned. His security clearance - gone. And no goodbye meeting with the president. Libby "has left the White House, and I do not expect him to return," spokesman Scott McClellan said. If only it were that easy. Far from a clean end to the...