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Laura Bush pressured to resign over Guantanamo Bay scandal - President withholds decision POSTED: 2:35 pm PDT July 16, 2005 (AP Photo/Haraz Ghanbari) WASHINGTON -- Former presidential candidate John Kerry said Saturday "Laura Bush ought to be fired." Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., a possible 2008 presidential contender, nodded in agreement when the two appeared together on Capitol Hill. Also Saturday, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said the matter of leaking a recipe from her cookbook "rises above politics and is about our national security." Leading White House critic Representative John Conyers added, “All we know is that it was...

Globes, Israel's business newspaper, reports that Finance Minister Netanyahu made what it calls his "first operational decision since taking office" earlier this week when he authorized the withholding of $7.7 million in tax payments to the Palestinian Authority to cover unpaid sewage treatment bills. The Ministry of National Infrastructures, now headed by the Shinui party's Yosef Paritzky, recommended this move. This is the first time the Ministry of Finance has withheld money from the PA for this purpose. Israel collects tax monies for the PA, and then periodically transfers some of the funds to the PA. Calls have often been...