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A three-year try at reform starts with a moratorium on death, and could end with commuted sentences for all. Canadian premier arrested in Hawaii WAILUKU, Hawaii -- The premier of the western Canadian province of British Columbia was arrested Friday and accused of driving drunk, Maui police said. Calif. governor urges tax hikes, spending cuts SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Gov. Gray Davis proposed deep cuts in schools, health and welfare and called for $8.3-billion in tax increases on shoppers, smokers and the wealthy Friday to help close a nearly $35-billion budget deficit. INS program registers men from 13 nations Facing a Friday deadline, thousands of men from 13 mostly Arab or Muslim countries lined up to register with U.S. immigration authorities under a post-Sept. 11 crackdown that has alarmed civil liberties groups and stirred fears of mass arrests. Bombing at Vieques out, Fla. in WASHINGTON -- The Navy will expand its use of bombing ranges in Florida and elsewhere on the U.S. mainland -- and may close Roosevelt Roads naval station in Puerto Rico -- after it abandons its training grounds on Vieques in May, officials said Friday. Nation in brief: Suit challenges draft registry A group of Massachusetts teenagers and one 20-year-old challenged the Selective Service system on Thursday because it requires only men to register. N. Korea: the next nuclear power WASHINGTON -- The United States is preparing to take its case against North Korea to the U.N. Security Council and is looking for broad support to try to harness the country's nuclear weapons programs. Washington in brief: Vaccinemakers to lose law's shield WASHINGTON -- Congress will eliminate three special-interest provisions that caused a furor after they were anonymously inserted into the Homeland Security law last year, under an agreement announced on Friday by Republican leaders of the House and Senate. High court to hear 'any willing provider' case A potentially far-reaching case will be argued Tuesday before the U.S. Supreme Court. Treaty's goal was world disarmament Formally called the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the agreement North Korea withdrew from as of today was created to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and technology. Obituaries STEVE YOUNG, 49, national president of the Fraternal Order of Police, died Thursday in Washington of cancer. A lieutenant in the Marion City Police Department in Ohio, he was elected to head the FOP in 2001. It is the nation's largest law enforcement labor organization, with more than 300,000 members. Sleeper cell suspect pleads guilty to supporting al-Qaida BUFFALO, N.Y. -- One of six men charged with being part of a terrorist sleeper cell in western New York pleaded guilty Friday to supporting al-Qaida by attending one of its training camps in Afghanistan before the Sept. 11 attacks. Fighting terror notebook: 100 terror attacks thwarted, U.S. officials say WASHINGTON -- Federal authorities said Friday that more than 100 terrorist attacks planned against the United States and its allies have been thwarted since Sept. 11, 2001, due in large part to the continuing interrogation of enemy combatants and other captives ensnared in the war on terror. World in brief: In first shuffle, Mexico's foreign secretary resigns MEXICO CITY -- In the first Cabinet shuffle of his 2-year-old presidency, President Vicente Fox accepted the resignation Friday of Foreign Secretary Jorge Castaneda and replaced him with Economy Secretary Ernesto Derbez. National headlines World headlines Science headlines
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