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• Senate passes bill to pull troops out of Iraq, paving way for veto showdown
  A defiant Democratic-controlled Senate passed legislation Thursday that would require the start of troop withdrawals from Iraq by Oct. 1, propelling Congress toward a historic veto showdown with President Bush on the war.April 26, 2007
• VA secretary: "This huge bureaucracy needs a major transformation"
  A presidential task force headed by Veterans Affairs Secretary James Nicholson has announced its recommendations for reducing the bureaucracy veterans face when they seek medical care through the VA. Nicholson made his proposal in a speech at the National Press Club in Washington.Midday, April 25, 2007
• Bush, Congress clash over Iraq
  The Democrat-controlled Congress and President Bush want to steer the Iraq war in starkly different directions. How will the power struggle over war funding and withdrawal timetables play out?Midday, April 25, 2007
• Author David Halberstam won a Pulitzer for chronicling Vietnam
  David Halberstam, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his Vietnam War reporting when he was only 30, died Monday in car crash. He was 73. Halberstam gave the keynote address at a historic conference on Vietnam last year at the Kennedy Library in Boston.Midday, April 24, 2007
• Widening Somali conflict has locals worried
  Violence in Somalia escalated dramatically over the weekend with hundreds more civilians killed and injured. The war is affecting Minnesota's Somali community deeply as many fear for the safety of family and friends back home.April 22, 2007
• More than 20,000 care packages and counting
  A loosely organized group of Minnesotans has been sending thousands of care packages to troops deployed in the war on terrorism. Without "Operation Minnesota Nice," many of these members of the military would receive little or no mail.April 22, 2007
• Ken Burns turns his camera on World War II
  With approximately 1,000 veterans of WWII dying every day, documentarian Ken Burns and the Library of Congress are launching a project to collect their stories. Burns, who has a new PBS special titled "The War" premiering in September, spoke about preserving the history of World War II recently in Cleveland.Midday, April 20, 2007
• Victoria Redel writes how a war ripples down the generations
  Victoria Redel's new novel "The Border of Truth" weaves together at least three stories to tell a very American tale.April 19, 2007
• Ex-Iraqi defense minister calls troop surge alone "insufficient"
  Former Iraqi Defense Minister Ali Allawi says President Bush's troop build-up is helping, but only "to a limited extent." Speaking on a panel at the Kennedy Library in Boston, Allawi said the buildup "in and of itself is insufficient to resolve the political crisis in Iraq."Midday, April 18, 2007
• Death by friendly fire
  While Congress prepares to look into a possible Army cover-up of the death of Pat Tillman, other cases of friendly fire incidents are coming to the surface. Midmorning looks at what happens when a soldier is killed by a comrade, and the investigation that follows.Midmorning, April 18, 2007
• Lost Boys inspire local art
  The Sudanese refugee crisis has become a very personal story for some Minneapolis high school students. Their art is hanging alongside works by Sudanese refugees in an exhibit that accompanies the Children's Theatre production of "The Lost Boys of Sudan."April 17, 2007
• Family of Iraq war vet disputes report but won't sue
  The family of a Minnesota Marine don't believe the official version of the events that led to Jonathan Schulze's suicide, but they said Monday they won't keep fighting the Veterans Administration.April 16, 2007
• Fallen Willmar soldier was 10 days away from home
  Army Sgt. Joshua Schmit, 26, was 10 days away from leaving Iraq. He survived three previous roadside bombings.April 15, 2007
• Walz argues for a broader view of foreign policy
  U.S. Rep. Tim Walz, D-Minn., says America's foreign policy has become so focused on the goal of security that it has given short shrift to other important goals like human rights.Midday, April 13, 2007
• Minnesota's share of Iraq war burden
  Nearly a quarter of active Minnesota National Guard members are deployed in Iraq. That's an unusually high percentage compared to other states.April 12, 2007

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