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TUESDAY, January 20th UPDATE: The State of the Union is tonight. You can find some good resources here for everything you need to enjoy the spectacle, from a TomPaine.com Score Card to a dictionary to a drinking game honoring Bush and pretzels. Also, the real State of the Union by the numbers.

500th American Soldier Dies in Iraq

Bush seems to think America is winning something.

The widow of a British soldier who was killed after being forced by superiors to hand over his body armor calls for the resignation of Britain's Defence Secretary.

An aide to a prominent Iraqi Shiite cleric calls the US formula for transferring power hasty as America tries to convince the United Nations to convince the Shiites that democracy won't work. Tens of thousands of Iraqi Shia Muslims take to the streets. Is Bush scared of democracy?

Dick Cheney's grim vision: decades of war!

Commander of US forces in Iraq begins an investigation into allegations of detainees being abused.

US still holds children at Gitmo.

Government by and for Halliburton. And amazingly enough (or, not amazing at all, given this administration), Halliburton gets a new contract. But the real question is: Who's going to outer space?

Is Katherine Gun a political prisoner?

Turkey warns of internal fighting in Iraq.

Ted Kennedy writes about the Dishonest War.

The Defense budget is bigger than you think.

Why did Australia begin the war in Iraq before Bush's 48 hour ultimatum was up?

An air strike in Afghanistan has gone astray again, killing four children.

Oops! We bombed the wrong country.

Director of 9/11 probe gives evidence to his own inquiry. Why won't Bush give the Commission the extra time it has asked for?

America's new front in the "War on Terror" lies in the border region of Mauritania, Mali, Chad and Niger.

A Rabbi defends blocking Israeli bulldozers.

The French Defense Minister blasts the neoconservative policies of America.

Air France pilots and crew get close scrutiny from America because of their Muslim background. Why are foreign airlines resisting Washington's call for armed guards on flights to the US?

Northwest Airlines provided confidential passenger information to the US government.

The ugliest American alienates the world, and back home, Bush hasn't done much better and failed miserably at his promise to be a uniter, not a divider. Bush's strategy: win now, fix nothing. Bush's lies about Iraq take their toll on the world stage.

After failing for two years to get a racist federal appeals court judge past Congress, Bush bypasses the founding fathers' checks and balances system and installs the judge with Congress out of town.

How far we have come: The racial divide returns to America's classrooms.

Emancipated voices: online recordings tell of slavery.

But everything's A-Okay now--The White House waters down a report on racial disparities in health care to make things seem more balanced.

Bush is booed heavily in Atlanta while laying a wreath on Martin Luther King's grave (he was really in town to attend a fund-raiser). Exactly what message of Martin Luther King's was Bush honoring?

Microsoft runs into more antitrust problems with the Feds over online music.

WorldCom dumps 1,700 more employees.

California lost 8,400 jobs in December.

More workers will retire without insurance. Overtime pay for millions of Americans is in peril.

It's the jobs, stupid.

Bush's pro-corporate agenda crowds out GOP principles, and Bush runs into problems with Republicans in Congress and conservative groups.

For all you folks worrying about your stock portfolios with the dollar in freefall (down 32% in 2 years), here's how to bulk up.

Recovery trickles down very slowly.

Welcome to the invisible America.

A Canadian farmer fights Monsanto.

CBS won't allow Move On's commercial during the Super Bowl.

The World Social Forum gets underway in India.

US policy is blamed for abortion deaths in Ethiopia.

Why exactly is Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia going hunting with Dick Cheney while the Court is involved in a case about Cheney's still secret energy task force?

Liberal Democrat icon George McGovern--who ran against Nixon in 1972 as a staunchly anti-war candidate--endorses Wesley Clark.