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I'm Kristin Espeland. President Bush rebuffed a North Korean request for bilateral talks on its nuclear weapons program. Earlier this week, Pyongyang surprised the world when leaders announced the North Koreans have indeed built nuclear bombs. Whitehouse spokesman Scott McClellan says discussions should continue among North Koreas six regional neighbors.
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In a shiite neighborhood in Baghdad,today, a carr bomb exploded outside a mosque, and gunmen fired automatic weapons into a bakery. The death toll has risen to 23 . Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld toured Iraq today and spoke to American troops about their ongoing role in responding to such attacks.
CUT #1 (RUMSFELD TO TROOPS) (:11)
INCUE: "The task ahead...."
OUTCUE: "...defeat the insurgencies"
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New York City health commissioner Thomas Freiden says doctors diagnosed the city's first case of drug resistant HIV. The 40 year old male patient had sex with several partners. Freiden said the rare case of HIV is difficult or impossible to treat and warned against unprotected sex.
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An Associated Press poll found president's Bush's job approval rating is slipping. especially among older adults. Approximately 60% of those surveyed said they thought the country was headed in the wrong direction, a figure up nearly 10 percent since the beginning o f Bush's second term. More than half also said they believe stability and democracy are likely in iraq. , up from 46% just before the January iraqi elections.
New York civil rights lawyer Lynn Stewart was found guilty today of smuggling messages from one of her clients to his terrorist followers. Stewart plans to appeal. the court's decision.
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When the market closed today, the Dow was up at ten thousand eight hundred points. The Nasdaq also closed up at two thousand seventy six.