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John Kerry, the US Secretary of State, said on Sunday that the administration had new evidence that sarin gas was used in an attack by Syrian government forces that killed 1,400 people last month. Kerry also said that he is certain that Congress will approve the attack on Syria, and invoked the name of Israel in this context. “I can’t contemplate that Congress would turn its back on Israel and Jordan and the allies of the region,” Kerry said on “Fox News Sunday,” saying that lawmakers had a duty to act to uphold international norms against using chemical weapons. Kerry...

SAN FRANCISCO - Memo to California Republicans: The recall is over. It's time to move on. Nearly a year after the historic recall election that bounced Democratic Gov. Gray Davis and installed Arnold Schwarzenegger in Sacramento, Republicans in the state have plenty of good reasons to feel giddy. Schwarzenegger's popularity, combined with the smart efforts of state GOP chairman Duf Sundheim and others to raise money and register new voters, have restored credibility to the once-moribund California Republican Party. But if the recall is supposed to be a predictor of Republican political success in California in 2004, we haven't seen...