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LONDON - Former President Clinton has said his wife wants him to lead efforts to rebuild the United States' tarnished reputation abroad — if she is elected to the White House next year. The former president made the comments in interviews released Friday in Britain where he was fundraising for Hillary Rodham Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic nomination for next year's presidential election. Clinton was asked what his public role might be if his wife becomes president, in interviews with The Guardian newspaper and British Broadcasting Corp. television. He joked to The Guardian that Scottish friends have suggested his...

SACRAMENTO – After decades of watching traffic thicken and clog, frustrated California motorists caught in yet another jam might use the idle time to rework an old adage: Nothing is certain except death and taxes – and more traffic congestion. But as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger pushes his plan to spend $223 billion during the next 10 years on public works projects – nearly half on transportation – he's making a bold statement. The governor contends that despite continued population growth in California, his transportation plan would reduce traffic congestion well below current levels. "Traffic does not have to keep getting...

SPRINGFILED, Ohio (Reuters) - Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry (news - web sites) said on Sunday he did not anticipate sending more American troops to Iraq (news - web sites) and promised a fresh start with U.S. allies "burned" by President Bush (news - web sites). Despite some clamor among Democrats for an accelerated U.S. military withdrawal, Kerry said Washington must stay the course but asserted he could do a better job of convincing foreign leaders to help with security and reconstruction in Iraq. "I know how to bring these countries to the table, and there are some very powerful...

CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites), in his big space policy announcement on Wednesday, will call for replacing aging U.S. space shuttles with a new generation spacecraft to get Americans back to the moon and on to Mars, officials said on Saturday.   Seeking to give NASA (news - web sites) a new mission a year after the shuttle Columbia tragedy and to provide a space vision for his re-election campaign, Bush will set a goal of returning to the moon by the middle of the next decade and establishing a human presence there as a...