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ASSOCIATED PRESS ALBANY, N.Y. -- After weeks of pressure from her own party to drop out, Republican Jeanine Pirro abandoned her struggling campaign to unseat Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and announced Wednesday that she will run for New York attorney general instead. "I have decided that my law enforcement background better qualifies me for a race for New York State attorney general than a race for the United States Senate," Pirro, the Westchester County district attorney, said in a statement. With her campaign against Clinton in trouble, Pirro had been under strong pressure from top state GOP leaders to make...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush praised his predecessor's "energy and joy" Monday as the official portraits of former President Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton were unveiled in a lighthearted ceremony at the White House. The Clintons received a standing ovation from guests in the East Room of the executive mansion before the paintings by artist Simmie Knox were revealed.

<p>But Clinton also said that flaws in federal homeland security programs mean too little money is being funneled to some communities, and none at all to others. “We still haven’t got the funding stream right,” said Clinton, a Democrat.</p> <p>Some of the basic homeland security grant money is divided evenly among all the states, meaning that smaller states get much more money per-capita than does New York, which is more populous and at greater risk of terrorist attack.</p>

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New York Sen. Hillary Clinton said Friday that she supported the Iraq war resolution last fall based on intelligence shared by the Bush administration showing that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction - information she now says may have been "wrong or skewed for whatever purpose." Last fall, however, the top Democrat assured Americans there was no doubt that Saddam had WMDs - based on intelligence gathered as far back as 1998, when her husband was president. "I voted for the Iraqi resolution, and I did it in large measure based on the intelligence that I was privy...

<p>WASHINGTON — Sens. Russ Feingold and Hillary Clinton got into in a heated argument over the impact of Feingold's campaign finance reform legislation on Senate Democrats, Feingold said Friday.</p> <p>"'You're not living in the real world,"' Clinton screamed at him, according to Feingold, D-Wis., the party's leading backer of the McCain-Feingold law.</p>