National and International News-Tuesday, Jan. 23rd
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Two more bombs have struck Shiite targets in Baghdad, one day after at least 88 people were killed in attacks at a marketplace in the Iraqi capital. At least six people have been killed today. The U-S military is also reporting two additional combat deaths.
WHITE HOUSE (AP) - Energy, health care, education and of course, Iraq, will be front and center in President Bush's State of the Union address tonight. The president seeks to balance the need for Democratic cooperation on his domestic agenda with opposition to his Iraq war policy.
CAPITOL HILL (AP) - The new chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee has nothing good to say about President Bush's leadership of the war on terror. Democrat Jay Rockefeller says al-Qaida and Afghanistan are being neglected and too little is known about Iran and North Korea, all because of what he describes as the president's misplaced fascination with Iraq.
PHOENIX (AP) - He's actually 29, but authorities say a sex offender passed himself off as a 12-year-old and even spent a day as a student in an Arizona middle school. The arrest has raised alarm bells with police in two counties who are checking to see if the man tried to enroll in any others.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Serena Williams says she willed herself to win today at the Australian Open. She won a tough three-setter to advance to the semifinals of the year's first big tennis event. Williams is trying for her eighth Grand Slam title.
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