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NEW YORK – Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. (HET), the world’s biggest casino operator, on Thursday said its third-quarter profit rose 42 percent thanks to additional revenue from recently acquired Caesars Entertainment (search). Las Vegas-based Harrah’s (search) posted net income of $169 million, compared with $118.8 million a year earlier. Its diluted …

WASHINGTON – The Bush administration and its Republican supporters are now fighting back against what they call “weapons of mass distortion,” that is, Democratic charges that President Bush misled the country about pre-war intelligence on Iraq. At the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld quoted President Clinton’s view of the former …

WASHINGTON – A government document raises doubts about claims Al Qaeda (search) members received training for biological and chemical weapons in Iraq, as Senate Democrats on Sunday defended their push for a report on how the Bush administration handled prewar intelligence. Democrats forced the Senate into an unusual closed session …