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Visa USA Delays Plan to Cut Ties With CardSystems Amid Merger

NEW YORK – Visa USA Inc. (search) said Thursday it is delaying by three months its plan to cut ties with CardSystems Solutions Inc. (search) , a payment processor hit by a large security breach earlier this year. Visa said the delay was for “the sole purpose” of helping the …

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Supreme Court Denies Bush's Base-Closure Request

WASHINGTON – The Bush administration lost a last-minute bid Thursday to get the Supreme Court (search) to intervene and protect a federal panel’s military base closing and realignment recommendations. What was to be a routine paperwork delivery to President Bush was threatened by a cross-country legal fight. Judges in Connecticut …

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Israeli Hard-Liners Promise to Oust Sharon

TEL AVIV, Israel – Opponents of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s (search) Gaza pullout said Tuesday they would keep trying to oust him and quash his peace efforts, a day after the Israeli premier narrowly survived a challenge to his leadership of the governing Likud Party (search). The Israeli military pressed …

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