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News -09-10-05 Poll: Lowest Approval Rating Yet for Bush (MSNBC News) "President Bush’s job approval has dipped below 40 percent for the first time in the AP-Ipsos poll, reflecting widespread doubts about his handling of gasoline prices and the response to Hurricane Katrina." 9-05 -11-01-05 Rumsfeld Denies Access to U.N. Human Rights Investigators (ABC News) "Spurning a request by U.N. human rights investigators, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Tuesday the United States will not allow them to meet with detainees at the Guantanamo prison for foreign terrorism suspects." "Rumsfeld also told a Pentagon news conference that prisoners at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were staging a hunger strike that began in early August as a successful ploy to attract media attention." 11-05 -11-06-05 U.N. Auditors: Halliburton Overcharged Iraq (BBC News) "The US should reimburse Iraq up to $208m for work done by a US contractor, a UN watchdog agency has said. The International Advisory and Monitoring Board said the work by Halliburton had been either overpriced or insufficiently documented." 11-05