Among this week’s major news:
1) Hamid Karzai is sworn in as Afghanistan’s first democratically-elected President.
2) Congress passes the intelligence reform bill, which implements many of the recommendations of the 9/11 commission.
3) Donald Rumsfeld is grilled by soldiers about shortages of armor and other equipment.
4) U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Danforth gives Kofi Annan a vote of confidence, after some members of Congress had called for his resignation.
5) Canada’s Supreme Court clears the way for national legalization of gay marriage.
6) OPEC announces a major cut in oil production.
7) Wangari Maathai is awarded the Nobel Prize, the first African woman to receive that honor.
Hear On Point news analyst Jack Beatty and host Tom Ashbrook discuss this week’s major news developments.
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