"It's a very exotic choice for a pet, " Mary Lou Leiher, programme manager for Toronto Animal Services, told reporters.

BBC: Ikea monkey heads to Canada primate sanctuary

John Kringen, who heads the CIA's analysis directorate, echoed the concerns about al-Qaida's resurgence during testimony and conversations with reporters at a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday.

NPR: Intelligence Report Says al-Qaida Gaining Strength

"Medicare and Medicaid are extraordinarily important players in health care reform, " Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt told reporters earlier this week.

NPR: Bush Faces Hurdles in Health Care Reform

"We're hoping we're on track to be ahead of this virus, to get the college-age population vaccinated once it becomes available in mid-October, and to keep students as safe and secure as possible, " Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told reporters in a conference call.

CNN: Swine flu goes to college

Daschle told reporters he will meet with Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala and domestic policy advisor Bruce Reed this week on the proposed settlement with the tobacco industry.

CNN: AllPolitics - Senate Democrats Prep For Trade, Tobacco Deal

Here's how Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt put it in a meeting with reporters.

NPR: Democrats to Push for Medicare Changes

Health and Human Services Secretary, Mike Leavitt, reported the administration's latest figures to reporters from a Medicare drug sign-up bus, somewhere between Detroit and Lansing, Michigan.

NPR: Medicare Drug Deadline Looms with Millions Unsigned

Kimberly Kesling, deputy commander of Clinical Services for Darnell Medical Center at Fort Hood and Hasan's supervisor at the post, told reporters last week that Hasan was doing a good job in Texas.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

The Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Congressman Duncan Hunter reacted by blasting the broadcast and calling for the military to bar CNN reporters from embedding with US forces in Iraq.

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