The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.
Washington - Former President Bill Clinton's national security adviser is under criminal investigation for taking classified terrorism documents and handwritten notes from the National Archives last year. Sandy Berger said he unintentionally took the documents ? including one assessment of the administration's handling of al-Qaeda terror threats during the December 1999 millennium celebration ? as he was preparing to testify before the Sept. 11 commission hearings. Berger voluntarily returned some documents, but drafts of the al-Qaeda assessment are still missing. Sacramento, Calif. - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is refusing to apologize for calling Democrats who oppose his tough state budget "girlie men," a label foes say is sexist and homophobic. The action film star turned politician made the remark Saturday as he told a shopping-mall crowd that the Democrats didn't have "the guts" to turn down the threats of special interest groups such as unions and trial lawyers. Kyiv, Ukraine - At least 31 miners died when a methane gas explosion rocked a coal mine in eastern Ukraine, emergency officials said Tuesday. Another five miners are missing about 600 metres below the surface in the Krasnolimanskaya mine in the Donetsk region, Ukraine's Ministry of Emergencies said in a statement.
