Briefs

Colin Powell resigns

Secretary of State Colin Powell and three other Cabinet members have resigned, escalating the shake-up of President Bush's second-term team. Senior Administrator officials said that National Secretary Advisor Condoleezza Rice was the most likely person to succeed Colin Powell as Secretary of State.

$200 Bush bill

A woman from Pennsylvania was trying to pay for clothing with a $200 bill with President Bush's face on it. The charges were dropped against her because she finally paid the store in real currency on Friday. Her attorney said that her client did not even know that the bill was not legal. The clerk was actually fooled by the counterfeit money and gave her back $100.58 in change. There is no actual $200 bill. The back of the counterfeit dollar bill had a picture of the White House and signs around it like, "We like broccoli" and "USA deserves a tax cut."

Schwarzenegger for president

California will be running ads to help Arnold Schwarzenegger and other foreign-born citizens to run for president. The ads were created by a Silicon Valley-based group that wants to amend the Constitution. Currently, the Constitution limits the presidency to American-born citizens. Schwarzenegger said that he would run for president if the Constitution were changed, but he is not forcing it to be amended. Four proposed amendments are circulating in Congress, but none have been approved. Thirty-eight out of the 50 states need to ratify them before they can become Amendments.