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(CNSNews.com) - It may not rival Hugo Chavez' vitriol at the United Nations, but Kofi Annan's "farewell speech" in Missouri on Monday is expected to be a parting shot at President Bush, USA Today reported. Annan "will accuse the administration of trying to secure the United States from terrorism in part by dominating other nations through force, committing what he termed human rights abuses and taking military action without broad international support," the report said

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- One of the teenagers responsible for beating a Holly Hill homeless man to death asked a judge to reduce his 22-year prison sentence Monday. Warren Messner and three other teens pled guilty to killing the man because they were bored, but Messner said prison is too hard. Messner is a big boy. He was 15 at the time he was brought into the woods to see the homeless man his friends had been beating. Even at that young age, he outweighed the victim, Michael Roberts, by 200 pounds when he jumped on his chest, crushing his...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A Department of Homeland Security advisory cautioning that al Qaeda may be planning cyber attacks on banking and financial institution Web sites was issued out of an abundance of caution, although there is no corroboration, a DHS spokesman told CNN Thursday. The threat apparently was posted on a jihadist Web site, the spokesman said. It was discovered Nov. 27 by DHS and translated. The department decided to send an advisory out to financial institutions out of caution. Video More video Some companies are quietly investing in countries that sponsor terrorism. CNN's Lisa Sylvester reports (November 28) Play...

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Please say a special Thanksgiving prayer for BigSkyFreeper; he lost his beloved grandmother early this evening; he was a big part of the care for her during her last years. He'll need special prayers for the coming week.

A day after Democrats took control of Congress, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham predicted the next two years could be his most fruitful in Washington. The South Carolina senator, who isn't afraid to break with the GOP leadership, has been criticized in the past by fellow Republicans for working with Democrats. "I think my political profile for the last four years fits the next two years very well," he told reporters in a conference call. "I think my stock and my ability has gone up and my ability to affect public policy is as great as it has ever been." Graham...

(11/07/06 -- DURHAM) - Politics turned personal today as Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong greeted voters - - some with very strong opinions about the Duke lacrosse rape case. Eyewitness News cameras were rolling when Nifong tried to shake hands and say hello to Bob Harris, the voice of Duke sports. Harris was in his car as Nifong walked up. "You've got to be nicer than that," Nifong said. "Get out of here," Harris said. "Don't pull this crap." "This isn't about Duke," Nifong said. "This isn't about Duke at all." "No," Harris said. "It's about honesty. You're not honest."...

I would like to ask you all to keep our friend sissyjane and her father in your prayers. sissyjane's mother died suddenly last Tuesday and her father had to be moved into assisted living. sissyjane tells me that he is heartbroken and confused; she believes that our prayers and thoughts may help her father in these trying times. Thanks in advance, Howlin

SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- After ruling tentatively in favor of O.J. Simpson, a Santa Monica Superior Court judge on Tuesday took under submission Fred Goldman's request to have the former football star's right of publicity transferred to him. The father of Ronald Goldman, who was fatally stabbed alongside Simpson's ex-wife, wants the right of publicity to partially satisfy a wrongful death judgment against the onetime USC running back who went on to play for the Buffalo Bills and San Francisco 49ers. Judge Linda K. Lefkowitz tentatively rejected Goldman's request, but agreed to give Goldman's lawyer, Jonathan G. Polak, until Friday...

APEX, N.C. -- Authorities evacuated Apex residents and closed downtown streets late Thursday after a cloud containing chlorine gas spewed from a volatile industrial fire. Apex Town Manager Bruce Radford said a leak at the EQ North Carolina plant on Investment Boulevard sent several large plumes of chlorine gas into the air around 9 p.m. A large fire broke out at the plant afterward, with multiple explosions heard nearby. "This is the worst possible hazardous materials incident you could have," Radford said.

NEW YORK -- Henry Kissinger has been advising President Bush and Vice President Cheney about Iraq, telling them that "victory is the only meaningful exit strategy," author and journalist Bob Woodward said. The Washington Post editor's third book on the Bush administration, "State of Denial," comes out next week. In an interview airing Sunday night on CBS-TV's "60 Minutes," Woodward said that U.S. troops and their allies are being attacked, on average, every 15 minutes. "The truth is that the assessment by intelligence experts is that next year, 2007, is going to get worse and, in public, you have the...

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http://www.senate.gov/~foreign/hearings/2006/hrg060926p.html Why was this hearing canceled, does anybody know? Without linking the (dreadful) sites that are reporting this, they are saying (hoping) that today was the last day that Bolton could be confirmed and it's over for him. Has anybody heard anything about this?

Former US President Bill Clinton has hit out at the media's treatment of his affair with Monica Lewinsky in a BBC television interview. Some snippets: Speaking on a Panorama programme to be broadcast on Tuesday night, Mr Clinton accused the press of helping the far- right and liking "to hurt people". He said the media cared more about the affair than the conflict in Bosnia. Mr Clinton reacted after presenter David Dimbleby asked him why he had an affair with Ms Lewinsky when he knew he was under investigation by special prosecutor Kenneth Starr for other matters. Wagging his finger...

Bill Clinton to appear (taped) on Fox News Live with Mike Wallace.

Three Duke lacrosse players took five to 10 minutes to sexually assault a woman hired to perform as a stripper at a team party, and not the 30 minutes she originally described to investigators, a prosecutor said Friday. "When something happens to you that is really awful, it can seem like it takes place longer than it actually takes," District Attorney Mike Nifong said. Nifong's comments came as Superior Court Judge W. Osmond Smith III denied a defense request that prosecutors provide a detailed accounting of the alleged assault, including the exact time, place and type of sexual act the...

Lopez: In sum, how many times did Bill Clinton lose bin Laden?Miniter: Here's a rundown. The Clinton administration:1. Did not follow-up on the attempted bombing of Aden marines in Yemen.2. Shut the CIA out of the 1993 WTC bombing investigation, hamstringing their effort to capture bin Laden.3. Had Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a key bin Laden lieutenant, slip through their fingers in Qatar.4. Did not militarily react to the al Qaeda bombing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.5. Did not accept the Sudanese offer to turn bin Laden.6. Did not follow-up on another offer from Sudan through a private back channel.7. Objected to...

RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - Former triple Olympic champion Marion Jones was cleared of doping on Wednesday after her 'B' sample tested negative for the banned blood-boosting drug EPO. Jones's initial sample had tested positive for erythropoietin at the U.S. championships in Indianapolis in June. Had the second sample tested positive, the 30-year-old would have faced a two-year ban from the sport. "I am absolutely ecstatic," Jones said in a statement issued by her lawyer. "I have always maintained that I have never ever taken performance enhancing drugs, and I am pleased that a scientific process has now demonstrated that...