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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Militants killed two people at elementary schools in a mainly Shiite district of Baghdad on Wednesday, the government said. But police in the neighborhood denied any attack occurred. The contradictory accounts could not immediately be reconciled. The National Security Ministry initially said in a statement that militants broke into the Amna and Shaheed Hamdi schools and "slaughtered" a teacher in each one in front of students in the Shaab neighborhood of the capital. But the ministry later said the dead were a school guard and a teacher. It said the guard was stabbed to death by...

NEW YORK Mar 12, 2005 — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants Jennifer Lopez to "Get Right" when it comes to fur. Lopez introduced her Sweetface collection during New York Fashion Week last month. "Please don't support Jennifer Lopez or her bloody business," according to a Web site that the animal rights group has devoted to the singer, actress and now fashion designer. "Many hot designers, including Stella McCartney, Vivienne Westwood, Todd Oldham, Marc Bouwer, and others have … created synthetic alternatives that are hip, humane, and easily available and don't turn animals into fashion victims." Calls by...

Six Navy SEALs filed a lawsuit against the Associated Press and one of its reporters yesterday, saying the news organization revealed their identities, compromised their security and invaded their privacy by publishing personal photographs in a Dec. 4 story.     The complaint says AP reporter Seth Hettena used about 40 images from the personal photo-storage Web site of a Navy SEAL wife. [snip] The images were picked up by the Arab press, including Al Jazeera, and have made their way onto a billboard outside U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where detainees from the war on terror are being kept. The...

Update at 4:30 pm nov 3 results for all presidental candidates ALL CANDIDATES CANDIDATE VOTE TOTAL VOTE % John Kerry, Democrat 55,104,702 48% George W. Bush, Republican (incumbent) 58,640,799 51% Ralph Nader, independent 392,219 0% Michael Badnarik, Libertarian 374,741 0% Michael Peroutka, constitution party 129,162 0% David Cobb, green party 104,591 0% Leonard Peltier, peace and freedom party 21,616 0% Gene Amondson, Prohibition Party 1,895 0% Andy Andress, Unaffiliated (no websites for candidate or party )716 0% Walter Brown, Socialist Party USA 10,258 0% Roger Calero, socialist workers party 5,263 0% Earl F. Dodge, Prohibition party 122 0% Thomas Harens,...

NEW YORK (Aug. 27) - The city's Taxi and Limousine Commission said it would not pursue a disorderly conduct charge against 86-year-old CBS newsman Mike Wallace, who was arrested earlier this month during a confrontation with inspectors outside a Manhattan restaurant. The "60 Minutes" correspondent was handcuffed and taken to a police precinct on Aug. 10 after he and his driver clashed with inspectors while Wallace picked up a takeout order at a restaurant. He was issued a summons and released. Wallace said he left the restaurant to find two inspectors interviewing his driver, who they said was double-parked. He...

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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- An old Arab proverb says tyranny is better than anarchy. A year after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq on March 19, 2003, Iraqis have scarcely had a day free of bedlam. That point was driven home Wednesday with the devastating bombing of a hotel in central Baghdad that killed dozens of people just two days before the war's one-year anniversary. Perhaps the worst day of violence was March 2, when suicide bombers attacked Shiite shrines in the holy city of Karbala and in Baghdad, killing more than 180 people. That attack, more than any other, has raised...

AUBURN - They get together because they share a past, but the military veterans at the American Legion in Auburn have conflicting views on what the country they served is doing now in Iraq. The United States went to war against Iraq one year ago today. A year later, Saddam Hussein has been captured and his regime has been defeated. But Iraq is a violent and volatile place, with some form of terrorist attack taking place almost each day. At the American Legion Post 1324 on State Street in Auburn, opinions varied about what the United States should do now....

Mel Gibson's put his money where his mouth is. By now everyone in the world knows he's spent $25 million to make "The Passion of the Christ" and promised nearly $25M more to market it. But what you may not know is that Gibson has also put up $5.1 million so far to run his own personal church near Malibu. Last year Christopher Noxon wrote in The New York Times that Gibson had donated $2.3 million to make Holy Family Catholic Church in Agoura Hills, California a reality. Holy Family rejects the universally accepted teachings of the Second Vatican Conference...

<p>When George W. Bush's presidency runs the gauntlet of commentators and historians in years to come, the concept of "opportunity lost" will surely emerge again and again.</p> <p>After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, President Bush impressed even his critics with his initial handling of that national tragedy. He reassured the public, put al-Quaida on notice, and went after them with a vengeance in Afghanistan and around the globe.</p>

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A media watchdog group is accusing ABC News of biased coverage about abortion and the March for Life, where more than 100,000 people gathered to mourn the Roe v. Wade decision allowing abortion. While ABC on Thursday night gave a few seconds of air time to Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark's clarification of his position in favor of abortion, it blacked out any coverage of the March for Life. Instead, ABC's web site featured two articles with a decidedly pro-abortion viewpoint, notes Jessica Anderson of the Media Research Center. "'Christian Terrorists': Anti-Abortionist Calls for Violence, Says...

ITHACA--Only 15 percent of Ithaca College freshman think college officials have the right to prevent people with radical views from speaking on campus, but 65 percent said the college should prohibit racist and sexist speech on campus, according to the results of the freshman attitude survey, which were released last week. Broken down by school, the highest percentage of students agreeing with prohibiting racist and sexist speech were in the Roy H. Park School of Communications. Sixty-eight percent agreed, a figure that surprised Policello. “This year’s communications responses were a bit different,” she said of the survey results. Freshman journalism...

ITHACA--A white female student assaulted Sunday night leaving the Nappy Roots and Ludacris concert at Cornell's Barton Hall told The Sun that she was the victim of a hate-crime, which left her with a ruptured ear drum and thirteen stiches on her face. The Cornell Police morning report noted that the police received a "complaint from a student that was physically assaulted by an unkown individual." The report indicated that the assault occurred at 11:47 p.m. and that the investigation is continuing. The incident, as described by the victim, began when the student had a minor altercation with another girl...

Iraq: the lies go on 09oct03 I ALREADY knew our media had trouble telling the truth about Iraq. After last week's shameful headlines, David Kay now sadly agrees. Kay leads the 1200 American, Australian and British experts searching for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, and last week gave an interim report on what they'd found. Here's how it was sold to us. "Weapon hunt fizzles," declared the Hobart Mercury. "No weapons, no approval for Bush in poll," gloated the Sydney Morning Herald. "Iraq search finds no WMD stockpile," said the Age. "US weapons hunt turns up nothing," added the Northern...

The choices are: Definitley; I'm not sure; No, but I'm also a fan of Fox News; He was on ESPN's NFL Countdown? Ithaca is the City of Evil.

ITHACA--"Don't you think people want to be told that their way of life is unsustainable?" quips Officer Lockstock at the conclusion of the Broadway musical Urinetown. The answer is apparently "yes," as demonstrated by the sizable crowd of mainly Ithaca residents that gathered at Autumn Leaves Used Books in the Commons on Friday evening to hear speaker Kirkpatrick Sale '58. Sponsored by the Paul Glover for Mayor campaign, Sale's talk discussed the necessity of local politics in a world where "we are ruled by a large number of very large financial and corporate interests," a statement Sale made early on...

Court upholds sentence in Jesse Dirkhising caseMan convicted in homosexual rape, murder of 13-year-old boy keeps 25-year prison term Posted: September 21, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern By Jon Dougherty© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com The Arkansas Supreme Court has upheld the 25-year sentence of a man convicted of the homosexual rape and murder of a 13-year-old boy. The state's highest court on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling which said a pair of statements made to police in September 1999 by Joshua Macabe Brown shortly after his arrest should not be thrown out. Earlier, Benton County Circuit Judge David S. Clingler ruled although he had ''serious...

By JESSE J. HOLLAND Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON -- The White House won't say it, the Justice Department denies it and opponents salivate at every opportunity to use it. ''The USA Patriot Act'' is a phrase that Bush administration officials shun when questioned about the new anti-terrorism powers the president is asking lawmakers to give police and prosecutors. Among the measures President Bush is seeking are expanded use of the federal death penalty, tougher bail restrictions and FBI power to subpoena records and witnesses without having to go to a judge or grand jury. The new authority would be in...

Painful memories that are attached to the date of Sept. 11 are not limited to the year 2001. Thirty years ago today, on Sept. 11, 1973, Chile's elected president, Salvador Allende, was overthrown in a coup by Augusto Pinochet, a Chilean general whose subsequent 17-year dictatorial regime is best remembered for its ongoing human rights abuses. It is widely held that the Pinochet coup was strongly backed and even planned by the U.S. intelligence community, which was eager to be rid of Allende because of his Marxist background. Regime changes are nothing new in world history or in U.S. history...

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, who once said that Ken Starr reminded him of the Nazi Heinrich Himmler, on Tuesday night, during a session with left-wing ranter Al Franken, denigrated the Fox News Channel as a bunch of "demagogues." Recalling how past demagogues like Joe McCarthy have "self-destructed," Olbermann raised the unsuccessful lawsuit against Franken for using the "fair and balanced" phrase and queried Franken: "Did you get some kind of comfort from this laughable lawsuit that maybe the latest set of demagogues are starting to fray at the edges and maybe headed towards self-destruction?" Olbermann wrapped up the September 2 Countdown...