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<p>Through a spy, the British were tipped off that George Washington would be making his famous Christmas night crossing of the Delaware, but the information went unheeded, according to newly reviewed papers of the British commander.</p> <p>The papers from the archive of Gen. James Grant were found in the tower of his Ballindalloch Castle, northwest of Aberdeen, Scotland.</p>

Late Breaking News! Police Evacuate Car Rental facility in Queens New York. Bomb squad called in. Details to follow...

Australian Broadcasting Corporation LATELINE Late night news & current affairs TV PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT LOCATION: abc.net.au > Lateline > Archives URL: http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/s837819.htm Broadcast: 22/4/2003Aust virologist leads WHO's fight against SARSTony Jones speaks to Professor John McKenzie from Hong Kong about the outbreak of the deadly SARS virus. Professor Mckenzie is an internationally recognised virologist from the University of Queensland and was sent to China less than a month ago by the World Health Organisation to work as their team leader in the country before the extent of SARS was known. You could describe Professor McKenzie and his team as "virus detectives"....

The president of the Montgomery County police union said yesterday there has been an angry backlash against Chief Charles A. Moose's plans for a book and movie about last fall's sniper manhunt, and outrage at a recent attempt to equate his ethics skirmish to the great civil rights struggles of the 20th century. Moose's wife made that comparison at a news conference Monday, saying the chief's challenge to Montgomery County's ethics laws made him "no less of a man than Dr. [Martin Luther] King, Nelson Mandela and any other great person that stood for a principle." ... The union, in...

LETTER FROM WASHINGTON HOW IT CAME TO WAR by NICHOLAS LEMANN When did Bush decide that he had to fight Saddam? Issue of 2003-03-31 Posted 2003-03-24 Washington had a vertiginous feeling last week as the endlessly debated war against Iraq finally began. For the previous six months, the capital had surely been the most pro-Iraq-war city in the world: George W. Bush had given a textbook demonstration of Presidential power in bringing Washington into a position of support—or, in the case of many of the Democrats, cowed silence—for a course of action that almost nobody had advocated when Saddam Hussein...

<p>CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- City officials have been blocked from filing criminal contempt charges against the owners of the E2 nightclub where 21 people died early Monday.</p> <p>Judge Daniel Lynch ruled Tuesday afternoon that the city must show more evidence to justify criminal charges.</p>

A judge ruled Wednesday that 17-year-old sniper suspect John Lee Malvo can be tried as an adult, making him eligible for the death penalty.

<p>The head of a computer firm wants the independent commission named to investigate September 11 intelligence failures to review accusations that his software-tracking program, which he says the Justice Department stole, was diverted to Osama bin Laden.</p> <p>William H. Hamilton, president of Inslaw Inc., said the commission — headed by former New Jersey Gov. David H. Kean — should focus on the validity of published reports saying bin Laden penetrated classified computer files before the attacks to evade detection and monitor the activities of U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies.</p>

<p>The Czech government continues to insist that al Qaeda terrorist Mohamed Atta met in Prague with an Iraqi intelligence officer months before the September 11 attacks.</p> <p>The meeting between Atta, and Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir Ani, an Iraqi intelligence officer, is the only reported link between the September 11 hijackers and a foreign intelligence service.</p>

<p>The Government Reform Committee, chaired by Rep. Dan Burton of Indiana, was back sniffing around Oklahoma City last week looking for reasons to believe that Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols had help.</p> <p>They found plenty. Committee lawyer Marc Chretien interviewed at least six people who claimed to have seen McVeigh keeping company with foreign-looking men in the days, even minutes, before the bombing on April 19, 1995.</p>

<p>The wife of Rep. Gary Condit is suing the Star tabloid magazine for $15 million, claiming it libeled her by claiming she threatened to kill herself because of her husband's relationship with federal intern Chandra Levy.</p> <p>In the suit, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Fresno, Carolyn Condit said the magazine knowingly published falsehoods in a Sept. 11, 2001, cover story, including claims that she threatened to kill herself, trashed the family house and sought counseling.</p>

The sale of public land containing a 43-foot high Latin cross to a private group which is maintaining it as part of a war memorial violates the California Constitution’s prohibition against government aid to religion, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday. The limited en banc ruling is the second to bar San Diego’s sale of the half-acre parcel. It overturns a panel decision last August that upheld the bidding process used by the city after the panel ruled that the city’s first attempt at a sale created an illegal appearance of religious preference. Yesterday’s 7-4 ruling continues...

Inside al Qaeda’s Afghan Turmoil Strained Alliance Fighters Mocked the Place; Taliban, in Turn, Nearly Booted Out bin Laden A Fateful U.S. Missile Strike KABUL, Afghanistan – In April 1998, shortly after Osama bin Laden called on Muslims everywhere to slaughter Americans, a group of senior U.S. officials traveled to the Afghan capital to try to break the ice with the Saudi exile’s Taliban hosts. The Taliban gave the Americans a brisk tour, showing off a concrete traffic booth from which they had hanged a former Afghan president. Then they drove their visitors past a ragtag honor guard, waving rifles...

<p>The D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics unanimously decided last night not to allow Mayor Anthony A. Williams' name to appear on the ballot for the Sept. 10 Democratic primary, citing numerous forgeries among the signatures on his nominating petitions.</p>

The al-Qaida terrorist network may have infiltrated the U.S. Navy – getting access to bases, uniforms, refueling procedures and more. Federal authorities in the Seattle area are holding a drilling Naval reservist, a non-U.S. citizen, suspected of having ties to Islamic radicals with known connections to al-Qaida. Construction Mechanic 3rd Class Semi Osman, 32, was arrested May 17 at his home in Tacoma, Wash., on charges of illegally trying to become a U.S. citizen and possession of a handgun whose serial number was “obliterated or altered,” according to court documents. Osman pleaded not guilty at a June 5 arraignment before...

<p>THERE are few hopes more naked than those of a politician who thinks he has found the weapon with which to well and truly smite the other side, and Democrats are regarding the story of how George W. Bush got rich with exceptionally unclothed desire.</p>

More chicanery in the courts: in a case currently under consideration in the Ninth Circuit, Judge Stephen Reinhardt has ordered liberal law professor Edwin Chemerinsky to write an amicus (friend of the court) brief addressing the constitutionality of the tax deductions given to church leaders who receive certain housing benefits. The case arose when a pastor in Orange County deducted the "reasonable value" of his housing costs instead of the "actual value." The IRS took him to court, and he won -- the only question in the case was whether the law permitted the deduction of actual or reasonable housing...

<p>The trial of ex-cop Charles Schwarz was thrown into turmoil yesterday after a juror revealed he believes some of his fellow panelists may be biased - raising the specter of a mistrial.</p> <p>"I want to express my grave concern about a statement made by one of the jurors," wrote Juror No. 4 in a note handed to Brooklyn federal Judge Reena Raggi.</p>

<p>The hubris of Saamir Kaiser was impressive, even by the limited standards of a city unable to pick up a phone to check the veracity of its job applicants.</p> <p>You invented the wheel and printing press? No problem. Tell it to the city. The city believes anything, as long the lie is on an official-looking resume.</p>

12-LUG 02:22 OLANDA: GOVERNO, A PARTITO FORTUYN DICASTERO IMMIGRAZIONE [JUL. 12 02:22GMT NETHERLANDS: GOVERNMENT, IMMIGRATION MINISTRY TO FORTUYN PARTY] (ANSA) - AMESTERDAM, 12 LUG - Nel nuovo governo olandese di centro-destra il dicastero dell'immigrazione andra' alla Lista Pim Fortuyn' (Lpf), il partito anti-immigrati che ha preso il nome del leader populista assassinato lo scorso maggio. [In the new center-right Dutch government, the ministry of immigration will go to the List Pim Fortuyn (LPF), the anti-immigration party that has taken the name of the populist leader who was assassinated last May.] Lo hanno deciso to ieri sera a Amsterdam i partiti...