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Despite two arrests since a judge ordered his deportation in 2002, Jose Oswaldo Reyes Alfaro -- accused of killing three and wounding three more in Manassas Thursday night -- remained in the United States.

Be Part of History President Obama will soon sign comprehensive health care reform into law. Supporters now have a chance to add our names as "Co-signers" of this historic legislation -- adding our names next to President Obama's to show our pride in helping bring about this great achievement. Organizing for America will establish a permanent archive with all the signatures, so that generations to come will have a record of those who stood together in this moment and won this fight for our future.

Epicenter was off Moluccas islands, official reports JAKARTA, Indonesia - Eastern Indonesia was on a tsunami alert Tuesday after an earthquake offshore rattled the region. The magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck near Indonesia's Moluccas islands, an official at the country's meteorological agency said.

Federal Housing Agency and Residents File Complaints Saying the Program Is Biased Against Hispanics Federal housing officials said yesterday that they are investigating whether a two-year-old program to combat crowded housing in Manassas is unfairly targeting Hispanic families in violation of the Fair Housing Act. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development filed a complaint Tuesday alleging a pattern of discrimination. Yesterday, a group of Manassas residents and civil rights advocates filed 11 more complaints, saying that the city has selectively enforced its overcrowding rules and other ordinances against Hispanic residents in what amounts to a systematic campaign of...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - They paper their virtual walls with kittens and cartoon characters, give their address as Candyland, their age as 103 and announce they are yearning for true love. Welcome to the secret, yet very public, world of young teens who are flocking to social-networking Internet sites both to chill with friends and to figure out the timeless adolescent question "Who am I?" As the real world is perceived as more dangerous with child abductors lurking on every corner, kids flock online to hang out with friends, express their hopes and dreams and bare their souls with often...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Gay rights activists and liberal Catholics girded on Wednesday for a long battle over the Vatican's tougher stance on homosexuality, predicting the Church would lose thousands of followers in the United States.

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If John Kerry gets elected, will these weapon stockpiles be made illegal? Zell Miller wants to know...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, major TV networks and financial magazines keep repeating a serious error I've meant to call them on, but haven't, because my own Web site makes the same grave mistake. To hear Big Media tell it, the U.S. economy is in a fragile state of "recovery" that threatens to be undermined at any moment, by rising interest rates, by soaring gas prices, by another terrorist attack. In fact, the economy has been in a state of rip-roaring "expansion" -- the strongest in 20 years -- yet the media persists...

<p>Modesto police asked the public for help Tuesday in finding a 13-year-old girl who may have been abducted from her aunt's house.</p> <p>Maria Rodriguez disappeared between midnight and 4 a.m. Tuesday -- also missing was her aunt's friend, Regino Bautista, a man in his 40s who was staying at the house while his car was being repaired, according to Modesto Sgt. Chris Fuzie.</p>

A Major Outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in Hong Kong   Nelson Lee, M.D., David Hui, M.D., Alan Wu, M.D., Paul Chan, M.D., Peter Cameron, M.D., Gavin M. Joynt, M.D., Anil Ahuja, M.D., Man Yee Yung, B.Sc., C.B. Leung, M.D., K.F. To, M.D., S.F. Lui, M.D., C.C. Szeto, M.D., Sydney Chung, M.D., and Joseph J.Y. Sung, M.D.     PDF of this article Find Similar Articles in the Journal Notify a friend about this article Add to Personal Archive Download to Citation Manager Alert me when this article is cited Articles in Medline by Author: Lee, N. Sung,...

<p>Santa Clara County leaders are considering a proposal to place a 1 percent payroll tax on the ballot as a way to bail out the financially strapped Valley Transportation Authority.</p> <p>The tax -- which could be on the ballot late this year or in 2004 -- would raise an estimated $600 million a year, more than enough to keep the buses running, expand light rail and bring BART to San Jose.</p>

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A mysterious Iraqi who calls himself Salam Pax, writing a Web log from the heart of Baghdad, has developed a large Internet following with his wry accounts of daily life in a city under U.S. bombardment. Salam Pax, a pseudonym crafted from the Arabic and Latin words for peace, came back on line on Monday after a two-day break because of interruptions in Internet access. The traffic on his Web site, http://dear_raed.blogspot.com, caused the server to go down and Salam's e-mail folder has filled with inquiries about his true identity.

Watching FoxNews at 5:00 Pacific, they go to German reporter Chris Jumpelt who is in Baghdad. The video that is showing with his voice is being take from a car on a highway (3 lanes each way looks like). The car shooting the video passes a small flatbed truck and shows this truck first from the rear and then the side. The truck is pretty clearly carrying a missile of some sort. The missile is covered with cameflouge netting but the fins at the bottom can be clearly seen. As the car goes alongside the truck, the video goes black....

Would-be suicide bombers on Wednesday marched through the thoroughfares of Baghdad and helmeted Iraqi home guards drilled outside Baghdad's National Theatre, as the Russian embassy reacted to the expectation of war by beginning to airlift its 700 nationals left in Iraq. Diplomats said the Russian embassy was evacuating hundreds of nationals over four days starting on Thursday. Russian observers in Iraq said these included scores of workers constructing an electricity plant at Youssifia south of Baghdad, and oil men drilling in exploratory fields near Kirkuk in northern Iraq. The Russian school in Baghdad closed last month.

LONDON (Reuters) - A first wave of mainly Western volunteers will leave London this weekend on a convoy bound for Iraq to act as "human shields" at key sites and populous areas in case of a U.S.-led war on Baghdad. "The potential for white Western body parts flying around with the Iraqi ones should make them think again about this imperialist oil war," organizer Ken Nichols, a former U.S. marine in the 1991 Gulf War (news - web sites), told Reuters.

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinians decided on Sunday to postpone indefinitely a general election scheduled for January, saying it was difficult to hold a vote while Israeli forces continued to occupy West Bank cities.

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Received this e-mail from our corprate security department: The following information has been provided to by the FBI: On October 7, 2002 a national/international mailing soliciting funds for the RETT Syndrome Foundation was initiated. Inside each first class envelope, besides the requests for donation, was a packet of Equal artificial sweetener and a tea bag. It is expected that this mass mailing will enter the mail stream on or about 10/13/2002 and will total approximately 17,000 pieces of mail. The mailings are being sent out by volunteers from all over the U.S., therefore will have different postmarks, however, the return...

<p>The principal and two assistant principals at Gilroy High School have resigned in protest of a district decision to implement a pilot honors program this fall in English and social studies for ninth- and 10th-graders.</p> <p>In the latest Bay Area example of so-called academic tracking clashing with equal educational access, Principal Wendy Gudalewicz and Assistant Principals Cec Bell and Rosa Nieto said the honors program, which will place the district's top freshmen and sophomores in separate classes rather than mixing them with students of all abilities, will lead to segregation.</p>