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<p>CRAWFORD, Texas — President Bush reinforced his demand for Israel to withdraw from the West Bank during a joint news conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair Saturday.</p> <p>Bush also called on the Palestinian leadership to order an immediate cease-fire and crack down on militants that engage in terrorist activity.</p>

<p>CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. — Buddy, former President Clinton's ebullient chocolate retriever, was killed by a car near the Clinton home, police said Thursday.</p> <p>Officer Bruce Cathie of the New Castle police said Buddy was accidentally struck Wednesday afternoon on Route 117, a busy two-lane road at the end of Old House Lane, the cul-de-sac that includes the ex-president's home.</p>

<p>Dennis di Cicco captured this 1973 annular eclipse over Costa Rica in an image sequence that he combined with an earlier photo of the landscape.</p> <p>This partial solar eclipse, in which the lunar disk obscures a fraction of the sun, will be the first sighted from North America since December 25, 2000.</p>

According to DEBKAfile’s military sources, the United States believes that most of the Taliban’s 60,000-strong fighting force and its weaponry in Afghanistan have escaped with low casualties from the heavy US bombing strikes and the lightning Northern Alliance offensive. Information from the battlefront shows no more than 900 Taliban fighters have been killed. Taliban arsenals of between 250 and 300 Scud ground-to-ground missile arsenals, hidden in the mountains of Afghanistan, remain intact. According to intelligence sources, they are reserved for use against cities captured by the Northern Alliance and possibly also towns in Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. US bombers ...

<p>We asked, and boy did we get. Monday night on Special Report, correspondent Jim Angle asked Fox News' viewers to suggest titles for former President Clinton's upcoming book, for which he will reportedly receive a $10 million advance.</p> <p>I Am Bad and I Am Glad!</p>

WFLA TV News Director Forrest Carr of the NBC affiliate in Tampa, Florida, has issued an edict banning all on-air news personalities from wearing red white and blue ribbons in display of patriotic support of the United States of America. After receiving calls from around the country, Mr. Carr has still declined to call off his ban of the on-air display of red white and blue ribbons—only stubbornly acquiescing to wearing of SMALL American flag lapel pins. We need FReeper assistance to bring pressure upon Mr. Carr to halt this blatantly anti-American policy! The target of our FReep counter-attack is ...

I went to church today, eagerly anticipating the sermon. What I heard from my pastor was a great disappointment. The theme, in summation, was: ‘Turn The Other Cheek’ and ‘Love Thy Enemies’. There was no mention of justice, nor of any Christian duty to respond to evil. I certainly do not hold myself out to be any great authority on the teachings of scripture, but I do get the general gist of reductio ad absurdum logic. Therefore: If all Christian’s always turned the other cheek and always loved their enemy—would not those same enemies, who are not constrained by similar ...

High temperatures expected to top 6,000 degrees Fahrenheit--with scattered mushroom clouds and very high winds.

Dear President Bush, There is unprecedented anger today amongst the American public. We all await your decision on what retaliatory measures the United States of America will make to this cowardly affront. So many deaths are touching enormous branches of family trees worldwide. We the friends, families, and lovers of those who have perished demand much more than the usual pusillanimous diplomatic-speak and ‘measured response’s that have to date been wholly unsuccessful in deterring these animals from their worldwide murderous rampage. For decades, we have watched as bomb after bomb has killed and maimed innocent men, women and children. We ...

LOS ANGELES — A busboy who found a sack containing $203,000 that apparently fell out of an armored truck thought about keeping the cash. But after a long night pondering his dreams, 22-year-old Ascension Franco Gonzales, who emigrated from Mexico last year, turned the money over to police Tuesday. "I'm poor, but I'm honest," he said in Spanish through an interpreter. Gonzales stumbled upon the money as he waited for a bus Monday night. The cash, wrapped in a clear, plastic bag, fell out of the truck. Gonzales couldn't believe his good fortune. "I walked away almost in a daze," ...

I recently wrote the following letter after learning that Bill Clinton was to be a keynote speaker at an upcoming convention… Dear Sir/Madam, I have recently received a brochure from your firm requesting my company's attendance at the upcoming Online Learning 2001 Conference and Exposition, September 30 to October 3, 2001. I note, with disgust, that you have secured the services of ex-president Bill Clinton as a keynote speaker. I personally attended last year's conference, but no member of my company will be attending this year's meeting solely as a protest against a man who is a moral disgrace--and the ...