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I keep listening to FoxNews, and their reporters are saying things like: Joe Miller gained some votes but is about 5% down. 5% down from whom? He is ahead of all who were actually on the ballot and the write-ins haven't been tabulated yet.

FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. Marines backed by air strikes battled through a rebel stronghold in Falluja on Wednesday, as officials said kidnappers had seized three relatives of Iraq's interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. Gunmen had kidnapped a first cousin of Allawi, the cousin's wife and another relative from their Baghdad home on Tuesday morning, but had made no demands, a government spokesman said.

Please NO, not the chad!

Thousands of Colorado residents were left without electricity and motorists were slowed by icy roads today after a storm blanketed the state with as much as 14.5 inches of snow. A drier, more stable air mass is headed into Colorado for Election Day, with the forecast calling for sunny skies and moderate weather.

CLEVELAND - For years, Joycelyn Henry voted at the same neighborhood church, so she was surprised last year when she was told she was in the wrong precinct. Her name was not on record, and she was told her precinct may have changed, Henry said. She was given a provisional ballot, to be counted later if election officials verified she was registered. "As far as we understand, my vote was not counted. I felt horrible. It's like there's no justice," she said Monday.....This time, .... She said a postcard from the elections board shows her precinct is the same church.

BERLIN - Germany's defense minister suggested Wednesday that his country might one day send troops to Iraq, but Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder played down those remarks and said it would not happen. Germany strongly opposed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and has refused to send any troops to Iraq, a position that officials say will hold no matter who wins next month's U.S. presidential election. However, Defense Minister Peter Struck said in a newspaper interview Wednesday that he could not make "binding statements" about the future. He later told reporters at a NATO meeting in Romania that "it is certainly thinkable...

It's human nature to bury tragedies, to gloss over them, move on from them and maybe, in time, forget them. So horrified are we of the images of 9/11, that we've managed to sanitize 9/11. For the sake of those who died, we make only the vaguest references to "how" they died. We don't show the planes hitting the towers, or people jumping from those towers. We don't show the bodies being carried out, or the doomed firemen walking in. It's understandable. It's even respectful. But I think, it's wrong.

I just came in on the end, and heard a comment by this representative that implied it didn't matter if republicans votes counted. I didn't hear it all and wonder if anyone watch it, or knows where to get transcripts. They are not on FoxNews.com

The investigative division of the Texas Rangers has declined a request from Congress to probe the Dan Rather forged document scandal, a spokeswoman with the Texas Department of Public Safety said Wednesday. "We've opted at this time not to do an investigation," Tela Mange, spokeswoman for the Texas Rangers, told NewsMax. .... While the Rangers may have rejected the congressional request, U.S. Attorney Roeper was "still consulting" with the Justice Department on whether to move forward with a probe,... Meanwhile, CBS said its own internal probe into the Rathergate forgeries wouldn't be finished anytime soon. "Obviously, it should be done...

WASHINGTON – The Republican-led House voted Tuesday to break up the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, an action opponents said was motivated by conservatives' ire over some of the court's rulings. Nine states are covered by the 9th Circuit, but the legislation would leave just California and Hawaii in a revamped lineup. The proposal splits the seven other states into two new courts: one to handle appeals from Arizona, Idaho, Montana and Nevada; and the other to oversee Alaska, Oregon and Washington. Supporters said the new lineup reflects the need to address the region's bulging caseload and...

WASHINGTON – Along with their ballots for president, Colorado voters will decide on Nov. 2 whether to try an electoral experiment that grew out of the 2000 Florida debacle and could end up sending a new post-election case rocketing to the Supreme Court. If the ballot initiative passes, Colorado will change the way it awards its nine Electoral College votes for president. The electoral votes would be apportioned according to the popular vote instead of all going to the candidate who comes in first.

U.S. soldiers in Iraq are growing increasingly angry over distorted coverage of their mission in Western press accounts.... "Every time we met with soldiers, men and women ... they would always bring up the frustration level; the frustration with CNN, BBC and other broadcasting outlets," Scott Garrett, R-N.J., told WABC Radio's Monica Crowley.