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By mid-February 2008, more than 1,500 Kenyans were killed. Many were slain by machete-armed attackers. More than 500,000 were displaced by the religious strife. Villages lay in ruin. Many of the atrocities were perpetrated by Muslims against Christians. The violence was led by supporters of Raila Odinga, the opposition leader who lost the Dec. 27, 2007, presidential election by more than 230,000 votes. Odinga supporters began the genocide hours after the final election results were announced Dec. 30. Mr. Odinga was a member of Parliament representing an area in western Kenya, heavily populated by the Luo tribe, and the birthplace...

PLAYA PUNTA NORTE, Argentina (Reuters) - A six-ton orca, or killer whale, torpedoes toward the beach, its dorsal fin cutting the Patagonian sea. It launches itself onto the sand in an explosion of water and foam. ADVERTISEMENT Before the waters die down, the orca is shaking its immense head from side to side with a sea lion pup clamped between his jaws. Then the orca wriggles into position to catch a wave to carry it back out to sea. This is a rare occurrence, in which a whale seems to defy its instincts by coming onto land, risking death if...

Now that McCain has the nomination, would Mark Sanford be a good VP to balance the ticket? I don't live in SC so I don't know details about him other than he seems to be popular, has good conservative credentials when he was in Congress, and is a pork buster. Hey I'm not excited about McCain, but PIAPS must be stopped!

At a lively town hall meeting Sunday, billed as a discussion about "peace and accountability," emotions directed at U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer ranged from calm to screaming mad. Nearly all of it was about one subject: Impeachment of President Bush. Angered by what they view as an immoral war and a corrupt administration, people in the crowd hammered on the theme of a congressional trial of Bush and wondered whether the controlling Democrats have the spine for it.

Location: Minneapolis read more Minneapolis gossip Celebrity: Al Franken Restaurant: D'Amico Cucina I started my bartending shift in the lounge at 10p and inherited three guys who had been there quite a while. They were kind of loud and getting tanked. One of the waiters told me that it was Al Fraken (sic) and some buddies (he looked familiar, but I couldn't place him). Anyway a couple walks by them and Franken makes a comment about the woman's a**. She throws a glass of wine in his face. Franken says something else about her a** how many people have sampled...

While the extreme branch of heavy-metal music known as death metal is defined in part by often-vile lyrics about violence, catastrophic destruction, nihilism, anarchy and paranoia, its singing style is associated with a beloved goggle-eyed, fuzzy blue puppet. Death-metal vocalizing is also known as Cookie Monster singing, if not in tribute to, at least in acknowledgment of, the "Sesame Street" puppet that blurts in a guttural growl, his words discharged so rapidly that they tend to collide with each other.

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A dispute over a $20 cab fare -- and an offer to pay it with marijuana -- leads to multiple charges against the players Friday, February 18, 2005 PAUL BUKER What started as a dispute with a taxi driver over a $20 fare escalated into a scuffle in the wee hours Friday morning in Corvallis and led to the arrests of two Oregon State football players. Jimtavis Walker, a transfer from Florida who was expected to be the Beavers' starting tailback in the fall, and Star Paddock, a walk-on deep snapper, were arrested at 5:10 a.m. at the apartment of...

You are using an older browser, such as Netscape Navigator 4 or you have chosen to view this page in "TEXT ONLY" mode. To view the optimized site, please update your browser software. Washington State 2004 General Elections Vote.Wa.Gov » 2004 General Elections » Statewide Offices » Statewide Results body { font-size: small;} .sectiontitle { font-size:small;} All Offices Measures Federal Statewide Legislative Judicial PRINT PAGE » View Map of Top 2 CandidatesGOVERNOR Ballot Name Party Votes Percentage Christine Gregoire Democrat 1368190 48.86% Dino Rossi Republican 1368377 48.87% Ruth Bennett Libertarian 63151 2.25% View Results by County 3 Candidate(s) Results...

Look what I got in my Freepmail: dangerously stupid From GoldenChild | 09/22/2004 12:43:37 PM PDT read Dear Freeper: I find it highly amusing that conservatives accuse liberals of being wimps. You are all the biggest cowards in history. You are terrified of many things, (so afraid that you would rather invade a country than take the time and BRAIN POWER needed to formulate a workable solution) but your biggest fear is having your ideals tested. That is why you don’t allow opposing views on Free Republic. I have been kicked off FR many, many times (and yes, I will...

CHART REVEALS ALL [Rich Lowry] We have updated our Band of Brothers chart in the style of the New York Times and have discovered that Texas Republicans, the KKK, and an unknown dog are behind the pro-Kerry veterans group.

TENINO, Wash. -- Two small tornados touched down in southwest Washington, damaging barns near Tenino and La Center but causing no injuries. The twisters Thursday afternoon apparently were spawned by a 10-square-mile storm cell embedded in an intense cold front that brought heavy rain to much of the western part of the state, the National Weather Service said. "It was very common across the area today to see extremely heavy rainfall with localized low visibility and ponding of water on roadways," said Mark O'Malley, a weather service meteorologist in Portland, Ore. At one point visibility on Interstate 5 was cut...

From his remote Coast Guard post at Neah Bay, Nathan Bruckenthal, a transplanted New Yorker, took 9-11 personally. He flew home three times to help bury the dead and feed rescuers. On his final trip, he stripped off his Coast Guard T-shirt and left it on the rubble. Then Mr. Bruckenthal cut short his tour of duty at Neah Bay to get more intense law-enforcement training. He wanted to fulfill what his commanding officer, Chief Warrant Officer Mike Tumulty, called Mr. Bruckenthal's mission to be a "patriot, warrior and hero." "When those twin towers were destroyed, he was very passionate...

On an April night in Washington 33 years ago, a tall, slender man in navy combat fatigues tapped me on the shoulder. I was sitting in a large army tent pitched on the Mall, in the company of a couple of dozen Vietnam vets, one of whom—a bearded, wiry little guy with a terrific sense of humor and an inexhaustible supply of mescaline—was temporarily using my other shoulder as a resting place for the stump that had been his left leg. He’d just asked how come I was wearing a South Vietnamese officer’s jacket with the word "TIME" embroidered over...

These photos were taken at the "Global Day of Action" rally in San Francisco on Saturday, March 20th, 2004. You may have seen other photos taken at the rally, reprinted in newspapers like the San Francisco Chronicle, or on Web sites of groups like A.N.S.W.E.R. But none of them truly capture the essence of what the rally was really like. The only way I could find out what was really going on was to go and document it myself. Which I did. I took so many pictures that I have posted them here on several pages (to avoid having over...

The other Democratic candidates for president are beginning to challenge front-runner Howard Dean daily, asking questions about his positions and fitness for office. Here are the questions that they're not asking Dean, but should: -- The U.N. Security Council in November 2002 unanimously passed Resolution 1441, giving Saddam Hussein "a final opportunity to comply." How do you interpret the phrase "final opportunity"? -- You routinely say that the Berlin Wall came down without a shot. You mean without a shot excluding Korea, Vietnam and small wars throughout Latin America and Africa during four decades, right? -- You say Osama bin...

Raw 'Sheed Rasheed Wallace cares, just not about fans' feelings or the NBA 12/11/03 GEOFFREY C. ARNOLD Editor's note: Portland Trail Blazer Rasheed Wallace sat down recently for an exclusive interview with The Oregonian's Geoffrey C. Arnold. Wallace was direct and emphatic in his opinions and occasionally graphic in his language. Although we understand some readers will find his use of a racial epithet offensive, we chose to leave it intact in the story to convey the strength of the opinion and the manner in which he expressed it. -- Dennis Peck, Sports Editor The Portland Trail Blazers' Rasheed Wallace...

In retrospect, Michael Jackson and his people probably would have been well-advised to rent some prison movies, because it seems to me that in all the films and television shows I have seen that deal with the milieu of the maximum-security penitentiary, there are no stuffed animals, video games, swing sets, cotton candy machines or choo-choo trains. In the yard, they don’t play “Ring Around the Rosey,” they play “Garrote the Squealer.” In the shower, when somebody passes you the soap, it’s not just a gesture of courtesy, it’s the beginning of a relationship. I BRING THIS UP because I...

LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) - A paroled Arkansas rapist was convicted of first-degree murder Wednesday for suffocating a woman in her lover's apartment three years ago. Wayne DuMond, 54, will receive a life sentence without parole for the slaying of Carol Sue Shields, a 39-year-old married mother. Her body had been left bound and nude on a bed in the apartment of a man with whom she had been having an affair. DuMond was arrested in June 2001, several months after Shields' death, when material under the woman's fingernails was matched to his DNA, which was in a national database. DuMond...

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Jerrold Nadler will go back under the knife next month for a second surgery to speed up his weight reduction. Nadler, a Manhattan Democrat, underwent the first procedure almost a year ago, and has since shed about 75 pounds. "I certainly am doing a lot more walking and so forth," said Nadler, who at 5 feet 4 inches tall once weighed 338 pounds. "I didn't take the subway before because I didn't want to walk the stairs -- now I take the subway all the time." Nadler's surgery, to be performed at Mount Sinai Hospital, will complete...