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President Joe Biden warned Tuesday that the country was facing a choice between "democracy or autocracy" following the passage of restrictive voting laws by nearly two dozen states and took direct aim at former President Donald Trump's role in spreading misinformation about the 2020 election. "In America, if you lose, you accept the results," Biden said in a speech on voting rights at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. "You don’t call facts 'fake' and then try to bring down the American experiment just because you're unhappy. That's not statesmanship. ... That's selfishness. That’s not democracy; it’s the denial of...

National Security Chief of Staff Denis McDonough uses the word "nucular."

KUWAIT CITY: THE UNITED STATES IS PLANNING TO ATTACK IRAN'S NUCLEAR REACTORS AND OTHER NUCLEAR FACILITIES BY THE END OF THIS MONTH, SOURCES IN WASHINGTON TOLD THE ARAB TIMES TUESDAY. THESE SOURCES ADDED THAT VARIOUS WHITE HOUSE DEPARTMENTS HAVE ALREADY STARTED PREPARING THE POLITICAL SPEECH, WHICH WILL BE DELIVERED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. LATER THIS MONTH, ANNOUNCING THE MILITARY ATTACK ON IRAN. THE SOURCES SAY THAT THE U.S. WILL NOT RESORT TO A GROUND ATTACK BECAUSE THEY PLAN TO ACHIEVE THEIR AIM THROUGH AIR ATTACKS...

WASHINGTON | President Bush on Wednesday accused Iran of contributing to American deaths in Iraq and said, “I intend to do something about it.” But he insisted that he wasn’t looking for another war in the Middle East. Bush also acknowledged that he doesn’t know whether Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or other top Iranian officials have authorized the shipment of sophisticated roadside bombs to Iraq. The munitions, known as “explosively formed penetrators,” are one of the deadliest weapons used by Iraqi insurgents. Bush outlined the circumstantial evidence against Iran at a White House news conference dominated by questions on Iraq....

Once regarded as costly and impractical, solar technology is now poised to play a larger role in the future, thanks to new developments that could result in lower costs and improved efficiency. Potential applications include cell phones, computers, automobiles, homes and office buildings. The American Chemical Society will address the progress and challenge of this technology during a first of its kind symposium, "Science and Technology of Next Generation Photovoltaics," from Sunday, Sept. 10, through Tuesday, Sept. 12, in San Francisco during the Society's 232nd national meeting. Here are a few highlights of research toward improving the efficiency of solar...

A caricature of a four-armed President Bush in the well-known tandava pose of Lord Shiva has roiled many Hindus and triggered an online signature campaign to protest its publication in a daily newspaper. "It's a deeply insulting cartoon," Rajesh Gooty, the U.S.-based founder of Indiacause.com, a Web-based portal whose stated purpose it is to safeguard the interests of India, told India-West by telephone. "It is totally offensive to draw a parallel between Bush and Shiva." The cartoon, which ran in the March 3 edition of The International Herald Tribune, a daily owned by the New York Times, depicts the U.S....

9:00 P.M. EST!!! It's a great day to be a Republican!!!!

This popped-up a few minutes ago on CNBC - I think that's Andrea Mitchell in the background. Have fun.

ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans for a combined air and ground attack on targets in Iran if diplomacy fails to halt the Iranian nuclear programme. The inner cabinet of Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, gave “initial authorisation” for an attack at a private meeting last month on his ranch in the Negev desert. Israeli forces have used a mock-up of Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment plant in the desert to practise destroying it. Their tactics include raids by Israel’s elite Shaldag (Kingfisher) commando unit and airstrikes by F-15 jets from 69 Squadron, using bunker-busting bombs to penetrate underground facilities....

Storing radioactive waste in a safe form is one of the biggest problems facing the nuclear industry. The UK's Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has talked about a possible renaissance of nuclear power generation as a means to combat global warming. Many greens are even thinking the unthinkable for the same reason - the evils of climate change could weigh more heavily on the planet than the nuclear dangers they have traditionally warned about. But any resurgence would also have to include a long-term solution to that waste issue - not just for newly created radioactive products but for all the...

[Since Gannett newspapers won't allow excerpts, the text here is entirely mine and mine alone. The following is NOT from a Gannett newspaper, though it tells the same story with a few, ahem, embellishments.] The imminent arrival of the USS Olympia has the Olympia city council, the capitol of The Peoples' Soviet of Washington, tied in a tizzy. Fearing that it may implode, explode, blow up or otherwise damage the environment by leaking lots and lots of nasty radioactive waste or even its bilges into the South (Puget) Sound, the Olympia city council is draughting a resolution to tell the...

Today: March 05, 2004 at 9:26:44 PST Senate panel hears nuke power praises Industry, government officials leave out problems with radioactive waste By Suzanne Struglinski <suzanne@lasvegassun.com>LAS VEGAS SUNWASHINGTON -- Nuclear industry and government officials touted the benefits of nuclear power at a Senate panel meeting Thursday as they made their pitch for more government incentives to help expansions, but made no mention of how they plan to manage future nuclear waste. The officials listed nuclear power's lack of emissions, price stability and other benefits to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, which is guiding the ongoing debate over the...