US school siege ends in bloodshedA gunman and one of the teenage girls he was holding hostage have died after police stormed a school in the US state of Colorado.
The violent end to the siege in the small mountain town of Bailey came after the gunman threatened to harm the two female students he was holding.
The local sheriff said the gunman had shot the hostage and then himself as police attempted to rescue the girls.
The gunman initially seized six girls, but later released four of... (more)
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US maintains visa ban on Muslim academic The US government has refused to grant a visa to the Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan, a vocal critic of the US invasion of Iraq, but has dropped earlier charges against him of supporting terrorism, it has emerged. Mr Ramadan, a Swiss citizen and a visiting fellow at Oxford, said he received an official letter clearing him of the charges that prevented him taking a job at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
But the US sustained the... (more)
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Progressive Radio Hosts More Accepting Of Dissenting Views Than Conservative Hosts Research 2000 recently conducted a survey testing whether progressive or conservative talk radio shows are more open to callers with dissenting points of view. The organization made 15 calls (with a point of view that was not compatible with the host) to six radio shows — three progressive (Stephanie Miller, Randi Rhodes, Ed Schultz) and three conservative (Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Rush Limbaugh).
Their findings concluded that... (more)
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Fox News Ratings Continue Slide Fewer Americans are watching cable news than a year ago, and Fox News is suffering the biggest desertions, according to figures posted Tuesday (Sept. 26, 2006) today on mediabistro.com
The numbers published by mediabistro show a 27 percent drop in Fox News' total viewership during the day and 35 percent during prime time during the third quarter of this year compared with the third quarter a year ago. The 2005 numbers probably were inflat... (more)
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Over 100 Whistleblowers and Organizations Urge the House Chairman against S.494For Immediate Release-September 25, 2006
Contact: Sibel Edmonds, National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, [email protected]
Over 100 Whistleblowers and Organizations Urge the House Chairman against S.494
Ineffective Senate Amendment Will Not Protect Whistleblowers or National Security
Alexandria, VA---In a letter sent today the N... (more)
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British Soldiers Allegedly Traded Guns for CocaineMonday, September 25, 2006; Page A18 LONDON, Sept. 24 -- A newspaper in Britain reported Sunday that British soldiers had smuggled stolen guns out of Iraq and exchanged them on the black market for cocaine.
A spokesman for the Defense Ministry said Sunday that soldiers had been investigated for the "unlawful possession" of weapons and that prosecutors would decide whether there was enough evidence to file charges. He would not comment on the report that small arms had been excha... (more)
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For Bush, War Anguish Expressed PrivatelyFALMOUTH, Maine -- They sat on two frayed chairs in a teacher's lounge, the president and the widow, just the two of them so close that their knees were almost touching.
She was talking about her husband, the soldier who died in a far-off war zone. Tears rolled down her face as she mentioned two children left fatherless. His eyes welled up, too. He hugged her, held her face, kissed her cheek. "I am so sorry for your loss," he kept repeating.
She told him she conside... (more)
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Mel Pushes New Movie, Protests Iraq WarLOS ANGELES (Sept. 25) - Mel Gibson has returned to the spotlight to promote his upcoming movie "Apocalypto," and to criticize the war in Iraq, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Almost two months after he railed against Jews when he was arrested for driving drunk in Malibu, the actor made a surprise appearance Friday at Fantastic Fest, an event in Austin, Texas, devoted to new science fiction, horror and fantasy films, the trade paper said in its Monday edition.
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Army Warns Rumsfeld It's Billions ShortWASHINGTON — The Army's top officer withheld a required 2008 budget plan from Pentagon leaders last month after protesting to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld that the service could not maintain its current level of activity in Iraq plus its other global commitments without billions in additional funding.
The decision by Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, the Army's chief of staff, is believed to be unprecedented and signals a widespread belief within the Army that in the absence... (more)
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2001 anthrax was simply made, FBI saysWASHINGTON - Five years after the anthrax attacks that killed five people, the FBI is now convinced that the lethal powder sent to the Senate was simply made and contained nothing that conclusively links the case to any specific source, widening the pool of possible suspects in a frustratingly slow investigation.
The finding, which evolved over months of investigation, appears to undermine the widely held belief that the attack was carried out by a government scientist or someone ... (more)
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Video: Movies, popcorn and CIA recruitingMSNBC is reporting that the CIA hopes to find recruits by advertising in movie theaters. Movie-goers across the country will see CIA advertisements played along with other previews prior to movie features.
The CIA has recently placed similar recruiting campaign advertisements on the Discovery Channel.
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GOP aide busted for fake blog posts on liberal sitesLiberal bloggers have uncovered a staff member to Rep. Charles Bass (R-NH) using government computers to make fake posts on liberal blogs in New Hampshire, today's ROLL CALL reports.
Heard on The Hill columnist Mary Ann Akers has authorized RAW STORY to reprint the full registration-restricted item below:
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Liberal bloggers in New Hampshire busted an aide to Rep. Charles Bass (R-N.H.) who was posing as a liberal blogger on such blogs as Blue Granite, NH-02 Pr... (more)
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One in Three in Poll Still Think Saddam Was Involved in 9/11NEW YORK A New York Times/CBS survey released two days ago drew fairly wide attention for some of its big-issue results, concerning the president's approval rating, the party most favor in the November elections, what should be done about Iraq, and so forth.
But, as always, drilling deep into the questions -- available in PDF form -- proves especially valuable.
Who could guess, for example, amid pundit claims that most Americans favor harsh treatment of detainees ab... (more)
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Probe into 'Bin Laden death' leakPresident Jacques Chirac has ordered an inquiry into the leak of a French secret service memo claiming that Osama Bin Laden had died.
Mr Chirac told reporters he was surprised the memo had been leaked, and refused to comment on the claim itself.
A French newspaper quoted a document as saying the Saudi secret services were convinced the al-Qaeda leader had died of typhoid in Pakistan in late August.
Officials in Pakistan and the US said they could not ... (more)
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Officials say no evidence bin Laden deadPARIS - President Jacques Chirac and Saudi officials said Saturday that information contained in a leaked intelligence document raising the possibility that Osama bin Laden may have died of typhoid in Pakistan last month is “in no way whatsoever confirmed.”
Chirac said he was “a bit surprised” at the leak and has asked Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie to probe how a document from a French foreign intelligence service was published in the French press.<... (more)
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Is Bin Laden Dead? General Michael Hayden, Director of the CIA, walked into the celebration of Saudi Arabia's national day in Washington D.C. and was immediately posed with the question of the day. "Is it true?" Hayden was asked by a Time reporter. "Nope," Hayden said, immediately adding to the accumulating statements on the paucity of evidence that Osama bin Laden was dead. About an hour before, the Saudi government itself declared that it "has no evidence to support recent media reports that Osama bin Laden is ... (more)
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