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U.S. / NEWS Mon Oct 16, 2006 @ 4:53pm neoform

Reuters -- A New York attorney convicted of aiding terrorism by helping a client smuggle messages to militant followers was sentenced on Monday to 28 months in prison... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Oct 16, 2006 @ 4:51pm neoform

Reuters -- Federal agents on Monday searched the home of U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon's daughter, an FBI spokeswoman said, amid reports the Pennsylvania Republican used his influence to help his lobbyist daughter win contracts... Read More

POLITICS / OPINION Mon Oct 16, 2006 @ 3:38pm neoform

Radar Online -- Congress, as any CSPAN viewer can attest, has never been a bastion of intelligence. As far back as a century ago, Samuel Johnson was demeaning the nation's legislators as a "circus of rogues and fools." But when it comes to sheer stupidity, the men and women of the 109th have distinguished themselves as a breed apart... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Oct 15, 2006 @ 9:51pm neoform

Times Online -- The Security Council�s response to North Korea�s claimed nuclear test is tougher and more far-reaching than Kim Jong Il probably expected. If the North Korean dictator calculated that Chinese and South Korean reluctance to squeeze his unpredictable regime too hard would, after international grumbling, give him a pass into the nuclear club, he has been disabused... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Oct 15, 2006 @ 9:44pm neoform

Times Online -- THE Taliban's military commander, Mullah Dadullah, has been filmed executing eight men who were accused of spying for British and American forces in Afghanistan, it was claimed last week... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Oct 15, 2006 @ 8:05pm neoform

New York Times -- Married couples, whose numbers have been declining for decades as a proportion of American households, have finally slipped into a minority, according to an analysis of new census figures by The New York Times... Read More

ENTERTAINMENT / NEWS Sun Oct 15, 2006 @ 7:35pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Beck's new album has been banned from U.K. charts, as a result of the unusual packaging that accompanies it. The Information was released this week and includes a set of stickers allowing fans to design their own sleeve... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Sun Oct 15, 2006 @ 6:00pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Former President Bill Clinton said Saturday that voters "know something is wrong" in Washington and urged Democrats to create change in the November elections... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Oct 15, 2006 @ 5:54pm neoform

Time -- Soldiers are supposed to follow orders. But top generals are also supposed to guide their political masters so the orders make sense" and in the end, to object if they don't. So, in the face of mounting casualties and political chaos in Iraq and no clear strategy for victory, it was only a matter of time before military commanders on the ground would start publicly voicing their contrary opinions... Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Sun Oct 15, 2006 @ 5:46pm neoform

MSNBC -- October 23 marks the fifth anniversary of Apple's iPod. CEO Steve Jobs reflected with NEWSWEEK's Steven Levy (author of "The Perfect Thing," a book about the iPod out this month) about the past, present and future of the device that changed Apple and the world... Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Sun Oct 15, 2006 @ 11:35am neoform

Telegraph -- Psychologists have discovered that people take on the characteristics of foreign nationals when they switch into their language - and such a change in the embittered hotel owner could well have improved life for the hapless Manuel... Read More

ENTERTAINMENT / OPINION Sun Oct 15, 2006 @ 11:13am neoform

Washington Post -- My 12-year-old daughter, Sydney, and I were in the car not long ago when she turned the radio to a popular urban contemporary station. An unapproved station. A station that might play rap music. "No way, Syd, you know better," I said, so Sydney changed the station, then pouted... Read More

U.S. / OPINION Sun Oct 15, 2006 @ 10:36am neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- Sex, money and Iraq are a triple-whammy of reasons for voters to turn against President George Bush and his party.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Oct 15, 2006 @ 9:52am neoform

CNN -- Eight Palestinians have been killed in two separate attacks on Saturday, Palestinian sources said... Read More

ODD / NEWS Sun Oct 15, 2006 @ 9:49am neoform

CNN -- Wrapping up that unwanted picture frame from last Christmas and giving it to someone else as a gift might not be as taboo as it once was, according to a study released Wednesday... Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Sun Oct 15, 2006 @ 9:47am neoform

CNN -- Laura Bennett isn't bound by convention. Professionally, at age 42, she's pursuing a mid-career switch into big-time fashion design. At home, she's a mother of five -- with No. 6 due next month... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Oct 15, 2006 @ 9:40am neoform

CNN -- President Bush said Saturday that the U.N. Security Council had sent a "swift and tough" message to North Korea that its claimed detonation of a nuclear bomb was unacceptable to the world... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Oct 15, 2006 @ 9:33am neoform

CNN -- Bombs killed at least 16 Iraqis Sunday in Baghdad and in the oil-rich northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Sun Oct 15, 2006 @ 9:29am neoform

CNN -- It is 9 a.m. on a fresh, sunny Saturday in Rockford, Illinois, and nearly a thousand people have gathered in the gymnasium at Rock Valley College to participate in a town meeting with their Senator, Barack Obama... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Oct 15, 2006 @ 12:33am neoform

CNN -- The widow of a gunman who killed five girls and injured five others at an Amish school thanked the Amish and others in the community for their "forgiveness, grace and mercy.".. Read More