Audio: Zorn & Schmich still primarily at odds
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Golf, Football, Wrestling And Basketball
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There are a few stories floating around the web today that are all related to sport. There’s golf, football and wrestling, two sports that maybe don’t go together so well, and there’s also some basketball. Who says they have given up golf for the troops? And what league two striker broke his arm in an [...]
Iraq Bomb Girl: Teenager Kills Soldier In Attack
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Sunni Islamist al Qaeda gunmen have regrouped in Mosul and the surrounding province of Nineveh after being pushed out of Baghdad and western Anbar province by US and Iraqi forces. Read more
‘Iron Man’ still top at UK box office
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Iron Man has topped the UK box office chart for the second week. The Marvel superhero adaptation held off competition from Ashton Kutcher comedy What Happens in Vegas, which makes its debut at two. Family adventure Speed Racer and futuristic thriller Doomsday are the week’s other new entries, landing at four and six respectively. Elsewhere, [...]
Heavy rains head toward cyclone-devastated Myanmar
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Heavy rains and another potentially powerful storm headed toward Myanmar’s cyclone-devastated delta on Wednesday. Read more
AUSTRIAN MAN CHOPS UP FAMILY
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AUSTRIAN MAN CHOPS UP FAMILY SPARES MOTHER IN LAW REUTERS New Austria Horror Police say a man walked into police custody and confessed to killing his entire family, except his mother-in-law. May 14, 2008 — May 14 – Police in the Austrian capital Vienna say a man has admitted killing five members of his own [...]
Farm Bill Bingo
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The final version of the $300 billion farm bill goes to the House floor Wednesday, debate starting 10:30 a.m EST. It is a big deal, setting U.S. food policy for the next five years. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, will aim for 290 votes, or two-thirds of the House, to reach the magic number [...]
The U.S. after Bush: Ailing but maybe still resilient
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Notes on the state of the United States as the George W. Bush era winds down, leaving a pile of daunting problems on the agenda for the next democratically elected (as opposed to court-appointed) American president and the government he or she will lead: Read more
Wielding the Purse-string Power
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WASHINGTON — Politicians such as Chilean President Michelle Bachelet and Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the all-but-certain next president of Argentina, are making headlines as they shatter glass ceilings. But outside the political spotlight, women of much less prominence are gaining footholds in areas that have been traditionally dominated by men. Read more
India Bombings Prompt Calls for Anti-Terrorism Agency
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JAIPUR, May 14 –With a dawn-to-dusk curfew stopping everything but funerals a day after seven bombs ripped through this ancient walled city, some anti-terrorism experts called for a central federal agency to be set up in India to fight growing attacks on the subcontinent. Read more
In Guatemala, Bush Vows to Push Immigration Changes
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GUATEMALA CITY, March 12 — President Bush defended a recent surge of deportations that have inflamed passions here in Latin America, but vowed Monday to redouble efforts to overhaul immigration laws and called on the Senate to pass comprehensive legislation by summer. Read more
Colombia Sends 13 Paramilitary Leaders to U.S.
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CARACAS, Venezuela, May 13 — Colombia’s government extradited 13 top paramilitary warlords to the United States on Tuesday, effectively handing over the most brutal commanders of the country’s once-fearsome paramilitary movement. Read more
Mexico’s Fox, in Book, Chides and Praises Bush
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ANTIGUA, Guatemala, Sept. 18 — President Bush and Vicente Fox once portrayed themselves as diplomatic allies and close friends, but the former Mexican president takes some jabs at Bush in a new autobiography, calling him “the cockiest guy I have ever met in my life” and a “windshield cowboy” afraid to ride a powerful horse. [...]
Some Detainees Are Drugged For Deportation
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The U.S. government has injected hundreds of foreigners it has deported with dangerous psychotropic drugs against their will to keep them sedated during the trip back to their home country, according to medical records, internal documents and interviews with people who have been drugged. Read more
Defense Secretary Urges Military to Mold Itself to Fight Iraq-Style Wars
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COLORADO SPRINGS, May 13 — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates implored the U.S. military Tuesday to prepare more for fighting future wars against insurgents and militias such as those in Iraq and Afghanistan, rather than spending so much time and money preparing for conventional conflicts. Read more
Foul Weather Adds to Burma Misery
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BANGKOK, May 13 — As yet more drenching rain battered survivors of Burma’s deadly cyclone, foreign relief supplies continued to arrive Tuesday at a pace aid workers said was still far too slow to help most of the suffering. Read more
Troops rush in to help China quake rescue
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MIANYANG, China (Reuters) – China poured more troops into the earthquake-ravaged province of Sichuan on Wednesday to quicken a search for survivors as time ran out for thousands of people buried under rubble and mud. Read more
Clinton cruises to easy win in West Virginia
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Hillary Clinton scored a big victory over front-runner Barack Obama in West Virginia on Tuesday, but it could be too little and too late to stop his march to the Democratic presidential nomination. Read more
Rescuers reach Chinese epicentre
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Chinese rescue teams have reached the epicentre of Monday’s devastating earthquake, Wenchuan county, where an estimated 60,000 people remain missing. Read more
Soldiers hike to quake-buried Chinese villages (AP)
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As night fell, a first wave of 200 soldiers entered the town of Wenchuan, near the epicenter, trudging across ruptured roads and mudslides, state television said. Initial reports from troops said one nearby town could account for only 2,300 survivors out of 9,000 people, China Central Television said. Read more