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Source: [b]AP[/b]
NEW YORK The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday.
Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, ...
World
9/11
Source: [b]Truthout[/b]
Thousands Demand Closure of Fort Benning's School of the Americas
Sunday 22 November 2009
by: Scott Galindez, t r u t h o u t | Report
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Thousands Rally at the gates of Fort Benning.
(Photo: Linda ...
Other
Washington, D.C
Source: [b]guardian.co.uk[/b]
Military commanders are expected to tell the inquiry into the Iraq war, which opens on Tuesday, that the invasion was ill-conceived and that preparations were sabotaged by Tony Blair's government's attempts to mislead the public.
They were so shocked by the ...
World
Iraq
Source: [b]San Antonio Express-News[/b]
CPS Energy knew a year ago that contractor Toshiba Inc. wanted at least $4 billion more than San Antonio was willing to pay for the nuclear expansion, according to several sources close to the deal.
Despite this, utility officials used a much lower ...
Other
Source: [b]Business Week/MSN[/b]
Local governments fork over billions in fees on investments gone bad
Against that bleak backdrop, Wall Street is squeezing one of America's weakest cities for every penny it can. A few years ago, Detroit struck a derivatives deal with UBS and other banks ...
Other
Source: [b]Washington Post[/b]
The morning after voting to commence debate on ground-breaking health care legislation, two centrist senators, Ben Nelson and Joseph I. Lieberman, said on Sunday that they were opposed to the bill as it is currently written, particularly its inclusion of a new ...
Congress
Health care
Joe Lieberman
Source: [b]AP[/b]
Bishop asked Kennedy to stop taking Communion
Associated Press
November 22, 2009 | 9:54 a.m.
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The Roman Catholic bishop of Rhode Island said today that he asked Rep. Patrick Kennedy in a 2007 letter to stop receiving Communion, the central ...
Other
Source: [b]Glendale News Press[/b]
GLENDALE When resident Stephen Brown learned last year that the city had enacted citywide smoking restrictions, he looked forward to sitting outside at his favorite coffee shop and breathing in the fresh air. For the past year I have been looking forward ...
Congress
Sherrod Brown
Source: [b]Associated Press[/b]
WASHINGTON A moderate Democratic senator who voted to allow debate over a health care bill says he might not support the bill in its next hurdle in the Senate.
Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska says he has serious problems with the bill. He says he wants tougher ...
Congress
Bill Nelson
Washington, D.C
ABC News
Source: [b]Associated Press[/b]
Thousands of marine species eke out an existence in the ocean's pitch-black depths by feeding on the snowlike decaying matter that cascades down, and even sunken whale bones, according to a report released Sunday.
Oil and methane also are an energy source ...
Other
Source: [b]Assoicated Press[/b]
DETROIT The U.S. government resettled Iraqi refugee Mazen Alsaqa in Massachusetts in February.
Within a month, he had moved to Michigan.
Alsaqa didn't dislike Massachusetts, but he never thought about staying. The only place he wanted to live was the ...
Other
Source: [b]Associated Press[/b]
DUBLIN Northern Ireland's police commander says Irish Republican Army dissidents left a 400-pound (180-kilogram) car bomb outside the police-reform headquarters in Belfast but the homemade device failed to detonate.
Chief Constable Matt Baggott said Sunday ...
World
Ireland
U.S. Army
Source: [b]Associated Press - By Ray Henry[/b]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin has banned Rep. Patrick Kennedy from receiving Communion, the central sacrament of the church, in Rhode Island because of the congressman's support for abortion rights, Kennedy said in a ...
World
Source: [b]Associated Press[/b]
WASHINGTON A bruising debate on health care awaits the Senate after Thanksgiving now that the historic legislation has cleared a key hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama.
The bill would ...
Congress
Health care
Washington, D.C
Barack Obama
Harry Reid
Blanche Lincoln
Source: [b]Al Jazeera[/b]
The United Nations has welcomed the decision by Sri Lanka's government to announce the release of the remaining 130,000 Tamils kept in detention camps for the last six months.
About 250,000 people fled the final bloody phase of the civil war between the government ...
World
Sri Lanka
United Nations
Source: [b]LA Times[/b]
November 21, 2009 | 6:39 pm
A woman described by Venezuelan authorities as an important leader of a Colombian paramilitary group has been captured, the justice minister said today.
Interpol had called for the arrest of Magaly Janeth Moreno Vega, who was wanted by ...
World
Venezuela
Colombia
Álvaro Uribe
Source: [b]AFP[/b]
MONTREAL (AFP) Facebook can be a double-edged sword, a Canadian woman learned when an insurance company cut her health benefits, claiming she was healthy after seeing pictures of her smiling in bikini at the beach.
Nathalie Blanchard, 29, took long-term sick leave from ...
Other
Source: [b]Youth Climate Movement[/b]
PETTUS, W. Va. Early this morning two concerned citizens, Dea Goblirsch and Nick Martin, locked down to a drill rig on Coal River Mountain's Bee Tree mountaintop removal site, effectively stopping blasting. Two others, Grace Williams and Laura Von ...
Other
Source: [b]CNN[/b]
... On the Santa Cruz campus, .. students made a list of 20 "demands" detailing how they want the administration to increase funding, spokesman Barry Shiller said. But the school has no plans to negotiate the demands with the student body, he said. The school just doesn't ...
Other
Bud Day
CNN
Source: [b]Los Angeles Times[/b]
Suspected Colombian paramilitary leader Magaly Moreno captured in Venezuela
November 21, 2009 | 6:39 pm
A woman described by Venezuelan authorities as an important leader of a Colombian paramilitary group has been captured, the justice minister said today. ...
