Hamas and Fatah today engaged in some of their fiercest battles since the elections in January, as Hamas forces tried to disrupt protests over unpaid government salaries.
When former President Bill Clinton appeared on Fox News Sunday this week to discuss his climate change initiative and other issues, no one predicted a stormy forecast for the interview with host Chris Wallace. But when Wallace asked the president why he hadn't "put [Osama] bin Laden and al Qaeda out of business," Clinton began his ominous finger-wagging, always a clear indication that gale force winds were gathering on the horizon. Wallace quickly found himself in the eye of the storm as Clinton launched into a dark tirade, accusing "President Bush's neocons" and other Republicans of turning their backs on the bin Laden threat until the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and criticizing Wallace for his "conservative hit job."
More than three years after a Rhode Island nightclub fire killed 100, a judge has accepted plea deals from the two brothers who owned the club, resisting the calls of many victims' relatives for stiffer punishments.
Scheduled to arrive on November 14 with a $250 price tag, Microsoft's new Zune portable music device will be packed with an array of innovative features. Whether these are enough to challenge the popularity and dominance of Apple's iPods remains to be seen.
AP - A new videotape shows two of the Sept. 11 hijackers smiling for a camera and reportedly reading a will in footage taken more than 18 months before they carried out the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
AP - House Speaker Dennis Hastert requested Sunday that the Justice Department conduct an investigation into former Rep. Mark Foley's electronic messages to teenage boys — a lurid scandal that has put House Republicans in political peril.
AP - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, coming under renewed fire for his management of the Iraq war, said Sunday he is not considering resigning and said the president had called him personally in recent days to express his continued support.
The Justice Department is being asked to probe how allegations that Rep. Mark Foley sent explicit notes to former congressional pages were handled. Speaker Dennis Hastert made the rare request to be investigated after top Democrats called for an outside probe into whether the GOP leadership in the House had improperly squelched concerns about Foley's contact with the teens.
In January, 2000, two of the hijackers in the September 11, 2001, attacks were at one of Osama bin Laden's hideouts in Afghanistan, talking and laughing -- and then apparently reading their martyrdom messages for a video camera, according to video seen by the public for the first time Sunday.
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