Setting the stage for final passage of the bill, the Senate rejected an amendment guaranteeing terror suspects the right to challenge their imprisonment in court.
A day after acknowledging that she is under investigation for talk of spying on her spouse, the candidate for N.Y. attorney general vigorously defended herself.
A congressional hearing into the corporate spying imbroglio at Hewlett-Packard got underway in Washington today as the company's former general counsel pleaded her Fifth Amendment right not to testify for fear of incriminating herself.
Domestic production is still increasing, though not as rapidly as earlier in the year. The gross domestic product, a measure of the output of goods and services produced by labor and property in the United States, increased by 2.6 percent in the second quarter, according the Bureau of Economic Analysis, after increasing 5.6 percent in the first quarter.
The divorce wars had pretty much done in Stuart Webb. After 20 years as a family law litigator in Minneapolis, he was burned out, demoralized by the siege mentality of his job, and searching for an escape from the ugliness of divorce and the damage he saw being done to families–especially children–as bitter courtroom battles played out.
AP - The Senate, siding with President Bush shortly after he personally lobbied lawmakers at the Capitol, rejected a move Thursday by a leading Republican to allow terrorism suspects to challenge their imprisonment in court.
AP - In a new audio message Thursday, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq called for explosives experts and nuclear scientists to join his group's holy war against the West. "We are in dire need of you," said the man, who identified himself as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir — also known as Abu Ayyub al-Masri — the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq.
AP - The gunman who killed a student and committed suicide during a high school standoff methodically selected six girls as hostages — apparently favoring blondes — and sexually assaulted at least some of them, authorities and witnesses said Thursday.
A gunman who invaded a Colorado high school used a 16-year-old girl as a shield and shot her before killing himself, according to the Colorado Department of Public Safety. Police say they heard the hostages screaming before storming the classroom. The suspect "traumatized and assaulted" his hostages and the attack "was of a sexual nature," said Sheriff Fred Wegener.
As Muslims celebrated the holy month of Ramadan, Baghdad police found 60 bodies -- all showing signs of torture --dumped around the capital in a 24-hour period ending Thursday morning, pushing the number of bodies discovered so far this week to 122.
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