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The company owned by billionaire Kirk Kerkorian said it believed Renault and Nissan would be interested in buying a minority stake in the world's biggest auto company.
The Defense Department said that a ruling against military tribunals did not prevent the government from holding suspects indefinitely and without charge.
Jan Ullrich, Ivan Basso and Francisco Mancebo were suspended or withdrew from the race because of fresh evidence of involvement with banned performance-enhancing techniques or drugs.
Recent college graduates are often disparaged for hopping between jobs and seeming unwilling to work their way up. But new evidence suggests that doing those very things may be in their best interest in the long run, especially if they graduated into a poor job market.
The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday on the Texas redistricting case; early accounts of the decision are here: Here is the Court's 132-page decision. It seems (there are six opinions) the court ruled that (1) multiple redistricting within an intercensal decade is permissible; (2) Texas's plainly political redistricting plan was nonetheless not a constitutionally impermissible gerrymander; (3) District 23 is unconstitutional, because redistricters reduced its Hispanic percentage for political reasons. Justice Anthony Kennedy seems to have provided the key vote on points (2) and (3).
AP - Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Friday that Israel's offensive in Gaza — including the kidnappings of some of his Cabinet ministers — was part of a premeditated plan to bring down the Hamas-led government.
AP - Five U.S. Army soldiers are being investigated for allegedly raping a young woman, then killing her and three members of her family in Iraq, a U.S. military official told The Associated Press on Friday.
AP - The muddy floodwater swirling through riverside towns across the Northeast was receding Friday, and residents began the arduous tasks of clearing away debris left by five days of heavy rain and trying to tally the cost of the flood.
Exclusive: The US government said it could not find the men that a Guantánamo detainee believes could help set him free. The Guardian found them in three days.
The U.S. Army has ordered an investigation of the deaths of four Iraqi civilians in Mahmoudiya, a town south of Baghdad, a U.S. military statement said Friday.
An audiotape purportedly of Osama bin Laden mourns the death of terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, whom the al Qaeda leader calls "one of our greatest knights." The voice on the tape also taunts President Bush and warns him that al-Zarqawi's cause will not die with him but will be passed "from one lion to another in Islam."
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