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- Defenders of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, 4 others ask Guantanamo judge to dismiss charges
Category: US News
Publish Date: 05-17-2008 12:00 AM -0700
They say tribunal legal advisor Thomas Hartmann -- who's been barred from a case against Osama bin Laden's driver -- acted unfairly and illegally to get KSM and his alleged co-conspirators...[more]
- American Axle and UAW reach tentative agreement
Category: US News
Publish Date: 05-16-2008 10:06 PM -0700
DETROIT (Reuters) - The United Auto Workers and American
Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc reached a tentative
contract agreement late Friday aimed at ending an 11-week-long
strike that had...[more]
- In prison for murder, pulling Vegas strings
Category: US News
Publish Date: 05-16-2008 09:58 PM -0700
Hoping for a new trial, an ex-cop hatched a plan to get money from his ailing grandmother's California house. FBI files say the goal was to bribe a judge. He could work the deal -- with a little...[more]
- Report faults FBI handling of agents' Gitmo complaints: paper
Category: US News
Publish Date: 05-16-2008 09:57 PM -0700
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new Justice Department report praises FBI agents for refusing to join in the U.S. military's abusive questioning of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Iraq and Afghanistan, but...[more]
- U.S. to Send N. Korea 500,000 Tons of Food Aid
Category: US News
Publish Date: 05-16-2008 09:00 PM -0700
The Bush administration said yesterday it will restart food aid to North Korea and provide it with more than 500,000 tons of food -- the largest one-year amount since 1999.
[more]
- Radio Hosts Gleefully Try to Taint Jurors
Category: US News
Publish Date: 05-16-2008 09:00 PM -0700
LOS ANGELES -- There is such a thing as tainting a jury, and then there is what two Southern California talk show hosts say they are engaging in -- "blatant tainting" of a jury.
[more]
- More Campaign Staffers Out Because of New Ethics Policy
Category: US News
Publish Date: 05-16-2008 09:00 PM -0700
The campaign of Sen. John McCain continued to dismiss staff members this week for violating its new ethics policy, as Democrats ratcheted up pressure on McCain advisers for their lobbying...[more]
- Oil Efforts Are Best Possible, Saudis Say
Category: US News
Publish Date: 05-16-2008 09:00 PM -0700
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, May 16 -- Saudi leaders told President Bush on Friday that they are doing all they can to increase oil production, gently turning aside the president's efforts to bring down...[more]
- End FBI-ATF Rift, Senators Urge
Category: US News
Publish Date: 05-16-2008 09:00 PM -0700
Battles between the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives threaten national security and are reminiscent of the poor information-sharing that failed to detect the Sept....[more]
- Texas checks number of sect 'girls'
Category: US News
Publish Date: 05-16-2008 06:27 PM -0700
Texas child welfare authorities released statistics showing nearly 60 percent of the teen girls taken from a polygamist sect's ranch were pregnant or had children.[more]
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