COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Sri Lankan fighter jets and artillery bombarded rebel positions for a second day in the country’s north and east, peace monitors said Friday, even as the president pledged to press on with peace efforts after a bus bombing killed 64 people. The government said Tamil Tiger …
Read More »Sen. Hillary Clinton: Democrats Struggling With Iraq Issue
WASHINGTON – Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton conceded Friday the Democrats are “openly struggling with a lot of the difficult issues,” but said that was better than the GOP’s “hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.” The senator and potential presidential candidate said the Democrats’ debate a day earlier …
Read More »Md. Police: Teens Being Forced to Rob Banks
ROCKVILLE, Md. – Authorities in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties are investigating possible similarities between a 14-year-old accused bank robber and two teenagers who were abducted last month and forced to rob banks, police said Thursday. In the latest case, investigators said the 14-year-old held up a Chevy Chase Bank …
Read More »Factory Orders Rose 1.1% in December
WASHINGTON – New orders at U.S. factories rose 1.1 percent in December, slightly ahead of forecast, as strong demand for machinery and durable goods offset weakness in civilian aircraft, a government report showed Friday. Orders for durable goods, expensive items meant to last three years or longer, rose 1.8 percent …
Read More »Iran to Resume Nuke Program in Face of Referral to U.N. Security Council
VIENNA, Austria – The International Atomic Energy Agency reported Iran to the U.N. Security Council on Saturday over fears it wants to produce nuclear arms, raising the stakes in the diplomatic confrontation and prompting Tehran to threaten immediate retaliation. Of the board’s 35 member nations, 27 voted for referral, reflecting …
Read More »Bush Administration Joins Texas to Defend Redistricting Map
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Friday granted the Bush administration’s request to join Texas in defending a Republican-friendly congressional map engineered by Rep. Tom DeLay. The administration will share time with Texas lawyers on March 1, when the court holds a special afternoon session to consider four appeals that …
Read More »Glossary of Psychic Terms
Astrology: The study of the positions and aspects of celestial bodies in the belief that they have an influence on the course of natural earthly occurrences and human affairs. Aura: The energy field emanating from the surface of a person or object. This emanation is visualized as an outline of …
Read More »Judge Rules Against Google in Porn-Copyright Case
LOS ANGELES – A federal court judge has concluded that an image search service run by Google Inc. infringes on the copyrights of adult entertainment company Perfect 10 Inc. by displaying small versions of its images in search results. But U.S. District Court Judge Howard Matz said that based on …
Read More »'JT LeRoy' Found to Be an Imagined Character
NEW YORK – One of publishing’s most bizarre mysteries appears to finally have been solved. The writer penning the novels of “JT LeRoy,” a purported 25-year-old former male prostitute and drug addict, has been unmasked as a 40-year-old woman who allegedly undertook the ruse to get her work recognized. LeRoy …
Read More »Toymakers Bank On iPod Accessories
NEW YORK – After bemoaning the emergence of the iPod as children’s latest must-have toy, toy makers are now looking at the digital musical player as their own marketing strategy. After the success last year of Zizzle Inc.’s iZ and Hasbro Inc.’s I-Dog, both of which can be hooked up …
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