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Study: Bilateral Agenda Lopsided
 Wire services
US-Mexican discussions on security problems have focused on U.S. concerns without significantly dealing with Mexican problems, which has created a one-sided situation that should be corrected, according to a report.more »»»
Delay Indicted on Two New Charges
 Hilary Hylton
A Texas grand jury on Monday indicted U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay on two new charges including money laundering, following a conspiracy indictment last week which forced him to step aside as the second-ranking Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives.more »»»
Mexico Offers Spicy Beer Drink Michelada to U.S.
 Will Weissert
Brewers, distributors and a company peddling a pre-made mix are trying to cash in on the michelada — beer served with lime juice, assorted sweet-and-sour spices, chile pepper, ice and a salted rim — which has been a best seller south of the border for decades.more »»»
Bush Picks Insider for Supreme Court
 Steve Holland
President George W. Bush on Monday nominated a member of his inner circle, White House counsel Harriet Miers, for a Supreme Court vacancy, choosing a woman with plenty of legal experience but who is not a judge to replace the retiring Sandra Day O'Connor.more »»»
Attention: Testy Visitors Risk Being Shot in Florida
 Agence France Presse
Welcome to Florida, but avoid arguments or thanks to a new law you run the risk of getting shot, according to an ad campaign launched by a gun-control group. The campaign coincides with a state law that entered into effect authorizing gun owners to shoot anyone in a public area who they believe threaten their safety.more »»»
Bush Battling to Climb out of Popularity Slump
 Steve Holland
U.S. President George W. Bush is battling to climb out of a slump caused by the slow federal response to Hurricane Katrina, the Iraq war and soaring gasoline prices, events that have all combined to damage his credibility and deflate Americans' confidence in him.more »»»
NY Times Reporter Breaks Silence in CIA Leak Case
 Adam Entous
Ending her standoff with federal prosecutors after nearly three months in jail, New York Times reporter Judith Miller appeared before a federal grand jury on Friday investigating who in the Bush administration leaked a covert CIA operative's identity.more »»»
Cuba Condemns Possible Assassination of President Chavez
 Prensa Latina
Union of Cuban Journalists President Tubal Paez condemned the threat of the assassination of President Hugo Chavez and called for international solidarity with Venezuelan endeavors for independence and national sovereignty.more »»»
Buying of News by Bush's Aides Is Ruled Illegal
 Robert Pear
Federal auditors said on Friday that the Bush administration violated the law by buying favorable news coverage of President Bush's education policies, by making payments to the conservative commentator Armstrong Williams and by hiring a public relations company to analyze media perceptions of the Republican Party.more »»»
Canada's Top Court Ruling Paves Way for Provinces to Sue Tobacco Firms
 AFP
A Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for Canadian provinces to sue tobacco companies to recover tobacco-related health costs, a decision that may eventually cost Canadian and foreign firms billions of dollars.more »»»
High Court's Next Term Full of Big Cases
 Gina Holland
Abortion, assisted suicide, gay rights, the death penalty. Some of the toughest issues in the land confront the Supreme Court in its new term in the fall. A new lineup of justices assuming the successor to influential Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is on the bench makes the outcome of these cases more unpredictable than usual.more »»»
UN To Take On US Blockade of Cuba
 Pensa Latina
The UN leadership has begun to compile reports on the US blockade against Cuba, as part of preparations for a new campaign of condemnation of this hostile policy. Accusatory facts and figures included in these reports made by UN member countries and bodies will be the basis of a main report.more »»»
US Senate Confirms John Roberts as Chief Justice
 Reuters
Conservative federal judge John Roberts, President George W. Bush's first nominee to the Supreme Court, won U.S. Senate confirmation on Thursday as the 17th chief justice of the United States.more »»»
Colombia to Offer Real Quickie Divorce - 1 Hour for Less Than $20
 Canadian Press
Lawyer fees, legal hurdles and months if not years of waiting are what many unhappy couples can expect before a divorce but a new Colombian measure would allow couples to untie the knot in as little as an hour for the equivalent of $18 Cdn.more »»»
Court to Hear Oregon Suicide Law Case
 Brad Cain
The Bush administration is challenging Oregon's Death With Dignity law, legislation that took effect in 1997, arguing that hastening someone's death is an improper use of medication and thus violates federal drug laws. The United States Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case on October 5.more »»»
Iraq War Veterans' Presence in DC Unreported
 Eric Herter
The New York Times and much of the other news coverage of Saturday's anti-war demonstration in Washington, D.C. failed to note the presence of a particularly knowledgeable group of protestors - recently-returned veterans of the war in Iraq.more »»»
FEMA Plans to Reimburse Faith Groups for Aid
 Alan Cooperman & Elizabeth Williamson
After weeks of prodding by Republican lawmakers and the American Red Cross, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said yesterday that it will use taxpayer money to reimburse churches and other religious organizations that have opened their doors to provide shelter, food and supplies to survivors of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.more »»»
Roberts Sails Toward Confirmation
 Jesse J. Holland
Supreme Court nominee John Roberts may be on his way to easy Senate confirmation as the next chief justice, yet senators are focusing just as much if not more on President Bush's next nominee for the nation's top court.more »»»
US Military Presence in Paraguay Threatening the Region
 Orlando Oramas León
US military presence in Paraguay is turning the South American country into a Pentagon platform for intervention in the region, representative of the Paraguayan Initiative for Peoples´ Integration Sixto Pereira has denounced.more »»»
'Intelligent Design' Court Battle Begins
 Martha Raffaele
"Intelligent design" is a religious theory that was inserted in a school district's curriculum with no concern for whether it had scientific underpinnings, a lawyer told a federal judge Monday as a landmark trial got under way.more »»»
Cindy Sheehan Arrested at White House
 TO Staff
Cindy Sheehan, along with several well-known figures, has been arrested at the front gates of the White House in Washington DC. Sheehan had attempted once again to gain an audience with George W. Bush; again she was refused.more »»»
La Nuevo Orleans Built by Hispanic Immigrants
 Gregory Rodriguez
No matter what all the politicians and activists want, African Americans and impoverished white Cajuns will not be first in line to rebuild the Katrina-ravaged Gulf Coast and New Orleans. Latino immigrants, many of them undocumented, will.more »»»
Britain to Pull Troops from Iraq Next May
 Peter Beaumont & Gaby Hinsliff
British troops will start a major withdrawal from Iraq next May under detailed plans on military disengagement to be published next month, The Observer can reveal. The document being drawn up by the British government and the United States will be presented to the Iraqi parliament during the month of October.more »»»
Puerto Rican Nationalist Killed in FBI Gunfight
 Reuters
The fugitive founder of a violent Puerto Rican independence group was killed in a gunfight with federal agents at a mountain farmhouse in western Puerto Rico, the FBI said Sunday. Filiberto Ojeda Rios, 72, opened fire on agents who were trying to arrest him at a house in the Hormigueros area of Puerto Rico on Friday, the FBI said.more »»»
Interfaith Coalition Unveils Public School Bible Course
 CNN.com
An interfaith group released a new textbook aimed at teaching public high school students about the Bible while avoiding legal and religious disputes. The nonprofit Bible Literacy Project spent five years and $2 million developing "The Bible and Its Influence."more »»»
Mexican Army Returns to Alamo City More than 150 Years Since Historic Conflict
 Sara Inés Calderón
Mexican soldiers in their army greens marched into this city last week with orders quite contrasted from their historic siege on the Alamo in 1836. The dozens of uniformed troops tied on aprons and with gloved hands served soup and bread to storm shelter residents that thanked them for their kindness.more »»»
Anti-War Fervor Fills the Streets
 Petula Dvorak
Tens of thousands of people packed downtown Washington yesterday and marched past the United States White House in the largest show of antiwar sentiment in the nation's capital since the conflict in Iraq began.more »»»
Rita's Victims Wealthier Than Katrina's
 Stephen Ohlemacher
Hurricane Rita smashed into a region that is wealthier, more mobile and much less densely populated than the one devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Most of Rita's victims are by no means wealthy. But they are less likely to live in poverty.more »»»
Key Signatories Urged to Ratify Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
 Agence France-Presse
Some 117 countries wrapped up a three-day meeting on bringing the nuclear test ban treaty into force, pressing for early ratification of the pact by the US, China, Israel, Iran and seven other signatories.more »»»
Anti-War Demonstration Rocks Washington
 USA Today
Opponents of the war in Iraq marched by the tens of thousands Saturday in a clamorous day of protest, song and remembrance of the dead, some showing surprisingly diverse political views even as they spoke with one loud voice in wanting U.S. troops home.more »»»
Mexican Crime Family Expands Throughout US
 Jim Kouri
The Castorena Family Organization is a large-scale criminal organization with more than 100 key members who oversee cells of 10 to 20 individuals in cities across the United States, according to public court documents filed by the US government in Colorado and in other judicial districts around the country.more »»»
Spotlight Turns to Next Court Nominee
 Deb Riechmann
Republicans and Democrats alike are looking beyond John Roberts' virtually certain confirmation as the nation's 17th chief justice to Bush's next nominee to the Supreme Court, expecting a quick announcement from the White House and a much tougher confirmation fight.more »»»
Anti-War Rally Will Be a First for Many
 Petula Dvorak
The seasoned protesters who organized tomorrow's antiwar demonstration are well-versed in many other causes. They have marched and rallied against police brutality, racism, colonialism and the policies of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.more »»»
Dynamic NOW President Molly Yard Dies at 93
 Patricia Sullivan
Molly Yard, 93, a former president of the National Organization for Women who fought for the Equal Rights Amendment, legal access to contraception and abortions and revitalization of the feminist movement, died Sept. 21 at Fair Oaks Nursing Home in Pittsburgh.more »»»
Roberts Wins Senate Panel Backing
 Thomas Ferraro
The US Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday brushed aside concerns of divided Democrats and backed President George W. Bush's nomination of conservative John Roberts to be chief justice of the US.more »»»
US-Mexico Agree to Expand Aviation Services
 Reuters
The United States and Mexico agreed on Wednesday to expand airline flights and other aviation services between the two countries for the first time in six years, the U.S. Transportation Department said.more »»»
Case of Cuban Five to Be Heard in Washington DC
 Prensa Latina
With an impressive international and national support, an array of women leaders from organizations across the US will converge in Washington DC Friday to ask Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to immediately free the Cuban Five.more »»»
Cindy Sheehan Goes to Washington
 Sarah Ferguson
Cindy Sheehan brought her anti-war crusade to Washington, DC, on Wednesday, arriving with a caravan of three RVs and several cars ferrying about three dozen military families and Iraq War veterans on the final leg of their 21-day Bring Them Home Now tour.more »»»
Six Million Cubans Evacuated in Last Five Years
 Prensa Latina
Six million people in Cuba, equivalent to more than half the inhabitants of the island, were evacuated over the last five years to avoid fatalities from hurricanes and other natural disasters.more »»»
Bush Administration Touts Rita Readiness
 Lara Jakes Jordan
The Bush administration is advertising its stepped-up response plans for Hurricane Rita before the storm hits the Gulf Coast, eager to avoid the public pounding it got for its reaction to Hurricane Katrina.more »»»
Cuba Creates International Disaster and Epidemic Brigade
 Prensa Latina
The world now can count on a medical brigade willing to provide services anywhere there is an epidemic or catastrophe. The Henry Reeve International Contingent of Disaster and Epidemic Physicians, a team of 1,586 physicians, was officially inducted by President Fidel Castro at the graduation ceremony for 1,903 new doctors from the island´s medical schools.more »»»
Simon Wiesenthal, 'Conscience' of Holocaust, Dies
 Henry Weinstein
Simon Wiesenthal, who survived a dozen concentration camps, then spent his life bringing Nazi war criminals to justice and searing the Holocaust into the conscience of the world, died Tuesday. He was 96.more »»»
US Immigration Nominee's Credentials Questioned
 Dan Eggen & Spencer S. Hsu
The Bush administration is seeking to appoint a lawyer with little immigration or customs experience to head the troubled law enforcement agency that handles those issues, prompting sharp criticism from some employee groups, immigration advocates and homeland security experts.more »»»
Mother Who Lost Son in Iraq Continues Fight against War
 Marc Santora
Cindy Sheehan, the mother of an American soldier killed in Iraq, last night brought her campaign to end the war to New York, where she accused Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of not doing enough to challenge the Bush administration's Iraq policies.more »»»
Coast Guard Says More Cubans are Taking to Sea
 Madeline Baró Diaz & Ruth Morris
Their names are spoken from dark patios, where mothers rock their babies to sleep, and along the seawall where teenagers arrive on rusted bicycles to trade news. Their friends ask about them in passing on the streets, or with tight throats if there has been no word.more »»»
Clinton Rips Bush Fiscal, Tax Policies
 ABC News
Former President Bill Clinton slammed President Bush's fiscal and tax policies in an interview broadcast today on ABC News' "This Week." It was Clinton's first televised interview with George Stephanopoulos since Stephanopoulos worked in the Clinton White House.more »»»
Hugo Chavez Denounces US Plan to Invade Venezuela
 Prensa Latina
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has denounced here Saturday the existence of a US governmental plan, codenamed Plan Balboa, to invade Venezuela. In statements to the ABC TV network, Chavez said he has evidence of the plan, and even promised he will send his interviewer portions of the proving documents of Plan Balboa.more »»»
Latin America Hit by Poor Infrastructure
 BBC News
Latin America needs to triple its spending on infrastructure like roads and ports if it is to catch up with the dynamic East Asian economies, according to the World Bank. A report from the Bank says that ageing infrastructure and under-investment are reducing Latin America's growth prospects and increasing poverty.more »»»
UN Agency Regrets as 'Disheartening' US Withholding of Funds over Abortion
 UN News Center
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said today the United States' decision to withhold $34 million for purported abortion-related reasons was especially regrettable when leaders at the World Summit now meeting at UN Headquarters in New York were stressing the need to act together on global concerns.more »»»
Venezuelan Leader Lashes at US in UN Speech
 Agence France-Presse
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez called the US a "terrorist state" and said the United Nations headquarters should be moved away from New York. The outspoken Chavez littered his speech to the UN world summit with anti-US comments which were strongly applauded.more »»»
Camp Casey Memorial Stolen
 Deborah Mathews
The Camp Casey Memorial on Prairie Chapel Road was removed by thieves this week. Not a single item is left at the memorial site. Crew members working for McLennan County said they witnessed items being removed by an unidentified individual and contacted their office to inform commissioners.more »»»
Bush Pledges Federal Role in Rebuilding Gulf Coast
 AP
President Bush promised Thursday night the government will pay most of the costs of rebuilding the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast in one of the largest reconstruction projects the world has ever seen.more »»»
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