Public Defenders?
• Popular Mechanics"The response we usually get is, 'Holy s---!'" Nieves says. "That's the reaction we want. We are in the business of scaring people--we just want to scare the right people."
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Inflatable spacecraft launches from Russia
• APThe watermelon-shaped Genesis I is a one-third scale prototype of the commercial space station to which the company eventually hopes to fly humans. Unlike the rigid aluminum international space station, Genesis I consists of a flexible outer shell
Killer kangaroo and demon duck
• ReutersForget cute, cuddly marsupials. A team of Australian paleontologists say they have found the fossilized remains of a fanged killer kangaroo and what they describe as a "demon duck of doom". The fearsome fossils were among 20 previously unkn
Paralysed man controls computer with mind
• ReutersA paralyzed man using a new brain sensor has been able to move a computer cursor, open e-mail and control a robotic device simply by thinking about doing it, a team of scientists said. They believe the BrainGate sensor, which involves implanting e
Global warming good for Antarctica trees
• AFPTrees could be growing in the Antarctic within a century because of global warming, an international scientific conference heard. The icy continent could revert to how it looked about 40 million years ago, said Professor Robert Dunbar of Stanford Uni
Bigelow space station prototype launched into orbit
• Space.comThanks to a boost today from a Russian and Ukrainian rocket-for-hire company, a U.S. private space firm has sent a novel expandable module toward Earth orbit—and a step forward in providing commercial space habitats. Bigelow Aerospace of North Las
Senate leaders strike deal on offshore drilling
• ReutersRepublican leaders in the U.S. Senate have struck a deal with key party members including Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida that would allow the chamber to vote on opening the eastern Gulf of Mexico to energy exploration, Senate aides said.
House to take up Voting Rights Act extension
• ReutersQuelling a rebellion by mostly southern conservatives over landmark civil rights legislation, US House of Representatives leaders announced they will vote this week to extend the Voting Rights Act. "We intend to go on Thursday," House Speak
DiFi wants 20 years for anyone digging a tunnel under border
• ReutersSenators from border states want to shut the door on tunnels running from Mexico and Canada into the United States by banning the underground passages that can transport drug smugglers, illegal aliens or terrorists. "You would think this woul
House GOP Favors New Detainee Legislation
• APSiding with the White House, top Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee said they favor writing into law the special military trials for suspected terrorists that the Supreme Court rejected. Bush administration officials urged Congress to
Trade deficit again increasing because of oil prices
• APA record jump in the price of imported oil pushed the trade deficit to $63.8 billion in May, offsetting robust overseas sales gains by American companies. On Wall Street, stocks dropped sharply after a separate report showed that weekly oil invent
Iran wants ancient Persian tablets returned from US
• ReutersIran said it wanted to use diplomacy and cultural channels to ensure ancient clay tablets at the center of a compensation case are returned from the US but said it was also ready for a legal fight. The 2,500-year-old Persian tablets, which have be
Bush Admin. rejects war tribunals for terrorists as too lenient
• LA TimesBush administration lawyers today rejected congressional suggestions to try alleged Al Qaeda and Taliban war criminals in the U.S. military justice system, saying military courts provide protections for defendants that are unwarranted in the war on t
Senate puts on show over another Bush judicial torture nominee
• ReutersThe Pentagon's top lawyer drew bipartisan fire for coercive techniques used to question terrorism suspects as he struggled to win U.S. Senate confirmation to a seat on a federal appeals court. William Haynes defended the Defense Department
State Dept. computers hacked
• ABC NewsThe State Department's computer system has fallen prey to hackers over the past several weeks. Sources say irregularities were detected on the department's unclassified computer system, but that the classified system was not compromised.
US wants more of your bank data
• LA TimesThe Bush administration is considering requiring U.S. banks, for the first time, to inform the government of all their customers' international wire transfers, regardless of possible terrorist ties, a Treasury Department official said.
GAO find the road to victory in Iraq foggy
• AFPThe investigative arm of the US Congress has openly questioned if victory in Iraq can be achieved without a significant overhaul of President George W. Bush's strategy, arguing the outcome of the war was presently "unclear".
L.A. in Peril of Another Rampart Scandal, Panel Finds
• LA TimesDespite extensive reform in the 7 years since the Rampart Division police corruption scandal, Los Angeles is at risk of similar crises unless the LAPD is significantly expanded and trades its "warrior policing" model for a more community- f
Darfur Said Facing New Wave of Killings
• APSudan's Darfur region is facing a new wave of killings and rapes, with fighting between rebel factions displacing thousands of villagers despite a recent peace agreement, the U.N. humanitarian chief said. Humanitarian workers are being attacke
Iranian enrichment hit by technical problems
• al-JazerraIran's nuclear programme appears to have been slowed down by technical problems, diplomats have said. Problems with the enrichment technology could reduce the international pressure over Iran's civilian nuclear programme, which the United
Who is behind the India bombings?
• Time magazineEven as the dead are still being counted in India's worst terrorist attack in more than a decade, suspicion has already fallen on Islamic terrorists — though not al-Qaeda. India is home to a Muslim insurgency in Kashmir, and earlier in the day mi
Japanese gadget records, replicates odor
• USA TodayPeople stopping to smell the roses can now take that sweet floral fragrance home with them or even send it to a faraway grandmother thanks to a new gadget in Japan that records and replicates the world's odors.
Novak confirms Rove was one of his sources in outing Plame
• APNow that Karl Rove won't be indicted, now that the president won't fire him, now that it really doesn't matter anymore, more details of the [CIA undercover agent] Valerie Plame leak investigation trickle out.
US troops weigh impact of stress
• Christian Science MonitorRep. John Murtha made a provocative statement, "The tremendous pressure and the redeployment over and over again is a big part of this. And this strain has caused them to crack in situations like this."
Millions of Cameroon girls suffer "breast ironing"
• ReutersWorried that her daughters' budding breasts would expose them to the risk of sexual harassment and even rape, their mother Philomene Moungang started 'ironing' the girls' bosoms with a heated stone.
Freedom Means Responsibility
Howard BlitzTo be a German, one must be born in Germany. To be an Italian, one must be born in Italy. To be a Mexican, one must be born in Mexico. To be a South African, one must be born in South Africa. To be Chinese, one must be born in China. To be Japan
Last chance to avert civil war in Iraq
• ReutersDonald Rumsfeld met Iraq's government after his top general in the country told him Shi'ite "death squads" were fuelling a surge in communal bloodshed. The Iraq Prime Minister told lawmakers Iraq had one "last chance" to a
Principle touts success of mandatory drug testing in students
• USA TodayThat's why, Steffner says, she's a cheerleader for random drug testing of students. She tells other principals about the testing program she helped oversee for the past two years at Hackettstown High School, a 700-student campus in northern N
Rubber sidewalks go where concrete fears to tread
• Christian Science Monitor[Shades of The Probability Broach.] The idea to build sidewalks of rubber didn't come to Mr. Valeriano during the day. It came to him at night - in a dream. "I went home and the image was lodged in my subconscious," says the seni
Israel bombards Lebanon after Hezbollah seizes two soldiers
• AFPIsrael has bombarded Lebanon from the land, sea and air to retrieve two soldiers snatched by Hezbollah, the first such major offensive against its neighbour since a 2000 pullout. The abduction in a Hezbollah raid on an army post on the volatile Le
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