Legislative leaders say they may take until May 9 to finish up an agenda that includes passing a state budget.
TALLAHASSEE - The 2003 Florida Legislature is destined for overtime, as lawmakers acknowledged Friday that they may need as much as an extra week to finish a session characterized more by bickering than passing major bills.
The [...]

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Commentary by Bob Kunst
Dear Ricky, Ricky, Ricky:
Oh how I hate to write, but your recent Roman Catholic, Gay Bashing
and lovestyle phobias, all ‘politically motivated’, does require my
screed to you.
For G-d’s sake, whatever you do do, don’t resign.
Since your tirade to equate gay love making with bigamy, polygamy,
incest and adultery, is all over [...]

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PARIS (Reuters) - Pentagon adviser Richard Perle, a key architect of the U.S.-led drive to topple Saddam Hussein, was quoted on Friday as saying Washington would pursue other states in its crackdown on global terrorism.
“The military interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq are part of efforts to fight against terrorism,” Perle told the French newspaper Les [...]

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LIMA, Ohio - US President George W. Bush nearly declared the war in Iraq over on Thursday, and for the first time suggested that Baghdad may have destroyed the banned arms at the core of his argument for military action.

US-led forces scouring Iraq for the chemical and biological weapons that Saddam Hussein always denied possessing [...]

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans lining up for state unemployment benefits last week rose more than expected to the highest level in more than a year, the government said on Thursday in a report showing further labor market erosion.
First-time jobless claims rose by 8,000 to 455,000 for the week ended April 19, the [...]

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By Gary Fineout
Ledger Tallahassee Bureau

gfineout@earthlink.net
TALLAHASSEE — Florida already leads the nation in handing out private school vouchers, but state lawmakers appear ready to go even further this year by greatly expanding a controversial program that has scant oversight from the state.
Nearly 25,000 students receive vouchers statewide, but the Republican-led Legislature may extend vouchers to an [...]

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WASHINGTON: Millions of Americans sweated it out on Tuesday, struggling to meet the deadline - April 15 - for filing their annual tax returns as accountants and post offices stayed open late to accommodate the laggards. Many will be hoping the Indians have lived up to their reputation for sound number-crunching.
In keeping with the [...]

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BY GREG WRIGHT
WASHINGTON–Two Democratic groups Tuesday demanded that Sen. Rick Santorum step down as the Republican Party’s top communicator in the Senate because of what they consider anti-gay remarks.
A leading gay Republican organization said it could call for his ouster as well.
But the Pennsylvania Republican said an Associated Press story Monday in which he [...]

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark.- A federal judge ordered Harry Potter books back onto an Arkansas school district’s library shelves Tuesday, rejecting a school board’s claim that tales of wizards and spells could harm school children.
Ruling in favor of a fourth-grader’s parents, U.S. District Judge Jimm Larry Hendren ordered the Cedarville School District to put the four [...]

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US Secretary of State Colin Powell has warned France that there will be consequences following its refusal to support military action against Iraq.
BBC News Online world affairs correspondent Paul Reynolds looks at what those consequences might be and why:
What did Mr Powell actually threaten?
In an interview with public television in the United [...]

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Three men beaten as they left a gay pride party last year are angry after their attacker was sentenced to two years of house arrest followed by four-years probation.
Devin Scott Angus, 21, had faced up to 30 years in prison. He pleaded guilty earlier this month to charges of aggravated battery and battery with evidence [...]

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The UN chief weapons investigator has stated that US officials sought to discredit his team in the period ahead of the outbreak of war against Iraq.
Dr Hans Blix has also revealed that the US and UK relied on “shaky” intelligence when building the case for military action.
Blix, who faces American opposition to his ambitions to [...]

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The US military has revealed it is holding juveniles at its high-security prison for terrorists at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, known as Camp Xray.
The commander of the joint task force at Guantanamo, Major General Geoffrey Miller, says more than one child under the age of 16 is at the detention centre.
However, Maj Gen Miller has [...]

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CANBERRA (Reuters) - The Pentagon (news - web sites) has drawn up plans to bomb a North Korea (news - web sites) nuclear plant if it reprocesses spent nuclear fuel rods, according to an Australian newspaper report on Tuesday that was quickly downplayed by Australian officials.
Citing “well-informed Canberra sources close to U.S. thinking,” The [...]

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By Barton Gellman
THE WASHINGTON POST
CAMP DOHA, Kuwait

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