Gunfire and explosions have rattled Falluja as President Bush insists his forces will do what it takes to control the city.
Shelling and fierce exchanges of gunfire broke out mid-afternoon on Wednesday in three districts of Falluja, which had already been pounded by airborne gunships overnight.
Local hospital staff said at least 10 residents had been wounded [...]

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Zell Miller, Georgia’s maverick Democratic senator, says the nation ought to return to having senators appointed by legislatures rather than elected by voters.
Miller, who is retiring in January, was first appointed to his post in 2000 after the death of Paul Coverdell. He said Wednesday that rescinding the 17th Amendment, which declared that senators should [...]

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The latest Rasmussen Reports Presidential Tracking Poll shows President George W. Bush with 45% of the vote and Senator John F. Kerry with 45%.
President Bush has led or been tied for eight straight days. However, he no longer holds the three points plus edge he had maintained over the past three days. Neither candidate has [...]

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U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg on Wednesday called Vice President Dick Cheney “the lead chickenhawk” against Sen. John Kerry and criticized other Republicans for questioning the Democratic presidential contender’s military credentials.
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In a scathing speech on the Senate floor, Lautenberg, D-New Jersey, said that he did not think politicians should be judged by whether they had military [...]

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President Bush said Wednesday he believes most parts of Fallujah are returning to “normal” despite three days of battles with insurgents. Fighting and instability in Iraq will not force a delay in the June 30 transfer of power, he said.
“There are pockets of resistance and our military along with Iraqis will make sure it’s secure,” [...]

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Links to discussion of the failure of Pennsylvania’s Primary Election counting software:
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At least four people have been killed in a shootout that erupted in the Syrian capital of Damascus after a car bomb exploded in a posh neighbourhood.
The firefight between security forces and a group of four armed men ensued late on Tuesday after the latter set off a car bomb in the well-guarded diplomatic area [...]

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Fierce fighting has erupted in the restive Iraqi city of Falluja as US occupation forces strike the town with warplanes, helicopter gunships, mortar bombs and tanks.
Live footage beamed on Aljazeera TV showed the night sky incessantly lit up as strike after strike hit mainly the Golan district of the city on Tuesday.
Aljazeera’s correspondent reported a [...]

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Canadian research centers have reported that during the war against Iraq the U.S. military used depleted uranium (DU) weapons which caused the radiation level to rise at least 300 times above normal, and the weapons caused similar effects in Afghanistan.
U.S. troops have recently begun removing contaminated topsoil in Iraq, taking it to an unknown location.

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Some blogs are whimsical and deal with “soft” subjects. Others, though, are cutting edge in delivering information and opinion.
As a result, some analysts say U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials might be starting to track blogs for important bits of information. This interest is a sign of how far Web media such as blogs have [...]

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No Doubt for the Intellectually Uncurious…
Supporters of Ronald Reagan (news - web sites) have begun raising money to establish a university in his name in Colorado.
Organizers hope to create a general university with medical and law schools and a graduate school of public and international policy. They want to open by 2010 with 10,000 students [...]

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Blasts and heavy shooting shook the Syrian capital, Damascus, late Tuesday, Arab television stations reported.
Al Jazeera television said the blasts and shooting were heard from a western district of Damascus where it said the British ambassador’s residence and the Saudi embassy are located…{{link http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=4958846 MORE}}

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On Friday, FMQB reported that Howard Stern topped the Winter 2004 Arbitron morning show ratings in his hometown New York market. In the wake of his public verbal assaults on the FCC, Clear Channel, and George W. Bush over the past few months, Stern has also seen a dramatic increase in his numbers in Boston, [...]

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Before the war in Iraq, Ahmad Chalabi was the Pentagon’s favorite exile, the man who supported the Bush administration’s claims that Saddam Hussein was sitting on a huge stockpile of weapons of mass destruction, and who many in the defense secretary’s inner circle saw as the future leader of a free Iraq.
A year later, he [...]

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