By ROBERT TANNER
AP National Writer Wed May 24, 2006 A campaign by gun rights advocates to make it easier to use deadly force in self-defense is rapidly winning support across the country, as state after state makes it legal for people who feel their lives are in danger to shoot down an attacker - whether in a car-jacking or just on the street.
The law has spurred debate about whether it protects against lawlessness or spurs more crime. |
AFP
Wed May 24, 2006 WASHINGTON - The US Senate limited debate on immigration reform, paving the way for a final vote on a measure that could legalize the status of millions of illegal immigrants.
The motion to cut off what has been protracted debate was made by Republican Senate majority leader Bill Frist and approved on a 73-25 vote. "We are heartened by this cloture vote. We're now down the home stretch," Republican Senator John McCain said at a bipartisan news conference. |
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The Christian Science Monitor Wed May 24, 2006 WASHINGTON - Lawmakers gathered on the House floor Monday evening to vote on veterans benefits, but that's not what caused most of the buzz. Nor was the corruption probe of Rep. William Jefferson (D) of Louisiana the leading topic of conversation.
No. More than reports of videotaped bribery and cash hidden in his home freezer, the scuttlebutt centered on the fact that the FBI had, for the first time, searched a congressional office. Is Congress missing the point - or is there a serious constitutional issue at stake here? |
By TONI LOCY
Associated Press May 25, 2006 WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney could be called to testify in the perjury case against his former chief of staff, a special prosecutor said in a court filing Wednesday.
Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald suggested Cheney would be a logical government witness because he could authenticate notes he jotted on a July 6, 2003, New York Times opinion piece by a former U.S. ambassador critical of the Iraq war. Fitzgerald said Cheney's "state of mind" is "directly relevant" to whether I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the vice president's former top aide, lied to FBI agents and a federal grand jury about how he learned about CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity and what he subsequently told reporters. |
by Martin Sieff
UPI Senior News Analyst May 25, 2006 Washington - President George W. Bush's decision to build a security fence along the continent-spanning U.S.-Mexican border is already being fiercely criticized by Mexico's president. But it is part of a new global pattern. From Israel to India, fences are "in."
Only a few years ago, security fences along national borders and increased border controls were globally out of fashion. The Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989 by ecstatic East Germans in the non-violent upheaval that heralded the collapse of communism. The security fences that tore Europe in two for 44 years collapsed at the same time as communism crumbled. |
www.chinaview.cn 2006-05-25 02:51:54
BEIJING, May 24 (Xinhua) -- China was strongly resentful of and firmly opposed to a U.S. annual report on its military power, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao here on Wednesday.
The 2006 China Military Power Report, issued by the U.S. Defense Ministry recently, has continued to spread "China's threat" and severely violated the principles governing international relations, said Liu when responding to press. |
www.chinaview.cn 2006-05-25 12:22:26
WASHINGTON, May 24 (Xinhua) -- U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Dennis Hastert is under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, ABC News reported Wednesday.
Quoting unnamed sources in the Justice Department, ABC News said information implicating Hastert, a Republican from Illinois, was developed from convicted lobbyists, who are now cooperating with the government in a corruption investigation. The report, however, was denied shortly by the Justice Department. |
By Ivan Eland
May 25, 2006 Over the weekend, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales made a draconian threat to prosecute journalists for writing about the National Security Agency's (NSA's) clandestine and illegal monitoring of U.S.-overseas telephone calls. That threat shows what an Orwellian farce the government's classified information system has become.
Gonzales is threatening to prosecute reporters under the 1917 Espionage Act. This anachronistic act was passed during World War I to make it illegal for unauthorized personnel to receive and transmit national defense information. |
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BBC News
24/05/2006 Venezuelan politicians have complained about a forthcoming "shoot-em-up" computer game that simulates an invasion of the South American nation.
In production by Los Angeles-based Pandemic Studios, Mercenaries 2: World In Flames is based around the overthrow of an imaginary Venezuelan "tyrant". Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has long accused the US of planning to invade, something Washington denies. His supporters say the game aims to drum up support for a real invasion. |
May 25, 2006: 12:05 PM EDT
HOUSTON (CNNMoney.com) - Enron former chief executive Jeffrey Skilling and founder Kenneth Lay were found guilty Thursday of conspiracy and fraud in the granddaddy of all corporate fraud cases.
On the sixth day of deliberations, a jury of eight women and four men convicted the former executives of misleading the public about the true financial health of Enron, whose collapse in late 2001 symbolized the wave of corporate fraud that swept the United States early this decade. |
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