The announcement of a pause in airstrikes was made after midnight by State Department spokesman J. Adam Ereli to reporters traveling with Rice.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says there will be no cease-fire in coming days.
It really is ID in disguise. The entire purpose behind all of this is to shift it into schools...
More than 54 civilians, at least 34 of them children, have been killed in a town in south Lebanon in the deadliest Israeli strike of the conflict so far. Displaced families had been sheltering in the basement of a house in Qana, which was crushed after a direct hit.
Senior officials have responded by drafting legislation that would grant US personnel involved in the terrorism fight new protections against prosecution for past violations of the War Crimes Act of 1996. That law criminalizes violations of the Geneva Conventions governing conduct in war and threatens the death penalty if US-held detainees die in custody from abusive treatment.
Elizabeth Moffly, business and community leader and former Republican candidate for State Superintendent of Education, endorsed Jim Rex in his bid to become South Carolina's next State Superintendent of Education. Moffly becomes the first high profile Republican to endorse Rex, a Democrat.
Moffly ran on a platform of increasing choice within South Carolina's public school system, evaluating the volume of testing currently being done in our schools, raising teacher pay, smaller classes, and ensuring that parents have a voice at the table when it comes to making education policy.
Aryan Nations brings with it a history of violence and murder, including the 1999 shootings of children and adults at a Los Angeles Jewish community daycare. The group blends racist Christian Identity and neo-Nazi ideology with the goal of establishing "a White Aryan homeland on the North American continent." The group was bankrupted in 2000. Their Idaho compound was seized in 2001. Their founder died in 2004. Although this faction is a pathetic shadow of its former self, the corpse Aryan Nations continues zombie-like in its mission to incite hatred and violence against Jews, homosexuals, people of color and all those deemed unfit for its master plan.
To understand and protect our home planet; To explore the universe and search for life; To inspire the next generation of explorers, as only NASA can.
To explore the universe and search for life; To inspire the next generation of explorers, as only NASA can.
how sad and frustrating it is that the world's greatest scientists cannot gather, discuss the question of global warming, pore over all the data from every angle, study meteorological patterns and temperature histories, and come to a believable conclusion on these questions: Is global warming real or not?
science too, like other great institutions, is poisoned by politics.
"because you need abortions to get these [embryos]."
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Israeli troops met fierce resistance from Hezbollah guerrillas Thursday as they crossed into Lebanon to seek tunnels and weapons for a second straight day, and Israel hinted at a full-scale invasion.
Dr. Rex was a high school teacher, a football coach, Dean of Education at both Winthrop and Coastal Carolina Universities, Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations and Vice President of University Advancement at the University of South Carolina.
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For a man who just became a politician in the last couple of months, Dr. Jim Rex is extremely articulate, polished, and level headed. He will be a tremendous asset to this state as our next Superintendent of Education.
Turkish officials signaled Tuesday they are prepared to send the army into northern Iraq if U.S. and Iraqi forces do not take steps to combat Turkish Kurdish guerrillas there - a move that could put Turkey on a collision course with the United States.
Turkey is facing increasing domestic pressure to act after 15 soldiers, police and guards were killed fighting the guerrillas in southeastern Turkey in the past week.
The Republicans love to claim they are the ones who do security right, but based on what they have achieved in the last 6 years, they look a lot more like a low rent version of the Keystone Kops. Our nation can not survive much more of their continued incompetence.The report said that 20 of 23 federally funded centers contacted by staff investigators requesting information about an unintended pregnancy were told false or misleading information about the potential risks of an abortion.
Less than four months before Election Day, the latest FOX News Poll finds that voters strongly favor the Democrats on key issues such as the economy and gas prices, and give the minority party a double-digit lead for control of Congress this fall. For most of President Bush's second term in office, more Americans have said they disapprove than approve of his job performance and that is again the case in this new poll.
On terrorism, Republicans, who once had as much as a 34-point advantage in 2003, now top Democrats by 12 percentage points.
There were cars full of gunmen prowling his mixed neighborhood, he said. He and his neighbor's were frantically exchanging information, trying to identify the gunmen.
Were they the Mahdi Army, the Shia militia blamed for drilling holes in their victims' eyes and limbs before executing them by the dozen? Or were they Sunni insurgents hunting down Shias to avenge last Sunday's massacre, when Shia gunmen rampaged through an area called Jihad, pulling people from their cars and homes and shooting them in the streets?
Marauding Mahdi gunmen, seeking to drive all Sunnis from the area, were fighting Sunni Mujahidin for control of a nearby strategic position. I could hear the gunfire blazing over the phone.
We phoned the US military trainer attached to Iraqi security forces in the area. He said there was nothing to be done: "There's always shooting at night here. It's like chasing ghosts."
In fact the US military generally responds only to request for support from Iraqi security forces. But as many of those forces are at best turning a blind eye to the Shia death squads, and at worst colluding with them, calling the Americans is literally the last thing they do.
A local journalist told me bitterly this week that Iraqis find it ironic that Saddam Hussein is on trial for killing 148 people 24 years ago, while militias loyal to political parties now in government kill that many people every few days.{bold mine}
Salon has obtained Army documents that show several cases where U.S. forces abducted terror suspects' families. After he was thrown in prison, Cpl. Charles Graner, the alleged ringleader at Abu Ghraib, told investigators the military routinely kidnapped family members to force suspects to turn themselves in.
some experts questioned whether the fact that Graham used the fabricated dialogue in a legal brief aimed at persuading the U.S. Supreme Court may have been misleading to the court.
A Texas Indian tribe filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday alleging ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed and their associates engaged in fraud and racketeering to shut down the tribe's casino.
Of course, there has been a wave of outrage from the Clinton-impeachment crowd over this latest example of lying to a court. Listen:
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In the past two years, campaign and political action committees controlled by Rep. John Doolittle, R-Calif., paid ever-larger commissions to his wife's one-person company
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Doolittle's wife, Julie, a professional fundraiser, has collected 15 percent of all contributions to Doolittle's leadership PAC and additional commissions on contributions to his campaign committee — a total of nearly $140,000 since 2003
All told, 47% of Floyd's contributions were from out-of-state. And 23% was from Howard Rich. I don't know if I mentioned that.
"So once this bill is signed into law, you anticipate that the Supreme Court will determine whether to maintain their grant of certiorari [in the Hamdan case]?" Graham asked Kyl. Kyl answered, "Yes, in my opinion, the court should dismiss Hamdan for want of jurisdiction. . . . I think that a majority of the court would do the right thing--to send Hamdan back to the military commission." (Emphasis added.)
In other words, after previously insisting - and to address Senator Levin's very specific concern on this score - that the revised language would in no way strip the Supreme Court's jurisdiction over Hamdan, Kyl was now maintaining exactly the opposite, with Graham's full cooperation.
Kyl continued, "As for legislative history" -- which he and Graham, his reference implied, were clearly making right then on the floor of the Senate -- "I think it usually is regarded as an element of the canons of [statutory] construction. It gives some indication of what Congress at least understood what it was doing--the context in which a law was enacted. Although, I understand that Justice Scalia does not read legislative history. I suppose that for his sake, we will have to strive to be exceptionally clear in the laws that we write." (Ironically, one reason Scalia disregards legislative history appears to be that he is well aware that Senators have been known to distort it.)
Those viewing C-Span's coverage of the Senate, and the Senators on the floor of the Senate, never heard this part, or any of the rest of, this lengthy colloquy between Graham and Kyl. That's because it never happened. No doubt aides of the Senators wrote this bogus and protracted dialogue, and either Graham or Kyl had it inserted in the record.
Masked Shi'ite gunmen rampaged through a west Baghdad neighborhood Sunday, dragging Sunnis from their cars, picking them out on the street and killing at least 41 in an escalation of sectarian violence.
Hours later, two car bombs exploded near a Shi'ite mosque in the city's north, killing 17 people and wounding 38 in what appeared to be a reprisal attack
A Russian passenger plane skidded off a rain-slicked Siberian runway early Sunday and plowed through a concrete barrier and into some nearby garages, bursting into flames. At least 122 people were killed and 58 hospitalized, the Emergency Situations Ministry said.
The Airbus A-310 belonging Russian airline S7 was carrying 201 people on a flight from Moscow to Irkutsk. Airline spokesman Konstantin Koshman said there were 193 passengers, including 14 children under the age of 12, and eight crew.
The violence began around 2 a.m. and lasted until 6 a.m., police said. The U.S. military said the 30 to 40 casualties were the result of a 43-minute firefight.
According to the U.S. military, Iraqi forces "were immediately engaged by insurgents" when they entered the eastern Baghdad neighborhood.
No Iraqi or coalition forces were wounded or killed in the firefight, the military said.
The Texas Republican Party must keep Tom DeLay's name on the November election ballot, even though the former congressman has dropped his re-election bid, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
DeLay, the former House majority leader who resigned from office June 9, won the Republican primary for his district in March but decided against re-election a month later.
Enron founder Kenneth Lay died early Wednesday in Aspen, Colo., a family spokeswoman said. Lay, 64, was awaiting sentencing after being found guilty of conspiracy and fraud in the Enron trial in May.
KABUL Three bombs exploded on Wednesday in the Afghan capital, in attacks that targeted buses carrying government workers and security forces, killing one bystander and injuring at least 47 other people, police and witnesses said.
The US ambassador to Baghdad, Zalmay Khalilzad, has said the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi last month has had no impact on the violence.
A 21-year-old former Army private has been charged with killing four members of an Iraqi family and raping one of the victims before shooting her, federal prosecutors and the Army said Monday.
Steven D. Green, a former member of the 101st Airborne Division, is accused of killing an Iraqi man, two women and a girl in Mahmoudiya, just south of Baghdad, in March.
Iraqis reported the killings to U.S. troops the day they occurred, but the deaths were blamed on insurgents or "other entities" at the time, according to an FBI agent's affidavit. (Watch how Army probe into deaths began -- 1:00)
But three months later, during combat stress debriefing sessions that followed the killings of two U.S. soldiers kidnapped from a checkpoint in Yusufiya, members of Green's platoon began recounting the killings.
