WAR IRAQ
On the ground:
Baghdad Car Bombs Kill 34 Children Receiving Sweets +
Al-Zarqawi Group Claims Responsibility +U.S.
Forces Strike at Suspected Terrorist Safehouse in Fallujah; Witnesses: U.S.
Troops Fired at Car Carrying Children + The
true face of Iraqi resistance +
Kirkuk: The Next Iraqi War +
Car bombs rock Baghdad +
Orders of battle +
Juan Cole reports
Occupation:
Oil-Rich Iraq Provinces Push for Autonomy +
'Enduring Bases' in Iraq: US Presence for Decades +
One in four Iraqis on hand-outs +
Hidden Plans, Enduring Bases
Hostages:
Blair
wants contact with hostage-takers +
British captive says Blair betraying him. TV shows engineer begging for female prisoners to be freed +
'2 Simonas' say Iraqi kidnappers apologized. Persistent reports Italy paid ransom +
Film shows 10 new Iraq hostages +
The price of freedom +
Freed Italian Hostage Says She and Second Woman Feared Death, Despite Special
Treatment From Captors
AFGHANISTAN:
Taliban try to intimidate Afghan voters with 'night letters'.
MIDDLE EAST:
Clashes in Gaza follow deadly rocket attack. 2 Israelis, 5 Palestinians
killed. Sharon predicts broader offense +
U.K.: Israel must stop assassinations, PA must curb terror organizations
RUSSIA:
Warlord wanted for Beslan atrocity trapped by Russian-backed forces +
Road to Beslan +
Belarus prez prepared to struggle against possible Western aggression+
State sells Lukoil stake for $2 billion in 2 minutes
EUROPE:
EU claims 'victory' as Russian cabinet approves Kyoto treaty +
For Europe, Turks still have to shake off "hordes of the Apocalypse" image
BRITAIN:
Blair to have heart procedure, will serve 3rd term +
Blair avoids Iraq vote defeat +
Prescott attacks +
No more Jeeves +
Blair defeats Iraq troops pull-out call
AMERICAS:
Coca production making a return in Bolivia +
China Readies Riot Force For Peacekeeping in Haiti
INTELLIGENCE
AGENTS AT WORK AND AT PLAY....
Pakistan refuses to let UN nuclear watchdog interview Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan
2 get death in bombing of Cole. Judge in Yemen also sentences 4 to prison terms
Venezuela, Colombia Get Failing Grade in Nazi Hunt
A human security
doctrine for Europe, and beyond
NZ will keep pushing for apology over Mossad 'agents'
Report: Ex-MI chief Zeira may be charged
For Israel, it’s even all right to spy on the US!
Intelligence Failure re: keeping funding secret
China Asks Canada to Hand Over Intruders
Pinochet Examined by Doctors to Determine Whether He Can Stand Trial
Kyrgyz security agency arrest man accused of trying to sell plutonium
Click.
Ex Gitmo detainee vows to fight Russia
How to avoid future
9/11s and Beslans
1971: Foreign Office names Soviet superspy +
1971: 'I arrested a KGB superspy'
MORE BANG FOR THE BUCK....
Fannie Mae's Shares, Bonds Fall as Justice Considers Fraud Investigation
Oil problems cast wide net
Rocky Mountain states
power options
General Mills to change to whole grains
Natural resources funds boom
Don't fault growers for price of coffee
For old venture capitalist, a good day
Oil Giant Total in French Probe Over Alleged Overseas Bribes
Enron Barge Dealmaker Regrets Deal
HOW
LOW
THE
LAW
GOES....
Patriot Act subpoena of Internet data struck down +
Ashcroft likely to appeal Patriot ruling
FBI rounds up alleged leaders of Gambino crime family on East Coast
Bail denied slain lawyer's husband
Prosecutor: Pelosi made threats
Zeta-Jones Stalker Mentally Fit
Pitcairn Mayor 'Led Rape' on Island
The
Supreme Court's Excessive Secrecy: Why It Isn't Merited
Durst may walk by March
SEC Investigates Business Between Delphi, EDS
Boston Gangster Sentenced to Life in Prison in Slaying of Businessman in Tulsa, Okla.
Houston Police Chief Wants Executions Halted Because of Crime Lab Problems
Australia makes child porn sweep
CALIFORNIA BREAKING LAW NEWS....
Major crackdown on human trafficking. Feds make Northern California focus of new effort +
Task force spreads word on 'modern-day slavery'
Ex COO of Liberate
software indicted for inflating company's revenue
Dentists arrested for fraud can keep working
Relatives of Dead Inmate to Sue State (Man died
after tooth pulled)
Click. (LAT Reg)
Santa Clara:
Convicted sex offender Michael Donald Raney of Gilroy held on registration charge +
Trial begins for suspect in Mtn. View hate crime +
San Jose tax attorney Owen Fiore guilty of evading taxes
Contra Costa:
Concord OKs online crime statistics +
Theft victims invited to view recovered items at El Cerito police station
Alameda County:
With patriarch Qader Qudus in prison re: Hawalas family closes business in
Little Kabul, Fremont +
Residents, but not their things, escape fire in Berkeley duplex +
Sausage king defense contradicted. Brain not small but banged up +
Unregistered pesticide
infraction costs Oakland firm, Chemical Compounding Co. +
San Leandro murder case ends with no-contest plea to avoid death penalty +
RV pursuit ends in arrest +
Union City police: accident scams on rise +
Fremont police
concerned by car fires set intentionally +
City of Alameda:
Suit filed to stop tenants' evictions
Sacramento area:
Ex-wife
says man admitted murdering Cal State Sacto student +
Sacramento Symphony checks
bounce after concert +
Slaying of cat makes headlines, inflames passions in Glenn County +
Olson likely to serve longest SLA sentence, officials say +
Redding teen
who killed neighbor was on anti-depressants +
Sacramento slaying suspect chased, caught +
Charges filed against man accused in killing 1-yr-old with hammer +
Talk set on identifying gang activity +
News in brief from Northern California
San Francisco, San Mateo:
Bonds ball in court +Judge
tells possessor not to sell Bonds' ball. 5 lawyers now involved in ownership
squabble +
Ex-lawyer Nikolai Tehnin felt 'absolute panic" when $ million from clients
missing from his trust fund +
Police officers call for apology by commissioner. Remarks hinting racism in
school response resented +
Union
blisters Keane +
Straight-A student is S.F. slaying victim. Girl, 17, vanished on way to school
+
Stunned by slaying
Marin:
Dep't Corrections to expand San Quentin's death row +
Experts testify Mill Valley killer (former cult member of Bhaqwan Shree
Rajneesh) can be released
Sonoma:
Man in Rohnert Park slayings to stay in hospital
Solano:
Four months since Grant murder, but still no leads +
Carjacking suspect to be extradited this week +
Smokeshop handed eviction
Southern California:
Lawyer: Robert Blake's wife was victim of a conspiracy +
LA county supervisors sued over vote to delete cross from county seal +
Former Orange County assistant sheriff denies corruption +
Daily News: Gangsters in Southern
California streets +
Bryant Told Police of O'Neal Payouts
Central Valley:
Stanislaus deputies
under care after training scare +
CHP weighs charges in Modesto auto accident (11-yr-old driver)+
Judge
suggests Turlock officials not wrong to meet with Wal-Mart's competitors before
passing ordinance blocking Wal-Mart
Scott Peterson:
Court hears new contradiction +
Few calls about Laci, detective says +
Prosecution hits at defendant's actions after wife vanished +
Lead Peterson detective spends 7th day on the stand +
Peterson defense implies botched investigation +
'Longing' for Laci, Scott called Frey +
Defendant rarely inquired about case. Modesto detective says behavior was
suspicious +
Developments Wednesday |
ONLY IN
CALIFORNIA....
The Governor:
Gov. vetoes bills on offshoring jobs. Legislation bans foie gras starting in 2012 +
Gov. signs 52 bills into state law +
Water meters on the way + +
Gov.
vetoes bills to prevent outsourcing of jobs +
Curbs on jobs offshore vetoed +
No go on bill to push affordable housing +
Bill boosts domestic violence aid in Alameda County +
Phone recycling signed into law +
Gov. signs foie gras bill +
Runaway Filming a Challenge for Gov.
Click. (LAT Reg) +
Youth sports law's goal: Gender equity +
Supplements curb signed by Gov. +
Law will streamline school fund system +
Gov. signs education overhaul +
A veto, a jibe for Wiggins, colleagues +
Bill Lacks Heft When a Target Shows Support
Click. (LAT Reg) + Gov. Vetoes Port Smog Curbs
Click. (LAT Reg) + Ferret out as house pet in California after veto
Click. +
'Angels of Death' deliver legislators the bad news +
Daniel Weintraub: Gov., social conservatives go separate ways +
Gov.
Vetoes Privacy Bill for employees re: their e-mail at work
California should mimic federal prison health care, senators say
For eastern span of Bay Bridge, it's do-or-don't day
Shelley took check in his office, donor says. It's a misdemeanor for officials
to accept campaign donations in state buildings
Propositions:
Measures put future of gaming to voters +
Experts debate stem cell measure +
Props. 68, 70 spending may top $100M
Legislative grants to nonprofits, recipes for waste and abuse
Trailing badly, Jones accuses Boxer of ducking debates +
Libertarian judge Gray says he's no purist. Senate hopeful left GOP over
Patriot Act
Monterey: GOP candidate
Mark Risely receiving threatening phone calls
Plan to roll back diesel emissions
$26-Million Deal Will Save 8,800 Acres of Fragile Joshua Tree Desert
Click. (LAT Reg)
Better diet could be healthy for farms, too
Click.
Indian tribes: Gov. opposes a casino in Jamul
Click.
LOCAL NEWS:
Mischievous grizzly cubs to be adopted by S.F. Zoo. Montana planned to kill 2 orphan bears
San Clemente surfer takes brief ride on a whale
Another substantial quake, not an aftershock, rattles Central California
San Francisco:
Officials deny blocking Julie Lee. They say documents for Sunset center were not
submitted +
U.S. grant to boost lead peril cleanup +
1,400 union workers strike against 4 major S.F. hotels +
Picket lines concern guests at struck hotels +
Tourist biz braces for impact +
Newsom
wants wireless 'hotspot'
Contra Costa:
Pleasant Hills Golf Course scheduled to close today, development in the works +
Grand jury would end open space funding authority +
Fire chiefs protest ordinance change re: training standards for refineries +
Refinery fire chiefs resist training rule. Unions want all contractors to take
apprenticeship program +
Supervisors
delay vote on big-box retailers
Santa Clara:
Former Ebay Prez Skoll urges valley to create local endowment +
Los Altos to revise restrictions on day care centers +
San Jose panel clears ex-mayoral aides in ethics probe +
San Jose hopeful after baseball moves Expos to D.C.
Alameda County:
Alameda Med
center deal will avoid layoffs +
Oakland
gives
Olympian Ward hero's treatment +
Light of Lights, Children's Grove recall lost lives +
Berkeley modifies 1989 creeks law +
Fremont
bans pot shops -- for now +
Fremont to study 'quiet zones' +
Mercury thermometer swap offered on UC Berkeley campus
Sonoma:
Little Acorn winery that could +
1 in 4 families in financial limbo +
GOP's Tyrone faces stiff race against Berg
Marin:
San Anselmo residents
oppose development plan +
Fairfax officials cut pay to trim deficit
Napa:
Napa's
plan for Soscol 'Gateway' coming to life +
Low-income apartments christened
Monterey:
New law targets zoning, building code violators +
Final Rancho San Carlos subdivision lots OK'd
Solano:
Water bills likely to rise 50 percent
Central Valley:
Valley getting bigger slice of charitable giving in state +
Tracy hospital running behind +
Hughson holds forum tonight for candidates +
Tuolumne County hopefuls debate in Sonora +
News from the San Joaquin Valley +
Stanislaus County
targets binge drinking +
Kaiser will pay for Modesto city engineer +
CHP weighs charges in Modesto auto accident (11-yr-old driver) +
The McHenrys are gone, but the name lives on in Modesto
Southern California:
Hahn defends crime fight+
L.A. business
tax cuts to cost $95 million +
Baca says Measure A still needed +
Unexpected riches in L.A. treasury +
Cities on 710 Push for Port Smog Clause
Click. (LAT Reg) + Coalition
Seeks to Protect Santa Clara River Watershed's Very Nature
Click. (LAT Reg) + Orange County Whites a Majority No Longer
Click. (LAT Reg)
School days:
Schools to unload surplus on eBay, gain needed cash +
Mt. Diablo grapples with crowding +
Palo Alto school's fundraising helps African kids +
Strapped district in Sunnyvale cuts teacher salaries 4.9% +
Expanding their world: Grants let schools do what they otherwise cannot +
Nine scholars join UC Merced faculty +
Newark fund-raiser
a bust as school recalls racy catalogs +
Quarry Lane School opens its third campus +
Baffling ventilation problem at San Francisco's Lowell +
S.F. supervisors to decide on broadband system +
Cal super-cautious on Fulbright filings. Dean overseeing early application process +
California
youth summits to be held through state +
Salinas financial
deadline looming +
Scotts Valley schools race is talk of the town +
Vallejo: Early
audit nearly done +
2 more black studies professors leave Harvard
FBI ordered to turn over last 10 pages from file on John Lennon
Berkeley wall tallies Iraq bloodshed
On Oct. 17, union workers launch "Million Workers March" in D.C.
Protesters
prepare for chase as plutonium ships near UK
Dershowitz's Jihad:
Inventing Exceptions to International Law
BIOWARFARE WATCH....
CALL TO STOCKPILE BIRD FLU VACCINE
"SUPER BUGS"
INFECTING MORE HEALTHY PEOPLE
West Nile virus kills 12th bird in Contra Costa County
Statins questioned + Firm seeks to change law, sell low-dose statin pills at stores
Click. (SJM Reg)
More lunar landings for NASA?
Merck recalls Vioxx worldwide on heart, stroke risk +
How to Get a Refund for Vioxx +
1/4Consumers Have Lots of Alternatives +
Summary: What's Wrong With Arthritis Drug Vioxx? +
A List of the Best-Selling Drugs in the Nation
Oceans might add to Earth's rock 'n' roll
2.5 million AIDS grant awarded. Veteran researcher to study how body can suppress HIV
Sea of ancient microbes found atop South African mountain
Women dominate marine-science lineup
Toxic algae grows to 30 miles wide
Protection
Urged for Quirky Dolphin
Sound
Makes Electricity for Space
In
Search of the Earth Mark II
Japanese discover new chemical element
High Resolution Satellite Imagery Assists Hunt For Infectious 'Kissing Bugs'
Caffeine Withdrawal Recognized As A Disorder
Cancer Vaccine Based On Pathogenic Listeria Bacteria Shows Promise Targeting Metastases
'Dead Zone' Area Shrinking, Texas A&M Prof Says
Fuel Cell Celebrates One Year
New Hydrothermal Vents Discovered As "South Pacific Odyssey" Begins
Bacteria's 'Glue Valve' Surprises Scientists
New Structure Found Deep Within West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Chromosome Research On Flies Yields Insights Into Human Diseases
A Fishy Change In Diet: McGill Research Shows Fish Eating Junk Food
Stage 0 breast cancer is cancer that has not spread out of the breast tissue
Punching The Timeclock Of Life
Government Issues Forecasts of Harmful Algae in Gulf of Mexico
'Tomato
treatment' slows cancer
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New search site Clusty.com launches
HP kills
slow-selling marketing miracle
Call of the Wild:
Is it Cellular?
Clever Cars
Can Read Road Signs
Giving Computers The Jitters Helps Explain Human Behavior
New Surface Chemistry May Extend Life Of Technology For Making Transistors
Microsoft Says It Would Have Gone Further Than EU Order in Sharing Software Blueprints
Comcast upgrade on track
Microsoft Appeals EU Ruling
SpaceShipOne Surpasses 100 Km Altitude On First X-Prize Flight
THE BUSHWORLD...
Kerry to Counter Indecisive Image, Bush to Fight Reckless Charge in Debate
U.S.
forces suffered from poor planning +
U.S. didn't note post-invasion Iraq power shift
White House backs broader provision on deportation
Powell calls for Palestinian intifadah to end
France, U.S. Sign New Cooperation Accord to Fight Terrorism
State Department: Release of Suspected Enemy Combatant Delayed
Bush: Wildlife Protections on Hold
Click. (LAT Reg)
Congress:
Intelligence overhaul bill called bad for immigrants +
House repeals gun laws for D.C. Bill likely to face defeat in Senate +
Lawmakers work on corporate tax overhaul+
Congress delays votes on overtime, drug issues +
Women facing off in 11 House races +
Congress airs debate on new phone books +
Congress puts off some divisive issues until after election +
Republicans Pad Intel Bill +
House Moves to Defeat Constitutional Amendment Banning Gay Marriage +
Congress Seeks to End College-Aid Provision That Has Benefited Banks +
Unable to Settle Disputes, Congress Gives Up on Highway, Welfare Bills
THE 2004 ELECTION:
Debate:
Bush, Kerry Set for Crucial First Debate +
Real-time poll aims to feed survey appetite +
Bush Team Prepares Net Assault on Kerry's performance in debate +
Fight over the lights
Times Poll: Bush Leads Kerry Going Into Debate
Click. (LAT Reg)
HUD secretary puts focus on black vote and "victimization"
Alaska judge orders ballots reprinted
Bloggers become weapon in US presidential election
Military records:
Yet another new document surfaces on Bush's military service +
White
House Lied About Releasing All of President's Military Records +
Bush's Exit Letter To Guard Released +
Assembling Full War Records a Challenge
BUSH/CHENEY:
Bush tours Fla., Kerry faults Bush on oil +
Families of war dead denounce Bush
KERRY/EDWARDS:
Edwards: Religion shouldn't divide voters +
NRA ad portrays Kerry as poodle +
Kerry defends ridiculed vote
OPINIONS:
America's Dead Remain Faceless: Ilana Mercer
High Time for Bush to Tell the Truth: Ray McGovern
Sen. Kerry, Help Is Not on the Way: Engelhardt, Giussani
Novak: Kerry's 'facts' just don't add up
Kerry's own party throws him
No debate: Kerry must connect - now
Juan Cole: Is justice being delayed by Bush administration politics
Lloyd Grove's Lowdown: Bush has Babs fired up
Tina Brown: Waiting for Kerry's big finish to start
The Kidnap Capital
of the World: Iraq's One Growth Industry
MILITARY
Sons killed in Iraq; mothers turn political
Click.
'Helmets to Hardhats' helps ex-soldiers
Top Air Force Lawyer Steps Aside
Army bolstering its ability to learn, teach lessons
U.S. Navy Chief England
addresses topic of the ''next war'' at conference
House Votes More Flexible Hours for VA Nurses
Navy plans to scrap ELF
LEAKGATES
The Beltway inquisition
9-11 widow cites attorney- presidential conflicts, threat in estate court petition to
judge
Click.
Blood for pork....
REPORT: DEFENSE CONTRACTORS REAP BILLIONS IN NO BID CONTRACTS
Russia's top oil company, Lukoil, hopes that U.S. oil company's acquisition of a 7.6 percent stake could boost its chances to retain a
Saddam-era production-sharing agreement to develop Iraq's giant West Qurna fields
Click.
CONNECT THE DOTS....
Diana Griego Erwin: Recruiters have his number and his mom's wondering why
Deployment figures; dignitaries in town
Stardom:
HEROIN Pulls Another PLUG
Women could out sprint
men in the long run, say scientists
San Francisco gay marriage
and beyond:
Gay rights group wants reggae star's L.A. concert canceled +
Christopher
Caen: Marriage saved, chaos ensues +
Spanish government to allow homosexual couples to adopt +
Music of black origin gets British salute amid gay-bashing controversy +
Politicians now face voters on gay ban
The Pen Is Mightier....
U.S. Marshals
shut down Santa Cruz private radio station +
Pirate radio station unplugged
Iraqi Cartoonists Mock Militants and America Alike
Paper trail: A history of newspapers in America
US news media on the Right track
New 'Security' Target: the Press
Ken Starr is the
lawyer for New York Times in leak case
Hewitt: I never would have done that article
Columbia campaign desk
Today's papers
Lady at the Piano, Felix Vallotton
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Daily picture from the Metropolitan
Muzzi's maze is corny, but people keep coming back
A different kind of labyrinth
Tribute concert held in Beverly Hills for late Ray Charles
Disney's vital organ
Behind the scenes at the Pucci show
'Black Pinocchio' Tells of Dreams and Desperation
Amelio film to carry Italy's hopes at Oscars
Biographer emerges from Graham Greene's shadow after 27 years
Vancouver International Film Festival's 'Dragons and Tigers' has teeth
Witch City brews a new image
Ono's image of naked breast offends Liverpudlians
Moving take on Gershwin showcases American genius
Music Videos Tap Video Games
Patrick White, Down Under
Rush & Molloy: A sorry tale of Hilton's latest tape
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