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The Associated Press -
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - A US military jury gave Osama bin Laden's driver a surprisingly light sentence Thursday, making him eligible for release in just five months despite the prosecutors' request for at least a 30-year sentence to ...
Video: Bin Laden Driver Seeks Leniency From Gitmo Jury
Hamdan verdict in first terror tribunal
 USA Today |
New York Times -
By DAVID STOUT WASHINGTON - An Honduran immigrant convicted of murder was put to death in Texas on Thursday evening after the Supreme Court declined to block the execution, despite his lawyers’ complaints that he should have been told that he could get ...
Video: Inside Story- José Medellín's execution- 06 Aug 08- part 2
Texas executes Honduran man for 2001 murder
 BBC News |
Bloomberg -
By Khalid Qayum and James Rupert Aug. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf faces the battle of his political life after foes united yesterday on a plan to impeach him -- a fight that may prompt the army he once commanded to intervene ...
Video: Pakistan moves to impeach its president - 07 Aug 08
Impeachment hopes and fears
 Ninemsn |
Reuters -
By Margarita Antidze MEGVREKISI, Georgia (Reuters) - Georgia sent troops into its breakaway province of South Ossetia and surrounded the capital Tskhinvali on Friday after a short-lived ceasefire collapsed.
Video: Georgia announces ceasefire
New shooting reported in Georgia's South Ossetia
 Washington Post |
Ha'aretz -
By Barak Ravid Five days before Wednesday's coup in Mauritania, Israel's ambassador, Boaz Bismuth, left the country after serving there for four years.
Mauritania police break up anti-coup rally
Mauritania coup commander leads march in capital
 BBC News |
Los Angeles Times -
Kilpatrick violated conditions for his bond by traveling to Canada on business without notifying the court, a judge rules. By PJ Huffstutter, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer CHICAGO -- A Michigan judge sent Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to jail today ...
Video: Detroit Mayor Violated Bond, Ordered Jailed
Indicted Detroit mayor jailed for violating bond
 Sydney Morning Herald |
CBS News -
Over two months after suspending her presidential campaign, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has paid her bills to all universities and colleges.
Clinton may seek roll-call vote at Dems' convention
What Does Hillary Want?
 Seattle Post Intelligencer |
Reuters -
WILMINGTON, Ohio (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain, concerned about potential job losses, pressed on Thursday for more information about a proposal for United Parcel Service Inc to fly packages in North America for rival DHL.
McCain Confronts Lobbying, Job Loss Issue
McCain Urges Anti-Trust Review of DHL/UPS Deal
 ABC News |
MarketWatch -
By Sam Mamudi, MarketWatch NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- As US regulators come down hard on banks accused of improperly selling auction-rate securities, three closed-end fund firms are at different stages of fixing the problem for their investors.
Video: Citi to pay $7B to investors
UPDATE 1-States in auction-rate probes of 12 firms -Texas
 BBC News |
Wall Street Journal -
Nobody knows AIG better than Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, the man who built up this insurance empire and ran it for decades.
AIG CEO to take scalpel soon to big insurer
Hartford Financial Services Group shares fall
Wall Street Journal -
By KATHY SHWIFF Clearwire Corp.'s second-quarter loss widened on investment losses and expenses related to its plan to merge with Sprint Nextel Corp.
UPDATE: Clearwire posts wider 2Q net loss
Clearwire posts wider loss, revenue rises
 CBS News |
Los Angeles Times -
John McCain moved Thursday to return about $50000 in donations amassed by a defense contractor whose partner had raised $500000 for his presidential campaign.
McCain Will Review Donations From Fla. Bundler
McCain campaign to return 50K in donations
 Seattle Post Intelligencer |
Los Angeles Times -
The fear that is not very far beneath the surface for some Barack Obama backers no doubt became more palpable today with word that the Secret Service has arrested a 22-year-old man in Miami on charges he threatened to kill the presumptive Democratic ...
Man Charged in Miami With Threatening to Kill Obama (Update1)
Man held in Fla. on charge of threatening Obama
Boston Globe -
It is not ‘‘too close to call’’ merely because polls have John McCain and Barack Obama virtually tied in swing states. Pollsters interview randomly selected voters, but then weight the results to reflect the expected composition of the electorate in ...
Hillary Clinton's slur unearthed to hurt Obama
Comment by John S. Baick Professor of History, Western New England College DailyTech |
InternetNews.com -
Security researcher Dan Kaminsky argues that the recent DNS vulnerability wasn't just hype: it could have destroyed the Web. By Sean Michael Kerner: More stories by this author: LAS VEGAS -- The recent Domain Name System (define) caching flaw that had ...
Critical DNS Vulnerability Larger than Initially Thought
Kaminsky Reveals Details of Critical DNS Flaw
 ZDNet |
PC World -
Apple "kill switch" found in iPhone 2.0 OS causes stir as developers ponder why it's there. With HP wireless printers, you could have printed this from any room in the house.
May the force be with PhoneSaber: Another iPhone app vanishes
Apple removes $1000 featureless iPhone application
 Voice of America |
Scientific American -
By JR Minkel BEAM PIPE (blue) being installed into ATLAS, one of two main particle detectors built to study collisions in the Large Hadron Collider outside Geneva, which is slated for a key test this weekend.
Date set for Large Hadron Collider switch on
Date Set for Operation of Large Hadron Collider
TMZ.com -
Cops say Syed Rahman, an employee at Spotlight Live, has confessed to killing Ingrid Rivera during Lil' Kim's birthday party.
Video: Woman Found Dead in Club, After Rapper's Party
UPDATE 1-Man arrested over beating death at Lil' Kim party
 Times Online |
Reuters -
LOS ANGELES, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Oscar winner Morgan Freeman said he was feeling "real good" on Thursday after his release from a Memphis, Tennessee, hospital where he was treated for broken bones and other injuries from a weekend car crash.
Video: Freeman to Divorce After 24 Years of Marriage
Morgan Freeman Released from Hospital
 Washington Post |
Los Angeles Times -
Tired of Serious Actor stuff, Franco went for laughs with a stoner comedy. But he reads Pynchon on set. By Chris Lee, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer IN ""PINEAPPLE EXPRESS," he plays a visibly unwashed hippie pot dealer on the run from mobsters: a ...
Pineapple Express
THE WEEK IN MOVIES: 'Pineapple Express? offers more of the same ...
 TVNZ |
Sports Network -
Cleveland, OH (Sports Network) - Brett Favre officially joined the New York Jets Thursday in a press conference before the team's preseason game in Cleveland.
Video: Jets Fans Happy to Have Favre
Packers fans in Green Bay lament Favre trade
ESPN -
By Marc Stein The Los Angeles Clippers made arrangements Thursday to bring in yet another new player by reaching terms with free-agent point guard Jason Williams.
Clippers sign PG Jason Williams
Miami Heat free agent Jason Williams signs with Los Angeles Clippers
 Times Online |
New York Times -
By LARRY DORMAN BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - It has been 78 years since a European golfer has won the PGA Championship, but Robert Karlsson of Sweden gave himself a very early shot on Thursday at being the first to do so since Tommy Armour of Scotland ...
Video: Karlsson, J. Singh Enjoy Early PGA Success
Karlsson, Jeev Singh take early lead at PGA
 Canada.com |
CNN -
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Federal agents hope two computers seized from a Frederick, Maryland, public library yield more clues regarding anthrax suspect Bruce Ivins, according to new case documents.
Video: Anthrax Widow Thankful FBI Solved Case
Experts Question FBI's Genetic Test in Anthrax Case (Update2)
 Boston Globe |
Boston Globe -
NEWTON - With his white baseball cap flipped backward and his T-shirt flapping as he pumped his Gary Fisher cruiser bike up a hill on Commonwealth Avenue last week, Charles King looked more like a college student heading to a summer lifeguard job than ...
The buzz on West Nile virus in Southern California
Foreclosure Crisis To Blame For West Nile Fears
 BBC News |
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Backlash Brews Against AIDS Support
Zimbabwe Activist Sees HIV Infection Surge Following Political ...