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WASHINGTON - The 585-page report on the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, published Thursday, reveals new information on Al-Qaida efforts to attack Israel and gives details of an attempt by Israeli to stop the hijackers from entering the cockpit of one of the two planes flown into the World Trade Center. According to the report by the September 11 commission, a high-ranking Al-Qaida operations official, Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, currently in U.S. custody, admitted during questioning that the terrorist network was planning other attacks along with those of September 11. During the summer of 2001, according to the...

Police are investigating a UPS facility in San Bernardino that received a suspicious package addressed to the alleged gunmen in Wednesday's attack. San Bernardino police said the package was received at the location in the 1400 block of east Victoria Avenue from a Sears company.

Officials now say tragedy was only averted on Northwest flight 253 because a makeshift detonator failed to work properly. Share Man accused of attempt to blow up plane was sent on mission by terror leaders. Bomb experts say there was more than enough explosive to bring down the Northwest jet, which had nearly 300 people aboard, had the detonator not failed, and the nation's outdated airport screening machines may need to be upgraded.

An Open Letter to Sarah PalinBy Wile E. ReporterNational Political Correspondent, MSNBCNNABS(Medius Vulgaris)*Knock Knock Knock*Good afternoon, madam. Allow me to introduce myself: my name is Wile E. Reporter, investigative correspondent for an international network news gathering organization. No doubt you may have seen my award-winning coverage, assuming your igloo is equipped with a satellite dish. No, I am not selling anything nor am I working my way through college, so let’s get down to cases. You are a Republican candidate, and I am going to eat you alive. Now don’t try to get away! I am more educated, more cunning,...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A man suffered severe burns to his face and head when he ignited a mortar-style firework that he taped to an old football helmet and placed on his head. Police said Kaleb Spangler, 21, of Bloomington attempted the stunt while drinking at a party along Indiana 46 between Bloomington and Nashville early Saturday morning. His girlfriend said Spangler decided to duct tape the large firework to the old football helmet. He then put on the helmet and ignited it. She told police she saw a large flash, then saw Spangler on the ground, unconscious and bleeding from...

Heeeeere's Al, Thanks to Carson Sign In to E-Mail This Printer-Friendly Reprints By JACQUES STEINBERG Published: July 25, 2005 SAN FRANCISCO, July 23 - As vice president, Al Gore learned that the most disarming way to counter his wooden image was to tell better jokes about himself than the late-night comedians did. Mr. Gore now says he received occasional tutoring on those one-liners from the master of the television monologue, Johnny Carson. Mr. Gore said he had telephoned Mr. Carson on several occasions in the mid-1990's to seek his guidance on "timing and delivery." "He let me call him up...

He was known as Peter Pan - the boy who could fly - but something went fatally wrong moments after Australian Darcy Zoitsas leapt from a 1000-metre Norwegian BASE jumping site. As he hurtled down the huge cliff face of Kjerag Peak in western Norway his parachute failed to open on Monday. "I used to call him Peter Pan, the boy who can fly and refuses to grow up and are surrounded by lost boys. He would smile in recognition and call me his Wendy," wrote Lesley Assersen at an online remembrance message board. "I had hoped to live with...

Man killed when boulder rolls into highway A man was killed when a 7-1/2 foot boulder rolled into the path of his gray Toyota Corolla on Highway 50 north of Cave Rock Friday night, according to Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Blair Harkleroad. The man was not identified pending notification of next of kin. He was the only person in the four-door car, which had Nevada license plates. The incident occurred just before 6:30 p.m. when the round rock dislodged from the hillside above the highway and tumbled down the slope. According to witnesses, the rock came down just as the...