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Miami cops accused of planting guns FBI says officers placed evidence to justify shootings FBI officials describe the details of their case at a Friday news conference in Miami. ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI, Sept. 7 — Seven Miami police officers were arrested Friday by the FBI after a months-long investigation into allegations that officers planted guns at crime scenes to justify police shootings. NO DETAILS were immediately released on the seven officers or on their specific cases. A federal grand jury indictment was expected to be unsealed later in the day, FBI spokeswoman Judy Orihuela said. Calls to Miami Police headquarters ...

3:07 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all for coming. Today, visiting with the Speaker and the Leader, it's the end of a long week of discussing how to make sure our economy begins to grow again. I want to appreciate Danny and Trent for coming down again. They've been visiting with their members and I've been visiting with them and their members. I also had a good discussion today with Minority Leader Gephardt and, of course, Senate Majority Leader Daschle the other day, as well, about how we can kind of get away from all the distractions that tend ...

Judge Blocks Prescription Discount Plan By Amy Goldstein Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, September 7, 2001; Page A01 A federal court yesterday blocked President Bush's plan to offer prescription drug discount cards to elderly Americans by the beginning of next year, finding that the administration may have lacked the authority to create such a program without congressional approval..... Yesterday's decision by Judge Paul Friedman of the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia does not guarantee an end to the pharmacy discount card plan. But officials at the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services acknowledged ...

THE SAVIOR LIFTED UP & FAITH "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life."-John iii. 14, 15. "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. (This he said, signifying what death he should die.)"-John xii. 32, 33. IN order to make this subject plain, I will read the passage referred to-Num. xxi. 6-9. "And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and ...

Miami cops accused of planting guns FBI says officers placed evidence to justify shootings FBI officials describe the details of their case at a Friday news conference in Miami. ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI, Sept. 7 — Seven Miami police officers were arrested Friday by the FBI after a months-long investigation into allegations that officers planted guns at crime scenes to justify police shootings. NO DETAILS were immediately released on the seven officers or on their specific cases. A federal grand jury indictment was expected to be unsealed later in the day, FBI spokeswoman Judy Orihuela said. Calls to Miami Police headquarters ...

White House Sees Late-Year Economic Rebound WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) ``absolutely'' believes the U.S. economy will rebound later this year, despite a surprise jump in the nation's unemployment rate for August, the White House said on Friday. ``Absolutely he still believes that,'' White House spokesman Ari Fleischer (news - web sites) said when asked about administration projections that U.S. economic growth would recover later this year and into 2002. Fleischer also told reporters Bush opposes any new government spending to boost the economy, but had not ruled out asking Congress to make across-the-board spending cuts ...

All across America, college communications departments and schools of journalism are in a tizzy over an advertisement placed in campus newspapers by David Horowitz. Horowitz is a former leftist radical from the sixties who used to roam America’s college campuses causing fits for the Left. Now he has a career causing the Left on college campuses to throw fits. Recently he paid for print ads stating ten reasons why it is not only wrong but racist to spend Americans’ tax dollars paying reparations for slavery. One wouldn’t think that would cause an outburst anywhere. It would be ludicrous to argue ...

Thu Sep 6 17:44:05 2001 This is the latest on the AP wire page Lawmakers, officials grappling for ways to help Klamath By KATHERINE PFLEGER The Associated Press 9/6/01 7:54 PM WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress members and government officials decided Thursday to initiate a fast-moving process to provide legislative solutions in the parched Klamath Basin. "The timetable is really yesterday," said Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., who hosted the meeting that brought the lawmakers together. "What we are going to have to do is move very quickly in terms of the short-term effort because we are faced with foreclosures." At the ...

Here are the unemployment rates in November of election years and election results: 2000: 4.0 (incumbent party won 50.3% of two party pop vote) 1996: 5.4 (54.7%) 1992: 7.4 (46.5%) 1988: 5.3 (53.9%) 1984: 7.2 (59.2%) 1980: 7.5 (44.7%) 1976: 7.8 (48.9%) 1972: 5.3 (61.8%) 1968: 3.4 (49.6%)

Friday September 7 4:41 PM ET Bush Says Concerned Over Jobless, Has No New Plan By Randall Mikkelsen WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush on Friday rushed to contain the political fallout of a big jump in unemployment, saying he was concerned about those losing their jobs but offering no new plan to revive a slowed economy. ``The slowdown is real and is affecting too many lives,'' Bush said. ``I want the American people to know we're deeply concerned about the unemployment rates and we intend to do something about it.'' Appearing outside the Oval Office with Vice President Dick Cheney, ...

Earlier in the day, the man had been released after completing a one-year sentence for sex abuse. The Oregon State Police are still puzzled about the motives of Joel Damon Montoya, the just-released prison inmate who was caught trying sneak back into a Salem jail. Police say 26-year-old Montoya was found Wednesday trying to force his way back into the jail by cutting a razor-wire fence. Earlier in the day, Montoya had been released after completing a one-year sentence for sex abuse. Officials say they found a handgun, a hacksaw and bolt cutters on Montoya, as well as a white ...

The United States of America vs. James Charles Kopp A Conclusion in Search of its Evidence On October 23, 1998, abortionist Dr. Barnett Slepian was killed by a sniper while standing in the kitchen of his Amherst, New York, home. James C. Kopp was indicted for this murder and later arrested in Dinan, France. This document does not purport to be a defense of Mr. Kopp, but instead documents what appear to be serious improprieties, and possibly criminal actions, committed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Amherst Police Department. Information contained here was gathered from the federal indictment ...

Having a Internet based small business, it is obvious that, without the computer you're dead meat. Lately my trusted 450 P2MMX is getting the "flu" in the form of the dreaded blue screen with the all so known fraze " An fatal error ...etc. I know the Windows is playing games with me, therefore I made the decision to switch to Linux.I have tried to get somebody to give me some heads up on Linux OS, since I have zero knowledge about it. I like to build my machines myself for the obvious reason, but nobody in my circles has ...

GENVAL, Belgium -- The European Union is considering the deployment of an EU military force to protect civilian observers in Macedonia, fearing a security vacuum after the departure of 4,500 NATO troops later this month. EU foreign ministers, gathering for informal discussions this weekend at a lakeside hotel just outside Brussels, will take up a suggestion by the EU envoy to Macedonia, Francois Leotard, to deploy a 1,500-member multinational force. EU officials stressed this will be the first opportunity for the ministers to exchange ideas on the subject and that no decision is expected to emerge from the meeting, one ...

Controversial radio shrink Dr. Laura Schlessinger is blasting Katie Couric, Rosie O'Donnell and other sympathetic celebrities, saying they've expressed support for the Texas mom who drowned her five children.At the center of the firestorm is Andrea Yates, 37, the Houston, Texa, housewife who filled a bathtub and methodically drowned her sons Luke, 2; Paul, 3; John, 5; Noah 7; and her 6 month-old daughter Mary.Couric and O'Donnell showed concern for the murderous mom, who has battled postpartum depression for years. But Schlessinger, 54, is cutting the jailed killer no slack."I understand fantasizing all kinds of things-kids can drive you crazy," ...

Flatula, Absurdistan (CNSNews.com) - An abrupt walk-out by US and Israeli delegations today rocked the first annual United Nations Global Symposium Against Colonialism, Genocide, Zionism and Parking Tickets, prompting harsh criticism from the international diplomatic community and calls for increased American monetary aid and 'Baywatch' videos. "It is indeed unfortunate that the representatives of the United States and the Zionist criminal entity have turned their backs on international cooperation," said conference chairman Falafel Al-Pita in a tersely worded response. "It is especially troubling after we had sold out tickets for the 'sink the Zionist pig' dunking booth." Al-Pita, the dapper ...

IMF and World Bank are Hopelessly Out of Touch, Out of Control Gated America Washington, D.C., is a city of monuments. Now, a new monument is going up in the nation's capital; not to commemorate heroism, but to concede failure. It is a fence 9 feet high, 21/2 miles long. It will enclose 220 acres, including the White House, chain link topped with razor wire and costing $2 million. The purpose of this dreary installation will be to keep globalization protesters away from globalization promoters during the Sept. 29-30 meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. What ...

PRISTINA, Yugoslavia -- Setting aside the conviction of a Serb, Kosovo's U.N.-run Supreme Court said acts committed by Slobodan Milosevic's forces in the province constituted war crimes or crimes against humanity -- but not genocide. The actions of Milosevic's regime in 1999 "cannot be qualified as criminal acts of genocide, since the purpose was not the destruction of the Albanian ethnic group in whole or in part," said the three-judge court's ruling, obtained Friday by The Associated Press. Milosevic's campaign aimed to force ethnic Albanians to leave "as a result of systematic campaign of terror including murders, rapes, arson and ...

The Belgian authorities have suspended an investigation into whether the Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, should be charged with crimes against humanity. The examining magistrate said the suspension would allow an appeals court to decide first whether he had the authority to pursue the case. Lawyers for Mr Sharon argue that the Belgian investigation violates Israel's judicial sovereignty. Two civil lawsuits have been brought against Mr Sharon by survivors and families of those killed in the 1982 massacre of Palestinians by Lebanese militiamen at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. The massacre happened during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, which ...

Thursday September 6 7:14 PM ET Senate Approves Export Control Reforms By Doug Palmer WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a victory for the Bush administration and high-tech manufacturers, the U.S. Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly approved the first major overhaul of export controls in 22 years on goods like supercomputers with commercial and military uses. The Senate voted 85-14 to approve the Export Administration Act of 2001, after three days of debate and behind-the-scenes wrangling over final details of the bill. ``The last time there was a major change (to U.S. export controls on ``dual-use'' goods), Jimmy Carter was president, bell bottoms ...