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Television news executives and observers say they are troubled by CNN's new policy of not broadcasting comments by suicide bombers or their families. But Eason Jordan, who heads CNN's news-gathering, said the policy is meant only to be a "safeguard" and was not in response to criticism in Israel of CNN's Mideast coverage.Jordan has instructed staff not to air or report suicide-bombers' statements "unless there seemingly is an extraordinarily compelling reason to do so."The edict was made after CNN faced press criticism in Israel for airing an interview late last month with the mother of a Palestinian suicide bomber several...

US Judge Blocks Enforcement Of Allegiance Pledge Ruling - headline only for now.

DALLAS (AP) - With smiles, laughter and high hopes, Utah Jazz center Greg Ostertag donated a kidney Thursday to his younger sister, whose kidneys failed in March. "They were joking and carrying on. They were hilarious," said Kathryn Goldstein, a spokeswoman at Baylor University Medical Center who was with the family before the operations. "It was typical sibling joking back and forth, just being silly. "I think they were very upbeat. Their spirits were very high yesterday and this morning." Amy Hall has had type 1 diabetes since she was 7. Her kidney problems began in 1999. After it was...

The two judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals who ruled yesterday that the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional aren't the only folks who have a problem with the Pledge's wording. Apparently, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton would also like to revise the words that every schoolchild learns to recite in kindergarten. While the 9th Circuit objected to the phrase "one nation under God," Sen. Clinton reportedly prefers a version of the Pledge that acknowledges America's flaws, one that begins with the words: "I pledge allegiance to the America that can be." News of Hillary's Pledge preference surfaced...

<p>Before embarking on an intense spiritual retreat last week, Kirsten "Kris" Babcock gave each of her closest friends a handwritten note describing her impending death.</p> <p>She was talking in symbolic terms -- or so she thought.</p> <p>In an eerily tragic turn of events, Babcock did not survive the "death sweat" she wrote about -- a ceremony intended to be the first step toward spiritual enlightenment as part of a new-age program called vision quest.</p>

There are three instances when the U.S. Supreme Court needs to step in and overturn a lower court ruling: When a lower court misapplies constitutional principles; When a lower court misapplies a previous Supreme Court decision; When the lower court happens to be the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The 9th Circuit is the most-overturned appellate court in the nation. It is sure to maintain its dishonorable reputation thanks to the ruling that a teacher-led recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance and a 1954 Act, which added the words "under God" to its content, violate the Establishment Clause of the...

BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. tennis great Martina Navratilova criticized her adopted homeland in a German newspaper on Wednesday, saying money is the only thing that matters there. Navratilova, a Czech-born American who won 18 grand slam singles titles when she dominated women's tennis in the late 1970s and 1980s, also wrote in an article for Die Zeit weekly that she believed free speech was being suppressed in the United States. The most absurd part of my escape from the unjust system is that I have exchanged one system that suppresses free opinion for another," said Navratilova, 45, who fled Czechoslovakia...

<p>At least three men reportedly were taken into federal custody in two Pensacola malls as the FBI and the federal Immigration and Naturalization Service initiated a nationwide sweep Wednesday.</p> <p>Witnesses said plain-clothes agents closed Intrigue jewelry vendors at Cordova and University malls, Wild Things at University and possibly other shops.</p>

SEATTLE (AP) - Someone who needs a math lesson forged voters' names on new voter registration cards to support signatures on initiative petitions, officials said. On at least two phony cards submitted to the King County elections office, the birth year was given as 1986, which would make the ostensible voters at least two years too young to vote. ``It may be one of those things that will go into a 'World's Dumbest Criminal' book somewhere,'' county elections superintendent Julie Anne Kempf said Wednesday. At least five registration cards have been found to be fakes in which the names of...

A clip from the column: “WorldCom spent billions in the late-90s, the go-go, greedy, moon shot-IPO, everyone’s getting rich quick, fat, dumb and happy Clinton years, on new technology and corporate acquisitions. Late June 2002, WorldCom’s stock trading is halted because of almost $4 billion in accounting irregularities (spinmeister code for 'cooking the books')... Democrat and other left-leaning politicians in the United States beat the drum for more regulations in an effort from ever allowing 'another WorldCom' the same way they wanted more regulations to halt 'another Enron' a few months ago. Democrats want more government regulation to stop theft?...

HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe's ruling party urged tough action against white farmers who defy orders to stop working their fields, and dismissed claims that the land seizures have exacerbated the country's hunger crisis, state media reported Thursday. At a meeting Wednesday, the leaders of President Robert Mugabe's ruling party said many white farmers were ignoring the order, which took effect earlier this week. "(The government) should take swift action against any farmer who breaks the law," party leaders said in a statement, according to the state-run Herald newspaper Thursday. Most farmers stopped working months ago, intimidated by armed militants occupying...

To: Friends and Supporters of the Campaign for Working Families From: Gary L. Bauer, Chairman Date: Thursday, June 27, 2002 Judicial Terrorism The two-to-one ruling in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional, because of the words "under God," has caused a firestorm of reaction. Politicians of both parties are outraged. The Senate interrupted debate on the defense bill to pass a resolution condemning the ruling by 99-to-0. Members of the House recited the pledge on the Capitol steps yesterday and there is talk of amending the Constitution if the "Supremes" don't overturn the...

Hello Again! My name is Molly and I am a robin. I learned to think a short time ago by seeing myself in car door mirrors. I am a mother who has had several broods of hatchlings. At first I did not think at all, but seeing myself in mirrors sparked my brain and I have been reading everything about this wonderful country in local school libraries. Everyday I see stories about companies, which appear to have committed financial corruption of one kind or another and the newspapers make it front page headlines. Take Martha Stewart. She is accused of...

Petition to the President of the United States and Members of Congress I speak as an American citizen. The recent decision of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco where the Pledge of Allegiance was ruled Unconstitutional is an attack on America by way of the legal system. We are indeed "One Nation Under God." To declare that anyone who pledges allegiance to the Flag of our Country is breaking the law is to declare the President of the United States and every member of Congress to be law breakers. It has become abundantly clear that the two...

Project will put UT's Gutenberg Bible online Effort isn't first of kind but will open doors to research, librarians say 06/27/2002 By JIM VERTUNO / Associated Press AUSTIN – Johann Gutenberg, welcome to the Internet age. A rare copy of the Gutenberg Bible, the book that revolutionized printing in Western civilization, is going digital this week at the University of Texas. Officials say a digital copy being made available on disk and the Internet will make it easier for scholars to conduct research. Anyone will be able to browse the pages of one of the world's most valuable books. "I...

WASHINGTON (AP) _ A single injection of genetically modified stem cells is all it took to cure two children of a complex form of an inherited immune system disorder often referred to as the ``bubble boy disease,'' researchers report. An experimental technique that altered genes in bone marrow stem cells restored the immune systems of the children, researchers from Italy and Israel said in a study appearing in the journal Science. The children were born with what experts said was the most complex form of severe combined immunodeficiency disorder, or SCID. ``Both children have been cured but ... both will...

<p>SIGONELLA, Sicily — A Navy helicopter was severely damaged Thursday after what the Navy said was a “hard landing” during a training flight. There were no major injuries to the crew.</p> <p>A statement from Sigonella Naval Air Station, Italy, said the mishap occurred just after the MH-53 E transport helicopter took off.</p>

Fox News Channel a few minute ago had an interview with Lee Greenwood regarding the Pledge of Allegiance controversial rulling of the 9th Circuit court. Lee said he had just finished writing a song, and offered to sing it. It was of course the Pledge of Allegiance. A beautifull song, that only Lee can sing. It made a few tears in my eyes, and I don't cry easily.

Saturday, 22 June, 2002, 15:13 GMT 16:13 UK Pakistan wedding turns to carnage A wedding feast in north-east Pakistan turned to carnage after a mortar shell launched in celebration misfired, killing 21 people, including the bridegroom. More than 40 guests were wounded in the accident, which happened in the village of Korez, 250 kilometres (180 miles) south-west of the border city of Peshawar. Local officials said guests had been "joyously" firing their weapons in the air in a traditional act of celebration, when one of the groom's relatives loaded the mortar "upside-down".It exploded prematurely, killing several people outright. The wounded...

<p>If the war on terror is going to succeed, we have to be able to trust the government. That means not just the president, or the secretary of defense, but the people who will actually be operating where the rubber meets the road.</p>