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BURLINGTON, Vt. - Two Vermont same-sex couples whose families are featured in a PBS children's program are upset the network has decided not to distribute the show. The PBS decision was announced after Margaret Spellings, the new secretary of the U.S. Department of Education (news - web sites), criticized the episode as inappropriate for children. Vermont Public Television will air the "Sugartime" episode of the show "Postcards from Buster" that features a broad variety of American families. "Many parents would not want their young children exposed to the lifestyles portrayed in the episode," Spellings wrote Tuesday to Pat Mitchell, the...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger terminated the latest version of the license bill, AB2895, yesterday. It was Schwarzenegger’s twenty-second veto since entering office last year. In a simple statement that read more like a condolence than a mandate, the Republican governor said he could not sign the bill because it would make California too vulnerable. “One of the most important duties of the Governor of a state is to protect its citizens. Determining the true identity and history of an individual is a key component of that protection,” the governor wrote. “This bill does not adequately address the security concerns that my...

Mexican migrants marched Friday from the Pacific Ocean to Tijuana's airport, where they hung an empty casket to mark the 10th anniversary of a U.S. border crackdown blamed for contributing to thousands of migrant deaths. The U.S. Border Patrol launched Operation Gatekeeper on Oct. 1, 1994, to end a flood of crossings from Tijuana to San Diego. The agency doubled the number of agents in San Diego, erected fences and installed brighter lights.

Rep. Bill Janklow giving a press conference on FOX re: accident this summer where a motorcyclist was killed.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- New Mexico placekicker Katie Hnida alleges she was a target of sexual harassment in 1999 when she was on the football team at Colorado. "I was treated much more like a piece of meat there," she said in a story in The Albuquerque Tribune on Friday. "Because I'm a pretty feminine gal, and they didn't respect that about me." Hnida on Friday declined to speak with The Associated Press about her time at Colorado and the allegations she raised. "I have nothing to say," Hnida, a senior at New Mexico, said after a practice session. Hnida told...

<p>BOSTON (AP) To many consumers, calls from telemarketers are unwanted intrusions. But for the industry, those calls are their lifeblood and many of them were predicting that a new national do-not-call list would have a devastating effect on business.</p> <p>Keith A. Fotta, president and CEO of Norwood, Mass.-based Gryphon Networks, which developed a technology to help telemarketing companies avoid calling homes that have registered, said the Federal Trade Commission's new rules which impose penalties on companies that call people on the list could be ''absolutely devastating.''</p>

<p>A long-running Washington tradition apparently ended last night when, for the first time in memory, the doyenne of the White House press corps was not called on in a presidential press conference.</p> <p>Syndicated columnist Helen Thomas, who has covered every president since John F. Kennedy, was relegated to the third row in last night's East Room event and — if the memory of press corps veterans is accurate — received her first presidential snub.</p>

Jane Fonda withdrew her multi-million dollar grant to Harvard University, because the value of her divorce settlement has collapsed. Fonda reneged on her promise to provide the Ivy League university with $12.5 million last week and expects to be handed back approximately half of her original donation. The veteran actress divorced billionaire Ted Turner two years ago and was presented with a healthy divorce settlement. However her money was linked to the stock market which has been on a downward spiral ever since and her lucrative windfall is now considerably slimmer.

America's leftist-dominated media are horrified at the notion that 22 percent of Americans get news from conservative radio talk-show hosts. Writing in today's Los Angeles Times - a notorious propagandist for the left - Steve Carney reports on a survey that claims that ... gasp ... one in five Americans get "their daily dose of news" from the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and other conservative talk radio hosts. Despite the fact that liberals are in firm control of the overwhelming majority of the nation's mainstream newspapers, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, Time, Newsweek, America's universities, Hollywood and...

Muzaffar Iqbal will not be fingerprinted and photographed by U.S. immigration officials and he will not sign a registry before entering the United States. He refuses to submit to what he considers indignities that are not required of all Canadians. As a result, Mr. Iqbal -- Pakistani by birth, but Canadian by citizenship -- is denied entry to Canada's giant neighbour. That denial is in effect despite assurances from the Foreign Minister that Canadians would not be subjected to additional scrutiny on the basis of where they were born. "The [U.S.] registration system is much more than the initial fingerprinting,"...