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150 police looking over 5 sq miles for her...she did not commit a crime at the time she made the call.

NEW YORK - They played the obligatory classics: "Hungry Like the Wolf" and "Girls on Film." But when Simon Le Bon ripped into the chorus of the new single "(Reach Up for the) Sunrise," the sun suddenly illuminated Times Square as if to officially mark a new day for Duran Duran. As the original five members performed for "Good Morning America" last week, it seemed the planets had finally aligned for a band that had been ignored through its ever-changing lineup and lackluster albums of the past ten years. The British quintet once created a fan hysteria that was compared...

Flu Shots Easily Available on Capitol Hill // All Congress members able to obtain them quickly // Capitol's attending physician urged all 535 lawmakers to get vaccines even if young and healthy. People of all ages who are credentialed to work in Capitol can get shot, with no further questions asked, WASH POST splashing on Wednesday newsroom sources tell DRUDGE... MORE...

WASHINGTON, 20 October 2004 — Because I have been repeatedly asked the question, “For whom will you vote and why?” Let me use this opportunity to respond. This November, I will vote for John Kerry for president of the United States. I will do so, confident that it is the right thing to do for my country and my community. Now this doesn’t mean that I agree with all of John Kerry’s positions. I’m a Democrat, but I’ve always challenged my party and its leadership when it was important to do so. Over the past two decades I’ve helped to...

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We all remember the votes that were never counted in Florida 2000. So, while we are all working hard for a positive outcome on November 2nd, we also have to be prepared for a repeat of a 2000 stolen election. Below is a pledge for people to sign, supporting efforts to mobilize and protect the vote on November 2nd and making a commitment to protest starting on November 3rd in the case of a fraudulent vote count. By signing this pledge, you will be joining with thousands of others in the November 3rd Urgent Response Network. Please sign the pledge...

A Defiance County man has been arrested for allegedly filing more than 100 false voter registration forms in exchange for crack cocaine from a Toledo woman working on behalf of the NAACP’s voter registration drive. Chad Staton, 22, of Stratton Ave., faces a fifth-degree felony charge of false registration after sheriff’s deputies said he filled out the registration forms by himself — using either fictitious names or addresses — and gave them to Georgianne Pitts, 41. /snip/ Ms. Pitts told police she had been recruited to obtain voter registration forms by Thaddeus J. Jackson II, of Cleveland, who is coordinating...

DEFIANCE, Ohio - A man was arrested Monday on a felony charge of submitting phony voter registration forms, and investigators were looking into allegations that he was paid with crack cocaine in exchange for his efforts, authorities said. Chad Staton, 22, of Defiance, had fraudulently filled out more than 100 voter registration forms, Defiance County Sheriff David Westrick said. "Staton was to be paid for each registration form that he could get citizens to fill out," the sheriff said. "However, Staton himself filled out the registrations and returned them to the woman who hired him from Toledo." Staton was charged...

The commander of the UN peacekeepers in Haiti has linked a recent upsurge in violence there to comments made by the US presidential candidate, John Kerry. Earlier this year Mr Kerry said that as president he would have sent American troops to protect Jean-Bertrand Aristide who was ousted from power in February. The Brazilian UN general, Augusto Heleno, said Mr Kerry's comments had offered "hope" to Aristide supporters. Much of the recent unrest has centred on areas loyal to Mr Aristide. More than 50 people have died over the past fortnight. 'Unfounded' Eight months ago the Bush administration withdrew all...

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WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites)'s campaign criticized a new Democratic effort to get out the religious vote for John Kerry (news - web sites) on Friday, saying it could endanger churches' tax-exempt status by involving them in partisan political activity. The Democrats said changes would be made. A Democratic National Committee (news - web sites) Web site launched this week encouraged Kerry supporters to download, print and distribute a DNC "Kerry/Bush Values Comparison Chart" to church groups and at churches. The chart opens with the statement "John Kerry Shares Our Values." "Share it with your pastor and...

A voting-rights group filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell's rules on provisional voting - the second such legal challenge over the controversial issue. The suit, filed by the Ohio Voter Protection Project, says Blackwell will require some first-time voters to show identification before receiving a provisional ballot on Election Day - a violation of the federal Help America Vote Act, or HAVA. The group, which includes several labor unions and the Ohio League of Women Voters, also challenged a Blackwell order that says voters who appear at the wrong voting precinct may not receive a...

Last night, after the debate, there was an "impromptu" response from King Kerry himself supposedly calling Edwards to tell him how good he was and mostly just getting messages across that Edwards failed to deliver in the debate. The cameras were on Kerry as he was talking on the phone. They showed the tape on FNC this morning, and while he was talking, he held up his fingers and examined his manicure. It was amusing (and quite an Alexis Carrington gesture) and I wondered if anybody had a screenshot of it to share with the other FReepers.

SOLON, Ohio - Hundreds of fish were killed by shampoo that washed into a creek from a L'Oreal plant, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency said. The fish died after rain on Saturday flushed the shampoo from the plant's gutters and downspouts into a storm sewer that empties into nearby Beaver Meadow Creek in this Cleveland suburb. A chemical reaction in a plant mixing vat on Sept. 25 had caused the shampoo to burst through a pipe and onto the roof. "It killed hundreds of fish and created a tremendous amount of foam," EPA spokeswoman Linda Oros said. L'Oreal spokeswoman Rebecca...

Kerry made this comment at the debate last week. Turns out this information was well known and brought up during the Clinton Administration. Seems Richard Clarke made this alarming fact known to Clinton's Security Advisor. Not much is known about what was done at that time, but Clinton's Security Adviser, Sandy Berger, TOOK INFORMATION RELATING TO THIS VERY TOPIC OUT OF THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES WHEN HE GOT CAUGHT BACK IN AUGUST. Per Fox News.

I wanted to give some background on the location of the VP debate for those not living in the area. Last year, at the business college, a student from India went on a rampage and killed several students and injured others. Turns out he'd been disgruntled about perceived harassment by another student regarding his website. The media, mayor, and college brass pretended that they had no idea who was doing this or why, but they were proved liars (thought not in the media). This happened at the Weatherhead School of Business - a mulimillion dollar complex built through donations received...

Watching the slick southern lawyer talk out of the side of his mouth on Fox tonight, I realized something - Edwards is missing the big brown spot that was so distracting during the primary debates! Did he disappear because he had it removed, or was it removed, a press release was issued, and I just didn't get it. I thought this was worth mentioning, since Kerry's recent pigment transformation.........

Pretty much everything about the concert — from the head-banging guys to the screaming girls begging to be lifted onstage — resembled a routine Puddle of Mudd show. Except that the stage was four flatbeds pushed together, and the venue was a soccer stadium in Tikrit, Iraq. On September 12, in front of 1,500 U.S. troops, the band played the ruins of what was once a symbol of Saddam Hussein's dictatorial rule. "It was kind of weird that this person was holding people down ... at this stadium," said guitarist Paul Phillips, "and we go back and have this show...

Attention all prospective Republican lobbyists: K Street kingmaker Grover Norquist has announced his wedding date, so you’ll know when to send gifts. Problem is, the location and the gift registry are still up in the air. Norquist, 47, will exchange vows with 31-year-old Samah Alrayyes of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on Saturday, April 2, 2005, he has revealed, although he told The Hill last week that he promised his bride-to-be the wedding will not turn into a political event. A source at USAID said Norquist joked that the couple should register at Costco. It makes sense, given...

HONG KONG - Here's one breaking story that Dan Rather will be watching closely. Reacting to the document scandal at CBS News, Sumner M. Redstone, chairman and chief executive of Viacom (nyse: VIAb - news - people ), CBS' parent, vowed that the results of a recently announced probe would be "appropriate--and the consequences will be appropriate." Speaking before the Forbes Global CEO Conference here, Redstone told delegates he has been "very concerned" about a Sept. 8, 2004, 60 Minutes story reported by Rather that suggested lapses in President George W. Bush's military record. CBS has since conceded that the...