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<p>WASHINGTON — DNA profiles from juvenile offenders and from adults who have been arrested but not convicted would be added to the FBI's national DNA database under a Bush administration proposal.</p> <p>Under current law, only DNA from adults convicted of crimes can be placed in the national database, which is used to compare those samples with biological evidence from the scenes of unsolved crimes. As of January, there were about 1.3 million DNA samples in the database, U.S. officials say.</p>

Handgun access ludicrous: PM It was ludicrous that ordinary people in Australia should have access to handguns, Prime Minister John Howard said. Mr Howard said he supported the concept of police, security industry workers and sporting shooters having such weapons. "But other than that you don't need a handgun, and I think most people would agree with that," he told Adelaide radio station 5DN. "It's just ludicrous that people should have access, and a lot of them do. The rules are too lax." Mr Howard said he did not want to see Australia go down the American path where guns...

This week I need everyone’s help on two matters. NO MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE YOUR SUPPORT IS CRITICAL. Our first order of business:3,000 demonstrators, demanding an INCREASE in state taxes, are set to descend on the Massachusetts State House tomorrow (Tuesday April 30th). Rest assured that our local media, including NECN, Boston Herald, WBZ, and the forerunning Boston Globe will use this protest to leverage their own support for takes hikes. To date, legislators have received very few calls, faxes and emails urging them to cut spending rather than raise taxes. I am urging everyone, whether you live in Massachusetts...

Please Join Teresa Heinz Vicki Kennedy Angela Menino Senator Barbara Boxer Senator Maria Cantwell Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton Senator Dianne Feinstein Senator Barbara Mikulski Senator Debbie Stabenow At a Luncheon Honoring SENATOR JOHN F. KERRY Monday, March 11, 2002 12:00-2:00 p.m. Sheraton Boston Hotel. 39 Dalton Street. Boston, MA . Contribution Levels $1000 Host Luncheon Seating. $500 Sponsor Luncheon Seating. $250 Friend Luncheon Seating. $100 Guest Luncheon Seating. You can rsvp and purchase your tickets for this event .online, at JohnKerry.com. Follow the links .below - after you complete the form you will. receive a confirmation by email. If you ...

By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian rockets, gunmen and a suicide bomber drew Israeli blood Tuesday in a dizzying array of attacks that triggered a day of revenge strikes with no end in sight to violence spiraling rapidly out of control. Secretary of State Colin Powell spoke by telephone with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who told him Israel would "continue to take all necessary measures to protect the lives of its citizens," Sharon's office said in a statement. Israeli retaliation included a helicopter missile attack on a car near the West Bank city of Ramallah that targeted Palestinian ...

By Christine Hauser GARDEZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces fought their way under heavy fire toward Taliban and al Qaeda bunkers in the icy mountains of eastern Afghanistan Tuesday, pressing on with one of the bloodiest offensives of the war. Afghan commander Abdul Muteen said U.S. and Afghan forces had advanced to within 100 yards of the enemy, who were trying to hold them off with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. "There is fierce fighting. The Taliban and al Qaeda fighters have become very weak. They are running out of ammunition," said Muteen, who commands 70 troops in the 1,500-strong ...

<p>Should a woman have the right to an abortion if pregnancy makes her suicidal?</p> <p>68% say yes at the moment. Lets see what we can do !</p>

<p>DUBLIN, Republic of Ireland -- Irish voters are preparing to take part in a referendum that could see a tightening of the country's abortion legislation.</p> <p>A close result is expected on Wednesday as voters are asked to consider a roll back of 1992 rules.</p>

Public Hearing Alert On Tuesday, March 5, 2002 the Joint Committee on Criminal Justice will hold a public hearing on many remaining bills. The meeting is scheduled to take place in room 222 (State House) at 11:00 a.m. The bill that should most concern gun owners and sportsmen is H. 4709 “AN ACT RELATIVE TO CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC PEACE”. This bill will have a great adverse effect on anyone who owns a firearm of any type in Massachusetts. GOAL strongly urges ALL gun owners and sportsmen to attend this hearing. If you are not able to attend, please contact the ...

Counselor at Catholic Charities Volunteers at Abortion Clinic Pro-Lifers Worry Infiltrator Is Sending Women to Planned Parenthood Pro-Lifers Call for Brown’s Removal By Ed Oliver February 20, 2002 The Director of Counseling Services at Catholic Charities in Dorchester, a facility that counsels pregnant women, volunteers his Saturdays escorting women into Planned Parenthood’s abortion clinic in Boston. The counselor is Howard M. Brown, a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, who has been assisting Planned Parenthood in the Boston area as a volunteer for the last ten years, and in other states before that. Neither the Archdiocese of Boston nor Catholic Charities ...

<p>WASHINGTON — Though the Washington Metropolitan Police command and control center first went online in 1999 for the 50th anniversary of NATO, the events of Sept. 11 have fast-tracked the center into one of the most extensive surveillance operations in the country.</p>

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said Thursday that Moscow was opposed to any U.S. military operation against Iraq, offering crucial support to Baghdad in its confrontation with Washington. In a further gesture of support after talks with Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz, Ivanov said Moscow wanted sanctions against Iraq to be lifted. Aziz arrived in Moscow Wednesday amid threats by Washington to use force against Iraq if it refused to allow in U.N. arms inspectors, who left Iraq in 1998 complaining they were being prevented from performing their duties. "We will not submit to U.S. threats," ...

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) - U.S. and British warplanes bombed an anti-aircraft base in southern Iraq on Thursday after coming under Iraqi artillery fire, a U.S. official said. The attack happened at 3:45 p.m. on Al Faw Peninsula, 290 miles southeast of Baghdad, said Maj. Brett Morris, spokesman for the Joint Task Force Southwest Asia. He said all aircraft returned safely to base and a damage assessment was under way. Later Thursday, the official Iraqi News Agency quoted an unidentified Iraqi military spokesman as saying U.S. and British planes had attacked Iraqi ``civil and service installations'' in recent days. Thursday's strikes ...

BASILAN, Philippines, Jan. 24 — Philippine troops killed at least eight members of the Abu Sayyaf guerrilla group, which has been linked to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida terror network, military officials reported Thursday. During the heavy gunbattle on Basilan island, troops reportedly spotted an American missionary couple the group is holding hostage, NBC’s Dana Lewis reported. Meanwhile, in a policy shift, a Philippine army official said U.S. troops will not be allowed on the front lines with Filipino soldiers, even in a training role. “THE PHILIPPINE army is fanning out now, chasing the Abu Sayyaf, which are on the run,” ...

I am aware that we come from all walks of life. But I am curious as to how we earn our daily bread.

Second of two parts. Many of the same American corporate executives who have reaped millions of dollars from arms and oil deals with the Saudi monarchy have served or currently serve at the highest levels of U.S. government, public records show. Those lucrative financial relationships call into question the ability of America's political elite to make tough foreign policy decisions about the kingdom that produced Osama bin Laden and is perhaps the biggest incubator for anti-Western Islamic terrorists. Nowhere is the revolving U.S.-Saudi money wheel more evident than within President Bush's own coterie of foreign policy advisers, starting with the ...

Gayheart Sentenced for Manslaughter Rebecca Gayheart has managed to avoid jail time for the June accident in which she hit and killed a young boy. The visibly shaken actress, who was facing up to a year in county jail, pleaded no contest in a Los Angeles courtroom Tuesday to a misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter charge. In exchange for her plea, she was sentenced to three years' probation, a one-year suspension of her license, a $2,800 fine and a whopping 750 hours of community service. She was also ordered to make a public-service announcement. The 29-year-old former Noxzema Girl, accompanied to the ...

<p>WELLINGTON -- The United States remains the the sexual superpower of the world with Americans making love more often and with more partners than any other nationality, according to a survey by a leading condom manufacturer.</p> <p>Durex SSL International said on Tuesday that its annual poll of 18,500 people in 28 countries showed the world was having more sex and starting earlier than ever before, and the United States was leading the field in all departments.</p>

2:30 p.m. -- Former President Clinton speaks on globalization, religion and public service in light of recent events. Albert H. Gordon Track and Tennis Center, Harvard University. Video crews should be in place by 1:45 p.m. Contact: Gordon Li, (617) 496-4009. 5 p.m. -- Boston Hotel workers gather for vote to authorize city-wide strike. Rev. Jesse Jackson and Janice Loux, president of hotel employees union, Local 26, will speak. Arlington Street Church. Contact: Steve Crawford, (781) 643-9410.

<p>HARTFORD, Connecticut (CNN) – Connecticut’s Supreme Court dismissed an appeal from Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, who had sought to have his trial in the 1975 murder of a neighbor heard in juvenile court.</p> <p>The decision upholds a decision by a juvenile court judge in January that transferred the case to adult court. The appeal is separate from proceedings on a defense request to dismiss the case against the 41-year-old defendant.</p>