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WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 — The FBI has launched a criminal investigation to find the source of a new case of anthrax in New York City, this one involving an NBC News employee, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced Friday. The new revelation added to worries about bioterrorism, and public health officials were on heightened alert. NBC EXECUTIVES said that the infected female employee, who works for "Nightly News," tested positive for cutaneous anthrax after handling a letter filled with a "powdery substance" that arrived at the network's New York headquarters on Sept. 25. But it was not clear whether the powder ...

NEW YORK CITY, Oct. 12 — An NBC News employee has tested positive for anthrax after handling a letter filled with a "powdery substance" that arrived at NBC's New York headquarters on Sept. 25, network officials said Friday. An FBI official said there was no evidence linking the case to either the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks or the outbreak of anthrax in Florida. WORD OF THE fourth recent case of anthrax in the United States came in a memo from Andrew Lack, NBC's president and chief operating officer, and Chairman and CEO Bob Wright. The memo said that a female ...

NEW YORK (AP) - The mayor ordered a 15 percent spending cut for all city agencies except uniformed services and education Tuesday, predicting that the World Trade Center attack would cost the city $1 billion in lost revenue. Agencies ``can't spend all the money they thought they could spend,'' Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said. He said the $1 billion was a ``soft'' estimate of the lost revenue in the fiscal year that ends June 30. That estimate includes lost taxes from hotels, restaurants and retail sales, which all suffered business losses of more than 50 percent in about two weeks after ...

By Patrick Crowley The Cincinnati Enquirer COVINGTON - A 3,500-employee IRS office in Covington is under a full lockdown today, and hazardous materials experts are investigating after workers reported a suspicious sticky substance in an envelope that had been handled by several people. Emergency workers brought one woman wearing a blue business suit out of the building and began scrubbing her down in a large black tub. After scrubbing her, they removed her clothes, wrapped her twice plastic and took her to St. Elizabeth's Hospital North for further decontamination and observation. Otherwise, no one was being allowed in or out ...

Enquirer News Update - Updated 5:05 p.m. The Cincinnati Enquirer WEST CHESTER TOWNSHIP - More than two dozen customers and employees of a Frisch's restaurant were sealed in more than two hours Tuesday afternoon because of a suspicious vial. Fire trucks and hazardous materials teams filled the parking lot, caution tape was put around it and customers were turned away from the restaurant on Cincinnati-Dayton Road at Interstate 75. The restaurant was locked down because of a vial with liquid that had been there. ''I was a little shocked,'' said customer Robert Grodsky, 41, of Baltimore. ''I guess it was ...

WASHINGTON - In 1926, peasant Catholics, some of them priests, took up arms against the Marxist-dominated government of Mexico. Trains were blown up. Government schools were attacked and burned, and teachers were killed. It was known as the Christero War. The government retaliated and tried to kill a priest for every teacher killed, finally driving the battlers south into the mountains and suppressing the revolution. Along with executions and imprisonments, the government quietly forced many peasants in this rural revolution north into the United States, beginning a process that, until President Vicente Fox took office nine months ago, was the ...

Bush Open to Accepting Illegal Aliens NewsMax.com Wires Friday, Sept. 7, 2001 WASHINGTON - President Bush said Thursday he was "willing to consider" ways for millions of lawbreaking Mexican illegal aliens to become permanent U.S. residents, but he would not agree to come up with a plan by the end of the year. In a brief news conference on the White House lawn, as Mexican President Vicente Fox and Bush left for a visit to Toledo, Ohio, Bush was asked how he would handle Mexican illegal aliens in the United States. He said he told Fox he was willing to ...

This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?24308 Saturday, September 1, 2001 I am not a Bush Republican! By Alan Keyes © 2000 WorldNetDaily.com--> © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com Seven months into the Bush administration, it is time to ask some hard questions, and speak some hard truths. I have made a few specific comments, and even a few criticisms of particular policies since Inauguration Day. But I have generally tried to avoid the "instant report card" mentality in order to give the president a chance to show with deeds what the character ...

The National Institutes of Health will announce the names today of 10 organizations that possess human embryonic stem cells eligible for use by federally financed researchers. The list has been keenly awaited by scientists since Aug. 9, when President Bush announced that the federal government would finance research on such cells — which are created by destroying human embryos left over from fertility treatments — but only with cell cultures established before that date. Some biologists expressed considerable skepticism at the time that as many as 60 cell cultures had been established, as the administration said was the case, because ...

COMPUTER ANALYSIS AND PROOFS THAT GOD, THE CREATOR OF ALL THINGS, DID (IN FACT) WRITE THE 66 BOOKS OF THE HOLY BIBLE PREFACE Do not deceive yourselves. If any one of you thinks he is wise by the standards of this age, he should become a 'fool' so that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight. As it is written: "He catches the wise in their craftiness"; and again, "The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile." (1 Corinthians 3:18-20) This being the fourth printing of this report, ...

Why I Was Fired Gustavo RocaFriday, June 9, 2000 After the recent appearances of Jack Thompson on Spanish airwaves here in Miami, a snowball of outrage has developed in the Cuban-American community as they have come to realize that Elian's "attorney" here, Kendall Coffey, has thrown the legal case in Janet Reno's favor. Last Sunday Jack Thompson declared on my Spanish radio show (WQBA 1140) what he had been writing for several months now: Kendall Coffey, a close friend of Janet Reno's for many years, cannot also be the attorney representing Elian. Thompson's comments were the first time many ...

Cuban Dissident Docs Vanish – Feared Kidnapped NewsMax.comTuesday, June 6, 2000 Two Cuban doctors seeking to defect have disappeared and are believed to have been kidnapped by Castro agents. The doctors, members of a Cuban medical assistance mission in Zimbabwe who had publicly denounced Castro and sought political asylum in Canada, were forced from their home by armed soldiers hours before they were to be interviewed by the Zimbabwe government about their request for political asylum, according to the Miami Herald. Leonel Cordova Rodriguez, 31, and Noris Peña Martinez, 25, members of a Cuban medical assistance mission in Zimbabwe, ...

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 THE SAGA OF ELIAN GONZALEZ Published Saturday, June 3, 2000, in the Miami Herald Elián's great-uncle: 'I'm going to appeal' BY JAY WEAVER AND ANA ACLE jweaver@herald.com SAGA OF ELIAN AT PLAY: Elián González at Wye Plantation in May. SEE ALSO Elián's great-uncle: 'I'm going to appeal' Ruling sparks debate over children's asylum Cuban display protests delay Previous coverage Despite a plea from Elián González's father to let him and his son return to Cuba, the boy's great-uncle in Miami said Friday he will challenge a major federal court loss in the hope of keeping the 6-year-old in the ...

Bush vs. McCain   &nbsp The race between George W. Bush and John McCain, for the republican nomination, for President of the United States, is heating up. The winner of the republican primaries on Super Tuesday, is the favorite to win the republican presidential nomination. George W. Bush and John McCain are very similar in many areas, they are both, of course, republicans, have influential fathers, and both flew jet fighters in the military. McCain is regarded as a hero, for his time spent as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. While Bush, is considered by many to have served ...

Government Favors Microsoft Breakup By Ted Bridis Associated Press Writer Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2000; 4:05 p.m. EST WASHINGTON –– Government lawyers studying ways to limit Microsoft's expansive influence in the technology industry want to break the software giant into three parts, arguing that lesser remedies in the antitrust trial would be inadequate, people close to these discussions confirmed today. If U.S. District Thomas Penfield Jackson were to agree to such a dramatic solution, such a breakup of Bill Gates' software empire would carry enormous implications for the way consumers buy and use programs for their computers. Justice Department lawyers ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Millionaire publisher Steve Forbes took the offensive Friday in his quest for the Republican presidential nomination with a salvo that accuses front-runner George W. Bush of breaking a no-new tax pledge. A new 30-second television ad to be aired in New Hampshire, features Mary Williams, head of the Houston-based Taxpayers for Accountability, saying the Texas governor reneged on a promise to her organization not to back tax increases. "In 1994 he signed a pledge with my organization that he would not support sales tax or business tax increases," Williams said in the ad. "In 1997, unfortunately, he ...

Most Americans oppose the transfer of the Panama Canal, officially slated for Dec. 31, and fear Chinese influence over the strategic waterway. In a NewsMax.com/Zogby International poll released today, nearly 50 percent of Americans polled oppose the turnover of the Panama Canal to the Panamanian government. Only 29 percent of respondents thought turning the canal over to the government of Panama was a good idea. The NewsMax.com/Zogby poll also found that Americans are deeply worried that a Chinese-controlled company, Hutchison Whampoa, will control and operate the canal and its facilities. A majority, 58 percent, agreed that Hutchison Whampoa's influence over ...

College student jailed for pro-life stand It wasn't for grand larceny, possession of cocaine, or assault and battery. In August a Christian college student began serving a six month jail sentence for simply sharing the gospel and speaking the truth about abortion on a high school campus in Lynchburg, Virginia, before school started. Liberty University student John Reyes, who is represented by the AFA Center for Law & Policy (CLP), went with 150 other college students to the E.C. Glass High School in Lynchburg on November 10, 1997. In front of the school, the group prayed, sang, handed out ...

                | | | |                                   THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 301999                 Law against infanticide on hold Court challenge filed by abortion lobby By Jon E. Dougherty © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com Missouri lawmakers did more in mid-September than simply vote to override Gov. Mel Carnahan's earlier veto of a bill that prohibits partial birth abortion. Instead, lawmakers created a new crime of "infanticide," and legal experts say it is the first of ...