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It seems some people have found some literal “dirt” on the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. But suddenly the searches descend into the bizarre. This is unfortunate for her personally, but the fact that she has lied about her medical status in order to continue the race is absolutely disgusting. What the public decides to do with this information remains to be seen, but this will without a doubt cast a brown shadow on not only Hillary’s campaign, but on her chances of ever becoming the president of the United States. WIKILEAKS uncover steamy information from private browser hacking. We spoke...

A year ago this Friday, the poor, predominantly Muslim housing projects that ring France's large cities went up in flames. Just this past weekend, as if to mark the anniversary, a group of about 30 "youths" in a Paris suburb (banlieue) attacked a packed bus in broad daylight, forcing the passengers off, torching the bus itself and stoning the firefighters who arrived on the scene. In recent weeks, similar sorts of gangs have set upon police patrols in the banlieues, throwing stones and wielding metal bars. Plus ça change, indeed. Of course the problem is not only French. Much of...

CAIRO, Egypt — Al Qaeda No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahiri said in a videotape aired Monday that President Bush was a "butcher" and a "failure" because of a deadly U.S. airstrike in Pakistan targeting the bin Laden deputy, and he threatened a new attack on the United States.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 — U.S. intelligence has concluded that an audiotape of Osama bin Laden broadcast last week is real and was recently recorded, providing the first evidence in almost a year that the al-Qaida leader is alive, officials said Monday. The audiotape, broadcast on an Arab language TV network, does not appear to have been altered or edited, one U.S. official said, suggesting it is what it sounds like: bin Laden promising more terrorism.THE ANALYSIS of the tape was performed by technical experts, linguists and translators at the CIA and National Security Agency, who compared the message to previous...