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Paris-Area Riots Gain Dangerous Momentum Friday November 4, 2005 3:46 AM By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press Writer AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS, France (AP) - A week of riots in poor neighborhoods outside Paris gained dangerous new momentum Thursday, with youths shooting at police and firefighters and attacking trains and symbols of the French state. Facing mounting criticism, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin vowed to restore order as the violence that erupted Oct. 27 spread to at least 20 towns, highlighting the frustration simmering in housing projects that are home to many North African immigrants. Unrest flared for an eighth straight night Thursday, though...

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<p>Except for the presidential election, the most important election this year will take place on April 27 in Pennsylvania. No, it's not the "American Idol" finals. It's even more important than that. That's the day of the Republican primary pitting a great Republican, Pat Toomey, against the 74-year-old, Ira Einhorn-defending alleged "Republican," Arlen Specter.</p>

Jim DeMint is going to bring home another seat for us in South Carolina. He is picking up a percentage point about every 25 minutes at the moment over Inez Tenenbaum. Local stations have 30% precincts reporting right now with DeMint up by almost ten points. Fox is currently calling it like this:

Last January, on a warm afternoon in Tampa, 72,000 people walked into Raymond James Stadium and joined one of the largest, most high-tech police lineups ever.As they passed through turnstiles leading into the stadium, closed-circuit cameras linked to computers scanned their features using face recognition software. In a fraction of a second, the software looked for matches in a database of thousands of criminals' faces.Few people knew they were taking part in the police check. Most probably wouldn't have cared, since they were probably too preoccupied with taking their seats as lucky ticket holders attending Super Bowl XXXV.In all, 19...

GOP hope is six-seat gain in Nov. By Jonathan E. Kaplan Senior House Republicans believe the GOP will gain about six seats in the Nov. 2 election, increasing the party’s majority in the chamber to 35, although they say it is too early to start making hard-and-fast predictions. Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), a former two-term chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), told The Hill: “It’s too early for that. We could do a half a dozen if it were today. But there’s a long way to go. I always waited until the first or second week in October;...

He's doing it again...John Kerry exploited America's Vietnam veterans and troops in 1971 for his own political gain.Now it's 2004... he's doing it again. 

CLOQUET, Minn. - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) on Friday talked up his economic and energy policies as he sought to chip away at President Bush (news - web sites)'s support among rural voters. With just over three weeks before he accepts his party's nomination, Kerry embarked on a three-day bus tour through small Midwestern towns while his campaign bought $14 million of airtime for television ads in 18 battleground states and cable television. Kerry told several hundred supporters at an outdoor rally outside of Duluth that small towns such as Cloquet — population 11,200 —...

Farming origins gain 10,000 years Wild types of emmer wheat like those found at Ohalo were forerunners of today's varieties Humans made their first tentative steps towards farming 23,000 years ago, much earlier than previously thought. Stone Age people in Israel collected the seeds of wild grasses some 10,000 years earlier than previously recognised, experts say. These grasses included wild emmer wheat and barley, which were forerunners of the varieties grown today. A US-Israeli team report their findings in the latest Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The evidence comes from a collection of 90,000 prehistoric plant remains dug...

NEWS May 19 - 25, 2004 www.bigbrother.govThe feds want to know who?s been visiting the Web site of voting watchdog Bev Harris, and they?re likely to get what they want.by George Howland Jr. Bev Harris of Renton runs a Web site that is a clearinghouse in the fight against electronic voting.(Rick Dahms) RELATED ARTICLE Black Box Backlash    In the past 20 months, Harris has become America?s leading critic of electronic voting (see ?Black Box Backlash, March 10). Her reporting on the problems with new computer voting machines has been a key component in a national, grassroots movement to...

With U.S. marines already pouring into Iraq, all signs are that the war will proceed quickly. Indeed, Saddam Hussein's regime may well fall before the end of March. When the resulting scenes of Iraqi jubilation are broadcast around the world, the French-led anti-war camp at the United Nations will be discredited. Billions of people sitting in front of their televisions will be asking themselves: Jacques Chirac wanted to veto ... this? Speaking Wednesday, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan declared that the U.S. invasion marked "a sad day for the United Nations." But the damage to the world body may be far...

<p>California's mess is a capital political crime that more than just tarnishes the Golden State.</p> <p>The Sacramento gang has created a fiscal mess more than 20 times worse than anything Congress could manufacture.</p> <p>California's budget deficit works out to more than $1,000 per resident and makes New York City look fiscally responsible.</p> <p>California's deficit is 20 percent of state spending and a third of its operating budget. If every state worker were fired, California would still be at least $10 billion in the red.</p>

<p>Former U.S. Interior Secretary and Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbitt was reported missing Friday when he failed to return from a hike in the Hell's Canyon Wilderness. He was found 40 minutes later.</p> <p>Babbitt was reported missing around 5:20 p.m. after walking ahead of a hiking party in Hell's Canyon, north of Lake Pleasant.</p>