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A person looking for Virginia Rep. Gerry Connolly allegedly attacked two of his staffers with a metal baseball bat at his district office Monday, the congressman said in a statement. Connolly, a Democrat, said the individual was taken into police custody and the two staffers who were injured were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Representative Gerry Connolly (D-VA) proposed stripping J. Edgar Hoover's name from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) headquarters building in Washington, D.C,, and called him a "maligned character" with a history of racism, homophobia and misogyny. On Saturday, Connolly appeared in a video message on MSNBC's The Cross Connection advocating for the change after he introduced legislation to remove the former FBI director's name on February 25...

Toronto Mayor David Miller attended the Second Annual "Friends of Sinn Fein Canada" dinner, held in Toronto in November 2002. Miller, who attended the fundraiser when he was a city councillor, was elected as Toronto’s mayor in November 2003. In an election year, Miller posed for photographs with Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, along with Canadian Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett. Adams has had the door slammed on his North American fundraising stops on the heels of demands that the Sinn Finn end its support for criminal and terrorist activity in its support of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). On Thursday,...

Sinn Fein has had to call off a series of St Patrick’s Day fundraising events in America this week as pressure on Gerry Adams, the party’s president, spreads across the Atlantic. The events have been downgraded to speaking engagements after Adams was advised he would not be given permission to raise money in America because the IRA has come under heavy criticism for its involvement in bank robbery, money laundering and murder. Senior Irish-American senators have now demanded that the terrorist group disband. The reversal in Sinn Fein’s fortunes is largely due to the unrelenting campaign mounted by the girlfriend...

President Bush personally ordered that Gerry Adams be frozen out of official engagements during his visit to America, furious that the Sinn Fein leader had betrayed his efforts to help to re-start the Northern Ireland peace process. Mr Bush now views Mr Adams in the same unfavourable light as he did Yasser Arafat, the late Palestinian leader, a senior presidential adviser said last night. "At the White House, Adams is now regarded with the same sort of disdain as Arafat," the adviser told The Telegraph. "The President no longer considers Mr Adams a reliable partner for peace. He doesn't want...

Justice, 146 years later ‘Historical court’ exonerates Nisqually Chief Leschi as watchers cheer ROB CARSON; The News Tribune Last updated: December 11th, 2004 07:21 AM (PST) To no one’s great surprise, a “historical court” that met Friday to re-examine the trial and execution of the Nisqually Chief Leschi found the martyred Indian leader was unjustly convicted. After listening to nearly four hours of testimony from historical experts and tribal representatives, state Supreme Court Chief Justice Gerry Alexander huddled briefly with six other members of a special judicial panel and returned with this announcement: “Chief Leschi should not have been tried...

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