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The president 'may not have been fully briefed,' ACLU executive director says The American Civil Liberties Union countered President Biden's claim that his administration is not considering payments of up to $450,000 to illegal immigrants who had been separated from their families under the previous administration.... ...Yet ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero told Fox News that the plan is very much in the works. "President Biden may not have been fully briefed about the actions of his very own Justice Department as it carefully deliberated and considered the crimes committed against thousands of families separated from their children as...

Men who drive expensive cars really are more attractive to women, according to a study by university researchers. Psychologists proved what car-dealers have boasted for generations the car one drives is key when it comes to turning a woman's head. The university team showed women pictures of the same man sitting in two cars - a £70,000 silver Bentley Continental and a battered Ford Fiesta. The women, who were aged between 21 to 40, picked the man sitting in the Bentley ahead of the same man in the Ford. Dr Michael Dunn, of the University of Wales Institute in Cardiff,...

THE US will commit $US2 billion ($2.27 billion) over the next three years for a new international fund to promote clean energy technologies and fight climate change, President George W. Bush will tell Congress today in his annual State of the Union speech.

PADUCAH, Ky. - A soldier pleaded guilty Monday to federal charges that he smuggled machine guns out of Iraq and tried to sell them in the U.S. Sgt. Beau Uran, 24, based at Fort Campbell, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to unlawfully import the weapons. He is the third person to plead guilty in the case. Sgt. Nigel Brown, 31, and his uncle, Guy Brown, 46, of Hopkinsville, pleaded guilty in July to the same charges. They face up to 10 years in prison and $250,000 fines when they are sentenced Oct. 25. Uran could get a lighter sentence because of...

SAN DIEGO - Michael J. Ellis, a convicted felon who founded Metabolife International Inc. and built it into a diet empire selling a now-banned herbal supplement, was indicted Tuesday on federal charges of illegally possessing firearms and ammunition. Ellis, 52, who has a drug-related conviction for his role in a methamphetamine lab, is barred from possessing either weapons or ammunition. Prosecutors accused him of possessing guns and ammunition at his 200-acre cattle ranch east of San Diego in Julian, including three loaded handguns, a .22-caliber rifle and more than 600 rounds of ammunition. Federal authorities found the weapons during a...

<p>A NOT very nice book by Nixon's White House counsel John W. Dean will drop on us.</p> <p>"Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush" says Bush's team has an obsession with secrecy and their willingness to deceive make them even more dangerous than Nixon's men."</p>