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National Public Radio aired an apology and retraction more than one year after insinuating that a Christian political lobby group could be the culprit behind deadly anthrax-laced letters sent to Sens. Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy. Andrea Lafferty, executive director of the Traditional Values Coalition, told WorldNetDaily that the issue has been resolved "amicably," and her group had no further comment. Anthrax-laced letter sent to Sen. Tom Daschle's office in October 2001 As WorldNetDaily reported, NPR's David Kestenbaum said in a Jan. 22, 2002, broadcast on the FBI's probe of the anthrax attacks that "one group who had a gripe"...

On Sunday morning, as I listened to radio and TV news bulletins and leafed through the papers, one story stood out as a subject for the next day's cartoon: Ariel Sharon's attack on Gaza City. It was not the first time I had been prompted to criticise Sharon. But what stood out was the timing – the thought that the assault was not unconnected with the approaching Israeli election. The task was to create an image illustrating that, although the missiles had been targeted at Gaza, the message was aimed squarely at the Israeli electorate. My starting-point was the newsreel...