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Mexican officials have reportedly identified two men they say are suspects in a pirate attack nine days ago on a Texas couple Jet Skiing on a border lake in which the husband was killed. Mexican officials have not released photographs of the two men, but identified them as Pedro Saldiva Farrias, 27, and his brother, Jose Manuel Saldiva Farrias, Juan Carlos Ballesteros, an investigator with the attorney general's office of the Mexican state of Tamaulpas told ABC affiliate KRGV-TV in McAllen, Texas. Both were said to be suspected members of the Zeta drug cartel from Nueva Ciudad Guerrero, near the...

I haven’t seen many stories on the U.S. wires about what is being dubbed “climategate” – the illegal hacking in of computers at University of East Anglia in England that subsequently led to public dissemination of emails and files from climate researchers there. Climate change skeptics have seized on the emails as evidence of a conspiracy to promote manmade global warming without sufficient evidence. Scientists involved - and others - say the emails were taken out of context and there is overwhelming evidence man is contributing to climate change. Still, the controversy reveals the enormous - and often vitriolic -...