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Tropical storm Barry has finally earned its name. The storm is drifting W in the central Gulf of Mexico. The tropical system is somewhat unusual because the low pressure system was originally over Georgia before drifting into the GOM. The New Orleans area has been inundated with heavy rain with flooding over the past several days, unrelated to the current tropical storm. Gulf of Mexico Satellite Channels Public Advisories NHC Discussions Radar Mobile, ALRadar NOLARadar Lake Charles, LARadar Houston/Galveston NWS Local Weather Statements New Orleans, LANWS Local Weather Statements Mobile AL/Pensacola FLNWS Local Weather Lake Charles LA/Port Arthur TXNWS Local...

Thousands of blank passports worth £2.5million on the black market were stolen from a van after the driver stopped to buy a chocolate bar, it emerged last night. Security experts warned the theft of the 3,000 passports and visas, which were destined for British embassies abroad, had handed a 'real coup' to terrorists, illegal immigrants and fraudsters. The Foreign Office, which was in charge of the delivery, admitted it was the latest in a string of serious security breaches by the Government. The documents were being transported in a non-armoured white Citroen van from Oldham in Greater Manchester, to London...

After listening to Assad’s nonsense, CBS’s chief correspondent in Iraq, Lara Logan, reports on “Iraq’s most secret and elite warriors … Iraq’s version of America’s top counterterrorism unit, Delta Force,” she says. Hardly. Granted, there is no question in terms of skill level, Iraqi special operations forces are well above their regular Iraqi army counterparts. But to suggest they are the equivalent of Delta Force commandos – the U.S. Army’s equivalent of Navy SEALs from the DevGru community – is simply not so.

October 30, 2004EXPLOSIVESFacts and Questions About Lost MunitionsBy WILLIAM J. BROAD and DAVID E. SANGER he report that hundreds of tons of high explosives are missing from the Qaqaa munitions facility in Iraq has loomed over the last week of the presidential campaign, and led to a blur of charges and countercharges about what actually happened, and why the news came out so close to Election Day.Senator John Kerry has seized on the news, first reported by The New York Times and CBS' "60 Minutes," to reinforce his argument that the Bush administration bungled the postwar occupation of Iraq. President...

Kerry's answer to BUSH's enviroment-statement..: "KERRY: Boy, to listen to that -- the president, I don't think, is living in a world of reality with respect to the environment. Now, if you're a Red Sox fan, that's OK. But if you're a president, it's not." http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,134937,00.html

8:38PM CT The first report from St. Louis is in - and presidential candidates Michael Badnarik (Libertarian) and David Cobb (Green Party) were just arrested. Badnarik was carrying an Order to Show Cause, which he intended to serve the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). Earlier today, Libertarians attempted to serve these same papers at the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the CPD - but were stopped from approaching the CPD office by security guards.