The U.S. and its allies are trying to secure the release of an abducted Israeli soldier, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said, adding that the U.S. is ``very concerned'' about tensions between Israel and the Palestinians. ``There is a concerted, international effort to get the release of the Israeli soldier,'' Rice told reporters traveling with her to Islamabad, where she will meet Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf today. ``There really needs to be an effort now to calm the situation, not to let the situation escalate.'' Three Palestinian groups, including the armed wing of Hamas, attacked an Israeli army outpost on the border with Gaza June 25, killing two soldiers, wounding a third and kidnapping Corporal Gilad Shalit, 19, who also holds French citizenship. They call it kidnapping when someone we don’t like does it, and capture when we or our friends do the same? They play a word game, getting you to think differently by the use of different words for the same act. ...
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 Fewer Teens Having Babies or Dropping Out of High School, but More Are Living in Poverty |
Fewer teenagers are having babies or dropping out of high school since the start of the decade, but slightly more live in poverty with parents who don't work year round. A report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation charity found that measures of health and income for children and teens are no longer improving as much as they did in the 1990s. Instead, children are "treading water," said foundation President Doug Nelson. "We're not talking about a catastrophe or the bottom falling out of anything," Nelson said. But, he added, "We've still got to do some poverty-rate reduction. We've got to make improvements from those 2000 numbers." ...
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| Rice Meets Musharraf as U.S. Refocuses on Afghanistan |
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives in Islamabad today for talks with Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf that will likely center on the rebel resurgence in neighboring Afghanistan. The U.S. and its partners are trying to roll back advances by the Taliban, the Islamist militia that once ruled Afghanistan, and some critics have raised questions about how determined Musharraf is to support that aim. ``I would hope that Secretary Rice would be able to persuade him to demonstrate the same level of commitment that he made after 9/11 to the current military effort in Afghanistan,'' said Karl Inderfurth, former assistant secretary of state for South Asia under President Bill Clinton. ...
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| Congressman Wants N.Y. Times Prosecuted. |
The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee called Sunday for criminal prosecution of the New York Times, saying its report Friday on U.S. government surveillance of confidential banking records "compromised America's anti-terrorist policies." Interviewed on "Fox News Sunday," Rep. Peter T. King (R-N.Y.) said the newspaper compromised national security when it exposed a Treasury Department program that secretly monitored worldwide money transfers to track terrorist financing. The program, instituted after the Sept. 11 attacks, bypasses traditional safeguards against government abuse. They would love to prosecute this as some kind of “helping the enemy in time of war” but they can’t. Just like when Jane Fonda was threatened with the charge of giving aid and comfort to the enemy, it was a hollow threat. Because they neglected that legal point of Declaring War. And without a Declaration of war, it’s all Bull Shit and they know it. The fact is, this is an illegal war...
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| Somali militia leader wants Islamic gov't |
An Islamic cleric accused by Washington of collaborating with al-Qaeda said Monday he will only support a government based on Islam in his new role as head of a militia that controls Somalia's capital and much of the country's south. "Somalia is a Muslim nation and its people are also Muslim, 100%," Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys told The Associated Press in his first comments to the media since being named head of the Islamic militia over the weekend. The militia defeated U.S.-backed secular warlords and seized Mogadishu and much of the south this month. Last week it struck a mutual recognition deal with the largely powerless U.N.-backed interim government. Aweys, who is on a U.S. list of people with alleged ties to international terrorism, was appointed leader of the militia Saturday, replacing a more moderate cleric who agreed to negotiate with the interim government. None of the militia leaders who voted for the surprise change in leadership has publicly explained the reason for it. ...
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| Campaign Finance Rules Struck Down by U.S. High Court |
The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow to efforts to reduce the role of money in political campaigns, striking down Vermont caps on contributions and candidate spending. The justices, voting 6-3, said for the first time that a state's donation limits were so low they violated the free speech clause of the Constitution. Vermont's contribution caps, as low as $200 for some races, were the most restrictive in the nation. ``We must recognize the existence of some lower bound,'' Justice Stephen Breyer wrote in the court's lead opinion. ``At some point the constitutional risks to the democratic electoral process become too great.'' By the same vote, the court also reaffirmed a 30-year-old decision barring states from curbing candidate spending. ...
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