Bush to keep ‘grim’ war report secret until after election
September 24, 2008
A secret US intelligence report which says the political and military situation in Afghanistan is “grim” will be withheld from the public until after the election, a new report says.
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Homeland Security Department Testing Thought-Crime Detector
September 23, 2008
US Department of Homeland Security is developing a system designed to detect “hostile thoughts” in people walking through border posts, airports and public places. The DHS says recent tests prove it works.
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US asks G7 nations for help
September 22, 2008
Henry Paulson, the U.S. Treasury Secretary, turned to Canada and other Group of Seven industrialized countries Sunday to back a sweeping financial relief package to alleviate stresses in the banking system that carries a fast-rising price tag of well over US$700-billion.
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Nationwide: Yet more ‘tent cities’ popping up
September 19, 2008
RENO, Nevada (AP) — A few tents cropped up hard by the railroad tracks, pitched by men left with nowhere to go once the emergency winter shelter closed for the summer.
Then others appeared — people who had lost their jobs to the ailing economy, or newcomers who had moved to Reno for work and discovered no one was hiring.
Within weeks, more than 150 people were living in tents big and small, barely a foot apart in a patch of dirt slated to be a parking lot for a campus of shelters Reno is building for its homeless population. Like many other cities, Reno has found itself with a “tent city” — an encampment of people who had nowhere else to go.
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Vermont candidate to prosecute Bush if she wins
September 19, 2008
BURLINGTON, Vt. – Lots of political candidates make campaign promises. But not like Charlotte Dennett’s. Dennett, 61, the Progressive Party’s candidate for Vermont Attorney General, said Thursday she will prosecute President Bush for murder if she’s elected Nov. 4.
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Complete neolithic skeletons found in Borneo
September 19, 2008
Archaeologists have found two groups of complete Neolithic human remains in peninsular Malaysia and on Borneo island that may better explain prehistoric human life, reports said Friday.
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