AFP: Shoe attack on Bush mars farewell Iraq visit

A journalist hurled two shoes at President George W. Bush on his farewell visit to Iraq on Sunday, highlighting hostility still felt toward the outgoing US leader who acknowledged that the war is still not won.

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Spying on pacifists, environmentalists and nuns - Los Angeles Times

Reporting from Takoma Park, Md. -- To friends in the protest movement, Lucy was an eager 20-something who attended their events and sent encouraging e-mails to support their causes. Only one thing seemed strange.

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Barack Obama, 44th president of the United States | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times

Barack Obama, 44th president of the United States

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GOP voter registration fraud case leads to arrest - Los Angeles Times

SACRAMENTO -- The owner of a firm that the California Republican Party hired to register tens of thousands of voters this year was arrested in Ontario late last night on suspicion of voter registration fraud.

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Chicago Proposes Gay-Friendly High School : NPR

That's so gay. It's a phrase that can be heard in the hallways of many American high schools. In Chicago, plans are under way for a new school where gay students and others wouldn't face the bullying and harassment they endure in other schools.

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Labels urged for caffeinated energy drinks | Health | Reuters

One of the authors of the new research review on these beverages warns that young people who use caffeine-fueled energy drinks may be more prone to illicit use of prescription drugs like Ritalin later on.

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The War Against Beer Pong - TIME

College Sport In the coming weeks, millions of students will begin their fall semester of college, with all the at... Should the Drinking Age Be Lowered?

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Wal-Mart Denies Pressuring Workers To Vote GOP : NPR

Wal-Mart is denying reports that company officials encouraged store managers to "vote Republican" in November. Company officials are said to be concerned that a Democratic victory would make it easier for employees to unionize.

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Bush to leave a record budget deficit of $482 billion - Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON -- President Bush will leave his successor with a record-high budget deficit of $482 billion, according to an administration estimate released Monday.

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White House To Get Senate-Approved Housing Bill : NPR

The Senate approved the measure 72-to-13 on Saturday. The bill would help homeowners on the brink of foreclosure and rescue Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which together back nearly half of the nation's mortgages.

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Forests to fall for food and fuel

gotta love the alliteration Demand for land to grow food, fuel crops and wood is set to outstrip supply, leading to the probable destruction of forests, a report warns.

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Bloomberg.com: U.K. & Ireland

Prime Minister Gordon Brown today said he will open Britain's energy industry to investment from oil producing nations as a way of keeping a lid on crude prices and paying for measures to clean up the environment.

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White House office wins ruling on e-mail records - CNN.com

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Wolf Warns Of Foreign Attacks on Computers - washingtonpost.com

Wolf, a champion of human rights in China and elsewhere, said at a news conference that authorities investigated the attacks on four of his computers in August 2006 and traced them to a computer in China.

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2 Energy Bills, Including Windfall Tax, Stall in Senate - NYTimes.com

A bill that would have rolled back some $17 billion in tax breaks on Big Oil and pressured the companies to invest in new energy sources by hitting them with a windfall-profits tax if they did not failed to get enough votes to move forward.

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The Long Goodbye: Clinton to Endorse Obama - The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog

11:54 a.m. | Running Late: Mrs. Clinton's motorcade is still at her house in Washington. Perhaps she was going over her speech, or getting some last-minute advice from you-know-who. Anyway, don't expect her to take the stage for quite a while.

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Facebook 'violates privacy laws'

A Canadian privacy group has filed a complaint against the social networking site Facebook accusing it of violating privacy laws. The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic has listed 22 separate breaches of privacy law in its country.

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California same-sex marriage licenses possible in June - CNN.com

(CNN) -- Same-sex couples in California may be able to obtain marriage licenses on June 17, state officials said Wednesday.

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BBC NEWS | Europe | Russian justice 'fails thousands'

Russia's prosecutor-general has admitted that thousands of people are wrongly charged with criminal offences in the country each year.

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McCain rejects Hagee endorsement - CNN.com

In the face of mounting controversy over headline-grabbing statements from the Rev. John Hagee, CNN has learned that presumptive Republican nominee John McCain decided Thursday to reject his endorsement.

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Court: Texas Had No Right to Seize Children at Polygamist Ranch - washingtonpost.com

A Texas appeals court ruled today that state child welfare authorities had no right to seize dozens of children living at the ranch of a polygamist religious sect, saying they were in no immediate danger of abuse.

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Senator Kennedy Has Malignant Brain Tumor - New York Times

Senator Edward M. Kennedy has a malignant tumor in his brain, his doctors said Tuesday. thank goodness he popped out that candidate nom

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Supreme Court Upholds Law Aimed at Child Pornography - New York Times

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a 2003 federal law aimed at child pornography, concluding in a 7-to-2 opinion that a federal appeals court was wrong to find the law unconstitutionally vague.

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Ruling May Revive Gay Marriage as Issue - New York Times

WASHINGTON — Gay marriage is an issue on which the three major presidential candidates — John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton — are pretty much in agreement.

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Saudi to Boost Oil Output

- Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, will increase crude production next month in response to rising demand from its customers and a request by U.S. President George W. Bush to ease the strain of record oil prices.

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