Mel Gibson's Big Spray

'Truth' Hurts: Chair Hits Redner On TV

A Jerry Springer moment hit community television this weekend when a chair was hurled at Joe Redner.....more

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Ned is looking more and more "statesmanlike" as he enters the final 2 days of the campaign....more

Suck It Up
A defense of the much-maligned word.

Are you offended by the word sucks? Do you loathe the way it's crept into everyday conversation? Are you shocked that preteen children and primetime television shows blithely employ a vivid slang term for oral sex?....more

Rocky vows cool welcome for Bush
The president is scheduled to attend American Legion convention in SLC

When President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visit Salt Lake City next month for an American Legion national convention, Mayor Rocky Anderson plans a protest - even bigger than the one he spoke at last year.....more

WASHINGTON VS. HAVANA
The CIA's Blind Spot

The uncertainty surrounding Cuba's political future caught Washington by surprise. Instead of seizing the chance to develop a new Cuban policy, the United States is falling back on old, unsuccessful recipes -- and getting ready for an exodus to Florida....more

Elian Gonzalez wishes Castro well

85 slain in 5 years

"Stop the violence," chant marchers who want to end black-on-black attacks. But will their voices reach the young men who didn't attend?....more

Video: Parody of Al Gore film tied to ExxonMobil lobbying firm

An online parody of Al Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth, has been tied to a lobbying firm which counts ExxonMobil among its clients, The Wall Street Journal reported today.....more

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A/C D.C.
The deluded world of air conditioning.

Have you heard the news? Scientists have found a planet that can support life. Its atmosphere is too hot for year-round habitation, its gases impede breathing, and surface conditions are sometimes fatal.....more

The history of England: Domesday goes digital

Tomorrow, 920 years after it was compiled by an anonymous scribe, William the Conqueror's epic audit of life in medieval times will become available on the internet.....more

Dixie Chicks make nice at New York concert

Although there have been numerous reports of sluggish sales for their current Accidents and Accusations tour showcasing tunes from their recently released "Take the Long Way" album, New York's Madison Square Garden was packed for this single-night stint.....more

GOD DOESN'T LIKE PORNOGRAPHY

A battle over a sex shop in a small town near New York shows how a local problem can quickly turn into a culture war in America. At the center is a famous actor who became a born-again Christian after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.....more

Cheney's Davenport solution to improve homeland security

Davenport police officers tell protesters marching along River Drive they had orders to collect the wooden sticks on their American flags as a security measure....more

A third of the American public suspects that federal officials assisted in the 9/11 terrorist attacks

More than a third of the American public suspects that federal officials assisted in the 9/11 terrorist attacks or took no action to stop them so the United States could go to war in the Middle East, according to a new Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll.....more

Israeli air raids kill 40 civilians in Lebanon

One air strike hit a farm near Qaa, close to the Syrian border in the Bekaa Valley where workers, mostly Syrian Kurds, were loading plums and peaches on to trucks, local officials said. They said 33 people were killed and 20 wounded.....more

Top US generals and British diplomat warn Iraq could slide into civil war

Two senior US generals yesterday publicly agreed with a warning by Britain's outgoing ambassador to Iraq, William Patey, that the country is slipping towards civil war and partition.....more