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Israel warns against attacks during Gaza pullout

By Mark Lavie · Wednesday, June 22,2005 8:50 p.m.

JERUSALEM -- A day after a tense summit, Israel warned the Palestinians on Wednesday it will launch airstrikes if militants attack during the evacuation of the Gaza Strip set to begin in August.

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Suicide bomber kills 23, wounds 36

By Frank Griffiths · Sunday, June 19,2005 9:33 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A suicide bombing ripped through a popular Baghdad kebab restaurant at lunchtime, killing at least 23 people and wounding 36 Sunday as insurgents stepped up attacks nationwide, defying two major U.S.-led offensives aimed at routing foreign fighters.

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Deal exempts Saudis from weapons inspection

By George Jahn · Sunday, June 19,2005 9 p.m.

VIENNA, Austria -- Board members of the U.N. atomic watchdog agency approved a deal Thursday that exempts Saudi Arabia from nuclear inspections, despite serious misgivings about the arrangement in an era of heightened proliferation fears.

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Students react to Jackson verdict

By David A. Nosko · Thursday, June 16,2005 1:48 p.m.

Michael Jackson was acquitted in a court of law Monday of charges relating to the alleged sexual molestation of a 13-year-old boy at his Neverland Ranch in 2003, but the courtroom of Bloomington's public opinion believes justice was not served in his case.

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Shiavo autopsy shows massive brain damage

By Mitch Stacy · Wednesday, June 15,2005 10 p.m.

LARGO, Fla. -- An autopsy on Terri Schiavo backed her husband's contention that she was in a persistent vegetative state, finding that she had massive and irreversible brain damage and was blind, the medical examiner's office said Wednesday.

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Military brass: Guantanamo detainees treated well

By Liz Sidoti · Wednesday, June 15,2005 9:58 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter challenged Congress Wednesday to help define legal rights of terrorism-era detainees at Guantanamo Bay, bemoaning a "crazy quilt" system.

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Taliban says bin Laden alive, well

By Sadaqat Jan · Wednesday, June 15,2005 9:23 p.m.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Osama bin Laden is alive and in good health, as is fugitive Taliban chief Mullah Mohammed Omar, a purported senior commander of the ousted Afghan religious militia said in a TV interview broadcast Wednesday.

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Should the Patriot Act be renewed?

By Jeffrey C. Isaac · Monday, June 13,2005 1:11 a.m.

I do not support the renewal of the Patriot Act. Indeed, I was involved in the drafting of a resolution by the Bloomington City Council that joined hundreds of similar bodies throughout the nation in expressing concern about the Patriot Act's potential for the abridgement of civil liberties.

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Moderate earthquake hits Palm Springs

Sunday, June 12,2005 9:10 p.m.

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. -- A moderate earthquake shook most of Southern California early Sunday, rattling nerves along with homes and businesses.

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American death toll passes 1,700

By Paul Garwood · Sunday, June 12,2005 8:38 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The military announced the killing of four more U.S. soldiers on Sunday, pushing the American death toll past 1,700, and police found the bullet-riddled bodies of 28 people -- many thought to be Sunni Arabs -- buried in shallow graves or dumped streetside in Baghdad.

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Chinese rescuers cope with disaster

By Audra Ang · Sunday, June 12,2005 7:54 p.m.

Beijing -- Forklifts cleaned up mud and silt as rescuers searched through ruins Sunday for 17 students missing after a flash flood swamped a school in northeast China and swept 92 people to their deaths.

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Prescriptions going to pot

By David A. Nosko · Wednesday, June 8,2005 10:02 p.m.

Congress has the authority to grant all 50 States the right to prescribe medicinal marijuana to alleviate the pain and suffering of patients who can't find relief through other modern methods of medicine, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Monday.

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Feds: Waterworks housed drug ring

By Mike Robinson · Wednesday, June 8,2005 9:28 p.m.

CHICAGO -- Federal prosecutors charged Wednesday that the Chicago branch of a Colombian heroin trafficking organization operated inside the city water department, already awash in allegations that trucking companies received department business in exchange for payoffs.

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Prescriptions going to pot

By David A. Nosko · Wednesday, June 8,2005 9:20 p.m.

Hoosiers suffering from chronic pain, cancerous deterioration and the wasting away associated with HIV/AIDS have no state or federal right to smoke or otherwise ingest marijuana for medical purposes under the advice and care of Indiana doctors as prescribed by most local, statewide and national laws.

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