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SENTENCED A Virginia judge handed U.S. national Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, 28, a life sentence for a 2003 plot to assassinate then President George W. Bush...
...Diego A Dangerous Job, Now Deadly U.S. border-patrol agent Robert W. Rosas, 30, was killed July 23 near the remote town of Campo, Calif., while tailing a group of suspected drug smugglers and illegal immigrants. He was the first member of the border patrol to be shot and killed in the line of duty in more than a decade. The murder prompted a massive multiagency manhunt involving federal, state and Mexican law enforcement. But while authorities in Mexico have detained five suspects, an FBI spokesman says the case--one that highlights the increasing risk of Mexican drug violence surging...
...What They're Unplugging in Cuba: The Obama Administration has taken down a 5-ft.-high (1.5 m) electronic news ticker, installed under President George W. Bush at a low point in diplomatic relations, from the windows of the American mission in Havana. The sign, used to annoy Cuban officials with pro-democracy messages, had been blocked by Fidel Castro with massive black flags. According to American University professor Robert A. Pastor, the act of goodwill "has permitted both sides to act like mature adults...
Annual Medical Spending Attributable to Obesity By Eric A. Finkelstein, Justin G. Trogdon, Joel W. Cohen and William Dietz...
...scores and a graceful swing. Ronald Reagan, whose scores were a state secret, putted down the aisle of Air Force One. Bill Clinton established a reputation for fudging his score - cheating, some said - in rounds with campaign donors while chewing an unlit cigar on the tee. George W. Bush played the way his father H.W. did, like a race against time, until the last years in office, when the son banned himself from the game because he didn't want to send the "wrong signal" to the mothers of the Iraq-war dead. (Read "Ronald Reagan's Golf Balls? Step...