Last-minute lifeline bid turned down
SAN FRANCISCO (AP): A FEDERAL appeals court rejected a stay of execution yesterday for Crips co-founder Stanley 'Tookie' Williams who is scheduled to die after midnight unless California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger spares his life.
'30,000 dead and counting'
PHILADELPHIA, U.S. (Reuters): UNITED STATES President George W. Bush said yesterday about 30,000 Iraqis have been killed since the Iraq war began but insisted this week's election would be part of a Middle East turning point.
Migration at record high
WASHINGTON (AP): IMMIGRATION - LEGAL and illegal - continues to boom as Congress grapples with how to better control United States borders. A new report by the Center for Immigration Studies found that 7.9 million...
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