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Cubans mobilize to counter Ivans wrath

September 17, 2004

Three days before Hurricane Ivan grazed Cuba, U.S. journalist Karen Wald heard from a Cuban friend: “Everything is crazy with Ivan coming. This is a war situation here. … People are really scared.” Cuba was still...

Schoolchildren protest Israels apartheid wall

September 17, 2004

A-RAM, West Bank — More than a thousand Palestinian schoolchildren, boys and girls from age 6 to 14, wearing their school uniforms and carrying books and supplies, demonstrated here on Sept. 13 in the shadows of...

A wife fights for her husbands freedom

September 17, 2004

TAMPA — The Bill of Rights guarantees persons accused of a crime a speedy trial, but Sami Al-Arian and his seven co-defendants have been in federal prison a year-and-a-half and their trial is not scheduled until...

National Clips

September 17, 2004

ST. LOUIS: GOP kills assault weapons ban It’s official. Anyone can now buy an AK-47 assault rifle at any gun shop in the U.S. over the counter. President Bush, who has claimed he supports continuing the...

Abortion ban struck down for third time

September 17, 2004

U.S. District Court Judge Richard Kopf, ruling in Carhart v. Ashcroft, joined two other judges in finding that the so-called “Partial Birth Abortion Ban,” passed by Congress and signed into law by George W. Bush in...