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...dimly lit chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives, some 25 Republican members took the floor Monday, talking to only a peanut gallery of journalists and hordes of tourists they'd invited to fill their absent Democratic colleagues' seats...
Accounts of the attack were still conflicting on Monday afternoon, but according to official Chinese media reports, two unidentified men drove vehicles - one of which may have been a dump truck - into a squad of border police conducting morning exercises. After explosions that may have been caused by grenades or bombs attached to the vehicles, the two men reportedly started attacking the surviving soldiers with knives before being subdued and arrested. Authorities said the number of dead and wounded was still being confirmed...
...board's decision came after the sentencing on Monday of Reinhard Siekaczek, a former midlevel manager in Siemens' telecommunications business, the first conviction in connection with the bribery scandal, which became public in late 2006 and may reach back to 2000. Siekaczek admitted to overseeing a system in which he diverted company funds into secret bank accounts that were used to pay bribes. The Munich court fined Siekaczek $170,000 and issued a two-year suspended prison sentence. The Munich prosecutor said he hoped Siekaczek's lenient sentence, offered in exchange for a full confession, would encourage many...
...While the case sparked a flurry of lawsuits challenging other local gun laws, including one from the National Rifle Association against Chicago, perhaps the most interesting is a suit filed this Monday against the District of Columbia—again by Heller. After trying to register his handgun, Heller was told that because it can theoretically hold more than 12 rounds, his gun falls under the District’s machine gun ban. Heller is now hoping to repeat the success of his first lawsuit, forcing the District to comply with the words of the decision, which stated that...
...Pakistani Prime Minister was in Washington Monday promising not to allow Pakistan to become al-Qaeda's new rear base. As everyone knows, it's too late for that - bin Laden and almost every other important terrorist we're after are comfortably holed up there. For the last seven years Bush has begged, cajoled, threatened, and bribed the Pakistanis to do something about al-Qaeda. But nothing has worked...