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CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS
- In the Weekend Cook column in Sunday's Home & Garden section, the temperature at which the chipotle stew and baked rice and hominy pilaf should be baked was omitted.
Court affirms FBI spy powers
Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft and the FBI have broad power to wiretap the phones and secretly search the computers and homes of individuals who can be linked to foreign terrorists, a special spy review court ruled Monday.
INS jail plan sparks a rural rebellion
In a cornfield next to a children's camp, a mile from the red brick courthouse on the town square, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service wants to help build what many small towns dream about: a massive jail that would bring hundreds of high-paying, recession-proof jobs.
Baltics eagerly await entry to NATO
The bloodletting of the predawn darkness on Jan. 13, 1991, cut too deep a wound in Lithuania's collective psyche for its people to shrug off the symbolism of this week's expected invitation from NATO.
Through tape, U.S. concludes bin Laden alive
U.S. intelligence officials have concluded that a recently recorded audiotape that was broadcast on an Arab television network last week is genuine and contains the voice of Osama bin Laden, apparently ending months of debate within the government over whether the elusive terrorist leader is still alive.
Inspectors land in Iraq
International inspectors returned to Iraq for the first time in nearly four years Monday to start a search for chemical and biological weapons that could dictate whether the United States and Iraq face off in war.
China treats new boss Hu like a nobody
Monday was a slow day for the Communist Party official who might be in charge of constructing a cult of personality for Hu Jintao.
N. Korea clarifies nuclear disclosure
North Korea on Monday clarified a statement made in a weekend radio broadcast that appeared to claim publicly for the first time that the country possesses nuclear weapons.
SLA fugitive in South Africa to plead guilty, faces 6 years
James Kilgore, a former fugitive member of the radical Symbionese Liberation Army, has reached an agreement with U.S. authorities to plead guilty to second-degree murder for a 1975 killing in California, his lawyer said Monday.
Kazakhstan crackdown, arrest alarm West
Amid a widening crackdown on the political opposition in oil-rich Kazakhstan, Western governments are voicing concern over the detention and subsequent hunger strike of a widely respected critic of President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
Iran rally for scholar erupts in violence
Hundreds of paramilitary hard-liners clashed with protesting students who had gathered Monday at Sharif University downtown in support of a reformist scholar who has been sentenced to death.
Israel says Gaza raid links Palestinian cops, militants
An overnight raid on the main Palestinian security compound in Gaza turned up anti-tank missiles, grenades and equipment to make other weapons, proving Palestinian security forces were supplying arms to militant groups, the Israeli army said Monday.
Police: Man hoped to crash plane
An Israeli Arab wrestled to the floor outside the cockpit of an El Al flight Sunday night told investigators he hoped to crash the jet into a tall building in Tel Aviv in imitation of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack against New York's World Trade Center, Turkish police said Monday.
4 wounded as troops clash with protesters in Caracas
National Guard troops firing tear gas and shotgun pellets skirmished with anti-government demonstrators in Caracas on Monday as the political conflict between leftist President Hugo Chavez and his foes flared into violence.
Thousands mourn killer executed in U.S.
Thousands of people packed a soccer stadium Tuesday for the funeral of Aimal Khan Kasi, a Pakistani man executed in Virginia last week for the 1993 murders of two CIA employees.
Cop with pizza foils young hostage taker
A teenager with a knife took his sister and 19 other children hostage at his former school and held them for hours Monday until a plainclothes officer overpowered him while delivering a pizza, officials said.
Authorities capture notorious leader of '90s death squad
In a dramatic arrest that could shed light on former President Alberto Fujimori's possible involvement in human-rights crimes, Peru on Monday captured the head of an army death squad that killed 25 people in two of Peru's most notorious massacres in the early 1990s.
Militia rescues aid workers in Chechnya
Two employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross kidnapped last week in Chechnya were freed Sunday in an operation carried out by officers of the pro-Moscow Chechen militia, officials said Monday.
Land mine goes off under bus; 20 killed
A land mine exploded under a passenger bus Monday in dense forest in southern India, killing at least 20 people, police said.
Peace deal reported in long Aceh conflict
Indonesia's government and separatist rebels in Aceh province have agreed to sign a peace deal to end 26 years of fighting that has killed thousands of people, international mediators said Tuesday.
Presidential vote delayed a month
Argentina's government said Monday that it had agreed to delay March's presidential election by a month to April 27 as political infighting and legal problems overshadow the vote.
Court to hear case of condemned killer
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to delve more deeply into the nationwide debate over the death penalty, announcing it would review arguments by a Maryland Death Row inmate that his lawyers were incompetent.
High-fat Atkins diet gets a lift
Multitudes swear by the high-fat, low-carbohydrate Atkins diet, and now a carefully controlled study backs them up: A low-carbohydrate diet may take off more weight than a low-fat regimen and may be better for cholesterol too.
Governor of Alabama concedes to Republican
For almost two weeks, Alabama residents didn't know who would be their next governor, though 1.3 million voters turned out on Nov. 5 to cast their ballots.
Biblical display in court rejected
The bulky 10 Commandments monument that Alabama's crusading chief justice sneaked into the rotunda of the state Supreme Court building late one night last summer was ruled unconstitutional Monday by a federal judge.
Meat processors warned on testing
The Agriculture Department warned meat companies Monday that it will increase testing of plants for listeria unless they do it themselves and share the results with the government.
Patients facing death get mediocre care, report says
The American health-care system does a mediocre job of caring for dying patients, according to the first state-by-state report card on end-of-life care, released Monday.
Alternative menopause remedies found lacking
Except for an herbal remedy developed by American Indians, most of the exotic berries, teas, herbs and oils frequently taken by women to ease menopause symptoms have been ineffective in clinical trials, according to a study.
Watergate and wiretaps
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is charged with overseeing sensitive law-enforcement surveillance by the U.S. government.
U.S. fights in court to hide names of jailed immigrants
The Justice Department argued before a federal appeals panel Monday that disclosing the names of hundreds of people arrested on immigration charges after the September 2001 attacks would help terrorists of Al Qaeda figure out how the government was conducting its anti-terrorism campaign.
Court denies challenge to Cuba base detentions
A federal appeals court Monday rejected a challenge to the detention of about 600 Afghan war prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, ruling that a group of clergy members and professors has no legal standing to intervene.
DNA is reused in arrest of new suspect in '82 rape
Using the same DNA evidence that exonerated a man falsely convicted of rape, Baltimore County police arrested a new suspect Monday in the 20-year-old crime.
3 big companies urged to return to U.S.
California's huge pension fund system voted Monday to urge three big corporations it invests in to return to the United States.
Elephant crushes handler to death
A 3-ton elephant crushed its handler to death Monday while being taken for a walk at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium.
Jail escapees linked to 2 kidnappings
Two inmates who escaped from a Kentucky jail Nov. 4 are on a cross-country crime spree and have been linked to two abductions, the latest being that of a 44-year-old South Carolina woman, authorities say.
NASA, wife of Grissom battle over spacesuit
For the past decade, Virgil "Gus" Grissom's Mercury 7 spacesuit has hung in a glass case at the Astronaut Hall of Fame.
Indian activist seeks tribal post to challenge U.S. policy
As a young man, Russell Means picked up the gun and became a militant symbol of the American Indian Movement, but today, at age 63, he preaches that the ballot is more powerful than the bullet.
Prague becomes `giant fortress'
With NATO coming to Prague for a meeting this week, it has fallen to local military and police forces -- aided by U.S. fighter jets patrolling overhead --to defend NATO in a security operation for more than 40 heads of state and their ministers during the three-day meeting.
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