The six-day US-led assault on Falluja has turned catastrophic for civilians there and fuelled fighting in Iraq's northern city of Mosul.

A spokesman for Falluja resistance says US forces are at an impasse in the city, and denied the US offensive against the town had succeeded.

Abuse of power now hits more kids at home with weapons

ARLINGTON - The union representing reservation agents and other passenger service employees at US Airways has voted to authorize a strike if it cannot negotiate a fair contract with the bankrupt airline.

As same-sex marriage has been thrust into the national spotlight over the past week, a Reston church is hosting a public forum this weekend to examine the issue with Virginia's top gay rights and civil liberties advocates.

In the days and weeks around our recent election, those who have politicized evangelical Christianity in order to put Mr. Bush back in the White House have done so with an agenda of “moral values,� a phrase which few media outlets have taken the time to decode. And it is a coded phrase speaking primarily of an extreme anti-abortion stance and a fear and loathing of anything that might give rise to equal treatment of gays and lesbians in our society.

When I spoke with Jeff Fisher this morning (Saturday, November 06, 2004), the Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 16th District said he was waiting for the FBI to show up. Fisher has evidence, he says, not only that the Florida election was hacked, but of who hacked it and how. And not just this year, he said, but that these same people had previously hacked the Democratic primary race in 2002 so that Jeb Bush would not have to run against Janet Reno, who presented a real threat to Jeb, but instead against Bill McBride, who Jeb beat.

All right. Everyone, take a breath. Stop freaking out. Stop accusing everyone of ignoring the issue; it isn't being ignored.