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Posted by timothy on Wednesday November 05, @06:20PM
dunezone writes
“As the election ends, news is coming out from both campaigns on what happened behind closed doors. During the summer, the Obama campaign had their systems hacked, but so did McCain — and not by each other, but bya third party. ‘… both the FBI [...]

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PHOENIX, Nov. 4 (UPI) — Arizona’s Department of Economic Security said five hard drives stolen from a storage unit contained the personal information of up to 40,000 children.
The department sent letters to parents who had submitted their children for its “Early Intervention Program” informing them the children may be at risk of identity theft as [...]

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KALININGRAD - The deployment of precision-guided tactical missiles in Russia’s westernmost region would render ineffective a U.S. missile shield in Central Europe, Russia’s NATO envoy said on Wednesday.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said earlier on Wednesday that Russia would deploy short-range Iskander missile systems in its Kaliningrad exclave near Poland “to neutralize, if necessary, the anti-ballistic [...]

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THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Nov. 5 (UPI) — Radovan Karadzic, held in the Netherlands, testified Wednesday in the appeal of a former ally convicted of war crimes, denying Serbian atrocities.
He also refused to be cross-examined.
Karadzic is preparing for his own trial at the international tribunal in The Hague. Momcilo Krajisnik, the former speaker of the [...]

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By Greg Flakus
Houston, Texas
05 November 2008
A plane carrying two of Mexico’s top crime fighters crashed Tuesday on a busy street in the heart of Mexico City, killing all eight people on board and a number of people on the ground. As VOA’s Greg Flakus reports from Houston, Texas, experts see this tragedy as a setback, [...]

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By Military Families Speak Out
Posted on November 5, 2008, Printed on November 6, 2008

After five years of working to end the occupation of Iraq and bring their loved ones home, members of Military Families Speak Out are expressing hope that with the election of Barack Obama an end may finally be in sight [...]

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Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 05, @08:20PM
An anonymous reader writes “The US Army is ramping up the development of technology right out of the X-Files; ‘making science fiction into reality’ as Dr. John Parmentola — Director of their Research and Laboratory Management — puts it. The list of things currently in the [...]

California’s gay marriage ban, Proposition 8, faces court battle…
California’s constitutional gay marriage ban, Proposition 8, was poised to pass as of Wednesday afternoon. As votes were still being counted, however, the California Supreme Court had already been petitioned to hear a legal challenge to the initiative.
Gay rights backers file 3 lawsuits challenging Prop. 8…
Lawyers for [...]

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Published: Wednesday November 5, 2008
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, while speaking to the press, expressed pride in witnessing Senator Obama’s win of the presidency in Tuesday’s election.
Sec. Rice, having spent her early childhood in Birmingham, Alabama, witnessed the Jim Crow era firsthand. In a 2004 interview with The Sunday Times, she credited her parents [...]

Purging Voter Rolls–One Hollywood Liberal At A Time…
It ended up taking five hours for Robbins to vote. While it’s somewhat tongue-in-cheek to say that of course someone as outspoken as Robbins would be stricken wrongly off the voting rolls, it’s something else he said that should give pause: according to Robbins, 30 others got the [...]