Identity Of Deep Throat Confirmed

I heard on FNC that Woodward confirms W. Mark Felt, 91, was in fact deep throat; the famed Watergate source. He was second-in-command at the FBI in the early 1970s.
The biggest mystery of my time has now been solved.

Secretive Afghan Force Makes Drug Bust

From an AP article on FNC:
KABUL, Afghanistan âââ With scarves hiding some faces and guns at the ready, a new secretive Afghan anti-drug squad zoomed into a desert village as part of a crackdown on the country’s booming narcotics trade, authorities said Tuesday.
They seized 2 1/2 tons of opium and 550 pounds of heroin, but [...]

Navy Seal Found Not Guilty

From an article on FNC:
SAN DIEGO âââ A military jury acquitted a Navy SEAL lieutenant Friday of beating an Iraqi prisoner who later died.
Jurors deliberated about three hours before finding Lt. Andrew K. Ledford not guilty of all charges.
Nuff said.

9 Year Old Girl Commits Murder

What a day in the news. All these kids killing people.
From an article on FNC:
NEW YORK âââ A 9-year-old girl fatally stabbed an 11-year-old girl in the chest with a steak knife during a fight over a ball, authorities said.
The 9-year-old, a fourth-grader whose name wasn’t released, was charged with manslaughter.
Relatives said the girls’ mothers [...]

Youngest Convicted Murderer Kills Again

From an article on FNC:
In 2001, Lionel Tate, 14, became the youngest person in modern U.S. history to be sentenced to life in prison, after being convicted of killing 6-year-old Tiffany Eunick in Florida. He was 12 at the time of the killing in 1999.
He won a new trial on appeal and went free in [...]

Another Teenager Goes On Shooting Spree

From an article on FNC:
BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio âââ On the morning he was to graduate from high school, Scott Moody walked a half-mile to his grandparents’ farmhouse and began what authorities say was the first stop in a gruesome murder-suicide that ended in six deaths.
According to investigators, Moody shot his grandparents with a .22-caliber rifle before [...]

Child Care a Focus in Welfare Overhaul

From an AP article in Yahoo News:
WASHINGTON – To do her job as a hospice care worker in West Virginia, Aniya Witherspoon relies on the government to help pay for child care. She now pays $4 a day. Without that federal assistance, her daily bill would run $36. And she only makes $64 each day.
“I [...]

U.S. Supreme Court Over Turns Arthur Andersen Conviction

The US Supreme Court overturned the criminal conviction of Arthur Andersen, the onetime accounting giant effectively put out of business for its role in the Enron financial fraud.
In a unanimous opinion, the justices said the former Big Five accounting firm’s June 2002 obstruction of justice conviction, which virtually destroyed Andersen was improper. The decision said [...]

European Union’s Constitution In Trouble

From an article in Reuters:
The result of Sunday’s referendum has plunged the 25-nation EU as well as France into crisis. Those problems are likely to deepen when the Netherlands holds a referendum on the treaty on Wednesday because opinion polls point to another heavy defeat.
“We had hoped for a neck-and-neck race (but) … it looks [...]

French Prime Minister Steps Down After Failed EU Vote

French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin became the first victim of a crisis over the European Union’s constitution on Tuesday as EU leaders braced for Dutch voters to follow France by rejecting the new charter.
President Jacques Chirac accepted Raffarin’s resignation and appointed loyal ally Dominique de Villepin 51.
Despite the deep crisis in France over the charter, [...]