It was discovered that Rudy Giuliani, presidential candidate and former mayor of New York, gave his mistress a police escort, who drove her around all day and walked her dog.
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A jury ordered an anti-gay Kansas church to pay $10.9 million in damages to relatives of a reportedly gay dead U.S. Marine after church members cheered his death at his funeral.
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FEMA apologized for holding a fake press conference.
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Results of a telephone survey showed that in a race versus Republican Rudy Giuliani and Democrat Hilary Clinton, comedian Stephen Colbert would receive 13% of all votes.
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It was reported that there are now more than three quarters of a million names on the U.S. government’s terrorist “watch list,” and a government report raised concerns the list may be becoming too large.
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50% of American voters polled said they would never vote for Hillary Clinton, up from 46% in March.
[cause she's scary]
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Hillary Clinton suggested she might give $5000 to babies.
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Mychal Bell of the Jena Six was released on bail.
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A federal judge ruled two provisions of the USA Patriot Act allowing secret wiretapping and un-substantiated searches are unconstitutional.
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The case of Mychal Bell, a black teenager accused of beating a white classmate in Jena, Louisiana, will be heard in juvenile court, Louisiana’s governor announced Wednesday.
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A Government official was charged with stalking his ex-girlfriend using homeland security data.
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A march by thousands of protesters demanding an end to the Iraq war turned chaotic yesterday afternoon near the Capitol, where hundreds sprawled on the ground in a symbolic “die-in.” Police arrested 189 people.
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The governor of Texas commuted the death sentence of Kenneth Foster yesterday six hours before Foster’s scheduled execution. Foster had been sentenced to death for a crime the state of Texas admits he did not commit or plan.
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The US military banned soldiers from accessing thinkprogress.org after an Aug. 22 column in which Ret. Maj. Gen. John Batiste posted an op-ed that was strongly critical of the President’s policies and advocated a “responsible and deliberate redeployment from Iraq.â€
Texas is preparing to execute a thirty-year old African American for a crime he’s openly known not to have committed.
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The Bush administration said Monday the constitutionality of its warrantless electronic eavesdropping program cannot be challenged.
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The Democrat-led Congress handed President Bush a major legislative victory this weekend when it voted to broadly expand the government’s authority to eavesdrop without warrant on the international telephone calls and email messages of American citizens.
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Democrats in the House and Senate have introduced resolutions calling for the censure of President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
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California outlawed electronic voting machines.
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The District of Columbia has agreed to pay $1 million to more than one hundred demonstrators rounded up and detained during an anti-war protest in September 2002.
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