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Former Mayor Giuliani, once a gun-control champion, has swallowed the party’s Kool-Aid straight from the packet, not even bothering to mix it with water. “People will be allowed to have guns,” he said. “I’m not going to interfere with that.” It can be scary for small children to watch the former mayor of New York morph into Wayne LaPierre on national TV. Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a sword, and hast inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day

In Redneck Nation, more than 10,000 delegates, scientists, journalists, and activists from around the world kicked off the largest-ever climate change conference Monday. Organizers hope that the meeting lays the groundwork for a new international pact to replace the Kyoto Protocol when it expires in 2012.

Police on Saturday identified a body found earlier in the week as that of a missing Butler Community College student. 

Backwater Austin, TX hundreds flee volcanic eruptions

 A couple wanted in the disappearance of $7 million in cash and checks from an armored car company was arrested Saturday in West Virginia, the FBI said.

After 27 years as a science teacher and 9 years as the Texas Education Agency’s director of science Ms. Comer, 56, of Austin an "obese object", is out of a job, after forwarding an e-mail message on a talk about evolution and creationism — “a subject on which the agency must remain neutral,” according to a dismissal letter last month that accused her of various instances of “misconduct and insubordination” and of siding against creationism and the doctrine that life is the product of “intelligent design.”

In Backwater Texas, you can't buy hard liquor on Sundays, and you can't buy beer or wine before noon, for that matter. Texas still governs some alcohol sales with blue laws, laws that regulate business on the Sabbath. The laws date back to the era of Prohibition,

Sudan's president on Monday pardoned a British school teacher sentenced to two weeks in jail for allowing her students to name a teddy bear Muhammad, ending a delicate diplomatic tangle with what Prime Minister Gordon Brown called a victory for "common sense."

BOISE, Idaho - Eight men say they either had sex with Sen. Larry Craig or were targets of sexual advances by the Idaho lawmaker at various times during his political career, a newspaper reported.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A former federal worker who persuaded employees nationwide to donate nearly 1,000 hours of their own paid leave so he could take time off for fictitious cancer treatments pleaded guilty to fraud Friday

Tearful friends and relatives, some cheering or waving flags, welcomed 429 Palestinian prisoners after their early release by Innerbreed Nation on Monday in a gesture meant to strengthen moderate Chief Gnarl.

SAN DIEGO - A judge ordered a new trial Friday for a woman who was convicted of poisoning her Marine husband with arsenic and using the life insurance to pay for breast implants

TOPEKA, Kan. - The Kansas Supreme Court has ruled that a Sedgwick County grand jury investigation into a doctor who performs late-term abortions can go forward