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PARIS – Anti-terrorist policetook five people into custody Wednesday in their investigation into shoe-bomb suspect Richard Reid. The suspects — two Pakistanis and three North Africans — were rounded up in the suburbs of Paris, police officials said. Police said they found three guns during the searches, one with a …

Let’s check out some political stories we found Below the Fold. Looking for Evil Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Tony Kushner’s commencement address at Vassar College focused on his definition of evil. Kushner said, “when you despair, you open the door to evil and evil is always happy to enter, sit …

DEADWOOD, S.D. – Residents of this Black Hills gambling town were ordered to evacuate Saturday because of an approaching wildfire, but a fire official said crews were keeping the blaze at bay. Gov. Bill Janklow, who issued the late-afternoon order, said the fire had jumped a highway on the outskirts …

There was good news for the American launch industry this week. Boeing’s newest launch vehicle, the Delta IV, had a successful launch on Wednesday. Despite that, the U.S. launch industry is unfortunately still in big trouble, and it’s not clear that the Bush administration has any coherent or effective strategy …

WASHINGTON – He never got the flat tax that spurred him to run for office, but House Majority Leader Dick Armey departs Washington with his cowboy-boots image and one more bomb to throw as he exits the stage: He may go work for the ACLU. A conservative Texas Republican with …

BALI, Indonesia – Indonesian investigators suspect several accomplices of the prime suspect in the Bali bombings may have fled to neighboring Malaysia, an intelligence official said Sunday. Last week, police made their first breakthrough in the investigation when they arrested a suspect on Indonesia’s main island of Java. The suspect, …

WASHINGTON – President Bush quickly went to the microphones Friday to warn Saddam Hussein that the United States will go to war with Iraq if the nation does not disarm. “The outcome of the current crisis is already determined. The full disarmament of weapons of mass destruction by Iraq will …

WASHINGTON – The Yemeni-American killed in a CIA airstrike on Nov. 3 is believed to be Kamal Derwish, the alleged leader of a Buffalo, N.Y.-basedgroup believed to havelinks to Usama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda terrorist organization, U.S. officials say. The reported name of the man killed in Yemen, Ahmed Hijazi, …

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO), the No. 1 maker of equipment that directs Internet traffic, Wednesday posted a profit and said sales were unchanged from the previous quarter amid weak spending by large corporate customers. Excluding one-time items, Cisco’s profit beat analysts’ estimates by a penny. “They …

Nobody should lay a hand or anything else on Tom Daschle. I get a lot of email from viewers about Daschle. A lot of you don’t like him. You don’t like what he stands for, and you don’t like his tactics. I have no doubts he has gotten email threats. …