Associated Press
ALLENTOWN, Pa. – A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the city of Hazleton from enforcing a pair of ordinances targeting illegal immigrants, just hours before the measures were to go into effect.
The measures, approved by the City Council last month, would have imposed fines on landlords who rent to illegal immigrants and denied [...]

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WorldNetDaily
Democratic Sen. John Kerry warned students in a campaign speech last night that if they don’t study hard and get a good education they might “get stuck in Iraq.”
The remark is being interpreted by many veterans – including Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. – as a slam at military service, suggesting it’s a last refuge for [...]

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TheSourceDaily.com
High school students from Delaware County Christian school are collecting party and prom dresses (conservative dresses are prefered) and setting up a “store”.
They plan to list these dresses on the internet to sell.
All of the proceeds will go toward children in Uganda.
The students have been contacting friends and relatives and anyone they can to [...]

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POUGHKEEPSIE JOURNAL
Steven T. Vermilye was a home inspector and general contractor who grew up in Croton-on-Hudson – he and his father helped build the boat launch at Senasqua Park – went to college in Texas and settled in New Paltz in 1971.
Betty L. Johnson came from a small town in Virginia and moved to Beacon [...]

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US Senate
ABC News Reporter Bill Blakemore declared “I don’t like the word ‘balance’ much at all” in global warming coverage at a journalism conference in Vermont over the weekend.
Blakemore, who reported on August 30, 2006, “After extensive searches, ABC News has found no such [scientific] debate” on global warming, (http://abcnews.go.com/US/print?id=2374968) said he rejects ‘balance’ [...]

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ABC News
Ayman al Zawahiri was the target of a Predator missile attack this morning on a religious school in Pakistan, according to Pakistani intelligence sources.
ABC News has learned the raid was launched after U.S. intelligence received tips and examined Predator reconnaissance indicating that al Qaeda’s No. 2 man may have been staying at the school, [...]

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Daily Mail- UK
British scientists have grown the world’s first artificial liver from stem cells in a breakthrough that will one day provide entire organs for transplant.
The technique that created the ‘mini-liver’, currently the size of a one pence piece, will be developed to create a full-size functioning liver.
Described as a ‘Eureka moment’ by the [...]

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Associated Press
Meadow muffins. Guano. Feces. Solid waste. Caca. The words for poop are endless, but the Miami Metrozoo has another term to add to the list: educational.
Now on display is a 5,000-square-foot exhibit on excrement titled “The Scoop on Poop,” which invites visitors to explore the science of scat. The exhibit is filled with photos [...]

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CNSNews
Voicing support for U.S. involvement in Iraq, the Saudi ambassador to the United States said the U.S. has a important role to play in the Middle East, “whether it wants to or not.”
“It is of vital interest to us as well as the United States that Iraq would remain a unified country,” said Saudi Ambassador [...]

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CNSNews
President Bush told African-Americans two years ago that the Democratic Party was taking them for granted, and this year, a growing number of African-Americans apparently are starting to believe it.
On Monday, a group of black leaders in the Maryland suburbs of Washington endorsed Republican U.S. Senate candidate Michael Steele. Prince Georges County Executive Wayne Curry [...]

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WorldNetDaily
Six girls barred from performing in a city’s holiday show because they wore “Jesus Christ Dancers” shirts settled a federal lawsuit in which they were awarded $3,000 each. (plus Another $10,000 is to be paid for attorney fees and costs)
…Also included in the settlement is a requirement by the court for the city “to provide [...]

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WorldNetDaily
A website in Assyria is confirming that a 14-year-old Christian boy who was working a 12-hour shift maintaining an electric generator has been murdered by Muslim insurgents.
The Assyrian International News Agency said the tragedy was reported by an Assyrian language web page at www.ankawa.com.
The youth was identified as Ayad Tariq, who lived in Baqouba, Iraq, [...]

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LifeSiteNews
An Oct. 28 New York Times article has exposed the self-serving business and political interests behind the U.S. export of billions of condoms to under-developed and developing countries as part of the nations’ foreign aid and international AIDS programs.
Despite the detrimental effects, both societal and physical of such so-called aid, the past two decades [...]

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AgapePress
A Christian mom in Indiana is praying the American Civil Liberties Union will not succeed in shutting down a release-time religious education program in her children’s school district.
The ACLU recently filed a lawsuit challenging a program in the Mooresville school district that allows third and fourth graders to leave the classroom for one hour a [...]

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ASSIST News Service
The flood waters from India’s record-breaking monsoon rains receded by early October, only to bring a second wave of problems—mosquitoes. This year’s crop of post-flood mosquitoes brought the rare viral fever, chikungunya, with them. By early October, more than 1,600 people were sick with chikungunya and more than 100 people had already [...]

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