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NEW YORK – After the oppressive humidity and snail-paced crowds of Sunday’s massive anti-Bush demonstrations, hundreds of protesters bounced back on Tuesday for a “side project” — a Midtown protest outside the offices of FOX News Channel. Cops clad in riot gear worked to keep the demonstrators from blocking traffic …

I wonder knowing what we know now ofMohamed Atta (search)whether we would have minded seeing him stripped in a prison or forced to wear a hood or humiliated in any other way? I wonder if we secretly would have found ourselves hoping for far worse treatment. I wonder if anyone …

The latest from the Political Grapevine: VP BuzzOne day after a front-page article in the New York Times trumpeted rumors that President Bush might replaceVice President Cheney (search)as his running mate, a new Gallup poll shows that 59 percent of Americans, including 71 percent of Republicans, want Cheney to stay …

WASHINGTON – Two senators chairing committees with direct oversight of intelligence and terrorist-related issues have asked the chief internal watchdog at the Department of Homeland Security (search) to investigate the appointment of a top director at the agency and his brief suspension from it. Faisal Gill (search) was forced to …

‘Team America’ |Documentary DVDs ‘South Park’ Makers: Sex, Puppets and Controversy Try to imagine, if you will, a movie that in its first few minutes offends just about everyone who’s watching it. Then you have “Team America: World Police,” the new outrageous and controversial new comedy from Trey Parker and …

All right, every year that I do this I’m criticized for being sexist. Fair enough. In this case, I am. But when it comes to offering men advice for holiday shopping, I’m well within my sexist bounds. Because when it comes to retail, we are the weaker species. Women rule …

WASHINGTON – After three terms in office representing downtown Portland, Ore., and its suburbs, DemocratRep. David Wu (search)is facing an opponent whose Iranian background and immigrant story has drawn attention and speculation that she has what it takes to win this First District seat. But Wu, whose family emigrated from …

The latest from the Political Grapevine: Lawyer Sans License A nominee for the federal appeals court in Washington has spent four years as General Counsel at Brigham Young University in Utah without ever obtaining a law license in that state, the Washington Post reports. Thomas Griffith practiced law for three …

And now the most riveting two minutes in television, the latest from the political grapevine: The Scope of Roe v. Wade Speakers at yesterday’s pro-choice demonstration in Washington, which drew as many as 1 million marchers by some accounts, claimed that the U.S. Supreme Court is — “one vote away …

WASHINGTON – As thousands of U.S. troops return home in the first wave of rotations out of Iraq,Department of Veterans Affairs (search)facilities, military hospitals and private assistance programs are gearing up to provide services to the largest pool of women veterans ever to serve simultaneously in a combat zone. About …