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Update It’ll be a long night. No one is putting much faith in exit polls or Voter News Service. So that means, wait for the votes to be counted.

Vote! Posting may be spotty here today until late. I’ll be a pollworker at my local precinct from 7 AM – 8 PM, then on to at a party at Donna Warren’s (Green Party candidate for Lt. Gov) office. LA…

Yemen missle strike When a Hellfire laser-guided missile screamed out of an unmanned Predator drone and straight into a car carrying Qaed Sinan Harithi on Sunday, the United States may have violated international law, or it may not have. The…

Israel guilty of war crimes, Amnesty International Amnesty International said today that there is clear evidence that some of the acts committed by the IDF during Operation Defensive Shield were war crimes. The report, Israel and the Occupied Territories: Shielded…

Sharon government going even further right Ariel Sharon’s minority government survived a series of no-confidence votes in the knesset last night, only to be confronted by a fresh challenge that left the hardline administration looking highly unstable. It clung to…