Candlelight Vigil Sat. Dec. 13, 6 pmHollywood & HighlandLos Angeles Bring the troops home now!End the occupation!$87 billion for jobs, health care, housing & education Speakers: Kathy Kelly, Voices in the Wilderness; John Parker, ANSWER; Jim Lafferty, National Lawyers Guild;…

Supermarket strike tanks Kroger earnings Kroger Co., the top U.S. grocer, on Tuesday reported a much sharper-than-expected drop in quarterly profit, hurt by a protracted Southern California labor strike. Kroger said it could not determine when the labor disputes would…

Dubya Xmas present to Cheney Halliburon war-profiteeringThe United States government is paying the Halliburton Company an average of $2.64 a gallon to import gasoline and other fuel to Iraq from Kuwait, more than twice what others are paying to truck…

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Hang them high Two Men Charged Under Va. Anti-Spam Law Two North Carolina men were indicted for violating the state’s junk e-mail law by sending thousands of e-mail pitches for investments, software and other products, in what prosecutors said was…

WHO says climate change killing 150,000 a year Global warming killed 150,000 people in 2000 and the death toll could double again in the next 30 years if current trends are not reversed, the World Health Organization said Thursday.

New Iraq army hit by resignations US plans to create a new Iraqi army have suffered a setback after hundreds of recruits resigned. The army’s first 700-man battalion lost 300 troops who were within weeks of being deployed, Pentagon officials…