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Gov't tackles college tuition

By Brian Janosch · Tuesday, Oct. 28,2003 1:19 a.m.

Last week Congressman Howard "Buck" McKeon, R-Calif., proposed a bill that would punish universities for excessive tuition increases. The bill limits a university from raising its tuition more than two times the inflation rate or federal-aid money would be restricted.

California fires continue to spread

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Oct. 28,2003 12:25 a.m.

SAN DIEGO -- The hot Santa Ana wind driving wildfires across parts of southern California eased Monday but officials warned that there was still a threat from the flames that had devoured entire neighborhoods and killed at least 13 people.

Coordinated attacks at Red Cross kill dozens in Baghdad

By Alyson Brodsy and Charles J. Hanley · Tuesday, Oct. 28,2003 12:24 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Suicide bombers struck the Red Cross headquarters and three police stations across Baghdad Monday, killing about 40 people and injuring more than 200 in a coordinated terror spree that stunned the Iraqi capital on the first day of the Islamic holy month of fasting, Ramadan.

Hamas says it is ready to renew talks

By Alyson Brodsy and Josef Federman · Monday, Oct. 27,2003 12:36 a.m.

JERUSALEM -- Hamas said Sunday it is ready to talk to the Palestinian prime minister about halting attacks on Israelis, even though the Islamic militant group participated in a deadly attack on a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip two days earlier.

Wildfires ravage Southern California

By Alyson Brodsy and Chelsea J. Carter · Monday, Oct. 27,2003 12:12 a.m.

SAN BERNADINO, Calif. -- Flames stoked by powerful winds raced through Southern California on Sunday, growing to more than 208,000 acres, destroying 500 homes in densely populated suburbs and causing at least 11 deaths.

Apple's foray into rival market meets with success

By Alli Stolper and Writer Alli Stolper · Friday, Oct. 24,2003 1:41 a.m.

Apple Computers has done what it said it would never do -- it has venture into enemy territory and creates a program that is compatible with its rival's software.

Feds arrest hundreds of illegal workers at Wal-Marts across the nation

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Oct. 24,2003 1:22 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- Federal officials arrested more than 300 illegal workers at 60 Wal-Mart stores across the country early Thursday morning and searched the office of one of the retail chain's corporate executives, a federal official said.

Around The World

By Ayesha Awan · Friday, Oct. 24,2003 1:21 a.m.

3 new nations elected to U.N. Security Council UNITED NATIONS -- Algeria, Brazil and the Philippines were elected to seats on the U.N. Security Council Thursday for two-year terms along with Romania and Benin. The five candidates won the support of more than 170 nations in voting by the 191-member General Assembly. Five other nations were chosen last year for terms expiring in 2004.

Davis shows Arnold the ropes

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Oct. 24,2003 1:18 a.m.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger met Thursday with the man he'll be replacing and said in a joint news conference that they were working well together and had started "a great relationship."

Lecture sheds light on issues surrounding Israel

By Andrea Minarcek · Thursday, Oct. 23,2003 1:41 a.m.

Ishmael Khaldi's perspective as a non-Jewish supporter of Israel generated strong reactions from a crowd of about 50 people made up of mostly IU students Tuesday evening in Ballantine Hall.

Uganda learns politics via radio

By Paul Musgrave · Thursday, Oct. 23,2003 1:29 a.m.

In the United States, radio talk shows are just one of many possible ways citizens can participate in politics.

Sniper suspect re-requests attorneys

By Alyson Brodsy and Sonja Barisic · Thursday, Oct. 23,2003 1:28 a.m.

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. -- Sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad changed his mind Wednesday and stopped acting as his own lawyer at his trial after only one day of cross-examining witnesses. Circuit Judge LeRoy F. Millette Jr.

Police to charge man after Niagara Falls stunt

By Alyson Brodsy and Carolyn Thompson · Wednesday, Oct. 22,2003 2:40 a.m.

NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario -- A man who went over Niagara Falls with only the clothes on his back and survived will be charged with illegally performing a stunt, park police said Tuesday. Kirk Jones, 40, of Canton, Mich., is the first person known to have plunged over the falls without safety devices and lived. He could be fined $10,000. "It was an impulsive one-second thing and in a second and a half I was in the water," Jones said in a telephone interview with WXYZ-TV in Detroit.

Partial birth abortion ban passed

By Alyson Brodsy and Jim Abrams · Wednesday, Oct. 22,2003 2:05 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted Tuesday to ban the practice that critics call partial birth abortion, sending President Bush a measure that supporters and foes alike said could alter the future of U.S. abortion rights. A court challenge is certain. Years in the making, the bill imposes the most far-reaching limits on abortion since the Supreme Court confirmed a woman's right to end a pregnancy in 1973.

Israeli missile strike kills 7 Palestinian civilians

By Alyson Brodsy and Ibrahim Barzak · Wednesday, Oct. 22,2003 1:31 a.m.

NUSSEIRAT REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip -- The flag-wrapped bodies of seven Palestinian civilians whose deaths were blamed on an Israeli missile strike were carried through this shantytown Tuesday, with tens of thousands of mourners clamoring for revenge.

Powell pushes for peace agreement in Kenya

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, Oct. 22,2003 1:30 a.m.

NAIVASHA, Kenya -- Secretary of State Colin Powell pressed Sudan's warring parties Tuesday to move rapidly toward a comprehensive peace agreement, holding out a promise that the United States would review its sanctions against Africa's largest nation if there is an end to fighting.

Florida bill keeps coma victim alive

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, Oct. 22,2003 1:29 a.m.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Lawmakers sent Gov. Jeb Bush a bill Tuesday that will give him the power to order a feeding tube reinserted into a brain-damaged woman who is at the center of one of the nation's longest and most bitter right-to-die battles.

Jewish activist speaks on campus

By Paul Musgrave · Wednesday, Oct. 22,2003 1:29 a.m.

Israel's current policies will force the country to choose between its identity as a Jewish state and its status as a democracy, Marcia Freedman told an audience of about 80 students, faculty and community members Monday evening.

Former diplomat to visit IU

By Daniel Castro · Wednesday, Oct. 22,2003 1:26 a.m.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Robert Finn will visit IU early next month to deliver a lecture on the changes in Afghanistan since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

FBI: Illegal items on planes for weeks

By Alyson Brodsy and Curt Anderson · Tuesday, Oct. 21,2003 1:15 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- A college student sent an e-mail to federal authorities saying he had placed box cutters and other illegal items aboard two specific Southwest Airlines flights, but it still took authorities nearly five weeks to locate them on the planes.

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