The Israeli military and economic siege of Gaza has led to a collapse in Palestinian living conditions and many people only survive by looking for scraps of food in rubbish dumps, say international aid agencies.

Three professors who are members of Scholars for 9/11 Truth have been threatened with the loss of their positions for their research and teaching about the events of 9/11. Other attacks are coming from national magazines, such as TIME and U.S. NEWS, which have cover-stories this week suggesting that those who believe 9/11 involved a conspiracy may need psychological counseling. (more…)

If they weren’t onto something, there would be no reason for this…

The debacle surrounding the Republican victory in 2000 demonstrated to the world that America’s electoral process is wide open to abuse. But as Paul Harris discovers, the system has actually worsened since then. (more…)

President Bush’s support proved insufficient to push a bill authorizing his warrantless wiretapping program through the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday. (more…)

This week, a 28-year-old welder called Craig Moore discovered just how hard it is to give our digital backdrop the slip when he was jailed for blowing up a speed camera. Snapped for driving too fast, Moore drove back later that evening and blew the offending machine to smithereens, forgetting that its hard drive was as sturdy as an aeroplane’s black box recorder. In a double whammy, Moore was damned not only by the images on the smouldering hard drive, but by the tracking device fitted to his van by his employer. (more…)

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — The days of parents anxiously peering out the window, worrying because their youngster is late getting home from school, soon may be coming to an end.

A new program offered by Nexus Biometrics of Sarasota and now under consideration by the School Board would let parents check on a Web site whether a child had been dropped off at his bus stop or whether a bus was running late. It also would help officials know whether a bus driver was stopped along a road or had deviated from his regular route. (more…)

NEW DELHI, Sept. 8 — At least two bombs rigged to bicycles exploded Friday in the town of Malegaon in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, killing 31 people and injuring 125 more, most of them Muslim worshipers leaving a mosque after Friday afternoon prayers. (more…)

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. officials, seeking a way to measure the results of a program aimed at decreasing violence in Baghdad, aren’t counting scores of dead killed in car bombings and mortar attacks as victims of the country’s sectarian violence. (more…)

In the time-honoured Register tradition of offering terrorists top tips* on how to bring down airliners, we’d like this afternoon to draw al-Qaeda’s attention to two possible ways of getting binary liquid explosives through security: gel-filled bras and KY Jelly. (more…)

Immigration officials will automatically be notified anytime the local or state police do a federal fingerprint check on a suspect who also happens to be wanted for serious immigration violations, under a new system being tested in Boston. (more…)

A column at The Columbia Journalism Review has revealed the media establishment’s collective reluctance to report incidents of detainee abuse, torture, and even homicide in the early days of the “war on terror,” RAW STORY can report. (more…)