This clip is from the Season 2 episode called “Road to Rhode Island”. This scene originally aired on May 20th, 2000 but was removed from later showings of the episode entirely.

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The US space agency’s Atlantis shuttle has had its Wednesday landing postponed after an unidentified object was seen floating near the vehicle.

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WASHINGTON — Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday that Congress should require Internet providers to preserve customer records, asserting that prosecutors need them to fight child pornography. (more…)

Roll Call executive editor and Fox News host Mort Kondrake included this tidbit in his most recent syndicated column:

In a controversial move within the administration, [Undersecretary of State Karen] Hughes and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice seem to have persuaded Bush — temporarily, at least — to drop the label “Islamic fascism” from his speeches; diplomats say that Muslims hear it as an attack on their religion, thereby validating the extremists’ false charge that the United States is at war with Islam.

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FBI forced to triple fraud probe squads to keep up

WASHINGTON - There is so much political corruption on Capitol Hill that the FBI has had to triple the number of squads investigating lobbyists, lawmakers and influence peddlers, the Daily News has learned. (more…)

Military leaders in Thailand say they have overthrown the country’s Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra. (more…)

Thousands of protesters including former American soldiers rallied outside U.N. headquarters on Tuesday, urging the U.S. government to end the war in Iraq and bring home the troops. (more…)

A British soldier has become the first to admit to a war crime after pleading guilty to inhumanely treating Iraqi civilians, at a court martial. (more…)

Just now on CNN, Air Force Col. Sam Gardiner (Ret.) said, “We are conducting military operations inside Iran right now. The evidence is overwhelming.” (more…)

Directors, reporters may have been trailed, had their PCs bugged

SAN FRANCISCO - Extending beyond the skullduggery that pried loose people’s private phone records, Hewlett-Packard Co. investigators hunting for a boardroom leak shadowed the company’s directors and tried to install snooping software on at least one reporter’s computer, according to published reports. (more…)

SAN FRANCISCO–Although it may appear as if Congress is about to put restraints on the Bush administration’s wiretapping programs, the three “reform bills” now up for a vote all paint a deceptive picture of the massive domestic surveillance programs that the government has up and running. Because several ongoing invasion-of-privacy lawsuits could expose the extent of the illegal wiretapping, the administration is seeking via these bills to shunt the lawsuits into a secret court, where they will die. (more…)

Presidents George W. Bush of the United States and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran were expected to take their nuclear dispute to the world stage Tuesday, when both were to give speeches to the United Nations General Assembly. (more…)

The Israeli army will complete a pullout from Lebanon within a few days, a legislator quoted the military’s chief of staff as saying on Tuesday.

Israeli forces have been gradually withdrawing from territory the army captured in southern Lebanon during the 34-day war with the Hizbollah guerrilla group. (more…)

President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has launched a robust defence of Iran’s nuclear programme.

During a visit by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mr Chavez warned the world of dire consequences if his ally was attacked by the US. (more…)

WASHINGTON - The White House and maverick Senate Republicans have begun a fresh round of talks over how to handle the nation’s most dangerous terrorism suspects, resuscitating GOP hopes for approving a key piece of the president’s anti-terror agenda before the November elections. (more…)