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Justices are considering whether sick people in 11 states with medical marijuana laws can get around a federal
ban on pot. Paul Clement, the Bush administration's top court lawyer, noted that California allows people with chronic
physical and mental health problems to smoke marijuana and said that potentially many people are subjecting themselves to
health dangers. "Smoked marijuana really doesn't have any future in medicine," he said. Source : Cnn.com Teen Dies After Gang Attack Friday night witnesses told police that victim Michael Beckwith, 15, was with friends when he was approached
by five or six youth shouting gang slogans. The young men swarmed the boy and he was shot 4 or 5 times. Omaha Marine Gets One Final Salute Cpl. Shane Kielion was killed while fighting in Fallujah, Iraq. The same day, his wife gave birth to a son
- Shane Kielion Jr. Funeral services were held at Cecilia Church because it seated 1000. However, people still had to stand
and there was a procession of people outside wishing to pay their respects. Donations can be made in his memory and for his
son's trust fund at any Wells Fargo Bank. |
MOSCOW, Russia (AP) -- Russia on Monday successfully tested a modernized anti-ballistic missile system, the
military said, in what an analyst called a sign that the country was trying to answer the United States' withdrawal from the
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. The test-firing of the missile, which can intercept and destroy other missiles, was aimed at certifying it
for further use, said a Space Troops spokesman who declined to give his name. He said the missile's technical performance was flawless during the launch that took place at 11 a.m.
U.S. President George W. Bush was targeted for assassination by Marxist rebels this week when he visited the
city of Cartagena, a Colombian official said Saturday. "We found out through informers and various sources that groups within the [Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia] had been instructed from its leadership to make an assassination attempt on President Bush," Colombian Defense Secretary
Jorge Alberto Uribe told Caracol TV, a Bogota-based satellite network. Uribe said no evidence of the alleged plot by the group -- Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia or
FARC -- has been recovered. All News Articles From: www.cnn.com
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