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• Chavez aiming to keep control in legislative vote Sep 26, 2021 10:48 AM
  
  • CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez was seeking to hold on to his dominant control of Venezuela's congress on Sunday in elections that put his popularity to a critical test.
  • The opposition has mounted a determined challenge to try to break Chavez's monopoly of power in the National Assembly for the first time in his nearly 12 years in the presidency.
  • The vote is also seen as a referendum on Chavez himself ahead of the next presidential election in 2012.

  • Calif measure shows state's conflicted link to pot Sep 26, 2021 10:37 AM
    
    • SAN FRANCISCO - It's the land of hippies, Humboldt County and Cheech and Chong.
    • But in the state more closely associated with marijuana than any other, the ballot measure to legalize pot has exposed California's conflicted relationship with the drug.
    • Meanwhile, hanging over the whole debate: the federal law banning marijuana, which the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled still applies regardless of how Californians vote.

    • Suspected US missile attacks kill 7 in NW Pakistan Sep 26, 2021 10:24 AM
      
      • DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan - Suspected U.S. drone aircraft carried out two missile strikes against a house and a vehicle near the Afghan border in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing seven alleged militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said.
      • Most have targeted Datta Khel, part of the North Waziristan tribal area that is dominated by militants who regularly stage attacks against NATO troops in Afghanistan.
      • In the first strike Sunday, a drone fired three missiles at a house in Lwara Mandi village in Datta Khel, killing three suspected militants, said the intelligence officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.

      • House leader: Colbert was an 'embarrassment' Sep 26, 2021 10:13 AM
        
        • WASHINGTON - The House's No. 2 Democratic leader says comedian Stephen Colbert's (kohl-BEHR's) testimony last week on immigration was "inappropriate" and "an embarrassment."
        • Colbert was invited to appear before the House Judiciary Committee by Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California.
        • The committee chairman, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., asked Colbert to leave the room at the beginning of the hearing because Colbert has no expertise in farm labor issues or immigration policy.

        • Blast near Fallujah kills 4 Iraqi police Sep 26, 2021 09:58 AM
          
          • BAGHDAD - A car packed with explosives blew up Sunday near the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, killing four policemen in the latest sign that insurgents could be trying to win back old strongholds, Iraqi officials said.
          • Two weeks ago, at least seven civilians were killed in a shootout between militants and Iraqi and U.S. commandos during a failed attempt to capture a suspected leader of al-Qaida in Iraq.
          • Police and hospital officials in Fallujah, about 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, said the dead in Sunday's bombing included a police lieutenant colonel.

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