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Six garden gnomes arrived atop Poppi's Italian Family Kitchen about the time of the summer solstice — facing the sunrise — and the restaurant's owner says it's OK for them to stay.
The Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip began with a limited objective: to secure the release of a captive Israeli soldier. But it risks turning into a protracted conflict less than year after Israel left Gaza.
An invasion of gypsy moths has been destroying thousands of acres of New Jersey forests in the span of a month, setting the state up for its worst outbreak since the caterpillars defoliated 140,000 acres in 2001.
A blob-like creature is invading Long Island Sound and posing a threat to its lobsters and other shellfish, University of Connecticut scientists say.
About 2,000 highly organized farm workers invaded a plantation owned by a big Brazilian paper and pulp company Wednesday, uprooting saplings and destroying a laboratory in an environmental rampage against mass eucalyptus tree cultivation, the company and the protesting group said.
State officials are hoping to save Hawaii's native wiliwili tree with a bug found in eastern Africa.

New studies make the Bush administration's "liberation" argument for a 'pre-emptive' war against Iraq seem questionable.
Israeli missiles tore through the Palestinian Interior Ministry in Gaza on Wednesday, causing extensive damage, as Israel kept up nightly air attacks to pressure militants to release an abducted soldier.
In their continued campaign of bombing civilian infrastructure in violation of international law, Israel has now started bombing schools. An Israeli airstrike hit the pro-Hamas Islamic University in Gaza City on Tuesday, Palestinian witnesses said.
Ilusion or reality?
O’Reilly: Now to me, they’re not fighting it hard enough. See, if I’m president, I got probably another 50-60 thousand with orders to shoot on sight anybody violating curfews. Shoot them on sight.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's vice president has asked President Bush for a timeline for the withdrawal of foreign forces from Iraq, the Iraqi president's office said. Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, a Sunni, made the request during his meeting with Bush on Tuesday, when the U.S.
Just recently, Saddam Hussein's former southern regional commander, Gen. Al-Tikriti, gave the first videotaped testimony confirming that Iraq had WMDs up to the American invasion in 2003 and that Russia helped removed them prior to the war.
The "occupation" is part of a military exercise to train troops and communities to repel a foreign invader.
Bush, Cheney, Rice and other key Bush players have impeccable oil industry credentials. When they came to the White House, so did the oil industry.
Amy Goodman: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld comes under fire from retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern at a speech in Atlanta on Thursday. Rumsfeld was interrupted by protesters several times in his address. We speak with McGovern and play excerpts from the event.
Recently, the Bush administration has been signaling that we will be gearing up for a fight with Iran. The ratcheting up of the rhetoric alone has shown eery similarity to the pre-Iraq environment.
Both America and Canada made secret plans in the early 1900s to invade each other. Nice to see that Canada's mounted troops were considered formidable forces by Us intelligence.
I've been dying to write this entry ever since I saw the first episode of Invasion. If you haven't heard of Invasion, Invasion is ABC's latest sci-fi show. It tells the tale of two families and their experiences in recovery from a tragic hurricane. It's more that though.
Scouring the schedules for the most notable new programs so you don’t have to
"Venezuela has taken delivery of three Russian-built military helicopters - the first of a total of 15 it has so far ordered from Moscow.
As part of his latest PR push on Iraq, President Bush has been giving another round of speeches and -- wonder of wonders -- fielding questions from audience members and reporters alike.
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez on Sunday said he would have a nasty welcome waiting for U.S. forces he insists are preparing to invade his country -- arrows laced with Indian poison.
Good look at the past three years....
Iraqi documents captured by U.S. forces in 2003 say Russian intelligence had sources inside the American military that enabled it to feed information about U.S. troop movements and battle plans to Saddam Hussein.
Today marks the three-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. ThinkProgress has created a timeline that tells the story of the Iraq war over the past 36 months.
Hundreds of families have fled the city of Samarra, some 120 km northwest of the capital, Baghdad, after US coalition and Iraqi forces launched the biggest air offensive in the country since 2003.
Newly released documents from the captured Iraqi archives show that Saddam had put out an APB for Zarqawi and was trying to have him arrested as a danger to the Baath regime!
If you feel like you've seen this movie before, you have. Welcome to Operation Regime Change II.
From the first days of the invasion in March 2003, American forces had tangled with fanatical Saddam Fedayeen paramilitary fighters. Lt. Gen. William S.