Chess player caught cheating with wireless device

An Indian chess player has been banned for 10 years for cheating after he was caught using his mobile phone's wireless device to win games, chess officials said on Wednesday. The player, Umakant Sharma, had logged rating points at a rapid pace in the last 18 months and also...

Firm on the Family: Bush Appoints Anti-Contraception Advocate to Top Position

""Keroack's professional history makes clear he should be stamped with a warning label against women's health and safety," said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. "Appointing an individual who has crusaded against birth control to head the...

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A Scandal, A Dictator, & Some Aliens: World Championship Chess

"The 44-year-old multimillionaire has other interests than just space aliens. In the past, he regularly consulted a Bulgarian fortune teller named Babushka Vanga. About 13 years ago, the blind psychic told him that he would be appointed leader of Kalmykia and elected...

Immigrant Laborers Stealing Coveted Hurricane Reconstruction Jobs

Unscrupulous contractors are exploiting low-wage undocumented workers who are stealing reconstruction jobs from locals. There's no such thing as an unwanted local job. However, there is such a thing as an unwanted local wage.

National Day Laborer Organizing Network aligns with AFL-CIO

Immigration issue provides bond for once-opposed units.

Employees unionize Chinese Wal-Mart (Reuters)

" SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Employees of retail giant Wal-Mart have set up their second trade union in China, pushing toward the Chinese labor federation's goal of unionizing every Wal-Mart store in the country. The second union was established by 42 employees of a Wal-Mart...

China official vows to unionize Wal-Mart (Reuters)

" BEIJING (Reuters) - China is determined to introduce trade unions in all local Wal-Mart stores, despite the retail giant's opposition to unions among its workers, a Chinese labor official said in state media on Wednesday. Employees of a Wal-Mart store in Quanzhou, in the...

Police Describe Seattle Shooting as a Hate Crime - New York Times

" By WILLIAM YARDLEY SEATTLE, July 29 — A day after a gunman killed one woman and wounded five others in the offices of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, the police identified a Muslim man on Saturday as the suspect and said he used the Internet to select the...

FIFA suspends the Greece's Hellenic Football Federation

"The FIFA Emergency Committee, composed of five presidents and one representative of each of the six confederations, today (3 July 2006) decided to suspend the Hellenic Football Federation (HFF), having determined that the situation of the HFF is not in line with the...