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In gun debate, two sides speak different languages

By JESSE WASHINGTONAP National Writer WEXFORD, Pa. (AP) - Inside the Big Buck Sport Shop, where mounted moose and deer heads loom over rifles, handguns, targets and ammunition, the customers have no doubt: More gun laws will not save lives. Fifteen miles south, in the city of Pittsburgh, many

Woman charged with murder in NY subway shove death

By COLLEEN LONGAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - A woman who told police she shoved a man to his death off a subway platform into the path of a train because she has hated Muslims since Sept. 11 and thought he was one was charged Saturday with murder as a hate crime, prosecutors said. Erika Menendez

Egypt's president warns against dangers to economy

By AYA BATRAWY and LEE KEATHAssociated Press CAIRO (AP) - Egypt's Islamist president used his first address before the newly convened upper house of parliament on Saturday to warn against any unrest that could harm the country's battered economy, as he renewed calls for the opposition to

21 missing Pakistani policemen found shot dead

By RIAZ KHANAssociated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Twenty-one tribal policemen believed to have been kidnapped by the Taliban were found shot dead in Pakistan's troubled northwest tribal region early Sunday, government officials said. Officials found the bodies shortly after midnight in the