Day: August 17, 2006

Unlike the past two elections, both Democrats and Republicans face potential headaches in the fall voting if terrorism is a major concern, a poll suggests.

John Mark Karr — AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit

For a moment, it seemed the decade-old mystery surrounding the slaying of a child beauty queen had been solved. But authorities Thursday cautioned against rushing to judge the schoolteacher who made a stunning confession that he killed JonBenet Ramsey. For now, the only public evidence against John Mark Karr are his own words. And questions have already been raised about the details of his story, including whether he drugged the girl, sexually assaulted her or was even in Colorado at the time of the slaying. Those questions led some to wonder whether Karr was the answer to the long-unsolved slaying or a disturbed wannabe trying to insert himself into a high-profile case. “We should all heed the poignant advice of John Ramsey,” Boulder County District Attorney Mary Lacy, quoting the little girl’s father. “Do not jump to conclusions, do not rush to judgment, do not speculate. Let the justice system take its course.”

Homeland Security officials say that several hundred FBI agents could find no U.S. connections with the latest alleged British terrorists. Well, given our counterintelligence record, pardon me if I don’t take much comfort from that pronouncement. Neither should you.

The decade-long search for JonBenet Ramsey’s killer came to a startling end in Thailand on Wednesday.

Travis Johnson is just the type of voter the Democratic Party hopes to win back in its effort to gain control of Congress in the November election.

The American suspect in the killing of JonBenet Ramsey told investigators that he drugged and had sex with the 6-year-old beauty queen before accidentally killing her, a senior Thai police officer said Thursday.

A federal judge decision’s to strike down President Bush’s warrantless surveillance program was the first ruling over its legality, but surely not the last.

It took eight months for them to do it but the Bush White House finally denied on Wednesday that the U.S. hunt for Osama bin Laden has been downgraded after the CIA disbanded a unit set up in the 1990s to oversee the search for the al Qaeda leader.

Sen. George Allen met Wednesday with Indian-American political leaders concerned that he referred to a rival’s campaign staffer as “Macaca” and told the Virginia native of Indian descent, “Welcome to America.”

A Democratic political ad is under fire from Hispanics who say it unfairly compares Latino immigrants to terrorists.