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Bomb note forces jet back to Sydney...A bomb threat forced a United Airlines jumbo jet with 264 people on board to abort its flight to Los Angeles and return to Sydney Airport after 90 minutes in the air Everyone just kept looking around and looking at each other, the expression on the faces of everyone was just unreal

Eye on Politics & Law Lords: Taking Power
It's e(l)ection night, and early returns suggest trouble for the incumbent. Then, mysteriously, the vote count stops and observers from the challenger's campaign see employees of a voting-machine company, one wearing a badge that identifies him as a county official, typing instructions at computers with access to the vote-tabulating software. When the count resumes, the incumbent pulls ahead. The challenger demands an investigation. But there are no ballots to recount, and election officials allied with the incumbent refuse to release data that could shed light on whether there was tampering with the electronic records.
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