Firearms taken after Hurricane Katrina.

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana - October 9, 2008 - City officials have agreed to return hundreds of firearms that police officers confiscated in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, part of a deal to resolve a lawsuit filed by gun lobbying groups.

Parental notification is not necessary; parents told if they don’t like it then they can homeschool their children.

LEXINGTON, Massachusetts - October 08, 2008 - A federal court decision approving mandatory public school instruction for children as young as kindergarten in how to be homosexual is being allowed to stand, drawing a description of "despicable" from the parent who unsuccessfully challenged his school district's homosexual advocacy agenda.

WASHINGTON - October 8, 2008 - The U.S. military was using the same procedures employed at the controversial Guantanamo Bay prison at other facilities inside the United States, where U.S. citizens and legal residents were detained, according to documents released Wednesday.

BANGKOK, Thailand - October 7, 2008 - In a day of street battles that left one person dead and nearly 400 people injured, anti-government protesters surrounded the Parliament building on Tuesday, trapping hundreds of lawmakers inside throughout the afternoon.

WASHINGTON - October 7, 2008 - The most extensive government report to date on whether terrorists can be identified through data mining has yielded an important conclusion: It doesn't really work.

YREKA, SISKIYOU COUNTY, Kalifornia - October 5, 2008 - Some folks around here think the economic sky is falling and state lawmakers in Sacramento and Salem are ignoring their constituents in the hinterlands.

Schwarzenegger signs bill authorizing dehydration, starvation of patients.

SACRAMENTO, Kalifornia - October 2, 2008 - Kalifornia Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has officially approved an assisted suicide measure allowing nurses to sedate, dehydrate and starve depressed or confused individuals they consider to be "terminally ill."