July 21, 2003

Gay Teen Gets $25,000 in Settlement With School District Fox News - A teenager disciplined by his school district for talking about being gay will get $25,000, an apology from school officials and his disciplinary record cleared. 1:46:35 PM

Exclusive—The 9-11 Report: Slamming the FBI MSNBC -The FBI blew repeated chances to uncover the 9-11 plot because it failed to aggressively investigate evidence of Al Qaeda’s presence in the United States, especially in the San Diego area, where two of the hijackers were living with one of the bureau’s own informants, according to the congressional report set for release this week. "Omar al-Bayoumi, a key associate of two of the hijackers, may have been a Saudi-government agent" 9:04:55 AM

Israel accuses Iran of trying to make nuclear arms MSNBC - Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom told reporters after a meeting with his counterparts from the European Union that Tehran was enriching uranium and refusing to accept tougher inspections of its nuclear programme. 9:02:11 AM

Yahoo pitches SiteBuilder for small businesses InfoWorld - In an effort to expand its services for small and medium-size businesses, Yahoo is set to introduce a Web site building tool Monday that will be offered free to the company's Web hosting customers. 8:37:10 AM

Wireless networks could get personal San Francisco Chronicle - Apple Computer Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak's new company has invented technology that would allow people to create their own personal wireless communications networks extending anywhere from 1 mile to 100 square miles. 8:36:28 AM

RIAA subpoenas ISPs VNUNet - The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has begun to tighten the screws on hundreds of users of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing systems in the US. The clampdown has already started to take effect. Loyola University in Chicago has handed over to RIAA lawyers the names of two students alleged to have downloaded music files from P2P sites. 8:35:36 AM

Boston Archdiocese Won't Face Charges Washington Post - No criminal charges will be filed against any church officials in the Archdiocese of Boston for allowing sexually abusive priests to remain in parish work, a spokesman for the state attorney general's office said today. 2:46:47 AM