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Border Patrol Lets Some Illegals Go – Over and Over Again EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Josefa Gonzalez Loya has sneaked across the Mexican border at least 128 times in the past eight years. And each time, the Border Patrol has been nice enough to give her a lift home. Gonzalez and a group of other women and children – all Indians from the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca – have no interest in staying in the United States. All they want to do is panhandle outside El Paso businesses, using the children as lures. At the end of a productive day, they wait for the Border Patrol to come pick them up and drive them back to the border. See full story	Rezko May Cut A Deal In Federal Corruption Case CHICAGO (CBS) — The prosecution is preparing to rest its case as the politically charged corruption trial of Antoin "Tony" Rezko rolls toward its climax. There's speculation Friday that Rezko could be ready to cut a deal. CBS 2's Mike Parker reports prosecution witness and real estate developer Ali Ata spent another day on the witness stand. The longtime friend of Rezko claimed Rezko got him a job running the State Finance Authority in return for big money campaign contributions to Gov. Rod Blagojevich. See full story
Futures Traders Bet on Dollar Gain Against Euro For First Time Since 2005 (Bloomberg) — Futures traders are betting for the first time since December 2005 that the dollar will gain against the euro. The difference in the number of wagers by hedge funds and other large speculators on a decline in the euro compared with those on a gain, known as net shorts, was 21,315 on April 29, compared with net longs of 18,907 a week earlier, figures from the Washington-based Commodity Futures Trading Commission show. "The dollar has already turned against the euro," said Benedikt Germanier, a currency strategist at UBS AG in Stamford, Connecticut. "The dollar will go to $1.52 in a straight line." See full story	Drones Double Their Attacks in Iraq WASHINGTON (USA Today) — U.S. commanders in Iraq have ordered an unprecedented number of airstrikes by unmanned airplanes in April to kill insurgents in urban combat and to limit their ability to launch rockets at American forces, military records show. The 11 attacks by Predators – nearly double the previous high for one month – were conducted as the Pentagon has intensified efforts to increase the use of drones, which play an increasingly vital role for gathering intelligence and launching attacks in Iraq. Last week, Defense Secretary Robert Gates prodded the Air Force to do more to rush drones to the war zone. The increase in Predator attacks coincided with a spike in fighting in Baghdad's slum of Sadr City and in the city of Basra, where the Iraqi government mounted an offensive to root out militias there. See full story
Conservative Johnson Wins London Mayoral Race LONDON (BBC) — Boris Johnson has won the race to become the next mayor of London – ending Ken Livingstone's eight-year reign at City Hall. The Conservative candidate won with 1,168,738 first and second preference votes, compared with Mr Livingstone's 1,028,966 on a record turnout of 45%. He paid tribute to Mr Livingstone and appeared to offer him a possible role in his new administration. See full story	Microsoft Serves Law Enforcement Free COFEE (C\|Net News) — This week Microsoft talked publicly about COFEE, its free Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor. The company demonstrated the tool as part of a law enforcement conference held in Redmond. COFEE is a USB drive that allows law enforcement to run more than 150 commands on a live computer system and save the results on the portable drive for later analysis. This preserves valuable information that could be lost if the computer had to be shut down and transported to a lab – files that are stored in active memory would otherwise be lost, for example. See full story
China On Alert To Try To Stop Deadly Virus BEIJING (AP) — China's Health Ministry issued a nationwide alert Saturday calling for heightened efforts to control a virus that has caused the deaths of 22 children in one city and shows signs of spreading. Health bureaus around the country must step up monitoring for hand, foot and mouth disease following a "relatively large" outbreak in the central city of Fuyang, the Health Ministry said in notices on its Web site. The ministry warned that cases were more numerous this year than in recent years, and the peak for transmission would likely come in June and July. See full story	Robobug Goes To War (Daily Mail) — It may have seemed like just another improbable scene from a Hollywood sci-fi flick – Tom Cruise battling against an army of robotic spiders intent on hunting him down. But the storyline from Minority Report may not be quite as far fetched as it sounds. British defense giant BAE Systems is creating a series of tiny electronic spiders, insects and snakes that could become the eyes and ears of soldiers on the battlefield, helping to save thousands of lives. See full story See BAE Systems animation video
Bush Erupts Against Attention-Deficit Media (Posted by Ed Morrissey) — This video is a keeper. When a reporter challenges George Bush on his credibility when he describes the U.S. as winning in Afghanistan, Bush at first tries to explain that “winning” doesn’t mean the war is over. Bush notes that he has said repeatedly that tough fighting remains ahead. After the reporter tries asking the same question again, Bush vents his frustration: How frustrated did Bush get? He violated the State Department policy outlawing the use of the word “jihadist”, as the boss notes. Maybe Condoleezza Rice will send him a harshly-worded memo. See commentary and video	Manager Recounts Shooting In West Palm Beach Grocery WEST PALM BEACH (Palm Beach Post) — Being a lousy shot might well have saved Marshall Hugo Grant's life. After Grant fired three times Monday from the doorway of the King IGA grocery store, manager Marino Hernandez made a split-second decision not to fire back. "I was afraid he was going to keep shooting, but I already had in mind that he wasn't a good shooter," Hernandez said Tuesday. Grant, 73, appeared Tuesday morning before Judge Nancy Perez, who ordered him held without bond while he undergoes a psychiatric examination. See full story