UPHELD: A federal appeals court upheld the conviction Friday of a Virginia man convicted of joining Al Qaeda and plotting to assassinate President George W. Bush but said he must be resentenced. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a 30-year prison term and ordered a new sentencing hearing for Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, 27.
LAB WORK: The International Space Station’s huge new Japanese lab got even bigger Friday when the astronauts attached an attic to it for extra storage. The attic — essentially a 14-foot shed, or closet, for spare tools and equipment — was popped atop the 37-foot Kibo science laboratory by astronauts operating the space station’s robot arm.
DOG RULING: A judge said last week that a North Carolina state trooper who was caught on video kicking his police dog was fired under improper pressure from the governor’s office and should be reinstated with back pay. A cell phone video, taken by another trooper in August, shows Trooper Charles Jones suspending the dog from a railing and then kicking him.
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