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Posted: June 27th, 2011, 7:50pm EDT
AP - Afghanistan's top banker, who is alleged to have played a role in the failure of the nation's largest private lender, has fled the country, a spokesman for President Hamid Karzai said Monday.
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Posted: June 27th, 2011, 7:29pm EDT
AP - Michele Bachmann's claim that she has "never gotten a penny" from a family farm that's been subsidized by the government is at odds with her financial disclosure statements. They show tens of thousands in personal income from the operation.
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Posted: June 27th, 2011, 6:50pm EDT
AP - Walking away from Centre Court, Oracene Price — mother and sometimes-coach to Serena and Venus Williams — shook her head after watching one daughter lose at Wimbledon, then the other.
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Posted: June 27th, 2011, 6:02pm EDT
Reuters - The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant on Monday for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, and rebels trying to oust him said their forces had advanced to within 80 km (50 miles) of the capital.
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Posted: June 27th, 2011, 5:27pm EDT
AP - One of Margaret Thatcher's famous handbags fetched 25,000 pounds ($39,953) at a London charity auction Monday.
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Posted: June 27th, 2011, 5:26pm EDT
Reuters - The Los Angeles Dodgers filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday, blaming Major League Baseball for rejecting a television deal that would have given the storied baseball team an urgent injection of cash.
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Posted: June 27th, 2011, 4:57pm EDT
AP - Dolly Parton, "Better Day" (Dolly Records/Warner Bros.)
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Posted: June 27th, 2011, 3:48pm EDT
AP - A former Citigroup vice president embezzled $19.2 million from the bank in a one-man "inside job" involving a series of secret money transfers, federal prosecutors said Monday.
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Posted: June 27th, 2011, 3:37pm EDT
AP - Washington state is shuttering the official tourism agency that unifies its marketing message and abandoning all public support for one of its largest industries.
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Posted: June 27th, 2011, 3:32pm EDT
AP - An Egyptian Christian telecom mogul has angered Islamic hard-liners by posting an online cartoon of Mickey Mouse with a beard and Minnie in a face veil.
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Posted: June 27th, 2011, 3:23pm EDT
AP - The family of a gravely ill 95-year-old woman says federal inspectors wouldn't let her mother board a plane because her adult diaper was wet, setting off alarms.
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Posted: June 27th, 2011, 2:36pm EDT
AFP - Egyptian tycoon and politician Naguib Sawiris has come under fire for posting a picture of Mickey and Minnie Mouse in Islamic dress, sparking a torrent of condemnation on social networking sites.
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Posted: June 27th, 2011, 2:18pm EDT
Reuters - A lactating Ohio woman was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after she sprayed sheriff's deputies with breast milk as they tried to remove her from a vehicle, police said on Monday.
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Posted: June 27th, 2011, 1:58pm EDT
Reuters - A judge ruled on Monday that accused child killer Casey Anthony is mentally fit to continue standing trial based on psychological testing conducted over the weekend at the request of her lawyers.
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Posted: June 27th, 2011, 11:30am EDT
SPACE.com - An asteroid the size of a tour bus will fly past Earth today (June 27) so closely it will be beneath some of the planet's satellites.
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Posted: June 27th, 2011, 8:05am EDT
AP - Ruth Huber Bostic carefully tended to her flower garden every day, even though the rest of her home and property were in shambles.
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Posted: June 27th, 2011, 7:54am EDT
AFP - A Moscow military court on Monday handed down a 25-year sentence to a top Russian foreign intelligence agent who was convicted in absentia of exposing a "sleeper cell" network in the United States.
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Posted: June 27th, 2011, 7:36am EDT
AP - The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, his son and his intelligence chief for crimes against humanity in the early days of their struggle to cling to power.
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Posted: June 27th, 2011, 12:47am EDT
Reuters - R&B star Chris Brown, fully rehabilitated in the public eye after beating up ex-girlfriend Rihanna two years ago, led the list of winners with criminal pasts at the BET Awards on Sunday.
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Posted: June 26th, 2011, 4:41am EDT
AP - Police say two teens are under arrest after five people were shot and injured in San Francisco.
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Posted: June 16th, 2011, 5:28am EDT
AP - Police on Thursday were preparing to charge the son of Papua New Guinea's acting prime minister with murder after the body of a 29-year-old waitress was found at the family home.
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Posted: June 16th, 2011, 5:03am EDT
AFP - The longest lunar eclipse in more than a decade turned the moon blood red on Thursday, yielding a rare visual treat for stargazers across a large swathe of the planet from Australia to Europe.
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Posted: June 16th, 2011, 5:01am EDT
Reuters - Citigroup Inc said a cyber attack in May affected almost twice as many accounts as the bank's figures had initially suggested, as major U.S. lenders come under growing pressure from lawmakers to improve account security.
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Posted: June 16th, 2011, 4:49am EDT
Reuters - Muammar Gaddafi would agree to internationally supervised elections on condition there is no vote-rigging, one of the Libyan leader's sons told an Italian newspaper in an interview published on Thursday.
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Posted: June 16th, 2011, 4:40am EDT
AP - Al-Qaida's longtime No. 2 leader, a doctor from a prominent Egyptian family who worked with Osama bin Laden for decades, has succeeded the slain terrorist as head of the global network, the group said Thursday.
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Posted: June 16th, 2011, 4:29am EDT
AP - Hackers stole account information of more than 360,000 of Citigroup Inc.'s U.S. credit card customers in a recent data breach, the bank said Wednesday, almost double the number initially thought.
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Posted: June 16th, 2011, 3:09am EDT
AP - They slithered behind the walls at night and released foul-smelling musk into the drinking water. And they were so numerous that Ben Sessions once killed 42 in a single day.
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Posted: June 16th, 2011, 1:45am EDT
Time.com - More and more well-off Chinese women are going to the United States to give birth to their children. But while an American passport can certainly be beneficial, it can also be more of a hassle than one might expect
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Posted: June 15th, 2011, 5:31pm EDT
Reuters - Stocks tumbled on Wednesday, driven lower by escalating Greek debt woes, while troubling U.S. data pointed to further losses ahead.
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Posted: June 15th, 2011, 4:56pm EDT
Daily Caller - AllHipHop.com is reporting that imprisoned Dexter Isaac claimed to have shot rapper Tupac Shakur.
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Posted: June 15th, 2011, 2:52pm EDT
AP - As he weighed a presidential run back in 2006, President Barack Obama displayed a realistic sense of self-awareness: All the adulation he was receiving, he conceded then, was because he was a blank slate on which people could attach their aspirations.
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Posted: June 15th, 2011, 2:03pm EDT
Yahoo! News - Last month, we gave you the heads up that a new version of Apple's ultra thin laptop, MacBook Air, was right around the corner. Now, news out of the company's Taiwanese supply chain suggests that the new model will be …
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Posted: June 15th, 2011, 1:59pm EDT
The Ticket - John Edwards may be facing as many as five years in prison and tens of thousands of dollars in fines for allegedly violating campaign laws to cover up an affair with a former staffer. But the former Democratic presidential hopeful was photographed smiling in his official mug shot released by the U.S. Marshal Service today--a move [...]
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Posted: June 15th, 2011, 12:12pm EDT
ContributorNetwork - Talk about opposite ends of the spectrum: The same week that an Auburn billboard of a bikini-clad model was declared pornography, a woman in New York City reaffirmed her right to walk around the city without any top on at all.
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Posted: June 15th, 2011, 10:25am EDT
The Upshot - Scores of floating ships are attracting attention as they decompose in a California bay. The vessels served in multiple wars, but now look like deserted ghost towns. Slideshow: Eerie images from the ghost ships Scott Haefner/Scotthaefner.com You can see the full collection of images from photographer Scott Haefner.
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Posted: June 15th, 2011, 8:47am EDT
AP - Actress Elizabeth Hurley and businessman Arun Nayar were divorced Wednesday after four years of marriage.
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Posted: June 15th, 2011, 6:50am EDT
Reuters - British actress and model Elizabeth Hurley's four-year marriage to Indian businessman Arun Nayar ended in divorce on Wednesday.
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Posted: June 14th, 2011, 9:18pm EDT
AP - A federal judge on Tuesday had a message for those trying to salvage California's gay marriage ban: Sure, the judge who threw out the measure last year is in a long-term relationship with a man, but he could still be fair to them.
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Posted: June 14th, 2011, 9:03pm EDT
AP - Pandora Media Inc. sold its initial public offering of stock at $16 per share late Tuesday, fetching twice as much as the popular but unprofitable Internet radio service expected less than two weeks ago.
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Posted: June 14th, 2011, 8:52pm EDT
AP - Nicolas Cage starred in a courthouse drama Tuesday that included negotiating sessions with a judge and ended with the actor settling a multimillion dollar lawsuit with an ex-girlfriend.
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Posted: June 14th, 2011, 8:04pm EDT
Ted Rall - Oct. 6th: Will Tahrir Square Come to Washington?
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Posted: June 14th, 2011, 7:51pm EDT
AP - Scientists predict this year's "dead zone" of low-oxygen water in the northern Gulf of Mexico will be the largest in history — about the size of Lake Erie — because of more runoff from the flooded Mississippi River valley.
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Posted: June 14th, 2011, 5:45pm EDT
AP - Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner says his fiancee has called off their wedding.
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Posted: June 14th, 2011, 5:38pm EDT
AFP - For years, scientists have been predicting the Sun would by around 2012 move into solar maximum, a period of intense flares and sunspot activity, but lately a curious calm has suggested quite the opposite.
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Posted: June 14th, 2011, 5:24pm EDT
AP - Zsa Zsa Gabor's celebrity was always more about winning attention than winning film roles. But now, the ailing 94-year-old diva's final fade is being upstaged by a real-life Hollywood soap opera featuring a family fractured by fame, fortune, deceit and just plain weirdness.
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Posted: June 14th, 2011, 5:13pm EDT
AFP - Aston Villa are to hold talks with Alex McLeish over their managerial vacancy as soon as possible the Premier League club announced on Tuesday.
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Posted: June 14th, 2011, 5:00pm EDT
SPACE.com - Some unusual solar readings, including fading sunspots and weakening magnetic activity near the poles, could be indications that our sun is preparing to be less active in the coming years.
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Posted: June 14th, 2011, 4:59pm EDT
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | According to the Huffington Post, CNN's Don Lemon sat down with GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania recently before the New Hampshire presidential debate. Among the questions by asked Lemon (who recently revealed he is gay) had for Santorum, whose vehement words against gays and gay marriage in 2004 resulted in a less than flattering Google anomaly, was "Do you have any gay friends?" Santorum replied he doesn't hate anybody, does have gay friends and that he has "a disagreement on public policy" but that doesn't make him hateful.
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Posted: June 14th, 2011, 4:11pm EDT
Y! News - San Francisco - Tracey Taylor Over eggs poached with fresh morels, shaved asparagus, and fresh berries, a crowd of 250 Barack Obama supporters cheered on The First Lady as she made a pitch at the Claremont Hotel Tuesday morning to support the President's …
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Posted: June 14th, 2011, 2:46pm EDT
AFP - A Texas man died while raping a 77-year-old woman, local media reported.
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Posted: June 14th, 2011, 2:42pm EDT
Reuters - Hundreds of Florida homeowners suffering with tainted Chinese drywall will share $55 million in a deal that also accuses a global drywall maker of lying about the product's safety, according to court documents.
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Posted: June 14th, 2011, 2:22pm EDT
AP - To the outside world, Betty Neumar was a diminutive Georgia grandmother with a shock of white hair who operated beauty shops, attended church and raised money for charity. No one asked questions when her last husband died.
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Posted: June 14th, 2011, 1:03pm EDT
AFP - A British juror was warned by a judge on Tuesday that she faces jail for contacting a defendant on the social networking site Facebook, causing the collapse of a major drugs trial.
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Posted: June 14th, 2011, 12:14pm EDT
The Atlantic Wire - A charity founded by Newt Gingrich paid Gingrich's for-profit company $220,000 over two years, ABC News reports. The non-profit, Renewing American Leadership, was meant to spur conversation about restoring Christian principles in Washington, and mostly did that through letters seeking donations. The list of people who responded to those letters with checks was given to Gingrich--something that would be very valuable to a potential presidential candidate building support early in the campaign. ReAL, as the non-profit is called, also paid full-price for Gingrich's books and DVDs. ABC News asked Gingrich for comment ahead of a speech in New Hampshire, but the candidate would only respond, "I'm not concerned about that. The American people aren't concerned about that. Try covering the speech."
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Posted: June 14th, 2011, 11:27am EDT
Reuters - Most chief executive officers of large U.S. companies expect higher sales and higher capital spending in the next six months, but their optimism about economic conditions and expectations for growth are more muted than three months ago, according to a quarterly survey.
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Posted: June 14th, 2011, 10:12am EDT
AP - An online action figure company has jumped on the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal bandwagon with a doll of the New York congressman in two versions: censored and uncensored.
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Posted: June 14th, 2011, 10:02am EDT
AP - Forget art, commerce or even his advisers, Jim Carrey wanted to work with the penguins.
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Posted: June 14th, 2011, 8:19am EDT
Y! News - San Jose - Peter Crimmins for NewsWorks Philadelphia's newest urban garden is as urban as it gets. Downtown, alongside one of Center City's busiest traffic corridors, lying in the shadow of a skyscraper, stretches a quarter-acre plot of lettuces and peppers and flowers. …
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Posted: June 14th, 2011, 7:02am EDT
The Week - Palin cheerleader John Ziegler arms Mama Grizzly's detractors by admitting that she can't win the 2012 presidential election
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Posted: June 13th, 2011, 5:28pm EDT
AFP - Venezuela, one of the world's leading oil producers, is trying to limit its power consumption as the country's decrepit power utilities struggle to keep up with the demand.
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Posted: June 11th, 2011, 2:09am EDT
AP - CIA Director Leon Panetta and senior Pakistani officials will focus on the size and scope of U.S. intelligence activities in Pakistan during a second day of talks Saturday, as both countries work to repair ties fractured by the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden, a Pakistani official said.
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Posted: June 11th, 2011, 12:33am EDT
AP - Tracy Morgan said Friday that he was sorry for telling an audience in Nashville, Tenn., that if his son were gay, he would "pull out a knife and stab" him.
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Posted: June 11th, 2011, 12:22am EDT
AP - Police in Delaware said Friday they interviewed a 17-year-old girl about online contact she'd had with embattled U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner but that she didn't disclose any information about illegal conduct.
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Posted: June 10th, 2011, 9:50pm EDT
Reuters - A Connecticut woman mauled by a chimpanzee in 2009 has received a full face transplant, the third surgery of its kind performed in the country, Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital said on Friday.
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Posted: June 10th, 2011, 8:55pm EDT
Reuters - A group of self-described constitutionalists protested on Friday a northern Idaho city's dedication of a sculpture depicting a Hindu deity.
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Posted: June 10th, 2011, 8:46pm EDT
Reuters - Syrian helicopter gunships fired machineguns to disperse pro-democracy protests, witnesses said, in the first reported use of air power to quell unrest in Syria's increasingly bloody three-month-old uprising.
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Posted: June 10th, 2011, 7:07pm EDT
AP - Amid increasing calls for Rep. Anthony Weiner to resign, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi says the decision should be up to the congressman and his New York constituents.
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Posted: June 10th, 2011, 5:37pm EDT
AP - A squabble over territory in the South China Sea escalated Friday when Vietnam announced a live ammunition drill in an apparent response to China's demand that the Vietnamese halt all oil exploration in the area.
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Posted: June 10th, 2011, 5:25pm EDT
Reuters - The Dow and S&P 500 closed out their sixth week of losses on Friday as further signs of a global economic slowdown set the stage for more losses ahead.
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Posted: June 10th, 2011, 4:47pm EDT
AP - Former presidential candidate John Edwards claims that protection against self-incrimination in his campaign finance prosecution should allow him to delay testifying in a separate case involving a purported sex tape made with his mistress.
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Posted: June 10th, 2011, 2:32pm EDT
AP - A woman attending the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Tennessee has been found dead.
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Posted: June 10th, 2011, 1:36pm EDT
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | I have always said, if you've never identified with Ferris Bueller, you aren't human. Ferris Bueller's Day Off has become one of the most iconic films ever and one of my personal favorites. I have never met any one who hasn't seen it, nor have I ever met anyone who's said that they did not like it. The truth is we have all wanted to have our own day off like Ferris Bueller's, or just have the chance to be him for a day.
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Posted: June 10th, 2011, 1:29pm EDT
The Ticket - Former Rep. Mark Foley, who left Congress at the height of his own online sex scandal, suggested Thursday that Anthony Weiner might be best served by leaving the House, but stopped short of implicitly calling for his resignation. "In my heart, you cannot fix that from inside that building. You cannot fix your problem, whatever [...]
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Posted: June 10th, 2011, 1:25pm EDT
AFP - Britain's Prince Philip received a new royal title from his wife Queen Elizabeth II as a gift on his 90th birthday Friday, as the outspoken consort said he would finally scale back his workload.
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Posted: June 10th, 2011, 12:54pm EDT
AP - Steve Green rounded a bend on the Wakarusa River and slowed his boat as he approached a clearing on the bank that had been turned into a makeshift fishing camp.
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Posted: June 10th, 2011, 12:03pm EDT
AFP - A German passenger stripped naked on an Iberia flight from Madrid to Frankfurt, forcing the pilot to turn the plane around so he could be removed, the airline said Friday.
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Posted: June 10th, 2011, 11:40am EDT
The Lookout - Wichita, Kan., residents are still reeling from a bizarre weather system that spiked temperatures 20 degrees in a matter of minutes in the early hours of Thursday morning. KSN Channel 3's meteorologist JD Rudd explained the causes of the rare nighttime temperature spike, known as a "heat burst." First, winds gusted up to 69 miles [...]
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Posted: June 10th, 2011, 11:32am EDT
Reuters - Britain's Queen Elizabeth awarded her husband Prince Philip a new title as a 90th birthday present on Friday as he announced he would be winding down his activities after decades of official engagements.
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Posted: June 10th, 2011, 12:11am EDT
AFP - About one in six Australian female university students have been raped, and many more sexually assaulted or harassed, during their life, a survey released Friday showed.
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Posted: June 9th, 2011, 1:01pm EDT
The Lookout - A millionaire heiress died at age 12 in December, and the world is just finding out now. Don't feel too bad, though. Trouble Helmsley, perhaps the world's most pampered pet, was 84 in dog years when she succumbed to illness and died, according to the New York Daily News. She also, unbeknownst to her, outlasted [...]
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Posted: June 9th, 2011, 6:23am EDT
AP - Fire crews worked through the night to protect several Arizona mountain communities from a growing forest fire that has forced thousands from their homes and threatens transmission lines that supply electricity as far east as Texas.
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Posted: June 9th, 2011, 5:15am EDT
Time.com - A French academic takes a critical look at the classic blue characters, suggesting there may be more than meets the eye when it comes to "Smurfology"
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Posted: June 9th, 2011, 4:54am EDT
AP - The coalition backing NATO's military mission in Libya is beginning to prepare for a post-Moammar Gadhafi (MOO'-ah-mar gah-DAH'-fee) era in the country.
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Posted: June 9th, 2011, 4:32am EDT
AP - Ludacris made a surprise appearance, as did Sheryl Crow's underwear. Lady Antebellum laid down a funky beat with Charles Kelley doing a Don Henley impression. And a sassy Wynonna Judd put Kid Rock in his place.
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Posted: June 9th, 2011, 4:23am EDT
AP - Scandal-scarred Rep. Anthony Weiner is clinging to his perch in Congress despite new efforts to pry him away and a pair of developments that might inspire others in his position to give up the fight:
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Posted: June 9th, 2011, 3:18am EDT
AP - Everyone Osama bin Laden ever wrote to, spoke to or even mentioned in the volumes of correspondence seized from his Pakistan hideout is under new scrutiny, U.S. officials say.
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Posted: June 9th, 2011, 1:21am EDT
Reuters - Calls for Representative Anthony Weiner's resignation, including from some fellow Democrats, mounted on Wednesday, two days after he confirmed details of an online sex scandal.
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Posted: June 8th, 2011, 9:25pm EDT
LiveScience.com - A "modern" disease of humans may have been what sickened ancient Nubian cultures, research on more than 200 mummies has found. The mummies were infected by a parasitic worm associated with irrigation ditches.
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Posted: June 8th, 2011, 9:12pm EDT
AP - Osama bin Laden's deputy warned Wednesday that America faces not individual terrorists or groups but an international community of Muslims that seek to destroy it and its allies. He was delivering a 28-minute videotaped eulogy to slain al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
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Posted: June 8th, 2011, 8:41pm EDT
Reuters - Republican lawmakers are "playing with fire" by contemplating even a brief debt default as a means to force deeper government spending cuts, an adviser to China's central bank said on Wednesday.
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Posted: June 8th, 2011, 7:04pm EDT
Daily Caller - Daily Beast columnist Kirsten Powers took it hard when former flame Representative Anthony Weiner deceived her about his recent Twitter picture scandal. The Fox News contributor, who initially defended Weiner, has called on the scandal-ridden Congressman to resign.
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Posted: June 8th, 2011, 6:49pm EDT
AP - For nearly a year, LeBron James has shaken off the criticism, laughed off the trash talk.
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Posted: June 8th, 2011, 6:03pm EDT
AP - NASA's next-generation rover to the surface of Mars, which is already overbudget and behind schedule, faces significant hurdles as it races to the launch pad for a November liftoff, an internal audit released Wednesday found.
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Posted: June 8th, 2011, 4:15pm EDT
The Ticket - Anthony Weiner's political future looks increasingly in doubt. Two more DemocratsâSen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Rep. Allyson Schwartz of Pennsylvaniaâcalled on the embattled New York Democrat to resign. Schwartz is notable because she's a top official at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, where she oversees candidate recruitment for House Democrats. She's the first member [...]
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Posted: June 8th, 2011, 3:45pm EDT
AP - Shania Twain is headed to Las Vegas.
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Posted: June 8th, 2011, 3:25pm EDT
AP - Police say a man was carrying a dead weasel when he burst into an apartment and assaulted a man in Washington state.
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Posted: June 8th, 2011, 1:58pm EDT
Reuters - President Barack Obama retains a big lead over possible Republican rivals in the 2012 election despite anxiety about the economy and the country's future, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll on Wednesday.
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Posted: June 8th, 2011, 1:28pm EDT
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Ed Rollins, the venerable Republican campaign operative, has been hired by Michele Bachmann to run her potential campaign for president. Rollins went right out of the gate with a gaffe concerning Bachmann's main rival, Sarah Palin.
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Posted: June 8th, 2011, 10:12am EDT
Y! News - San Francisco - Pueng Vongs, Y! SF Editor Hiring in the Bay Area may be starting to heat up, according to a survey from the online job posting service Monster.com. It tracked listings from its own site as well as other sources to …
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Posted: June 8th, 2011, 5:58am EDT
AP - Laurence Fishburne is closing the file on his "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" career.
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Posted: June 6th, 2011, 6:27am EDT
AP - Prosecutors have said their evidence against the former International Monetary Fund leader charged with sexually assaulting a Manhattan hotel maid was growing by the day. Defense lawyers, meanwhile, have said they had information that would seriously hurt her credibility.
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Posted: June 6th, 2011, 6:26am EDT
AP - Syrian police blocked dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters from approaching the Israeli frontier on Monday, a day after 20 demonstrators reportedly were killed trying to break through into the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights.
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Posted: June 6th, 2011, 6:16am EDT
AP - The U.S. military says five American troops have been killed in central Iraq.
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Posted: June 6th, 2011, 5:58am EDT
AP - Violence threatened Yemen's capital with a return to chaos Monday — at least three opposition and three government forces killed — after a day of jubilation had gripped Sanaa with the departure of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who underwent surgery in Saudi Arabia for wounds he suffered in a rocket attack on his compound.
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Posted: June 6th, 2011, 5:53am EDT
AP - A series of NATO airstrikes have targeted sites in and around Tripoli overnight.
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Posted: June 6th, 2011, 5:39am EDT
Reuters - Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs returns on Monday to the stage at San Francisco's Moscone center to take the wraps off what investors hope will be the next source of growth for the world's most valuable technology company.
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Posted: June 6th, 2011, 4:38am EDT
Reuters - The head of a German farm facing an inquiry over a deadly E.coli outbreak was quoted on Monday as saying he could not understand accusations that bean sprouts grown at his farm could be to blame.
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Posted: June 6th, 2011, 4:33am EDT
AP - An international mission will chart the saltiness of the ocean — from outer space.
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Posted: June 6th, 2011, 4:30am EDT
Reuters - Left-wing former army commander Ollanta Humala was headed for victory in Peru's presidential election and struck a conciliatory tone as investors and opponents worry he will ruin a long economic boom.
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Posted: June 6th, 2011, 4:20am EDT
AFP - The charity Oxfam has launched an investigation into "financial irregularities" in their Pakistan flood relief operation.
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Posted: June 5th, 2011, 10:14pm EDT
The Daily Beast - A forgotten Sarah Palin who worked with Democrats to pass landmark legislation emerges in the new documentary The Undefeated. Shushannah Walshe gets an early look and talks to director Stephen K. Bannon.
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Posted: June 5th, 2011, 8:53pm EDT
AP - Sarah Palin insisted Sunday that history was on her side when she claimed that Paul Revere's famous ride was intended to warn both British soldiers and his fellow colonists.
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Posted: June 5th, 2011, 4:53pm EDT
AP - They shared a stage at Disneyland five days a week for nearly three decades and died within a day of each other.
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Posted: June 5th, 2011, 4:04pm EDT
AP - A Libyan woman who claimed she was raped by Gadhafi troops has left Libya on her way to the United States, her sister said Sunday.
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Posted: June 5th, 2011, 2:39pm EDT
AP - Almost six years ago at the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, Nintendo unveiled what would eventually become known as the Wii. But the Japanese gaming giant didn't show off the new console's distinctive motion-sensing capabilities until later that year at the Tokyo Game Show. Nintendo won't be such a tease at this year's E3.
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Posted: June 5th, 2011, 1:32pm EDT
The Atlantic Wire - Google's internet monopoly is certainly something to be envied. In the words of Ben Elowitz at TechCrunch, Google "had the most impressive dataset the world had ever seen; the most sophisticated algorithm to make sense of it; an audience of a billion users expressing their interest; and more than a million advertisers bidding furiously to reach those consumers at just the right moment." But is its crucial search feature vulnerable to Facebook?
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Posted: June 5th, 2011, 7:55am EDT
AFP - NATO pounded Tripoli on Sunday hours after Britain's top diplomat met rebel chiefs in Libya and Russia voiced concerns the alliance's military operation is sliding towards a land campaign.
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Posted: June 5th, 2011, 7:33am EDT
AFP - Scottish singer Jai McDowall triumphed in the final of TV show 'Britain's Got Talent' on Saturday, in an upset that saw favourite Ronan Parke pushed into second place.
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Posted: June 5th, 2011, 7:16am EDT
AFP - A Highland soldier killed by insurgent fire in Afghanistan, died doing a a job he loved, his family said on Sunday.
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Posted: June 5th, 2011, 6:59am EDT
AP - Despite 20 years of effort, greenhouse gas emissions are going up instead of down, hitting record highs as climate negotiators gather to debate a new global warming accord.
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Posted: June 5th, 2011, 6:50am EDT
AP - As a new bride, 22-year-old Ummu Atirah believes she knows the secret to a blissful marriage: obey her husband and ensure he is sexually satisfied.
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Posted: June 5th, 2011, 6:29am EDT
AP - Pope Benedict XVI denounced the "disintegration" of family life in Europe on Sunday and called for couples to make a commitment to marry and have children, not just live together, as he reaffirmed traditional Catholic family values during his second and final day in Croatia.
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Posted: June 5th, 2011, 6:20am EDT
AFP - Investigators searching for the origin of a killer bacteria were attempting to track supplies made to a north German restaurant where 17 guests fell ill, the press reported here Sunday.
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Posted: June 5th, 2011, 5:52am EDT
AP - J.R. wasn't selling oil this time. He was selling himself. He still made a pretty penny.
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Posted: June 5th, 2011, 4:14am EDT
AP - NATO is "one step" from sending troops into Libya to help rebels remove Moammar Gadhafi from power, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said Sunday.
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Posted: June 5th, 2011, 2:16am EDT
Dear Abby - DEAR ABBY: I'm running out of energy to compassionately relate with all the addicts and mentally ill people in my family. My mother is an alcoholic. My aunt is bipolar and schizophrenic. She is addicted to and abusing prescription painkillers and anti-anxiety medicines.
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Posted: June 5th, 2011, 12:27am EDT
AP - When Nasir Khan cried out at night from the searing pain of kidney stones, the entire slum could hear him.
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Posted: June 5th, 2011, 12:10am EDT
AP - A bit actor who played a Las Vegas police officer on the TV series "CSI" faces charges of reprising that role to coerce a woman into sex in a Sin City hotel room.
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Posted: June 4th, 2011, 11:00pm EDT
AFP - Southern Chile's Puyehue volcano erupted for the first time in half a century, prompting evacuations for 3,500 people as it sent a cloud of ash that reached Argentina, authorities said.
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Posted: June 4th, 2011, 9:15pm EDT
AP - As China's Li Na tossed the ball while serving at match point in the French Open final, a cry from a fan in the stands pierced the silence at Court Philippe Chatrier.
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Posted: June 4th, 2011, 6:10pm EDT
AP - Nine-year-old Bobby Bradley floated into history early Saturday, taking off solo in a hot air balloon and landing perfectly about a half-hour later to become the youngest trained pilot to accomplish such a feat.
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Posted: June 4th, 2011, 3:03pm EDT
Reuters - A single 9-inch-long brown hair found in the car trunk of accused child killer Casey Anthony could have been ripped from the dead body of her 2-year old daughter, an FBI expert testified on Saturday.
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Posted: June 4th, 2011, 2:52pm EDT
AP - Two crucial witnesses are dead. Another is 100 years old. A fourth was recently held in contempt of court. The daring indictment of two-time presidential candidate John Edwards has pitfalls at every turn for federal prosecutors, adding strain to a Justice Department section still trying to recover after botching its last major political case.
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Posted: June 4th, 2011, 2:15pm EDT
AFP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Saturday vowed the US military would maintain a "robust" presence across Asia that includes new high-tech weaponry to protect allies and safeguard shipping lanes.
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Posted: June 4th, 2011, 2:03pm EDT
AP - They were regular churchgoers, devoted parents, seniors in their retirement years and children with untold promise.
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Posted: June 4th, 2011, 5:06am EDT
AP - The Popocatepetl volcano that towers over Mexico City began rumbling again Friday, shooting a blast of ash about 2 miles (3 kilometers) above its crater at dawn.
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Posted: June 3rd, 2011, 9:39pm EDT
AP - Identical twins Julian and Adrian Riester were born seconds apart 92 years ago. They died hours apart this week. The Buffalo-born brothers were also brothers in the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor. Professed friars for 65 years, they spent much of that time working together at St. Bonaventure University, doing carpentry work, gardening and driving visitors to and from the airport and around town.
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Posted: June 3rd, 2011, 5:44pm EDT
SPACE.com - A newfound stretch of the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy's distant rim is warped like the edge of a sombrero, and that our galaxy may be far more symmetrical than previously thought, scientists say.
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Posted: June 3rd, 2011, 9:01am EDT
Y! News - Philadelphia - Rob Bear, Curbed National Set on 210 acres in Pennsylvania's coal-bearing Schuylkill County, this 16,000-square-foot hilltop mansion was designed in 2000 by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, the architects behind NYC's glassy Apple Store cube on Fifth Avenue. Wood and stone were …
