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More than a dozen Chinese terra cotta warriors crafted more than 2,000 years ago to protect their emperor in the afterlife have arrived in the United States with a very different mission: cultural ambassadors.
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Hours before the California Supreme Court issued its decision on gay marriage, Mayor Gavin Newsom heard rumblings that the justices would uphold the state’s ban.
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AP, Angels Camp
A carnival ride spinning with people collapsed at a county fair Friday night, injuring at least 17, including three seriously, an emergency official said.
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AP, Jefferson City
Missouri lawmakers gave final approval Friday to a bill that adds new restrictions and requirements for illegal immigrants, the cities in which they live and the...
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AP, Trenton
Police found three decomposing bodies with multiple stab wounds inside a northern New Jersey home Friday night, a prosecutor said.
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AP, Angels Camp
Emergency officials say a carnival ride has collapsed at a fairgrounds, injuring three people severely.
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AP, Cleveland
The federal government isn’t used to being snubbed when it offers to help local governments.
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AP, Fresno
A biochemist was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Friday for killing her estranged husband by knocking him out and stuffing him into a vat...
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AP, San Diego
A New York financier has been sentenced in San Diego to more than eight years in federal prison for laundering bribes for former Congressman Randy “Duke”...
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AP, Tenafly
Police found at least three bodies inside a home Friday night, and authorities were treating the case as possible homicides, an official with the prosecutor’s...
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AP, San Diego
The investigation into the bombing of the San Diego federal courthouse has led to the arrest of a woman accused of using false identification in an attempt to obtain...
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AP, Bryan
A minister from a Dallas-area Baptist megachurch was caught in an Internet sex sting and charged with online solicitation of a minor, police said Friday.
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AP, Chicago
An Illinois appellate court ruled Friday that the city of Chicago cannot be held liable for a 2003 nightclub stampede that killed 21 people and injured dozens more.
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AP, San Antonio
When Texas child welfare authorities released statistics showing nearly 60 percent of the teen girls taken from a polygamist sect’s ranch were pregnant or had...
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AP, Tenafly
Several bodies have been found in a northern New Jersey home under circumstances that were not immediately clear to authorities.
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AP, Sioux Falls
Former Sen. George McGovern, the 1972 Democratic presidential candidate and an early backer of Hillary Rodham Clinton, joined a noisy rally for Barack Obama on Friday...
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AP, Washington
Michigan and Florida alone can’t save Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign. Interviews with those considering how to handle the two states’ banished...
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AP, Burgaw
Going potty without a partner can lead to punishment for students at a Burgaw elementary school, but parents want the policy flushed.
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AP, Pontiac
Authorities said an 8-year-old Pontiac boy took a stolen car on a joy ride and caused a three-vehicle crash. Pontiac police said the boy sneaked out of his house...
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AP, Providence
A Brown University student says she’s been suspended for hitting a New York Times columnist with a pie during an Earth Day speech.
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AP, Jefferson City
Responding to the suicide of a Missouri teenager who was teased over the Internet, state lawmakers Friday gave final approval to a bill making cyber harassment...
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Have you ever thought about what you would like if someone freeze framed your every move and narrated a very long and complicated lecture about how your body’s...
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AP, New York
A three-panel masterpiece by Francis Bacon broke a record for contemporary art auctions Wednesday, selling for more than $86 million after three bidders vied for it, a...
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AP, London
Four artists have been nominated for this year’s Turner Prize, awarded annually to a British artist under the age of 50.
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AP, Los Angeles
The director of a Thailand museum was indicted on a wire fraud charge in connection with a federal investigation into looted Southeast Asian antiquities.
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AP, St. Petersburg
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin unveiled an exhibit from the art collection of a renowned Russian cellist Monday, a ceremony that reflected his continuing political...
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‘Though no on can go back and make a new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new end.”
We all get inspiration.don’t we?
We all say i...
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AP, Vienna
The man behind the camera had three requests for his subjects: no sunglasses, no smiling, and no underwear.
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Based on a network of floating barges is the Roosevelt Island Universal Arts Center. These barges gather together to form a Mobile Art Park, a site with a vibrant...
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Aboriginal Rock Art in Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory.
To even the uninitiated eye, the traditionally strong use of ochres, reds, blacks and...
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One cannot help but appreciate works which shine with creative brilliance. Lisa Kokin’s button art seems so beautiful that one cannot help but admire her...
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AP, Madrid
Spanish police say they have recovered more than 700 pieces of pre-Columbian art of “incalculable value” allegedly plundered and taken from South American...
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This explores the idea of distilling a whole film down to one single image.
Very cool, very interesting! Must check this out!
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AP, Munich
Munich police said Wednesday they have seized a large collection of Aztec, Incan and Mayan cultural artifacts that Costa Rican authorities claim were illegally removed...
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Leading the path of bio-revolution, Critical Art Ensemble is a group of five tactical media artists dedicated to exploring the intersections between art, technology,...
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AP, New Haven
Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, imprisoned for killing a teenage neighbor, is spending some of his time in prison creating art that depicts beauty, danger and the loss...
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His legs look so weak he can barely stand. His coat is mangy with neglect and virtually every bone is visible under what is left of his emaciated body.
This is...
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It is one thing to take a piece of white cloth and parade it around or transform it to create something nice and claim that you are a carrier of peace, but it becomes...
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Art and Trash, these two words don’t seem to belong to the same dictionary. But the Sculpture Garden at SF Recycling & Disposal has managed to combine these two...
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Driving past all those old abandoned gas stations, we do feel that they are a blot on the landscapes, right? But have you ever given it a thought further….or...
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Potential bidders attend the Spring 2008 Impressionist and Modern Art auction as Claude Monet’s “Le Pont du chemin de fer a Argenteuil” sells for a total price of $41,481,000 including commission and a hammer price, as shown in photo, of $37 million...
