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Max Blumental reports on The Daily Beast that Sarah Palin may have quit her job today because she was trying to avert a major, yet-to-be-disclosed corruption scandal....
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The crown of the famed New York Statue of Liberty will reopen tomorrow for the first time since September 11th, 2001, and what better day than the celebration of...
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American nuns could be said to have their habits in a twist in the face of two investigations by the Vatican into whether they have come to espouse lifestyles and views...
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The Jackson family has decided to hold a memorial for their late son at Los Angeles’ Staple Center. Jackson died last week from what was probably a strong...
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Alaska Governor and former Republican 2008 vice-president nominee Sarah Palin has decided to resign from her governorship.
The resignation will come at the end of the...
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A Philadelphia man’s accused of using Tarot cards and mysticism to lure three teenage girls into having sex with him.
“He was reading my cards and told me...
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Brad Pitt surely deserves to be there in the green celebs’ list. Well, you may or may not agree to it. Still his foundation, Make It Right, makes him proud in...
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While the onslaught of miserable June weather played havoc with people’s plans and psyches, it has also provided a quiet benefit to many city neighborhoods. Fatal and...
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Amidst the fireworks, the beer and the cookouts associated with the celebration of the 4th of July Independence holiday, it is common to forget why the founders of the...
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Despite about two trillion dollars pumped into banks and the general economy from the government, the United States’ economy continues to shed jobs.
The U.S....
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Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco, has an emergency button under his desk that was installed 30 years ago after former City Supervisor Dan White entered City...
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The King of Pop still had it.
In defiance of all the critics who called him Wacko Jacko and a has-been, Michael Jackson still put on a show that eluded most artists....
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California, one of the world’s largest economies, has reached the brink. It is a sad day for America for California always promised the “Golden Road”...
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President Obama promised a break from the old Washington ways of permanent campaigning and a president unaccountable to the people. Put aside the lack of...
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With respect to Gov. Mark Sanford, it’s probably always a mistake for a Puritan to visit Latin America. A handsome cardiologist’s son, he married money,...
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It has long been known that Michael Jackson had an inconsiderate stage-dad. Joe Jackson reportedly pushed his son excessively as a young star.
Jackson has long stated...
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For the first time since 1968, a party will command a filibuster proof majority in the Senate.
After several months of recounts and court battles, Democratic...
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Michael Jackson was so distraught over persistent insomnia in recent months that he pleaded for a powerful sedative despite warnings it could be harmful, says a...
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Dreaming of a house that is remarkably awesome? Designed by Touzet studio, the amazing North Bay Road Residence located in Miami Beach, Florida is one such example. The...
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As Iran stumbles deeper into political crisis, with scores of protestors murdered and likely more deaths coming after Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami declared them...
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Experts around the world are eagerly awaiting the switch on of the world’s biggest scientific experiment, and none more so than Professor Stephen Hawking.The...
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Among the discoveries made by previous satellites was that the universe is dotted with powerful gamma ray bursts lasting only a few seconds and never reappearing....
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International scientists have used flowing water to simulate a black hole, testing Stephen Hawking’s theory that black holes are not black after all.
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U.S. astrophysicists say they have, for the first time, used a supercomputer to simulate the merger of three black holes.
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It is really interesting that some people think the ‘dark matter’ is the modern equivalence to ether of the early 1900’s and could be proved non-existent. While I...
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With chunks of ice the size of continents breaking off from Antarctica; the mass deaths of and disappearance of first frogs, then bees and now bats; the on-going proof...
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NASA’s Swift satellite and Japan’s Suzaku X-ray observatory claimed to have discovered a new class of active galactic nuclei (AGN).
AGN is distinguished...
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A black hole is an object with a gravitational field so powerful that a region of space becomes cut off from the rest of the universe, no matter and not even light can...
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Do you know that galactic mergers keep a galaxy growing! A big galaxy is created with the merger of two galaxies along with several stars. But, a big question arises...
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It is known that galaxies collide over billions of years, to lead the super massive black holes at their centers merge into a single black hole. In the whole process, a...
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Galaxies are found to be crouching within itself, super-massive black holes, which are of the mass similar to millions of stars!
Yes, stellar mass black holes can...
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Can you ever think of weighing something that is beyond your accessibility? Something that accounts for a huge mass and huge size, which limits every technological...
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NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory has observed a remarkable eclipse of a supermassive black hole.
The eclipse has allowed astronomers to measure the swirling disk...
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As big fish eat little fish in the Earth’s vast oceans, so too do super massive black holes in different galaxies, gorge on smaller black holes and stars, making...
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Do you know how black holes light up the universe? Never mind, if you don’t know. Astronomers are here to reply to all your queries. The researchers rather...
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How are the massive galaxies in our universe formed? A study by an academic at The University of Nottingham gives us the first observational evidence for this. The...
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Two new studies suggest that millions of stars too faint to be seen, are collectively responsible for a haze of X-rays that suffuses the Milky Way galaxy.
It is from a...
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Black holes are much more numerous. They also evolved differently than researchers would have expected. A Penn State astronomer informed according to data from X-ray...
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Astronomy and Space Exploration is considered to be the buzz word for beginning with an astronomy class in schools and colleges. Gallatin High School is introducing the...
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