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Reporting from Culiacan, Mexico - In the story making the rounds here in Mexico’s drug capital, the setting is a beauty parlor. A woman with wealth obtained legally openly criticizes a younger patron who is married to a trafficker. The “narco-wife”...
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U.S. Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, a single mother, is being threatened with a military court-martial if she does not agree to deploy to Afghanistan, despite...
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In a cavernous warehouse amid rolling hills and dairy farms, a group of farmers recently gathered around a buyer in a conversation heralding a sea change in the United...
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Sarah Palin’s new book reprises familiar claims from the 2008 presidential campaign that haven’t become any truer over time. Ignoring substantial parts of...
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Girls’ expectations that they can “have it all” may be overly ambitious and they should not feel guilty for taking time out of future careers to raise...
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Florida police say a man arrested for repeatedly calling 911 looking for sex claimed it was the only number he could dial after running out of cell phone minutes. Tampa...
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Aides to General Stanley McChrystal yesterday condemned the intervention of US ambassador and former military man Karl Eikenberry in the debate on troop reinforcements...
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Some major cracks have emerged in the “Tea Party” movement’s leadership.
In October, Amy Kremer, a founder and top staffer for the Tea Party Patriots...
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Carrie Prejean is just carrying out God’s plan, she tells Christianity Today in an interview that fails to address her solo sex tape–the topic that nearly...
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The homeless in Phoenix, Ariz. will have to find a new place for a pancake breakfast after a court ruling forced a neighborhood church to shut down its charity dining...
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Hong Kong is a new target of U.S. prosecutors pursuing a global campaign against evaders of federal taxes, spurred by data acquired in their crackdown on Swiss...
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Federal prosecutors took steps Thursday to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being...
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The casualties from the rise of Glenn Beck have not even started to accumulate. Some will not even know what hit them. Those in doubt should ask CNN’s Lou Dobbs.
The...
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When US President Barack Obama visits China this weekend, he will encounter a rival that sees the financial crisis as more of an opportunity than a threat. America, on...
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The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington said Wednesday that it will be unable to continue the social service programs it runs for the District if the city doesn’t...
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Police say Mike Tyson has been detained on suspicion of battery after an alleged altercation with a photographer at Los Angeles International Airport.
Tyson’s...
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It seems like such a simple act of compassion - allowing the partners of committed same-sex couples to make funeral arrangements for their significant others. But...
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President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, pushing instead for revisions to clarify how...
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Microsoft has suspended the subscriptions of 1 million X-Box Live users after it was discovered that they modified their consoles in order to illegally download games...
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Fox News has the temerity to feign offense when the Obama administration accurately describes the channel as a biased, and politically-motivated network instead of a...
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A few hours ago, three Decani locals taken afterwards in custody had stoned Kosovo PM Hashim Tachi’s car cortege after his appearance before electorate.
As...
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Some dude outside my supermarket just asked me to sign a petition to legalize marijuana. Apparently he was so high that he forgot he’s in California, where pot is...
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Brazilian police on Wednesday announced the capture of 648 kg of marijuana in the southern state of Parana.
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These are heady times for advocates of legalized marijuana in California — and only in small part because of the newly relaxed approach of the federal government...
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With the Obama administration’s decision not to prosecute medicinal marijuana dealers and users, even though they violate federal law, the country is...
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Little is real in Patpong, a glowing bazaar and sex district here in Bangkok. The Gucci is fake, the DVDs are pirated and the go-go girls tell every man he’s...
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Murder, torture, steal then pray and donate to charity. The ‘family values’ of Mexican drug cartel La Familia.
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The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare study shows pre-teen children have sought rehabilitation for problems with amphetamines, cannabis, alcohol and even...
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Finally U.S. politicians have understood that the War on Drugs and by extension Plan Colombia has failed. As it was to be expected the Colombian government swiftly...
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The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in New York’s State Supreme Court, was brought on behalf of former investors and seeks unspecified punitive damages and...
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The murder rate in Ciudad Juarez on the Mexico-US border has reached an all-time high amid battles between rival drug cartels, Mexican officials say.
Up to...
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They found 4.3 kilos, or nearly 9.5 pounds, of cocaine packets strapped to her legs and torso, and also arrested a 44-year-old female companion, who tried to escape on...
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After carefully packing light green Mexican marijuana into a homemade water pipe, university student Salvador Chavez drew a deep breath from the tube and blew the smoke...
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Beauty queens, fashion models, actresses or regular girls made good are lovers of drug capos and above all lovers of the finest luxuries cocaine money can buy.
Few are...
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Abu Ahmed lived through last winter’s Gaza war in a daze. Though the district where he lives was invaded by Israeli ground forces and came under heavy fire,...
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A 9mm pistol and a .38 revolver lie on his work bench. An old battery-powered radio blares out the salsa music classic, “Todo Tiene Su Final” or...
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Dazed Digital talked to photojournalist Frankie Nazardo about his controversial portraits of glue sniffing teenage gangs in Kathmandu.
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Soldiers raiding a drug gang safe house in northern Mexico found money-stuffed envelopes earmarked for various police forces and one marked for the “press.”...
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Look people, we’re not idiots. But we come pretty close. And it’s disturbing how many people in this country still believe in the fried egg theory of drug...
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This year alone, two countries in Latin America have loosened punishment for personal drug consumption, and two others have moved closer to a similar scenario.
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Blake Taylor, 19, poses for a photograph on the campus of University of California in Berkeley, Calif., Friday, April 24, 2009. Taylor has been on medication since he was diagnosed with ADHD at age 5.
