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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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Here are some safety suggestions for people who encounter cougars:
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Some facts about the cougar, also known as mountain lion, puma, panther and catamount:
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Anna Lashley can’t forget the surprise when she looked out her kitchen window three years ago just south of Milwaukee and spotted what she believes was a cougar.
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Thousands of young Jews and elderly Holocaust survivors marched Tuesday at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz to honor those who perished in the Holocaust, while...
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Eco Factor: Solar-powered floating homes.
Researchers estimate that once the glaciers are gone, many metropolitan cities across the world will be submerged in water,...
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From a one-time $250 payment to a 50 percent increase in the limits for reverse mortgages, there are some housing-related items in President Barack Obama’s...
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For people caught inside Mexico’s drug corridors, life is about keeping your head down and watching your back, especially when the sun dips behind the...
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The effects of the credit crisis have taken our leaders so long to notice but it’s slowly and surely creeping in that the country’s economists are realizing that we...
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Photos dangled from the charred ceiling, paintings decorated soot-stained walls. Red shards from the shattered roof lined pathways cleared through broken glass.
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Picture a neighborhood where doors can be left unlocked, where 20 families gather to eat in a common home twice a week, where solar panels help heat homes, where...
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After back-to-back hospital visits for congestive heart failure, Eva Olweean figured her health was back to normal. But the nurses at her retirement home knew better:...
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Ahhhh New Year’s Day in Mexico, eight policemen killed in a shootout, two heads, drunken brawls, a twelve year old boy kidnapped on his way to his...
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The safety net is almost gone, the nest egg is cracking.
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Oh, what a difference a bath can make.
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Easy come, easy go.
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Attention retirees, smaller cities throughout the South want you.
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You know those people you can read just like a book?
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Free falling markets, the cry for money, the hunger and abject poverty that rakes the underbelly of society world wide. Is it more money? Or is it the sustainable...
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Ski season’s coming, and with it the traditional flurry of sales in second-home markets in mountain resort towns in the West.
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Eva Olweean talks about the sensors in her room that helped diagnose a potential congestive heart failure at the Tiger Place nursing home Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009, in Columbia, Mo. Tiny sensors hover unobtrusively over the toilet, shower and doorways to...
