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The Los Angeles police chief has raised the prospect of a homicide charge over the death of Michael Jackson.
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Bill O’Reilly needs a hug. But who will oblige him?
The Fox News point man needs a hug so desperately that he runs the risk of losing his sanity.
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I really regret for not covering this one in atypical housing. The portable at the Lakeshore Catholic High School definitely deserved to be there for a reason or two....
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Police have charged four people in connection with an alleged scheme to dig up graves at a Chicago cemetery in order to resell the plots.
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It has been touted as a successful treatment for everything from insomnia and depression to Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis. Now supporters of...
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Two gay men kissed at a Chico’s Tacos restaurant, prompting guards to eject them and a police officer to endorse their ouster.
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U.S. and South Korean computer networks were besieged for days by a series of relatively unsophisticated attacks, possibly from North Korea, that were among the...
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“We got 30 minutes!” It was 1:30 P.M., half an hour before the start of the commercial salmon-fishing season in Bristol Bay, Alaska, and I was sitting on...
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Google is to launch a new operating system, in its most direct challenge yet to the dominance of Microsoft.
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“I just wanted to say, Ever since I was born, daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine, And I just wanted to say I love him so much”.
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During the First World War, his father, Ezeobidi, was drafted to fight for the British crown as a militia in the Cameron. Ezeobidi was conscripted because he had nobody...
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A study conducted by the New Economics Foundation using the Happy Planet Index determined that Costa Rica is the greenest and the happiest place in the world. The HPI...
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President Obama today offered to scrap plans for a missile defence shield in Eastern Europe if Russia helped to stop Iran developing a nuclear bomb.
He appealed in...
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We’re just minutes away from the Michael Jackson Memorial of the Century, which we understand will cost Angelenos their public swimming pools and the 710 bus line,...
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Many were stunned by the abrupt resignation of Alaska Republican Governor Sarah Palin over the weekend. While she says legal troubles are not the primary reason for her...
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Michael Jackson ‘happened’ to me twice—in life, and near death!
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I am more amazed at my association (?) with Michael Jackson who I didn’t...
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As Russian-American summit is going ahead fruitfully these days in Moscow where participants, according to President B. Obama ,are “committed to leaving behind the...
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Their bags were packed. Their farewells had been said.
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Measures in a $789 billion U.S. stimulus package that favor American goods are a “poison” that will hurt efforts solve the financial crisis, an editorial by...
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A proposed ban on same-sex marriage in California _ widely seen as the most momentous of the 153 ballot measures at stake nationwide _ remained undecided early...
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Results of some notable measures on state ballots:
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Some of the nation’s most divisive social issues _ gay marriage, abortion and affirmative action _ went before voters Tuesday as 36 states passed judgment on...
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Social issues so volatile that the presidential campaigns sidestepped them will be on the ballots in several states next week, including measures that would criminalize...
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A pair of crime measures on the November ballot offer Oregon voters a choice between mandatory sentencing or increased sentences and expanded drug treatment programs _...
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In a high school classroom, Xavier Chavez is trying to teach a group of restless teenagers about Manifest Destiny _ the 19th century belief that the United States was...
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Opponents of abortion and race-based affirmative action have had more setbacks than victories so far this political season as they try to place measures with a strong...
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School vouchers for Utah children, state-sponsored stem cell research in New Jersey and funding health care for uninsured children in Oregon by hiking cigarette taxes...
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Utah voters will decide Tuesday whether to adopt the country’s first statewide school voucher program that would be open to anyone. The referendum could influence...
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Diane Olson, left,and her spouse, Robin Tyler, embrace after attorney Gloria Allred, not shown, announced a new lawsuit against Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that bans same gender marriages in California, approved by voters in the Nov. 4 election,.
