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A U.S. swimmer diagnosed with testicular cancer has put off surgery until after he’s had a chance to compete in his first and last Olympics.
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After months of lobbying from pro-Israel groups, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed another (and equally futile) Iran sanctions bill.
Unilateral sanctions...
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More an experience than a film, Avatar is a must see. A must see for the big screen and in 3-D. Trust me, you could have the best Blue Ray and home entertainment system...
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The record snow storm could not stop socialism, unfortunately. Senate Democrats yesterday - 1am! - reached the necessary 60th vote in a procedural count. That means in...
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California’s death row has swollen to 697 inmates, with 29 new death sentences in the state this year, despite a nationwide trend that in 2009 saw the fewest...
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The Democratic Party’s decades-long push to remake the U.S. health care system cleared a major hurdle early Monday morning, with the Senate voting to advance a...
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The Army general commanding U.S. forces in northern Iraq has added pregnancy to the list of prohibitions for personnel under his command.
The policy, which went into...
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Brittany Murphy, the actress who got her start in the sleeper hit “Clueless” and rose to stardom in “8 Mile” before her movie roles declined in...
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It always sounded so obnoxious to me when American pundits would chastise the Muslim world for supposedly being too tied to religious law and then contrast this...
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There are so many sick people in this world; every day you read about the horrific things people do to fellow humans and to animals, and it makes you wonder what on...
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Thus the Copenhagen summit was not much of a success. It was always absurd to assume it could be at a conference with dozens of world leaders - each with their peculiar...
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Washington is not exactly the city that never sleeps, nonetheless the nation’s Capital is less lively than usual this Saturday as a record December blizzard has...
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A lot has been made about the dispute between the Obama administration and Israel’s far-right Netanyahu-led government over illegal settlements on the occupied...
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Despite his personal problems, golfer Tiger Woods received another accolade as he was voted PGA player of the year.Wood was chosen for the award by a vote from other...
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An American plastic surgeon on the run for five years as charges of fraud and malpractice mounted against him has been arrested after he was found camping on a snowy...
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Hayden Wright was found wandering his neighborhood in Chatanooga, Tennessee in the middle of the night with a beer in his hand. He was wearing a little girl’s...
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Seven months into her pregnancy with her fourth child, Joy Szabo’s obstetrician gave her some news she didn’t want to hear: Because she’d had a...
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At first, Luis F. Alarid seemed well on his way to becoming a customs agency success story. He had risen from a childhood of poverty and foster homes, some of them...
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The anxiety and anger have been building all year. In March, a national coalition of Islamic organizations warned that it would cease cooperating with the F.B.I. unless...
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his son and grandson were shot to death in a Manhattan apartment by a man who wounded the youngest victims mother before falling to his death from a fire escape,...
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UPDATE II: ABC News quotes a source who says the “divorce is 100 percent on.”
UPDATE: People is also now reporting that Woods’ wife is planning to...
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ive facts about American swimmer Michael Phelps who took his career tally to an unprecedented 11 Olympic gold medals on Wednesday.
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She is a tough character in perhaps the toughest of all Olympic sports, but as she stood on the bank of the Guadalquivir river in Seville, trying to take in what she...
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Members of a winter swimmers association bathe in the four degrees Celsius (Fahrenheit 39) water of the Baltic Sea at the beach of Warnemuende, northern Germany, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2008. The swimmers traditionally meet on Christmas Eve to swim in the...
