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| | | A federal prosecutor says the four men accused of a New York bombing plot were disappointed the World Trade Center wasn''t around any more to attack. The men are accused of planning to blow up two synagogues and fire missiles at military planes. |
| | | Watch Albert Pujols of the St. Louis knock out the lights in the "I'' in McDonald''s Big Mac sign. |
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| | | Hollywood is at it again . . . this time playing fast and loose with WWII facts |
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on Jun 9, 2009 | In Politics News
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U.S. and Chinese media reports that New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin and his wife are in quarantine in Shanghai after flu-like symptoms are reported on his flight.
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| | | Lil'' Kim became a fan favorite this season on DANCING WITH THE STARS, but sadly her time on the show has come to an end. But the bionic booty has no regrets, as she told Hollywood 41 |
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 | | | Australia''s largest steelmaker wants to raise $1 billion in a heavily discounted share offer to help it battle tough market conditions. |
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| | | The Angels will head up I-5 to face the Dodgers in the Freeway Series. Steve Physioc and Rex Hudler have a preview of this weekend''s matchup. |
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| | | The Dallas Cowboys have unveiled a $40 million HDTV in their new stadium. It''s 72 feet high and 160 feet long and hangs high above the center of the field. |
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| | | The discovery of Dr. Arnold Klein as the sperm donor for Michael Jackson''s children could further complicate an already messy custody battle. |
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| | | Crab industry in turmoil as N.L. processors refuse prices |
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| | | Tony Stewart won his first All-Star race and first as a team owner. The NASCAR on FOX crew gives their grade on Stewart-Haas Racing''s 2009 season. |
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| | | The Black Eyed Peas leave their hotel in the West Village of NYC, closely followed by their luggage. Will.i.am, Apl.de.ap and Taboo jump into their waiting SUV, ignoring the fans who gathered to see them |
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| | | Former Royals teach a group of future Royals the game of baseball. Check out the words of wisdom Les Norman, Dennis Leonard and others had for a group of young people |
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| | | Obama meets with Pakistan''s President; Afghan civilians die in U.S. air attacks; Health insurance industry offers to end practice of charging higher premiums to women |
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An adviser to Iran's president on Sunday demanded an apology from a team of visiting Hollywood actors and movie industry officials, including Annette Bening, saying films such as "300" and "The Wrestler" were "insulting" to Iranians. Without an apology, members of Iran's film industry should refuse to meet with representatives from the nine-member |
THE Bahrain Royal Equestrian and Endurance Federation (Breef) is hosting His Majesty King Hamad Showjumping Championship starting on Thursday at the Mounted Police Centre grounds in Budaiya. The four-day event, to be held under the guidance of its president Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, is one round of the Arab League. |
Pakistani intelligence officials say suspected U.S. missiles have hit an alleged Taliban compound near the border with Afghanistan. There was no immediate word on casualties. The U.S. has escalated its missile strikes on Al Qaeda and Taliban targets in Pakistan's northwest in recent months, despite official Pakistani protests. The strike Sunday |
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The U.S. military says the number of detainees it is holding in Iraq has dropped to 13,832 from a peak of 26,000 two years ago. The prisoners are being released or transferred to Iraqi custody to meet the requirements of a security agreement that took effect on Jan. 1. American forces in Iraq can no longer hold suspects without charge as they have done since the U.S.-led 2003 invasion |
I was totally rooting for last Sunday's Oscar telecast, from the moment host Hugh Jackman said hello to the moment the deliriously happy Slumdog Millionaires waved goodbye, because finally, the show focused on something that I've always liked about Hollywood - something I always feel when I'm there, though, as F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in The Last Tycoon, it can be understood "only dimly and in flashes." And |
Liberia's ex-President Gyude Bryant has been arrested over charges that he embezzled some $1m while in office. Police detained him after he failed to appear in court to answer the charges. Mr Bryant, who headed the country during a transitional phase after the end of the 14-year civil war in 2003, was charged in February. |
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The return of peanuts to the snack menu at Northwest Airlines this month has prompted a spasm of protests from travelers with allergies. The change comes four months after Northwest merged with Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines and in the midst of a national salmonella outbreak involving Peanut Corporation of America. |
The return of peanuts to the snack menu at Northwest Airlines this month has prompted a spasm of protests from travelers with allergies. The change comes four months after Northwest merged with Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines and in the midst of a national salmonella outbreak involving Peanut Corporation of America. |
Gas prices nationwide jumped a bit over the past two weeks, according to a survey published Sunday. A gallon of self-serve regular cost, on average, $1.86, said Trilby Lundberg, publisher of the Lundberg Survey. That's a rise of nearly 8 cents over the past two weeks. After breaking all-time-high records over the summer, prices |
Steven Olson wants his $200 deposit back from Princess Cruises, but the company isn't budging. The problem: he canceled the credit card through which he made the purchase. Princess will only refund it to the canceled card. After hours on the phone and promises of a check, Olson is no closer to getting his money. What now? |
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Growing up in America, Joshu Harris was captivated by the mystique, music and history of Cuba. So before Harris started law school, he traveled to Santiago in southeastern Cuba -- something very few Americans can do today. While there, he played his trumpet with a local dance band, touring across the Cuban countryside. I wanted to see and experience the country |
Allison Rupp worked at Yellowstone National Park's historic Old Faithful Inn in 2004. Three simple letters could inspire the "Hallelujah" chorus: DND, or do not disturb. One sign hanging on a doorknob, and the day's work was shortened by half an hour. Two signs? Pure heaven, but only if they remained there until my eight-hour shift ended |
Lower Occupancy Rates Brought On By Recession Mean Lower Prices For Travelers "Now is probably the best season to travel," said Roger Dow, the president and CEO of the U.S. Travel Association. In big tourist destinations, hotels have resorted to slashing room rates. Stays in Las Vegas, New York and Honolulu dropped by at least 20 percent, |
Mumbai is always colorful and dynamic but if you're lucky enough to be in town for one of the city's major festivals you'll witness Mumbai erupting into glorious Technicolor. This two-day event takes place in the caves on the island of Elephanta, some 10 km from Mumbai harbor. The caves themselves, filled with carvings, sculptures |
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Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano erupted six times, sending an ash plume more than 9 miles into the air in the volcano's first emissions in nearly 20 years. Residents in the state's largest city were spared from falling ash, though fine gray dust fell Monday morning on small communities north of Anchorage. "It's coming down," Rita Jackson, 56 |
Ice cover on the Great Lakes has declined more than 30 percent since the 1970s, leaving the world's largest system of freshwater lakes open to evaporation and lower water levels, according to scientists associated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. They're concerned about how the milder winter freeze may |
Monitors say Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano has erupted again with an ash plume shooting about 15,000 feet high. The blast shortly after 5 a.m. Alaska Daylight Time (9 a.m. EDT) Wednesday was considered small and brief at 10 minutes. The plume appeared to be drifting north to northwest. Tom Murray, scientist in charge at the Alaska Volcano Observatory |
She may have ruled like a man, but Egyptian queen Hatshepsut still preferred to smell like a lady. The world may be able to get a whiff of that ancient royal scent when researchers complete their investigation into the perfume worn by Hatshepsut, the powerful pharaoh-queen who ruled over ancient Egypt for 20 years beginning around 1479 B.C. |
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How many ways can the world end? We can think of at least five. But before we get into detail, let's dismiss two things that won't cause the demise of the planet. Global warming is bad for people who live in low-lying coastal areas and at the edges of deserts, but the truth is that Earth has been much warmer throughout most of the past 500 million years, and life did just fine. |
NASA's online contest to name a new room at the international space station went awry. Comedian Stephen Colbert won. The name "Colbert" beat out NASA's four suggested options in the space agency's effort to have the public help name the addition. The new room will be launched later this year. NASA's mistake was allowing write-ins |
Two astronauts who were teaching math and science to middle school students just five years ago went on a spacewalk together Monday, but could not free a jammed equipment shelf no matter how hard they tried. Their path, at least, ended up clear of dangerous orbiting junk that had threatened the international space station and shuttle, and forced the |
A teenage hacker from New Zealand who helped a criminal network to infiltrate more than 1 million computers worldwide and skim millions of dollars from bank accounts has been hired as a cybersecurity consultant by the country's second-largest telecommunications company. Owen Thor Walker has skills that can help senior executives and |
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At Smart Style Family Hair Salon in Hallandale, haircuts are a wonderfully cheap $14.95. Even so, the salon used to send out discount coupons twice a year that knocked two bucks off the price. Those were the good times. Now we're doing it every month, said manager Alma Elvir. With so many people pinching pennies these |
A prestigious medical journal on Friday accused Pope Benedict of distorting scientific evidence to promote Catholic doctrine by saying that condoms increase the spread of AIDS. The Lancet in an editorial called on the Pope to retract the comments made last week, saying anything less would be an immense disservice to the public and |
This summer, daintily-clad toesies are morphing into so-called ``caged feet. Leather straps are radiating over arches, thrust forward by towering, heavy heels and thick shanks. Platforms made of punishing wood are back and in abundance. Heels come shaped like inverted triangles or hefty cylinders. |
Enter George Zima's tiny photo shop prepared for a stroll down memory lane -- and a comprehensive lesson in the history of photography. The second-floor office space in a nondescript Palmetto Bay building is chockablock with cameras, lenses, slide projectors and accessories for the tried-and-true 35 mm buff. Aptly named Forever 35, Zima's cozy |
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A New York funeral director hoping to barter a free funeral for construction work on his patio was forced to scrap the idea due to the media frenzy that followed. Peter Dohanich, 51, posted an ad for the exchange on the online classified site Craigslist last week. Intense media interest in the story prompted his landlord, |
Sotheby's will offer a sculpture of a cat by Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti at auction in New York in May and expects it to fetch $16-22 million. The 1951 bronze sculpture "Le Chat" has been in a private European collection since the 1960s, and the last time a cast of it appeared at auction in May 1975, it sold for $130,000, Sotheby's said on Friday. |
King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia of Spain will appear at the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival's gala ¡Viva España! celebration of Iberian cuisine and wines at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables. The event benefits Florida International University's School of Hospitality and Tourism Management and Fundación España-Florida. For information and |
Tim Page finds solace in sounds that most would call dissonant. I'm one of the very few people in the world who rather enjoys having an MRI, says Page, a classical music critic in Los Angeles whose book Parallel Play: Life as an Outsider, a memoir of his experiences with Asperger's Syndrome, a mild form of autism, will be |
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