" The 44-year-old Palin is the first female nominee on a Republican presidential ticket in the party's 164-year history, though she is little-known outside Alaska, where she was elected a reform governor in...
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California is reviving the dormant 17-year-old program to buy water from the Sacramento Valley farmers to then sell to the Southern California agencies. This is all due to the water reserves being all but gone,...
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- When you see people at the office using such Internet sites as Facebook and MySpace, you might suspect those workers are slacking off. ...
I actually had some trouble locating this today on any wire services, and the gopconvention site is...messy, at best. So I thought I'd include it for anyone else who was having trouble finding itIt's the last...
" Katrina hit New Orleans and the Gulf Coast three years ago this week. The president promised to do whatever it took to rebuild. But the nation is trying to fight wars in several countries and is dealing with economic crisis. The attention of the president wandered...
An aid plane has crashed into a mountain in the Democratic Republic of Congo, all 17 people on board are feared dead. The plane went missing yesterday in bad weather and has recently been found. It was carrying aid workers from Medecins Sans Frontieres,...
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An aid plane has crashed into a mountain in the Democratic Republic of Congo, all 17 people on board are feared dead. The plane went missing yesterday in bad weather and has recently been found. It was carrying aid workers from Medecins Sans Frontieres,...
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The University of Toronto will offer Canada's first grad program in sexual diversity studies this fall. Up until now, Canadian universities have only offered undergraduate programs in the discipline, but U of T...
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Fan fiction exists in many different forms, but the hit U.S. television program 'Mad Men' has inspired a unique group of its online fans to write micro-blog posts on Twitter under the fictional guise - and...
Update 2: 8/29/08 -- It may be encephalitisUpdate 8/27/08 -- 35 more have died""“We really don’t know what exactly it is; we are depending on the finding of a team of specialists from New Delhi.”...
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"DENVER - The Democratic National Convention, where Senator Barack Obama will be accepting the nomination as he runs for President of the United States, starts today and runs through Thursday night. North...
created by Albert Milliron | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 884 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
"The man accused of last month's mass shooting in a Tennessee church was indicted yesterday on two counts of first-degree murder and eight other counts. It seems likely that Jim David Adkisson's public defender will seek an insanity defense. He wants the case in Knox County's...
"HAGERSTOWN, Maryland (CNN) -- Chante Wright was set to testify against a career criminal when she was gunned down on the streets of Philadelphia in January. Investigators believe it was a hit ordered from prison, by an inmate using a cell phone. ...
This clip first appeared in US News & World Report April 7, 2003. Reprehensor of 911Blogger.com has provided links to the original, plus additional info on some of the people and organizations involved. See also the Able Danger Timeline at HistoryCommons.org; the program...
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As reported yesterday on NowPublic, mothers in Ohio prisons are part of a new plan to allow them to keep their children with them in jail. But mothers in British Columbia, Canada, will not have the same privilege.Corrections BC has cancelled a plan today that allowed pregnant...
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