"Two weeks ago in Houston, two Katrina evacuees hauled the final boxes out of their apartments. But even as their landlords prepared to change their locks, Gina Martin and Samantha Egana couldn't go home to New Orleans, because their Section 8 vouchers were stalled by the...
""At a meeting in his Pentagon office in early 1981, Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman told Capt. John S. McCain III that he was about to attain his life ambition: becoming an admiral.... Mr. McCain declined...
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Senator Barack Obama linked President Bush and Senator John McCain together yesterday as partners in 'the failed policies' of the last seven years, and said they were fear peddling and fear mongering in their...
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"An Inland lawmaker's bill to prohibit sex offenders from operating ice-cream trucks is in doubt after a contentious committee hearing Tuesday.The bill by Assemblyman Paul Cook, R-Yucca Valley, was inspired by the July 2007 discovery of a sex offender driving an ice-cream...
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"UNION bosses were last night planning fresh strike action at the Grangemouth refinery after negotiations stalled again. A second crippling stoppage could now take place in as little as seven days - shutting the refinery for a month. Members of the Unite union held a mass...
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A fascinating techno-web marriage: the Discovery Channel and HowStuffWorks.com. Let's hope that Discovery learns from HowStuffWorks in terms of website access, as the Discovery sites tend to be clunky, over-laden with flashy stuff and clips that must run, and often hard to...
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"Aer Lingus will not reverse Shannon move
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Aer Lingus has indicated that it does not intend to change its decision about ending the Shannon Heathrow air service,...
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As of today, Louisiana is the only US state to still allow cockfighting. A bill passed yesterday in New Mexico ended legal cockfighting in the state. The Louisiana ban has been hung up due to a related bill...
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"Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas have met, amid pressure from the US to find a way to restart peace talks.
The meeting in Jerusalem was the first in a series of fortnightly talks they agreed on during a visit last month by US Secretary...
"You probably haven't thought about it, but chances are that you're intimately familiar with one of the most crucial and defining issues of international trade in the 21st Century. If you've ever downloaded a...
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" The United States and nine other countries will discuss how to move the stalled North Korea nuclear disarmament negotiations forward. Pyongyang earlier rejected requests to hold informal multilateral talks on the sidelines of a regional security forum in Kuala Lumpur. The...
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