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U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 29, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

MSNBC -- With seven weeks until Pope Benedict XVI lands in Washington, the hunt is on for one of the hottest tickets of the year: to the Mass he will offer at Nationals Park on April 17. Pleading letters and e-mails are flooding into the offices of parish pries.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jul 3, 2007 @ 10:39pm neoform

FOX News -- Some of the armed officers with dogs that turned up this week around airports, subways and bus stops are part of special Transportation Security Administration teams sent to protect mass transit sites over the July Fourth holiday. The "VIPER" teams wer.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jan 3, 2007 @ 10:01am neoform

CNN -- Evangelical broadcaster Pat Robertson said Tuesday that God has told him that a terrorist attack on the United States would cause a "mass killing" late in 2007... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Nov 16, 2006 @ 9:34pm neoform

Monsters and Critics -- Appearing on local and national television, the father of murdered Ron Goldman - Fred Goldman - has made a request to all asking for help in the mass boycott of O.J. Simpson's latest tome, in which the ex footballer discusses how he would have committed.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 11, 2008 @ 8:21am neoform

MSNBC -- Transportation experts who have pushed mass transit since the 1970s are getting their wish as soaring gas prices persuade Americans to abandon their cars for buses and trains in record numbers. But as the adage says, be careful what you wish for. Mass.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Oct 17, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

SF Gate -- It was a typical Sunday Mass until two men in heavy makeup and nuns' habits received Holy Communion from San Francisco's top Catholic official. On Oct. 7, Archbishop George Niederauer delivered the Eucharist to members of the Sisters of Perpetual Indul.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Sep 28, 2007 @ 1:01pm neoform

USA Today -- The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing yesterday on revelations in a GAO report that says investigators were able to sneak across the northern border with bags that could have contained radioactive or other dangerous materials. Ronald Colburn, the.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Wed Jul 4, 2007 @ 1:18pm neoform

Alter Net -- Is not nationalism -- that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder -- one of the great evils of our time? On this July 4, we would do well to renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of alleg.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jun 11, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

FOX News -- A domestic dispute erupted into a mass killing in southern Wisconsin, leaving six people, including two infant boys, shot to death, and a 2-year-old girl with a gunshot to her chest. A prosecutor said late Sunday no one was in custody but that police w.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Mon Apr 30, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

Alter Net -- Following the mass slaughter on the Virginia Tech campus, the U.S. government quietly released a convicted terrorist and mass murderer. A terrorist lives in Miami. He is not in hiding, or part of some sleeper cell. He's an escaped convict, wanted inter.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 24, 2007 @ 10:40am neoform

FOX News -- Federal employees are going online to sell mass transit fare cards the government buys for them, congressional auditors say. Employees also are exaggerating their commuting costs, and some continue to receive transportation subsidies after leaving the.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Sat Apr 14, 2007 @ 11:29am neoform

Alter Net -- In the U.S., over 2.13 million people are incarcerated. Sasha Abramsky's new book, American Furies, explores the bloated prison system and its tremendous financial and moral cost to our society. The prison system in the U.S. stands alone in the modern.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Feb 12, 2007 @ 8:38am neoform

www.democracynow.org -- An undercover intelligence officer, who is suing the CIA, says his managers asked him to falsify his reporting on weapons of mass destruction and retaliated against him when he refused. We speak with his attorney. [includes rush transcript] We turn now to.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jan 3, 2007 @ 1:41am neoform

Breitbart -- In what has become an annual tradition of prognostications, religious broadcaster Pat Robertson predicted Tuesday that a terrorist attack on the United States would result in "mass killing" late in 2007... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Dec 26, 2006 @ 6:16pm izgood

www.gothamist.com -- At Christmas Mass at the Church of St. Mel in Flushing, Queens, robbers stole a money box with $20,000... Read More