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CBS News
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Del Dover Police said a naked man died Saturday night after he was chased by police officers.
It happened after police received calls of a naked man on South New Street. Police say the man, 29-year-old Ivan Strickland of Glassboro, New Jersey, ran from..
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Yahoo News
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A gay advocacy group Tuesday demanded an apology from the Pentagon's top general for calling homosexuality immoral.
In a newspaper interview Monday, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had likened homosexuality to adultery an..
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MSNBC
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A truck driver from Georgia who won a share of the largest lottery jackpot ever plans to buy a new fishing boat, pay off his relatives' mortgages and quit work once his first check comes in next week.
"I'm still in a fog. I just don't know what to say,..
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The Register
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Airbus has posted the first loss in its corporate history, blaming delays to the A380 superjumbo.
Joint chief executive Louis Gallois told the BBC it was the worst year in Airbus's life.
The company has already announced 10,000 job losses to cope wi..
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News.com.au
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Islanders cheered outside the tiny territory's courthouse yesterday as one of the most divisive chapters in the history of the former penal colony ended in a guilty verdict.
The mystery and the innuendo surrounding the 2002 murder of Sydney woman Janel..
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SF Gate
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During the 18 1/2 years Alan Greenspan was chairman of the Federal Reserve, he scrupulously avoided forecasting recessions. Now it seems he can't stop using the R-word, and that has created headaches for his successor, Ben Bernanke.
Greenspan delivered..
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Yahoo News
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U.S. military officials will start hearings on Friday for 14 prisoners transferred to Guantanamo Bay from secret CIA jails, including the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks on the United States.
Reporters will not be allowed at the hearings..
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Yahoo News
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The world's richest are getting younger and richer with more Russians and Indians cropping up among the 946 people on Forbes magazine's 2007 billionaires list unveiled on Thursday.
The number of billionaires is 19 percent higher than last year when the..
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Yahoo News
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Iraq's ruling Shi'ite leaders on Friday urged neighboring and Western powers to join forces to prevent their country from sliding into all-out civil war that could spread across the region.
Speaking on the eve of a major conference in Baghdad, Abdul Az..
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Reuters
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Pope Benedict was opposed to Bob Dylan appearing at a youth event with the late Pope John Paul in 1997 because he considered the pop star the wrong kind of "prophet," Benedict writes in a new book issued on Thursday.
Benedict, who was Cardinal Joseph R..
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Yahoo News
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Strong demand for corn from ethanol plants is driving up the cost of livestock and will raise prices for beef, pork and chicken, the Agriculture Department said Friday.
Meat and poultry production will fall as producers face higher feed costs, the depa..
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Yahoo News
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Kate Winslet was awarded substantial libel damages Friday after a British magazine wrongly stated that she had visited a diet doctor.
The 31-year-old actress, known for her criticism of excessive dieting, wasn't at London's High Court for the hearing o..
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Reuters
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President Bush and his left-wing nemesis Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez embarked on dueling tours of Latin America on Friday as they stepped up competition for the region's hearts and minds.
Their ideological rivalry heated up as Bush visited Brazil..
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Yahoo News
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Britain's drugs laws are driven by "moral panic" and should be replaced by a more flexible approach that recognises most drug users harm neither themselves nor those around them, a two-year study concluded on Thursday.
Drug use should be treated as a h..
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Editor and Publisher
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At least two more daily newspapers -- The Oakland Press of Michigan and The Mountain Press of Sevierville, Tenn. -- have dropped Ann Coulter's column. A daily in Pennsylvania had dropped the column two days ago.
Meanwhile, the Human Rights Campaign gay..
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Salon
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On Tuesday, President Bush said that "even at this early hour, there are some encouraging signs" that the so-called surge is working in Iraq. In fact, three weeks into what the president refers to as the "surge" and what Iraqis call the "new security plan..
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Slate
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When it comes to Iraq, there are two kinds of presidential candidates. The disciplined ones, like Hillary Clinton, carefully avoid acknowledging reality. The more candid, like John McCain and Barack Obama, sometimes blurt out the truth, but quickly apolog..
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tpmcafe.com
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Guilty! Four out of five. Now what? Let's see. Will Scooter Libby be a hot date on Sadie Hawkins day once he's in the pen? He took such delight in screwing political foes, perceived and real, that he is about to discover an ancient Indian truth--Karma can..
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Hardford Courant
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Nearly 30 Connecticut computer science professors have signed a letter urging an independent investigation in the case of a Norwich substitute teacher convicted of exposing her students to pornography on a classroom computer.
The professors, from eight..
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BBC News
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Thousands of prospective university students are using the internet to cheat in their applications, analysis by admissions service Ucas reveals.
Checks on 50,000 personal statements found 5% had borrowed material.
Its study, by CFL Software Developm..
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