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When a recent flight from Miami touched down at Havana's Jose Marti Airport, a passenger shouted "Viva Cuba!" in a show of the enthusiasm Cuban Americans have for returning to their homeland.
Pope Accepts Resignation of Bishop John Magee, Accused of Covering Up Abuses in Irish
Justice Department Reviewing Indictment on Weapons
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Dogs die every year in Alaska's grueling Iditarod race. It's time to relegate the Iditarod to the history books.
Greece Woes Push Euro to 10-month Low
Bankers gathered in Dubai on Wednesday to hammer out a $26 billion debt plan with state-owned Dubai World as a repayment deadline loomed, adding to pressure on the glitzy emirate to settle the conglomerate's debt.
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Chinese internet users were left with less information from Google as their government appeared to apply an unusually strict filtering regime to the US search engine following Google’s move to stop self-censorship in China. |
President picks a China apologist and Israel basher to write his intelligence summaries
How billionaires' money took over Washington -- and created the mobs who rant against reform.
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The bloody-minded, death-obsessed state of Texas, which has already demonstrably executed at least one innocent man, Cameron Todd Willingham (who was falsely accused and ultimately killed by the state for the alleged arson "murder" of his two little children when in fact they’d died because of a fire caused by an electrical fault), may be about to execute yet another innocent man. This time it’s Hank Skinner, 47, a man who has spent 16 years on the state’s busy death row protesting his innocence in the 1993 New Year’s Eve murder of his girlfriend, Twila Busby, and her two sons, aged 20 and 22... Legislation to Establish Internment Camps on US Military Bases Damning ambulance report that could put Michael Jackson's doctor behind bars
Mogadishu's mayor orders some 1,000 Somali refugees to move away from the city's airport, citing security concerns.
By Border Jumpers
1,500 Words About Uganda
By Jerome Starkey
Jerome Starkey recently reported for The Times of London about a night raid on Feb. 12 in which U.S. and Afghan gunmen opened fire on two pregnant women, a teenage girl and two local officials -- an atrocity which NATO’s Afghanistan headquarters then tried to cover up. Now, in a blistering indictment of both NATO and his own profession, Starkey writes for Nieman Watchdog that the international forces led by U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal are rarely called to account because most reporters are too dependent on access, security and the 'embed culture' to venture out and see what's happening for themselves...
Perennial vegetables are species of plants that can save you lotsz of
labor in the garden, since they come back year after year, and require
much less work than the more common annuals.
Deniers are dancing on the graves of their reputations, to say
nothing of reality itself. But Earth will still get the last laugh on
all of them, and us for that matter.
Fact Check: Separating Myth from Reality
There’s only one problem with this health care reform bill: It
doesn't reform health care.
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