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Nov 18 2009
After turning down Vogue during the presidential campaign for “fear of looking too feminine,” Hillary Clinton has finally granted Vogue the interview they wanted. And the feature, which appears in the magazine’s December issue, makes...
Nov 13 2009
Federal prosecutors took steps Thursday to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government. In what could prove to be one of the...
Nov 10 2009
Injecting itself aggressively into the health-care debate, the Roman Catholic Church in America has emerged as a major political force with the potential to upend a key piece of President Barack Obama’s agenda. Behind-the-scenes lobbying, coupled...
Nov 9 2009
Rupert Murdoch says he will remove stories from Google’s search index as a way to encourage people to pay for content online. In an interview with Sky News Australia, the mogul said that newspapers in his media empire – including the Sun, the...
Nov 4 2009
The bodies of three missing North Dakota college softball players were found Tuesday inside a Jeep after authorities, aided by signals from the women’s last desperate phone calls, spotted the vehicle submerged in a farm pond. Police Lt. Rod...
Oct 27 2009
A vacation in Honduras can conjure up visions of spectacular destinations: the Mayan ruins of Copán, cloud forest after cloud forest filled with exotic flora and fauna, the gorgeous beaches and the dolphin-filled waters off the island of Roatán. But...
Oct 26 2009
Conservative columnist George Will went after former Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday, saying the Bush administration could have used some “dithering” before they invaded Iraq. Will was responding to the VP’s widely-circulated...
Oct 22 2009
Firms in the US which received billions of dollars of government aid in the financial crisis are to be told to cut the pay of top executives, reports say. The seven companies that received the most aid from the US Treasury will have to reduce the basic...
Oct 21 2009
The military can comply with a White House order to empty the detention center and clear all 221 war-on-terror captives off this remote base “with 10 days notice,'’ the prison camps commander said Tuesday. Navy Rear Adm. Tom Copeman told...
Oct 9 2009
Students in a UCLA chemistry lab watched helplessly Thursday afternoon as a classmate suddenly slashed the neck of a fellow student, causing serious injuries. The attack occurred just past noon on the sixth floor of Young Hall, prompting swift police...