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Jul 13 2009
Summers in Phoenix can be long and lethal for those who can’t escape the heat. Outside a homeless shelter in downtown Phoenix, a few dozen people are vying for every scrap of shade on the lot. It’s not even lunchtime, and already a...
Jul 11 2009
The Los Angeles police chief has raised the prospect of a homicide charge over the death of Michael Jackson. Homicide does not necessarily mean murder — it could mean a manslaughter charge against a doctor. Jackson, 50, died last month in mysterious...
Jul 4 2009
Max Blumental reports on The Daily Beast that Sarah Palin may have quit her job today because she was trying to avert a major, yet-to-be-disclosed corruption scandal. The gist of the rumor is that an Alaska building company called Spenard Building...
Jul 3 2009
A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered. Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related colony, and will refuse to fight one another. The colony...
Jul 2 2009
As Argentina struggled Wednesday to control a fast-spreading outbreak of swine flu, some health officials criticized the government’s decision to go ahead with national congressional elections last weekend. The officials said they had wanted to...
Jul 1 2009
The United Nations General Assembly has approved a resolution calling for the reinstatement of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya. Mr Zelaya’s expulsion by the army on Sunday has been criticised in Europe, Washington and Latin America as a...
Jun 30 2009
President Obama on Monday strongly condemned the ouster of Honduras’s president as an illegal coup that set a “terrible precedent” for the region, as the country’s new government defied international calls to return the toppled president to...
Jun 18 2009
President Obama’s special envoy to Sudan, retired Air Force Maj. Gen. J. Scott Gration, said Wednesday that the Sudanese government is no longer engaging in a “coordinated” campaign of mass murder in Darfur, marking a shift in the U.S....
Jun 2 2009
President Obama said Monday that the U.S. government had no interest in taking an ownership stake in General Motors Corp. But faced with two other bad options — letting the legendary automaker fail or simply extending more government loans that...
May 30 2009
Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers are heading back to the NBA finals after dispatching the pesky Denver Nuggets with a 119-92 victory in Game 6 on Friday night. Bryant had 35 points and 10 assists and got plenty of scoring help from Trevor Ariza,...