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Since Tuesday, Ellen Howell is
the proud mother of quintuplets. She delivered the babies at a hospital in Arizona, Phoenix,
in no more than 3 minutes. According to doctors, as their health concerns, the
3 girls and 2 boys are in good condition. Still, they have to remain in the
neonatal intensive care unit for several months....
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 Daylight Saving Time is not just about setting your clock one hour ahead before going to bed on Saturday night. Safety officials are using this moment of the year to remind us another important task that may be related to “spring forward.” So, don’t forget to check batteries in your smoke detectors. It may save your life in case of an...
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 The salmonella-contaminated tomatoes have
sickened more than 270 people, but investigators still continue the work to
confirm the source of the outbreak, which remained elusive. At least 43 people
have been hospitalized since mid-April and May, when authorities found cases of
salmonella infections in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho,...
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 Rapper DMX was arrested at his home after being caught on
camera racing down a Phoenix-area freeway at upwards of 114 miles per hour (183
kph) in January, Arizona
state police said on Wednesday, according to Reuters.
According to police, stationary cameras caught DMX, whose
real name is Earl Simmons, in triple digits around 8:24...
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 The newspaper circulation in the United States has decreased, the latest survey shows, as more and more customers choose the Internet version over the printed one and as the publishers make strong efforts to streamline their businesses, cutting back from promotion in order to lower the costs.The Audit Bureau of Circulations released the...
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 John McCain had canceled his arrival to “Late Show with David Letterman” because the senator had to go back to Washington to take part in the congressional efforts to make up an emergency bailout package to help the financial industry. Because of this, McCain had to suspend his presidential campaign too. But he appeared on the show and...
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 John McCain, the Republican U.S. presidential nominee, finally made some time to come to David Letterman’s show. Between his campaign and his fight against the Democratic Party, the Arizona senator decided to show up on Thursday at CBS “Late Show” three weeks after he rescheduled his live appearance.At the time, the senator said that he...
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 Hells Angels Motorcycle Club (HAMC) founder Sonny Barger is
suing US TV company HBO, claiming that the pay cable network cut him out of a
biker drama he helped to develop, Barger’s attorney said.
Hells Angels veteran filled a lawsuit in federal court in
Los Angeles against the pay cable network HBO, production company...
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 A gold necklace, which now constitutes the oldest known gold
object discovered in the Americas,
was found near Lake Titicaca in southern Peru. The radiocarbon dating method
that was used to determine its age places its origin at about 4,000 years ago.
”The gold reflects a universal tendency for human beings to
strive for prestige...
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 United Airlines and US Airways have called- off the talks regarding a merger due to the fact that United is about to align itself with Continental Airlines, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing sources familiar with the situation.However, it looks like the growing concerns about labor opposition and integration costs were...
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 Boeing Corporation is likely to file a protest against the Republican presidential candidate John McCain over the loss of the 40 billion dollars US Air Force tanker contract in favour of a joint venture of rivals Northrop Grumman and Airbus.Boeing supporters in the Congress said that McCain, the Arizona senator and nominee in waiting,...
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 David Hernandez, one of the contestants that fight to win
the “American Idol” show was found out to not have a very decent past. The
24-year-old Glendale, Ariz.
Resident used to be a stripper in Dick’s Cabaret in Phoenix, according to USA Today. However, the
producers of “American Idol” have decided not to judge the young man's racy...
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 Tiger Woods won his sixth consecutive tournament worldwide and 63 on tour on Sunday, as he managed to race down Stewart Cink 8 and 7 in the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in Tucson, Arizona.Woods is now the fourth player on the all- time PGA Tour win list, going past Arnold Palmer and trailing Ben Hogan by only one."Just to...
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 Investigators continued the work to confirm
the source of the salmonella-contaminated tomatoes that have sickened 24 people
in Texas,
according to state officials. 40 cases of Salmonella infection have been
confirmed in New Mexico,
according to the New Mexico Department of Health.
The FDA yesterday warned consumers in Texas and...
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 The Food and Drug Administration was alerted last week after
50 people in the U.S. and 9
in Canada became ill after
eating cantaloupes from a Honduras
manufacturer. It seems the melons from Agropecuaria Montelibano are
contaminated with salmonella. The U.S. government, together with the
F.D.A., advises people not to buy cantaloupes...
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 The California Department of Public Health warned consumers
not to buy alfalfa sprouts manufactured by two Californian companies, as tests
have found they may contain Salmonella.
The tests were made after several illnesses have been
reported across the state. The manufacturers voluntarily decided to recall
their products from...
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 According to Safeway, US supermarket chain, some of its ground
beef may be tainted with Salmonella as the company was informed of the
potential threat by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
According to a company release, the ground beef in question
would have entered the supply chain between September 19 and November 5....
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 Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson was sentenced to one day
in jail and three years' probation Monday for cocaine possession and
driving under the influence of alcohol.
Tyson, 41, pleaded guilty in September to a single felony count of
cocaine possession and a misdemeanor DUI count. He had faced more than
four years in...
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 Canadian Stephen Ames has won the Children's Miracle Network Classic that took place at Disney and which he had played until the last hole, on Sunday.Ames won his last PGA Tour 17 months ago, at The Players Championship last year, where he made a double bogey and still blew away the toughest field in golf by six shots at the TPC...
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 According to the Arizona State University’s
findings in just few years the flash memory could get already forgotten, as a
new technology could knock it out from the spotlight. Arizona State
University’s Center for
Applied Nanoionics (CANi) has announced that it has already developed a new
technique for storing memory.
The brand...
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 Intel Corp. has announced today
that it is to open a new factory for hurrying the production of its microprocessors
using the 45-nanometer manufacturing process, which is expected to be used in
the upcoming Penryn microchips. Intel’s Fab 32 from Chandler, Arizona,
will use the brand new 45-nanometer manufacturing process for...
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 Technology has evolved quite a
lot in the recent years, but people have still remained linked to simple,
primary needs, such as food, love and so on. Unfortunately, one could find closely
related to man’s primary needs also his or her hidden pleasures. These
pleasures have more and more transformed into needs and have also developed...
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 American low-cost airline US Airways announced Wednesday it plans to hire more than 350 new pilots and shift 140 others now flying regional routes to its mainline routes. The new pilots, who will be hired over the next 12 to 16 months, will fly US Airway's Embraer 190 planes. The move is being made primarily to fill spots vacated by...
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 The human papilloma is a papilloma virus which infects the skin and mucous membranes of humans. 130 HPV types have been discovered until now and some of them can cause warts or cancer. Still, other types have no symptoms. Almost 40 types of them are transmitted through sexual contact and infect the anogenital region. The persistent...
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 The doctors from the University of Arizona were offered $44 million for the next six years if they participate in a study based on children’s health. Many investigators believe that this new study will provide serious information about the causes of childhood diseases. The study is a part of the National Children’s Study led by the...
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A decades-old paraffin wax-encased block of tissue has added a curious chapter to the history of HIV, suggesting the virus that causes AIDS has been infecting people for at least 100 years.
The most pervasive and virulent global strain of HIV began spreading among human beings between 1884 and 1924, new research published Thursday in...
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 A study released on Wednesday has released new information about HIV/AIDS. The Democratic Republic of Congo has recently found out that a genetic analysis of a biopsy sample from their country dates back for more than a century and contains the virus. Michael Worobey of the University of Arizona in Tucson, who led the study, discovered...
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 Between higher hip bone mineral density (BMD) or having stronger bones and the risk of a woman developing breast cancer there is a causal connection, a team of researchers from the University of Arizona College of Public Health found. The study consisted in researchers analyzing health records of 9,941 postmenopausal women who...
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 Coffee isn’t harmful to your health, says a
new study. Is it true that long term, regular coffee consumption has beneficial
health effects? It appears that the main benefit is that it reduces the risk of
dying from heart disease.
The study research, published in the “Annals
of Internal Medicine,” tracked over 84,000 women and...
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 After a two-year study, a team of
Dutch researchers found that glucosamine, a dietary supplement, is not
effective on pain, function or disease progression in patients with arthritis
of the hip, Reuters informs.
The study was published in the
February issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, and it was conducted Dr. Rianne
M....
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 A new study by scientists at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center have found that altering a single gene can tweak the amount of body fat in mice and fruit flies. Apparently, tweaking the gene could also work in humans. The researchers published their work in the journal Cell Metabolism under the title "Adipose Is a...
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 Friday, actress
Heather Locklear pleaded no contest to a reckless driving charge following a
September incident that resulted in her being arrested for driving under the
influence of prescription drugs.
Santa Barbara Assistant District Attorney Lee
Carter informed that the 47-year-old actress had been sentenced to three...
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 Tony Hillerman was a bestselling author who mostly wrote mystery novels set in Southwest’s region called Navajo. He believed that the people from that part of the country have “a fascinating religious philosophy and a lot of good values." In 1989 he declared for the Newsweek that the residents in Navajo are the ancestral of the...
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 Rapper DMX was arrested at a Phoenix shopping mall on Saturday on
suspicion that he claimed a false name and Social Security number in order to
leave without covering the medical expenses at a hospital, The Associated Press
reported.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio informed reporters that
DMX, whose real name is Earl Simmons,...
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 Rapper DMX was arrested again for the third
time in two weeks, this time at Phoenix
Sky Harbor
International Airport
on outstanding warrants when he missed a court hearing.
DMX, 37, whose real name is Earl Simmons was
taken into custody after getting off an airplane from Florida.
Last week, he was arrested for failure...
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 Actress Heather Locklear, famous for her roles in television
soap operas such as “Dynasty” and “Melrose Place” is seeking treatment for
anxiety and depression and has checked herself into a psychological treatment facility
in Arizona, her publicist Sarah Fuller said Saturday in a statement.
Fuller said the blonde actress had been...
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 The former “Law and Order” actor was
charged with illegally carrying a loaded .22-caliber handgun in his briefcase.
Actor Dennis Farina, 64, was arrested last month at Los Angeles International
Airport after a loaded
gun was discovered in his luggage at a security checkpoint.
The city attorney’s office on Wednesday
charged the...
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 Actor Dennis Farina, 64, known for his roles as detective in
numerous films, was arrested on Sunday at Los Angeles International
Airport after a loaded
gun was discovered in his luggage at a security checkpoint.
Apparently, Law and Order actor had forgotten the 22-caliber
handgun in his luggage. Farina told security at 8 a.m. on...
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 Who thought beauty was ingenuous was obviously wrong. And
even who believed that law students obey the laws was wrong, too.
Kumari Fulbright, beauty queen and a law student at University of Arizona risks to win pageants only in
prisons many years, accused of kidnapping, assaulting, robbing and threatening
with a handgun a former...
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 The most conservative talk-show voice is the brand new
mother of a baby boy, and for the time being both baby and mom are feeling
happy and healthy.
And if there’s any doubt concerning who’s the proud mother,
well, we’re talking evidently about ABC’s The View co-host Elisabeth
Hasselbeck. Arizona Cardinals player Tim Hasselbeck...
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 The chunky-textured, white substance found in rapper DMX’ home last week is still unidentified but drugs were ruled out, police said. "We're still looking at what type of powder that is," Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Tuesday. "But we did seize a useable quantity of marijuana. He does have a drug situation...
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 A raid of rapper DMX’ home on Friday ended with the removal of his 12 apparently neglected dogs and a number of guns.After being tipped that several animals were being mistreated at the Cave Creek, Arizona home of rapper DMX, deputies from the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office said they first warned the rapper’s lawyers about the animals’...
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 The joy of the advance of the Oregon team during the game against the Arizona State has vanished when quarterback Dennis Dixon went down with a knee injury. Star QB Dixon threw four touchdown passes that helped Oregon win by 32 to 23 over Sun Devils (No. 4 BCS, No. 6 AP), just before suffering the injury on an 11-yard run at the...
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 The New York Jets let unhappy left their guard Pete Kendall go to Washington Redskins for a 4th-round pick in the 2008 NFL Draft.After passing a physical test, Kendall signed a new two-year deal with Washington - ending a long-running argument with Jets top brass over a pay rise.“We reached agreement in principle to trade Pete Kendall to...
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 After eleven days of waiting and 16 missed practices, first-round draft pick Brady Quinn agreed to terms with the Cleveland Browns. The club officials and Quinn’s agent, Tom Condon, finally came up with a solution that will satisfy both parts. The five-year contract will earn the newest member of the Browns approximately $20.2 million,...
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 President Barrack Obama intends to name New York City’s former health commissioner, Dr. Margaret Hamburg, and Baltimore health commissioner Dr. Joshua M. Sharfstein as chiefs of the US Food and Drug Administration, according to sources familiar with the matter.The agency has struggled with a series of drug safety problems over the past...
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Los Angeles - Charles Barkley did the crime, and now he'll serve his time
Barkley, the Hall of Fame Basketball star turned TV analyst, was sentenced on Monday to 10 days in jail after pleading guilty to two counts of driving under the influence (DUI), according to Phoenix, Arizona radio station KTAR.
Arrested on New Year's Eve,...
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 What exactly is Obama’s plan to get the United States out of this financial crisis? He has Rahm Emanuel to work with him, but now it seems that the newly elected president wants to co-work with John McCain. And the two met today in the Windy City, but it seems that their reunion didn’t work out so well.Their meeting was briefly made...
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Election day finally arrived Tuesday for the record throngs of US voters planning to cast their presidential ballots for either Democrat Barack Obama or Republican John McCain.
Obama held a significant lead in opinion polls as state officials braced for an unprecedented turnout and massive lines at polling places in an election...
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The US Congress was moving closer to an agreement on the 700 billion-dollar financial rescue plan, lawmakers said Thursday, a day after a sombre US President George W Bush laid out the spectre of a "long and painful recession."
Republican presidential nominee John McCain, a senator from Arizona, said in broadcast remarks he...
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The US presidential election campaign was put on ice Thursday out of respect for the seventh anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks.
The nominees participated in some of the formal commemoration activities at the sites where 19 hijackers crashed passenger planes into the symbols of US financial and military might on that September...
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 American teens are allowed to drive since they are 16. But an influential auto safety group has recently proposed the states to rise the age of a teen to 17 or 18 to be able to get a driver’s license. The President of the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety, Adrian Lund, said that this idea is a “though sell,” and added that nowadays...
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 John McCain, 72, is the senior United States Senator from Arizona and a presumptive nominee in the 2008 presidential election for the Republican Party. "I'm not running for President to be somebody, but to do something; to do the hard but necessary things not the easy and needless things," McCain said when he announced his...
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Republican White House hopeful John McCain
made his sharpest divide yet from US President George W Bush, declaring
in a new television advertisement Tuesday that the state of the nation
has worsened over the last four years. 'Washington's broken. John McCain knows it,' a narrator says in the new ad. 'We're worse off than we were...
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama
called on the United States to end its dependence on oil from the
Middle East and Venezuela within 10 years as part of a broad speech
laying out his energy plans on Monday. Obama, who celebrated
his 47th birthday Monday, said he would direct the 'full resources' of
government towards...
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 Opponents of same-sex marriage seem to have taken a lead in campaign funding on a California referendum, according to filings from groups on both sides of the matter.Advocates of Proposition 8, which would ban same-sex marriage, raised an estimated $3.7 million from Jan. 1 through June 30, by comparison with gay-rights advocates who went...
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Barack Obama's celebrated overseas trip has
left the Democratic presidential candidate open to accusations of
taking victory for granted, and of wowing international audiences when
he should be focussing on the problems of ordinary US voters.
His Republican rival John McCain this week turned to mocking Obama's
celebrity treatment...
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Barack Obama's celebrated overseas trip has
left the Democratic presidential candidate open to accusations of
taking victory for granted, and of wowing international audiences when
he should be focussing on the problems of ordinary US voters.
His Republican rival John McCain this week turned to mocking Obama's
celebrity treatment...
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Republican presidential contender John McCain, who was diagnosed and treated for skin cancer in the past, had a small patch of skin removed from his face and was biopsied, as part of a regular health check with his dermatologist. Due to the fact that he is a skin cancer survivor he gets an exam every three to four monthsThe biopsy from a...
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Warren Jeffs, 52, is the leader of Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a Mormon offshoot that practices polygamy. The FLDS has an estimated number of 10,000 members. Jeffs was convicted in Utah, in November last year, to two consecutive terms of five years to life in prison. After that he had been convicted on two...
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 Warren S. Jeffs, 52, sect leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was taken to the hospital on Tuesday, because he was found “convulsive” and feverish inside his jail cell in Arizona.The polygamist leader was taken to a Las Vegas hospital by helicopter and was transferred back to jail on Wednesday. He...
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A nationwide alliance of immigrant rights and
community organizations on Thursday launched a new movement aimed at
registering more than one million Latino and Asian voters ahead of
November's presidential elections. The movement, called the
We Are America Alliance (WAAA), will reach out to voters in 13 states,
which also have the...
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 The Senate gave its final consent on Wednesday regarding a
very significant development in what concerns the government’s surveillance
control, offering President George W. Bush another success in a series of harsh
and effortful conflicts with Democrats over national security matters.
The decision was taken by a vote of 69 to 28...
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Sect leader Warren Jeffs was taken to a hospital in
Las Vegas on Tuesday. Police wouldn’t say why and the real cause of his
departure hasn't been found out yet. Jeffs was taken to the Sunrise Hospital and
Medical Center in Las Vegas from an Arizona Jail.
The jail in Kingman, Arizona is 100 miles from the
medical center and the...
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 Additional firefighting crews were requested on Monday to
help combat a massive wildfire in Southern California
in order to profit from the wearing off winds before the forecasted higher
temperatures and possible lightning storms turn up later this week, officials
said.
The blaze which erupted in Santa
Barbara County is one
of...
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Archaeologists have recently found out and excavated the
vestiges of George Washington's childhood home and some of the objects of his
infancy.
The boyhood house of the first President of the United States
is Ferry Farm, 50 miles south of the capital city that is named after him. He
moved to Ferry Farm at the age of six and...
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 U.S.
health officials announced on Tuesday that they were far from identifying the
source of the salmonella outbreak that began in mid-April this year. The U.S.
Food and Drug Administration has expanded its examination by including food
products that are usually served with tomatoes. However, they declined to
report what these other...
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Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Monday took exception to the comments of retired general Wesley Clark, who suggested that McCain's long record of military service did not qualify him to be president.McCain, regarded as a war hero after being held captive and tortured for five years in Vietnam, called the remarks...
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Federal officials began sifting Monday through the wreckage of two medical helicopters that collided in mid-air on approach to a hospital Sunday in Flagstaff, Arizona.US aviation officials said that the mishap capped a disturbing increase in the number of medical aircraft crashes, which have killed 16 people so far this year.The...
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A medical helicopter crashed early Friday
in northern Arizona, about 30 miles outside of
Prescott, while
it was flying to pick up a motorcycle accident victim. The Prescott Air Evac
crew went down shortly after 4 a.m., south of Ash Fork. The cause of the crash
is under investigation. Ash Fork is located on Interstate 40 about 50...
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An air tragedy happened on Sunday afternoon, at about 3:45 p.m., when two helicopters that were heading to a hospital near Arizona, collided.
Six people were killed and three other were injured in the collision. One of the dead victims was a patient and the others were part of the medical crew. Two other members of the rescue team were...
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 The Mississippi River’s flooding waters passed levees and swamped nearly two dozen of them along the waterway, deluging dozens of small towns in Iowa and the neighboring states of Illinois and Missouri, on Thursday.
The floods have also destroyed thousands of hectares of agricultural crops, including corn and wheat. More than two...
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 Robert Kern, the Virginia
adventure guide who was charged with breaking the Lacey Act was acquitted
yesterday after two days and seven hours of jurors’ deliberation. The Lacey Act
provides that any importation of wildlife knowingly taken in violation of other
country’s laws is prohibited. By permitting hunters to shoot moose and...
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 Arizona
Sen. Jake Flake died Sunday at age 72 after suffering a massive heart attack at
his home near Snowflake. He was a state legislator since 1997.
“Jake Flake was a leader of great strength and wisdom, who worked with
passion on behalf of the people of Arizona,”
Gov. Janet Napolitano remembered. “Our hearts and prayers are...
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American federal law enforcement agencies have led the
number of criminal prosecutions of immigration violators to amazing levels. One
of the means by which they achieved this is filing minor charges against every person
caught illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
Officials explained that the perspective of being...
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 Politicians, religious and conservative
groups’ representatives are trying to get an initiative on the November ballot
to block a recent state Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage
in the Golden State. The initiative is expected to
qualify for the ballot after June 16, when the court’s decision is scheduled to
take...
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Arizona authorities on
Sunday found 53 illegal immigrants in a Phoenix
home being held against their will by suspected smugglers demanding more money,
the Associated Press reports. The group of immigrants included three women, two
13-year-old girls and a mentally disabled man. The rest were man, Department of
Public Safety spokesman...
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 It appears the battle over same-sex marriage in California
heated up Thursday, when supporters of an initiative to ban it in the state’s
Constitution submitted more than 1.1 million signatures in an effort to qualify
the measure for the November ballot, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
County and state officials will make...
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 Authorities made a new discovery at the religious retreat
from Eldorado, Texas, where they continued investigations
to find evidence for the 16-year-old girl’s case. She is allegedly married with
Dale Barlow, 50, and they have a baby aged 8 month.
According to the Los Angeles Times it was discovered a bed
inside a towering...
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 After more than 400 children have been taken from polygamist
compound in Eldorado, Texas, investigation continues. Texas officials are trying to
find out how many girls were sexually abused by adults.
“This is the biggest single removal in the history of this
agency,” Child Protective Services spokesman Darrell Azar...
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 Texas authorities are looking for evidence that Dale Barlow, 50, who lives in a polygamist religious community, is married to a 16-year-old girl and has a child with her, after the girl complained of physical abuse.
They planned to continue interviews Monday with some members of the religious community who lived there.
The retreat was...
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 Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain said in
a statement that the meeting between the U.S. and Iraq representatives which took place last year resembled “something approaching
normal.” His statement contrasts with the reality, where more than 4,000
Americans died on the battle field.
In a speech prepared...
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 Officials continued raids on a Texas ranch belonging to a withdrawal Mormon sect, removing 183 women and children since Thursday. Authorities began the raids after reports that a 16-year-old girl was sexually abused. It appears that the investigators are searching for evidence of a marriage between the teen and a 50-year-old man, as...
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 52 girls, aged from 6 month to 17 years were removed Friday,
April 4, from a West Texas religious retreat, which was built by a polygamist
leader Warren Jeffs. Authorities had found about the tragic events
when a 16-year-old girl who lived there complained of pshysical abuse.
The mission started with a call alleging sexual and...
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 Citizens Against Government Waste released the Congressional
Pig Book for 2008, containing reports of the most undesirable examples of politicians who spend money in what
they call wasteful spending.
U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu is portrayed as an important member
of Congress to sign her name to earmark spending for Louisiana special...
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 The Environmental Protection Agency was accused of
“foot-dragging” to avoid regulating greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles.
More that 18 states sued the Bush administration for taking no action
concerning the issue of global warming.
In a petition signed Wednesday several states’ officials had
required the EPA...
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 After encountering mechanical problems, the pilot of a small jet was forced to make an emergency landing on a Scottsdale highway on Monday.One can only imagine the surprise experienced by the drivers who were driving on the highway and, all of a sudden, found out that an unusual vehicle joined the traffic.The pilot of the...
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 An Associate Press-led investigation brought to the light the fact that the water of about 41 million Americans contains a vast array of pharmaceuticals. The concentration of the pharmaceuticals is bellow the levels of a medical dose, but their presence increases worries among scientists, who said the exposure to random combinations of...
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 The new stand bearer of the Republican Party, Senator John McCain, flew from Dallas to Washington where he was greeted on Wednesday by President George W. Bush. The former Arizona lawmaker managed to win Bush’s endorsement in the presidential contest and also the financial help of the Republican National Committee.After lunching with Mr....
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 After recording win after win in primaries and forcing his main opponent to call it quits, Senator John McCain made a trip to the White House on Wednesday to get President Bush's endorsement for president.McCain clinched the GOP presidential nomination after wining Tuesday the primaries held by the states of Ohio, Texas, Vermont and...
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 A man made flood will be set up in the Grand Canyon by federal agencies. Such controlled floods had been released before in 1996 and 2004 and their main purpose is to refresh the canyon’s ecosystem. The flood release will begin Wednesday morning as a three-day torrent of water will be released from Glen Canyon Dam on the Arizona-Utah...
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 The Democrat Party presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and rival Barack Obama, are fighting to win the still undecided voters of Oho and Texas as, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Houston Chronicle poll, the contest between the two senators is still very tight. Illinois Senator Barack Obama has a good morale after wining eleven in a...
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 California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Thursday
he is backing Republican candidate John McCain in the race for the White House.
McCain has shown he is "reaching across the aisle in
order to get things done," Schwarzenegger said during a news conference.
The GOP presidential hopeful has "crusaded to...
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 Rudolph W. Giuliani is going to drop out of the presidential
race after occupying a disappointing third place in Florida, finishing well
behind John McCain and Mitt Romney, reports said Wednesday.
Media reports revealed that Giuliani will abandon his
presidential bid and throw his support behind fellow Republican McCain.
NBC...
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 Senator John McCain claimed an important victory in the race
for the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday night, defeating his main
adversary Mitt Romney in the Florida primary ahead of the crucial February 5 “Super
Tuesday.”
With three-fourths of the vote counted, McCain, a senator
from Arizona, led Romney, a former...
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 San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds hit his 750th career home run but his team lost 4-3 in 10 innings to the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night. With this homer Bonds moved within five of tying all-time leader Hank Aaron.Arizona’s Miguel Montero connected with a solo home run in the 10th of Brad Hennessey to give his team the win...
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 Justin Verlander made Comerica Park history pitching the ballparks’ first no-hitter in a long time. Mixing 99 mph fastballs with excellent curveballs he led the Detroit Tigers to a 4-0 victory Tuesday against the Milwaukee Brewers."It was the best thing that ever happened to me," said the 2006 AL Rookie of the Year, who had the...
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 The tension at the Yankees’ clubhouse has been eliminated as they won their sixth straight game over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Sunday.The Yankees finished their opponents pounding 14 hits and completed a three-game sweep with a 13-6 victory.Alex Rodriguez had a great performance getting two home runs and his team mate Bobby Abreu was the...
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 The Phoenix Mars Lander appears to be running out of steam. The Lander is losing solar-electric power because of shorter daylight hours and dust storms on Mars, NASA announced. Furthermore, the temperatures could reach as low as minus 141 degrees Fahrenheit, and that’s thanks to the Martian winter. This week, Phoenix fell silent, going...
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Four types of Jurassic dinosaurs left more than a thousand
footprints and tail-drag marks at a remote site in northern Arizona, a new study revealed. Researchers
also mentioned that probably around 190 million years ago, during the Jurassic
period, this area was an oasis surrounded by a vast desert. Even if the
footprints are...
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 On Thursday, scientists working on the Phoenix project revealed new information with
regard to the on-site ongoing procedures.
After having stirred up a Martian soil sample, the spacecraft’s
robotic laboratory managed to identify certain chemicals that are currently
being used by plants and microbes on Earth.
The Phoenix...
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 After making the first successful landing on Mars after a 422 million miles journey, the Phoenix Lander sent some images on Monday, showing that the spacecraft is in a very good condition.NASA's Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars on Sunday and it will begin a three months mission in which it would be examining...
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 Images taken last month by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter detail series of active avalanches near Mars' north pole, scientists announced Monday. The space probe has photographed at least four avalanches of fine ice and dust breaking off from a steep cliff, stirring up massive debris clouds nearly 600 feet across."We were checking...
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 According to a new study, it
seems that Earth might not be the only planet having conditions suitable for
life, as in the Milky Way there are many other rocky planets that can sustain
life just like Earth does. Researchers said that more than half of the Sun-like
stars in our galaxy could have similar planetary systems, which means...
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 A team of researchers warned
recently that Lake Mead might become pure history by 2021 because of climate
changes and a continual increase in the demand for Colorado
River’s water. If Lake Mead got
drain by 2021, it would trigger a severe water shortage across the entire
region.
Scientists at San
Diego’s Scripps Institution...
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 A new study by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) had made a comparison of the mathematics and science skills of eighth-grade students from 50 American states and 47 nations all around the world. The study was published Nov. 14, under the name of “Chance Favors the Prepared Mind: Mathematics and Science Indicators for Comparing...
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 All women will now bravely say:
“I knew it!” It’s true, men turned out to be as talkative as women, as the
recent studies showed. The myth turned out to be just a wrong common belief,
which science has now quickly corrected.
A group of American researchers
published on Thursday their study after counting the words that about...
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 Scientists working at NASA may have found one of the clearest evidence yet that there was water on Mars, thanks to the advanced technique onboard the Spirit rover.A simple rock collected by Spirit from the Martian soil is so rich in silica that scientists are almost 100% certain that water was involved in its creation.The rover's robotic...
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Phoenix, Arizona - They argue and snub each other, and for years, there has been no love lost between the former Los Angeles Lakers teammates Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal. But one thing is certain: When the two play together, good things happen.
The occasional friends and adversaries shared the most valuable player trophy...
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 San Antonio beat Phoenix on Sunday in Game 1 of their Western Conference semifinal. This is the second time that NBA’s highest-scoring team (the Suns with 110.2 points per game) is meeting the top defensive team (the Spurs with 90.1 point allowed per game) in the playoffs.The other occasion involved the same teams. The 2005 Western...
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