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Washington - President Barack Obama convened a summit of US politicians, economists and industry groups to discuss health care reform on Thursday, vowing to tackle a critical issue that has confounded many past administrations.
Spiralling health care costs in the United States have threatened "the very foundation of our...
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 To live without a heart? We know it’s possible for some minutes, let’s say hours, but for four months? That was how a 14-year-old girl lived during 118 days when her heart was stopped from any function. D'Zhana Simmons said that she felt “fake” but even if she couldn’t feel anything, she knew she was still there. "And I did live...
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 The recently elected president of the United States, Barack Obama, is the subject of a malicious malware campaign designed to steal information from infected computers. Malware authors created a Trojan that exploits the high volumes of Web traffic around Obama, 60 percent of all spam messages using his name in what has become a...
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 On the opening day of the International AIDS conference, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that discrimination against gay people must be brought to an end and required countries to enlarge AIDS-prevention programmes for the this group. Likewise, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, ex-president of Botswana, Festus Mogae,...
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 One day before the 17th International AIDS conference, thousands of people worldwide marched through streets in the capital of Mexico on all for the fight against homophobia and discrimination against people infected with HIV. The mass of protestors taking to the streets was part of the demonstration. With the aim of pointing up their...
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 Appearing on the "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton is not ready to throw in the towel. Instead, she said that fighting off the boys made her tough and that she would give another $ 300 million a year to breast cancer research."I know your mom is a survivor, and we've lost my...
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 According to recent media reports, President Obama intends to name New York City's former health commissioner, Dr. Margaret Hamburg, and Baltimore health commissioner Dr. Joshua M. Sharfstein to run the Food and Drug Administration. With this decision, the White House puts the country’s health regulation in the hands of two experienced...
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Ailing Democratic fundraiser Fred Baron obtained an experimental cancer
drug, according to an e-mail sent by his son on Thursday.
As Andrew Baron wrote in the e-mail, his father was given the experimental cancer-fighting
drug called Tysabri, hoping that it would overturn physicians’ opinion, who categorize
a case of multiple...
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The argument between Republicans and
Democrats concerning the healthcare system goes on in the U.S.
While representatives of the Democratic
Party Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama plead for an universal health care for
all Americans, Republican John McCain alleges that a switch from an insurance
coverage undertaken by employers to...
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 Following a
wave of criticism coming from doctors, as well as from politicians, such as
Hillary Clinton or governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Blue Cross announced it will
stop sending letters that requested private information about its clients’
health.
The giant
insurance company used to send letters to Californian...
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 According to Esquire men magazine, actress Halle Berry is the Sexiest Woman Alive. Even if the 42-year-old actress has already a child, men all around the United States still consider her to be the sexiest woman they have ever seen. On Tuesday, an article from the magazine’s website showed Halle Berry in a parody of a 2000 cover...
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 The search to find the successor of Miss USA 2007 Rachel Smith ended. Crystle Stewart, 26, of Missouri City, Texas has been crowned Miss USA beating all the other 50 beauty queens, the Associated Press reports.
Crystle Stewart will represent the country in the Miss Universe contest later this year and she will work with official...
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 Who missed those spicy times when on everybody’s tongue was the
White House sex scandal, now has some good food for thought (and gossip). The
present scandal replaces former president Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky with
Governor Eliot Spitzer and a call girl, whose alias is Kristen.
Once the sex scandal involving the...
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Barack Obama won the spoken-word Grammy for his best-selling
audio book “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.”
This is the second Grammy award for Obama, who previously received the award in
2006, for the audio book “Dreams from My Father,” a memoir he first published
in 1995.
The senator was not...
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 Black Eyed Peas’ frontman, will.i.am did a considerable work
to sustain Barack Obama’s political campaign.
The viral video “Yes We Can,” which he says it is inspired
by the message transmitted by Obama united a series of A-list celebrities to
sing in the video. It’s interesting that the song, that is sure to become a
hit, hasn’t...
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 Countrywide Financial Corporation Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Angelo R. Mozilo announced on Monday that he would voluntarily give up his rightfully deserved 37.5 million dollars in cash severance payments, post-closing consulting fees and continued perquisites from the merger of the company and the Bank of America, due to...
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 The famous software maker
Microsoft Corp. has recently denied that it has been its software that has
arbitrarily changed Windows Vista’ update settings. The company has even
claimed that it has been the users that are responsible for the modifications
that have generated the claims of unauthorized patch installs. So, it...
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Jakarta - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Indonesia on Wednesday in a visit intended to demonstrate US determination to mend ties with the Islamic world.
Security has been heightened in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, with armed soldiers and police on alert on major streets and at the Foreign Ministry building,...
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Tehran - Iran expects US President Barack Obama to adopt a fair and rational approach toward the Islamic state, former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani said at a Friday prayer ceremony in Tehran.
"Repeating the policies by [former US president George W] Bush would not solve anything, but the new administration...
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 U.S. President George Bush marked the fifth anniversary of
the U.S invasion of Iraq
with a speech to an audience at the Pentagon Defense
Department, defending the conflict as one that was necessary.
“Removing Saddam Hussein from power was the right
decision—and this is a fight America
can and must win,” claimed Bush in a...
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 The Fatah movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday
accused US President George W Bush of violating United Nations
resolution 194 on the return of Palestinian refugees and the payment to
them of compensation.
According to Azzam al-Ahmad, the chief of the Fatah parliamentary bloc, Bush has offered just to...
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Arab foreign ministers agreed Friday to participate in next week's
Middle East peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland, Saudi Foreign
Minister Saud al-Faysal said.
"The Arab unanimous approval was what made us decide to go," al-
Faysal said in a press conference following the Arab foreign ministers'
meeting at the Arab...
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 Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki responded violently to the
US and French officials’ suggestions to resign, claiming that the US forces are
oblivious of civilian care in their search for insurgents.
It seems that both allies and opponents have reached
consensus regarding one matter: Maliki failed to reach reconciliation in his...
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Belgrade - Serbia has launched a probe into alleged atrocities against the former Yugoslav army in Bosnia and issued arrest warrants against 19 people, including former top Muslim and Croat leaders in Sarajevo, officials said Thursday.
A spokeswoman for the Serbian war crimes prosecutor, Ivana Ramic, confirmed for radio B92 that an...
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Germany and Lebanon are working on a project to improve security along Lebanon's border with Syria, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday.
A bilateral commission was looking into ways to promote economic development in Lebanon, including the border region, she told a news conference after talks with Lebanese President Michel...
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Former world leaders meeting in the Dutch city of Rotterdam this week have urged the leaders of the G20 who will meet in Washington next week, to reform the world's existing financial system.
A statement released on Thursday by the General Assembly of the Club of Madrid said in-depth reform of the global financial...
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 A PR adjustment for Nicolas Sarkozy has brought smiles on
everyone’s faces. Though they may be ironic grins from the opposition or
genuine liking smile, Sarkozy’s image achievement brought him in the public eye
again.
Paris-Match magazine does miracle work when it comes to
friends - this is what might explain how the photos...
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The new show, “Spectacle: Elvis Costello with…” will be on air on CTV in Canada, Channel 4 in the U.K. and on the Sundance Channel in the U.S. The first episode of the series will debut on December 3, this year, and will gather round important musicians, to talk about…music and its importance.The spectacle has taped four episodes of a...
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 The Oprah Winfrey Show, America’s most
popular talk-show, has fallen by more than 10 percent in the last three years
and nearly 7 percent this year, according to Nielsen Media Research.
The circulation of O, The Oprah Magazine,
has fallen by more than 10 percent in the last three years, according to the Audit
Bureau of...
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 Out of the four contestants left on the show, Terry Fator impressed the most with his performances and was crowned the winner of “America's Got Talent” second season. Beating up stiff competition from singers Cas Haley and Julienne Irwin and beatbox extraordinaire Antoinette "Butterscotch" Clinton, Fator bagged the million...
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Seoul - The top diplomats of the United States and South Korea urged North Korea Friday to end its threats toward Seoul and unconditionally return to the negotiating table.
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung Hwan said after meeting in Seoul that their countries would in no way...
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Tokyo - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was to meet Tuesday with Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone to confirm discuss relations between the two allies and to pressure North Korea to dismantle its nuclear weapons programmes.
Clinton was expected to ask Japan to step up its military assistance in the fight against...
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Tokyo - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in Tokyo Monday, kicking off her first visit abroad since taking office last month.
The global economic downturn, North Korea's nuclear weapons programme as well as bilateral relations were expected to feature prominently in talks Tuesday with Japan's top...
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Minutes after the US Army Humvee leaves its mountain base, 7.62-millimetre bullets tear into the hood and turret until one finally hits driver Alex Goduti's windshield panel dead centre.
The reinforced glass withstands the impact but the next round or two at most will shatter it, so he slams the vehicle in reverse and sends it...
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 A visiting US senator warned Wednesday that the US Congress could take
action against Pakistan if crucial forthcoming parliamentary elections
are not free and transparent.
Joseph Lieberman, chairman of the Senate's Homeland Security
Committee, urged Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf during a meeting
on Wednesday to ensure the...
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 The Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is meeting his
Indian counterpart, Manmohan Singh to discuss and negotiate a tighter strategic
and global relationship between the two countries.
The two officials are expected to discuss subjects like civilian
nuclear, defense deals and strengthening
the bilateral trade agreement ,...
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 The Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Mick
Jagger and Ronnie Wood are due to attend the UK premiere of the Oscar-winning
Martin Scorsese’s “Shine a Light” based on the 46-year old band’s history. The new
documentary film interlinks the band’s history with footage from a 2006 concert
in New York.
Scorsese admitted...
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 Two-time Academy Award-winning American actor and director Kevin Spacey will reportedly reprise his role as Superman's nemesis Lex Luthor in the upcoming sequel to Superman Returns, which is set to come out under the title Superman: Man of Steel.Also, Variety reports that Spacey will also appear in "Telstar," Nick Moran's film...
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Washington - US President Barack Obama said Tuesday that his administration is ushering in a "new era" of diplomacy, vowing to strive for Middle East peace and assuring the nation that he will not back down in the war on terrorism.
In his first major address before Congress, Obama said he will strengthen alliances and seek...
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Washington - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to buck tradition and make her first visit as the top US diplomat to Asia, rather than Europe or the Middle East, media reports said.
Clinton plans to visit Japan, China, South Korea and possibly a country in South-East Asia, the reports released late Tuesday said....
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Washington - US President Barack Obama on Monday said his administration would be willing to engage in diplomacy with Iran on its controversial nuclear programme, in a reiteration of statements that drew fire during his election campaign.
In his first sit-down interview as president, Obama told al-Arabiya television that he felt...
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US secretary of state-designate Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that the Obama administration will put "every effort" forward to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Speaking before a Senate panel during her confirmation hearing, Clinton said she and president-elect Barack Obama are "deeply sympathetic to Israel's desire...
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US secretary of state-designate Hillary Clinton on Tuesday would not rule out the possible use of military force by the Obama administration to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons capability.
"We are not taking any options off the table at all," Clinton told the Senate Foreign Relations Comittee during her...
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US president-elect Barack Obama named former Clinton White House chief of staff Leon Panetta to head the CIA and nominated a retired Navy admiral to oversee the entire intelligence community.
Dennis Blair, the chief of US Pacific Command from 1999 to 2002, will become the director of national intelligence, a so-called czar for...
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The new US Congress was sworn in Tuesday with stronger Democratic majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate that are expected to help president-elect Barack Obama push through his legislative agenda.
But the first day of the 111th Congress was overshadowed by controversy, as the Senate refused to seat Roland...
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US President George W Bush will host former presidents and his successor, Barack Obama, at the White House for a private meeting during lunch on Wednesday, the White House said.
The meeting will mark the first gathering of all former presidents at the White House since 1981, spokeswoman Dana Perino said. Bush and Obama will hold a...
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Former US President Bill Clinton and his wife, Senator Hillary Clinton, have been given the honour to push the button to drop the crystal ball ushering in the New Year at Times Square, news reports said Tuesday.
The traditional New Year's Eve celebrations at the landmark square will take place Thursday night under a forecast of very...
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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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From Kenya to Kentucky, jubilant supporters of Barack Obama are naming their baby boys after the man who will become the leader of the free world on January 20.
These Obama mamas even have a good solution for naming their baby girls. Expect to see the names of Obama's wife Michelle, and two daughters Sasha and Malia, zoom up the...
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Behind the scenes after a US presidential election debate, so-called spin doctors wrestle to impose their own side's interpretations of what the country just heard.
Campaign specialists evaluate and parse every event, comment and speech. Their prime goal is to make an impression on the US media, which are covering the longest and...
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Carlos Perez-Olivo was convicted by a jury in Westchester after he had killed his wife. The jury rejected his claim that he and his wife were ambushed by a hit man while they were on a desolated road. During the trial, Perez-Olivo shook his head when hearing the jury’s conviction for second-degree murder.Perez-Olivo is a former attorney...
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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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Barack Obama stormed into the backstretch of his historic race for the White House on Thursday, painting a sweeping vision of his confidence in America's promise and reinforcing it with details of how he would restore America's image overseas and the economy at home.
Obama, 47, the first African-American major-party presidential...
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Anyone who expected Hillary Clinton to bow gracefully from the scene or be a sore loser may want to think twice after the heartfelt endorsement she delivered for her onetime rival Barack Obama for US president.
The former first lady, 60, made a grand, triumphant entry into the Pepsi Center convention hall Tuesday evening, creating a...
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Waving blue and white signs, 4,400 Democratic delegates roared approval at a parade of the party's stars on Monday, including the ailing Senator Edward Kennedy, former president Jimmy Carter and Michelle Obama.
Whether it was the kind of energy that will propel presumptive candidate Barack Obama, 47, into the White House in November...
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Michelle Obama stole the limelight and apparent affection of Democratic delegates Monday night, describing husband Barack Obama as a persistent suitor in their courting days who would carry the same kind of determination into the White House.
The couple provided a rare and at times humourous glimpse into their private lives in one of...
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Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama and his Republican rival John McCain are head to head in the run for the White House, a new poll said Monday.
According to CNN both candidates can count on 47 per cent voter support, the news channel said a few hours before the Democrats kick off their presidential convention in...
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Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee
Barack Obama on Sunday urged the party's credentials committee to give
a full vote to the defrocked state delegations from Florida and
Michigan - a move that could heal the lingering, deep divisions with
narrowly defeated rival Hillary Clinton. In a letter to the
panel released by his...
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Democrats took another healing step on
Thursday when former president Bill Clinton said he planned to campaign
for Barack Obama whenever, wherever he was needed, according to
broadcast footage of his remarks. During the heated bid for
the party's presidential nomination, Bill drew attention for his
emotional, sometimes scolding,...
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Former civil rights lawyer Revius Ortique Jr., who became the first black
justice on the Louisiana Supreme Court, died Sunday. He was 84.
It appears that Ortique died in Baton
Rouge from complications with a stroke he suffered
June 14, current Justice Kitty Kimball told the Associated Press.
“I think he was one of the finest...
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Thunderstorms crossed south-central Indiana
on Tuesday, producing at least three tornadoes and causing widespread damage. The
National Weather Service tracked two tornadoes on the ground south of Indianapolis.
Numerous homes and buildings were destroyed or seriously
damaged and at least one person was injured. The storm also...
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 Senator Edward M. Kennedy was diagnosed with a cancerous
brain tumor Tuesday and several experts predicted he had no more than three
years to live, the Associated Press reports.
In her first public comments on her husband’s diagnosis, Vicki Kennedy
expressed pride in how well her husband of 15 years was handling the news....
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 Senator Edward Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat and patriarch of an American political dynasty, was hospitalized in Boston on Saturday after suffering a seizure at his Cape Cod vacation home.The 76-year-old senior senator from Massachusetts was stricken at the family compound in Hyannis, Mass. He was taken to the Cape Code hospital at...
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 Former US President Bill Clinton held a 35-minute
speech Thursday at Butler Traditional
High School in Louisville,
in which he discussed about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s position if she
became the next US
President. Another point of the speech was to advise people to ignore the
media and the ones who sustain that Hillary would...
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 Sen. John McCain said Thursday that most American troops
would be home from Iraq
by 2013 and that Osama bin Laden would be captured.
“By January 2013, America
has welcomed home most of the servicemen and women who have sacrificed terribly
so that America
might be secure in her freedom. The Iraq War has been won,” Mc Cain told...
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 Republican John McCain plans to change the way people get
their health insurance. He suggested people should choose from competing
policies the type of insurance which is best for them instead of getting the
insurance chosen by the employer. He rejected a "big government"
takeover of the health care system and he said he...
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 It appears that firefighters are investigating a blaze that
managed to destroy the presidential campaign office of Senator Hillary Clinton
in Terre Haute,
according to the Associated Press. No one was reported injured due to the fire,
which broke out just after 12:30 a.m. Friday. The cause is currently...
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 “How many other people’s salaries have been frozen for 10
years?” asked Bernard W. Nussbaum, the lawyer of the state’s chief judge,
Judith S. Kaye, while standing on the steps outside State Supreme Court in Manhattan, according to
the New York Times. Bernard W. Nussbaum, Kaye’s lawyer and a former counsel to
the Clinton White House...
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 British pop star Sir Elton John managed to raise $2.5
million for Senator’s Hillary Clinton’s U.S.
presidential campaign, with a benefit concert at New York’s
radio City Music Hall.
While introducing him, Hillary Clinton mentioned that the
singer previously played at the White House at a state dinner, when her
husband, Bill...
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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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 Dave Matthews, frontman of the Dave Matthews Band performed
a special show this weekend, to more than 13,000 screaming fans, in order to
support Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama. His long-time
collaborator Tim Reynolds joined him on the show, “Change Rocks - A Very
Special Evening with Dave Matthews and Tim...
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Mark Penn, chief campaign strategist for Hillary Clinton,
met with Colombia's ambassador to the U.S. to discuss a bilateral free-trade agreement, The Wall
Street Journal reported. Sen. Clinton was against the idea of a trade deal with
Colombia. This wasn't a mission related to his campaign role.
He did that in order to accomplish...
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 Former President Clinton and his wife, Senator Hillary Clinton earned nearly $109 million since 2000, when they left the White House. It appears that half of the money came from Bill Clinton’s speeches. The couple’s annual income climbed from $358,000 in 2000 to $16 million a year later, and in the years since 2001, the income never...
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 Senator Hillary Clinton appeared on Jay Leno’s “Tonight
Show” on Thursday night and used the entrance to joke over the recent fictional
flying into Tuzla, Bosnia, under sniper fire in 1996,
a story that was contradicted by witnesses, videotapes and various news
organizations. Clinton had to say she “misspoke”
about Bosnia
after...
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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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 Issaruh Jackson is the name of the man who unfortunately
bumped into Bernard Allen on Monday in a Mesa, Ariz. mall. Due to this incident Allen followed Jackson and fatally stabbed him in the back with
an 8-inch butcher’s knife. The victim died in the Fiesta Mall’s bathroom off
the food’s court before paramedics arrived at the scene....
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 Former first-daughter, Chelsea Clinton, spoke Monday on behalf
of her mother Hillary Clinton’s campaign in front of hundreds of students from North Carolina State
University, Peace Collage and the University of North Carolina. During the town hall
meeting, Chelsea
answered to several questions concerning her mother’s campaign, but...
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 Republican presidential candidate John McCain called yesterday
for a more cooperative foreign policy, claiming that the U.S. must be a
“good and reliable” friend and must stop excluding its allies, showing “decent
respect to the opinions of mankind.” His statement is drawing a sharp contrast
to the past years under President’s George...
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 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton proposed
on Monday several remedies to raise the U.S. economy and ease the housing
crisis.
The New York
senator recommended bigger protection for lenders and said she would propose
legislation in order to provide mortgage companies with security against the
threat of lawsuit...
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 Several contract workers and employees viewed the passport
files of all three presidential candidates, the State Department said Friday. Officials
are investigating the episodes but they claim the actions were not politically
motivated and the workers were probably guided by “imprudent curiosity.” Secretary
of State Condoleezza Rice...
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 According to records of Hillary Clinton’s 11, 000-pages schedule
which was released Wednesday, the first lady was at the White House during the seven
days when her husband Bill Clinton had sexual encounters there with Monica
Lewinsky.
A year later, the first lady’s schedule describe her
pressing ahead with public events and...
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 Thousand of pages of Hillary Clinton’s schedules for her
eight years in the White House will be released after months of delaying making
them public, the Associated Press reports.
The National Archives announced on Tuesday that 11,046 pages
of the first lady’s schedule would be available for public due to...
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 The U.S.
capital’s tough gun control law was debated yesterday by lawyers who analyzed
the meaning of the “right to bear arms”, which is guaranteed by the Second
Amendment to the US Constitution. A majority of justices from the Supreme Court
seem to accept an interpretation of the Second Amendment that defends the...
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 The Democrat David Paterson was sworn in yesterday after
Eliot Spitzer stepped down over the allegations that he had links with a
prostitution ring.
According to Paterson’s
spokesman Armen Meyer, his first day as a governor will be spent “meeting with
senior staff, lawmakers and others, focused on the budget and state...
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 Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama finally agreed on something. Both Democratic presidential candidates rejected the proposition launched by the Florida Democrats to rerun the state’s primary election by mail.The Florida Democrats made public the idea that would get them out of the failed presidential contest. Clinton won Florida primary...
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 After former New York Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro, one of Clinton’s top supporters chose to leave the presidential campaign over some remarks about Obama, Democratic presidential candidate distanced herself from her and her comments.Last night, in front of a black press forum in Washington, Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed her...
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 There were no surprises Tuesday in Mississippi’s Democratic primary as Senator Barack Obama recorded a commanding victory over Senator Hillary Clinton, his main rival in the contest for the Democratic Party nomination to fight Republican John McCain for the White House seat. By wining the primary held in Mississippi, a state with plenty...
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 Hillary Rodham Clinton continued today to attack Barack Obama, her main rival in the contest for the Democratic Party nomination for the United States presidency.During her speech held at a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Clinton underlined the fact that Obama’s rhetoric is in a high contrast with his actions. The New York senator and...
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Jakarta - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday held talks with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on the second day of her trip to the world's most populous Muslim nation.
Clinton's visit to Indonesia was seen by many observers as an attempt to forge better ties with the Islamic world in line with...
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The Clinton County Sheriff’s Department issued an Amber Alert for two youngsters who went missing.14-year-old Christina Alley from Lathrop disappeared Friday, October 17th at approx 2:30 p.m. She was last seen while attending a high school football game in Lathrop, Missouri, said Maj. John Farmer, the chief deputy for the Sheriff’s...
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The scramble for the White House was dead even between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, according to two separate polls released late Sunday, the eve of the opening of the Democratic nominating convention.
The Gallup Poll showed each candidate with 45 per cent support from registered voters, while a CNN/Opinion...
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 A report released on Thursday by the inspector general of
the State Department informed that employees may have unacceptably previewed
the electronic passport records of well-off people and celebrities far more
often than formerly supposed. One celebrity's files were violated more than 350
times by approximately six dozen...
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 Maria Shriver, wife of the
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and member of the Kennedy family,
endorsed on Sunday Illinois Senator Barack Obama for US president, in a rally
that took place in the Pauley Pavilion at the University of California, Los
Angeles. Her decision comes a few days after her husband,...
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...the 166th day of 2007 with 199 to follow.
The moon is new. The morning stars are Mars, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Jupiter, Mercury, Venus and Saturn.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include Prince Edward of England, son of Edward III and known as the "Black Prince," in 1330;...
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The 165th day of 2007 with 200 to follow.
Today is Flag Day in the United States.
The moon is waning. The morning stars are Mars, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Jupiter, Mercury, Venus and Saturn.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of "Uncle Tom's...
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 Raffaello Follieri, Anne Hathaway’s ex-boyfriend was sentenced on Tuesday to spend 4 1 years in prison because he had cheated investors to give him millions of dollars after he had claimed he had connections with the Vatican that let him buy Roman Catholic Church property at a discount. Before he was sentenced, Follieri, 30, said that he...
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Raffaello Follieri, 30, was caught red handed by the police after he made a great amount on money, based on a big lie. He tried to sell church properties, mentioning his relation with the Vatican and telling he could obtain these lands at a low price, but neither the relations nor the lands existed. He got a contact with Burkle and...
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 Anne Heathaway’s private diaries have been confiscated
by the FBI. FBI agents are looking for details related to ex-boyfriend’s financial
dealings.
The “Devil Wears Prada” star, who split
from boyfriend Raffaello Follieri just days after he was arrested had had her
intimate diaries confiscated during a raid on the Italian...
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Anne Hathaway’s ex-boyfriend Raffallo Follieri was caught red handed by the police. It seems that he had made pretty money hidden behind a big lie.Everybody knew that Follieri and his father ran the Follieri group. The Italian businessman convinced wealthy investors that he had connections with the Vatican and promised to use those...
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 Hollywood stars paid tribute to Warren Beatty, who received a lifetime achievement award from the American Film Institute (AFI), USA Today reports.Jane Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman, Diane Keaton and Quentin Tarantino attended the celebration of Beatty’s 47-year career.Former president Bill Clinton made a surprise appearance at...
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 Two women, Gennifer Flowers and Paula
Jones, who claim they have had sexual encounters with Bill Clinton when he was
governor of Arkansas,
have decided to join forces and produce a series of high-quality video clips
for Internet viewers on themselves talking about the 1990s sex scandals in which
they played central roles. The...
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 Oh, what a shock! Star Jones and Al Reynolds are putting an
end on their marriage.
Ever since the two tied the knot, everyone has been talking about their
divorce, so Jones’ announcement of divorce came as no surprise to anyone. The
former “The View” host announced that she filed the divorce papers a month ago.
Her rep also...
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 Sir Elton John will be holding a solo concert, his first
one without his band since the appearance on Madison Square
Garden in October 2000, in
order to help Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to raise funds for her
presidential campaign.
The show is going to
be called “Elton and Hillary: One Night Only.” According to The Daily...
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 Jack Nicholson is backing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for President. As a result, he created a video that gathered a humorous collection
of clips from the movies that he starred and put it on the Internet. According
to The Associated Press the movie debuted Sunday on YouTube and was viewed by almost
1.2 million people.
The clip was...
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 She went to the dogs, now she wins with her dog. In other
words, from the Symbionese Liberation Army to Westminster Kennel Club.
Patty Hearst has changed a lot: she has changed status,
location, and name – she is now Patty Hearst Shaw. Also, from robber she became
winner. Or runner-up, to be more exact.
This week’s Westminster...
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 In a roundtable reunion at Harlem's
historic Apollo Theater, former American President Bill Clinton, backed up by
popular celebrities like Chris Rock, Shakira, Bono or Alicia Keys tried to talk
teenagers into volunteering into do-good activities.
The event, part of the three-day Clinton Global Initiative
had as primarily goal...
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 American operatic tenor Jerry Hadley, the recipient of three Grammy awards for his vocal peformances, is still in critical condition after he shot himself in the head with an air rifle.Police has told the press that Hadley tried to kill himself by putting an air rifle to his head and firing. The incident happened in the bedroom of his...
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 This week’s celebrity crossword on The New York Times Magazine’s Web site is compiled by none other than former President Bill Clinton.
Titled “Twistin’ the Oldies,” the crossword benefits from an introduction from editor Will Shortz, reading, “The clues in this puzzle are a little more playful and...
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 A U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday that terminally ill patients do not have a constitutional right to receive experimental drugs not approved by regulators, reversing a May 2006 ruling by a divided three-judge appeals panel, which actually overturned a 2004 district court decision to discard the case.The judges making up the full U.S....
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 Former President Bill Clinton has announced agreements with drug companies to lower the price of so-called “second-line” AIDS drugs.
The Clinton Foundation has negotiated agreements with generic drug makers Cipla and Matrix that, according to Bill Clinton, will allow an average saving of 25% in low-income countries and 50% in...
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