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President George W Bush has approved what
would be the first execution by the US military since 1961, though
court appeals are likely to continue delaying the 20-year-old case
indefinitely, the White House said late Monday. A Bush
spokeswoman issued a statement saying that Bush had given the go ahead
for a sentence of capital...
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 Three Chicago
children were missing after their mother was found dead around noon on Monday with
a plastic bag over her head in her home in the Humboldt Park Neighborhood.
Chicago
police issued an Amber Alert this afternoon. The three missing siblings are Oscar
Casanova, 6; Karla Casanova, 7; and Fernando Casanova, 11. Oscar was...
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 Forecasters say the natural cycle in air pressure and
sea-surface temperatures in the Atlantic
became more favorable to storms beginning in 1995. The devastating natural
program will continue, bringing more hurricanes and storms than ever. The
predictions were made for 15 to 20 years to come.
“We don't attribute this to anything...
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 An Amber Alert was issued by the Maryland
State police after two teenagers, Sterling
Blackwell, 16, and Stephon Blackwell, 17, were kidnapped from a home near Baltimore on Tuesday at
about 11 a.m. The boys were taken by six gunmen, who were wearing masks,
according to the Baltimore
County police spokesman.
Baltimoresun.com...
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 According to Transportation Security Administration
officials(TSA), one concourse and a security checkpoint were closed on
Wednesday at he Indianapolis
International Airport
after a federal security officer left
his vest inside.
The vest containing inert training materials was mistakenly
left by the officer after overnight...
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 Five people where caught and convicted for killing a grey
whale off the western tip of Washington
State this weekend.
It was headed out to sea on Saturday when the Coast
Guard found it. A preliminary report showed that the whale was shot
with a .50 caliber machine gun. A harpoon was also used in the hunt.
The whale...
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 Rockaway Beach
NY and surrounding areas were
closed Saturday night after a shark washed on shore.
The six-foot-long shark caused officials to lock down the
beach .
The New York Post reported Sunday that hundreds of beachgoers
were forced to temporarily abandon the sandy locale after the shark was spotted
near the...
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Artis Leon Ivey Jr., better known after his stage name Coolio, was
retained by a routine patrol from the Los
Angeles police this morning for driving with his
license suspended. The 44-year-old rap singer was stopped by the police in Hollywood, near Sunset Boulevard
and Sweetzer Avenue,
around 1 a.m. At the beginning, the...
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 Actress Sandra Bullock and her husband, Jesse James were involved in a car accident last night, after a drunken driver hit their private car in Gloucester, Massachusetts, police officials said, according to Boston Herald.
It appears that at 11 p.m Friday night, the pair was being driven by Mark Hussey, 54, to their hotel in Eastern...
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 Manhattan Criminal Court judge Larry Stephen sentenced
Trevor Smith, known as rapper Busta Rhymes, to three years’ supervised
probation and ten days of community service in the two separate assault cases.
Jennifer Kushner, a spokeswoman for the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office
told E! News that the rapper will also have to pay a...
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 Turkish Interior Minister Besir Atalay announced on Thursday
that four people had been detained in connection with an inquiry regarding an
armed attack at the United States
consulate in Istanbul
a day earlier that killed six people and injured other two.
Three gunmen and three police officers were shot dead in the
shooting that...
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 According to a statement given by Labour today, traditional favorites
such as the Scotch pie and the buttery have been put under threat by a recent
Scottish Government funding decision.
The accusation follows a ruling by ministers that means
training in the food sector will no longer be eligible for European cash.
With almost...
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 Knut, Berlin's famous polar bear, had his first birthday
party today and about 700 visitors from all over Germany flocked to the zoo to
join in.
The bear they came to see was no longer the cuddly little
teddy bear romping with a soccer ball, but a 245-pound eating machine. But to
Berliners, he was still cute little Knut. Top of...
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 On Thursday, Google launched its GMail Labs application, that puts together a series of experimental features. According to Google product manager, Keith Coleman, users are allowed to choose which features they want to keep through Gmail's Settings page. After a while, the ones that turn out to be the most popular will be incorporated in...
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 Typhoon Neoguri, a two category storm on a scale up to five,
is expected to drop 40 mm (one and a half inches) to 90 mm of rain on Hainan
and Guangdong
and to bring winds of 176 kilometers (110 miles) per hour, the US Navy Joint
Typhoon Warning Center said.
Neoguri’s eyes, which is the second storm of the northwest
Pacific...
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 A new dilemma has started to rack our brains: which person
is the best, the one that is having sex with Matt Damon or the one with Ben
Affleck?
We are obviously making reference to the video Sarah
Silverman made, singing enthusiastically that “she’s f---ing Matt Damon,”
alongside her partner of intimacy and the rebuttal video made...
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 Willard Christopher Smith, Jr. also known as Will Smith is a
39-year-old two time Academy Award-nominated American actor and singer.
However, this year Smith hasn’t been nominated for an Oscar, but has received
the first Cadet Choice Movie Award from the U.S. Military Academy for his role
in “I Am Legend.”
The...
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 According to specialist in neurology autistic kids have more
gray matter in the brain area that governs social processing and
learning-by-seeing than children who don't have the developmental disorder.
Basically, the "monkey see, monkey do" feature is broken in autistic
youngsters, according to researcher Manzar Ashtari,...
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 According to a new study there is little evidence that women who binge drink
while pregnant seriously harm the development of their babies.
Consistent heavy drinking while pregnant has been linked with birth defects
but until now, the effect of binge drinking is thought to have been unknown.
Scientists Jane Henderson and Ron...
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 Sir Anthony Hopkins will play King Lear opposite the leading lady of the
moment, Keira Knightley. The $35 million new movie was announced at the Cannes
Film Festival and will feature epic battle sequences, Telegraph.co.uk reports.
It appears that Knightley, who is due to be seen in cinemas next month in
the Dylan Thomas biopic “The...
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 Whoopi Goldberg, the 52-year-old ever smiling actress, who
won a best supporting actress Academy Award for her role as psychic Oda Mae
Brown in the 1990’s “Ghost,” said in US talk-show “The View” that Patrick
Swayze was the reason of her winning the Oscar.
During the show which has Goldberg as a co-host, the actress
and comedian...
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 After the last week’s premiere of
‘Michael Clayton’, this week reserves a drug-traffic story that combines the
threats the illegal bonds imply with the complications of a blood family being
on opposite sides – trafficker and NYPD detectives.
James Gray’s “We Own The Night”
recalls the struggles that the New York policemen fought...
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 David Beckham continued his tour of American soccer benches as Los Angeles Galaxy lost 1-0 to the New England Revolution. Since he signed the five-year, $32.5-million contract England’s former captain hasn’t yet started for the Galaxy. He finally made his MLS debut last Thursday against DC United, but failed to remount Washington’s lead...
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 On Monday, the federal government was sued by twelve groups of environmentalists and animal rights activits, in an attempt to reinclude the gray wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains on the endangered species list. When the wolf population reached 1,500 individuals, The United States Fish and Wildlife Service considered that the...
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 We have bad new for gray wolves!
Unfortunately for them, gray wolves in the Northern
Rockies are to be seen as endangered species no longer. After 13
years of restoration efforts, these animals will be eventually removed from the
endangered species list, federal officials announced on Thursday.
The restoration program seems...
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 Unfortunately, we have some bad
news for wolves! The state officials are planning to make its easier for
hunters to kill the wolves that represent a problem in Idaho,
Wyoming and Montana. The new wolf management rules are
expected by January 28, that is today, but one says that even lifting
Endangered Species Act protection is...
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A mysterious object hit and
penetrated the roof of a Bayonne
home. Not only that, but its appearance was strange, so in no time people
started to believe that the piece of metal was some a mysterious, un-seen
thing. They even imagined that the object had fallen from a spacecraft. But, as
it has recently been discovered, the object...
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 The Cannes
film festival will roll out the red carpet Wednesday, with “Dirty Harry” and “Indiana
Jones” leading this year’s line-up. Clint Eastwood, turning 78 this month,
makes a new try for Cannes’
Palme d'Or for best film with a drama set in the 1920s starring Angelina Jolie.
Also on the famed red carpet, but out of the...
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Kevin Federline forgot about all his parenting worries and
the bitterness of the ongoing child custody dispute with his former wife and
celebrated his 30th anniversary in Las
Vegas.
The birthday bash was held at the Caesars Palace’s
Pure Nightclub on Friday, and it was no unfamiliar spot for K-Fed, who
celebrated there...
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 A Brazilian judge revoked an earlier ruling which was blocking the Rio de Janeiro leg of the Live Earth global series of concerts. The judge overturned her injunction after organizers secured approval from Rio's police department and addressed security concerns for the event. "I overturn the prior opinion (and therefore) authorize...
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 No one can doubt the fact that pirates are now loved everywhere around the world. “At World’s End” and its weekend gross earnings just go to show that.
“Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” was a favorite in theaters around the world for the second consecutive weekend. Its share of the...
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 Rock band Evanescence is going through some serious changes, such as being left without two of its members. Drummer Rocky Gray and guitarist John LeCompt have both left the band, and apparently not in good humor about it. NME reports that Gray claims he is being forced to keep silent about his departure. An entry on his blog, May 6,...
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