For more than a year an FBI informant wore a wire and caught cops demanding payoffs, staging accidents and selling guns. This probe started after Investigator exposed widespread fraud in the towing industry two years...
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It looks like I'm not alone in moving on from Starbucks. The food there is terrible and the stores are really starting to look shoddy. Personally I've taken my coffee drinking business (which, I admit is...
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"“This poker party I was at started to get very crowded. As a group of girls walked in, this guy came up behind me and said, ‘I think you’re going to be asked to leave soon. You’re so pretty, you’re putting...
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"" President-elect Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain are meeting Monday for the first time since the presidential election to talk about how they can work together on problems facing the country....
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With the election over, U.S. President-elect Barack Obama and John McCain, his presidential election opponent is scheduled for a friendly meeting at Obama's transition headquarters in Chicago on Monday. The New York...
Obama’s sensibly merged his campaign team with the pre-election transition team headed by former White House chief of staff John Podesta, thus trying to avoid the mistakes of the newly elected Clinton...
One sentiment runs below the crosscurrents as a summit of world leaders wrestled with a global crisis this weekend and Congress in the week ahead struggles with rising unemployment and an ailing auto industry: What...
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Brazil is stepping ahead on use of bio combustibles again. Nowadays the less pollutant natural gas is already an important combustible over Rio de Janeiro bus fleet, now Rio wants to move to bio-combustibles...
Cable News Network (CNN) entertainment website voted Ishmael Bernal's film "Himala" as the best Asia-Pacific movie of all time. It tells of a young orphan Elsa (Nora Aunor) in a small village in the Philippines,...
Here's some interesting little tidbits about President-elect Obama that most of us didn't know. Hmmm ... wonder if he's got the clout to get our favorite "Scrabble" game back on Facebook?"• He collects...
Clinton put to rest rumors that she was bitter after her primary loss by campaigning vigorously for Obama in the month leading up to the election.She could face tough Senate confirmation hearings if Obama chooses...
The Yes Men are at it again. And this time it's personal. As NowPublic members Luiz Castro and Solarlife reported yesterday, in a beautifully and elaborately orchestrated hoax, 1.2 million copies of a "spoof edition"...
Who's who on Obama's new team Since winning the US presidential election, Barack Obama has wasted little time assembling a team to help him govern. The BBC News website has put together...
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"BALTIMORE - The nation's Catholic bishops decided yesterday to fire an opening salvo at the incoming Obama administration, pledging to work with the new president on issues such as immigration and healthcare but also warning that the Catholic Church will do everything it...