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Anatomy of China's money and murder scandal
Wed,25 Apr 2012 04:53 PM PDT
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FILE - In this file photo taken on March 11, 2012, Chongqing party secretary Bo Xilai attends a plenary session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. North Carolina-based Boxun.com was forced to move to a new web hosting service Friday, April 20, 2012, after its previous host said the attacks were threatening its entire business, website manager Watson Meng told The Associated Press. He believes the attacks were ordered by China's security services, but it isn't clear where they were launched from. The assaults on Boxun's server followed days of reporting on Bo Xilai, formerly one of the country's most powerful politicians, who was fired as head of the mega-city of Chongqing and suspended from the party's Politburo amid accusations of his wife's involvement in the murder of a British businessman. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)Allegations of bribery, corruption, even charges of murder has one of China's most powerful families sitting on the outside of power looking in. Bo Xilai was once a superstar in the Chinese Communist Party, but no longer. He's been under the microscope for his own abuse of power and lost his job because of it. [...]


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Rick Perry endorses Mitt Romney
Wed,31 Dec 1969 04:00 PM PST
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FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2011, file photo Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Perry, right, spar during a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas. Perry, still nursing wounds from his failed presidential campaign, did himself a world of good with his self-deprecating jokes at a dinner in Washington in March. First, he joked that his time as the GOP front-runner had been Rick Perry, the current Texas governor and former Republican presidential candidate, is endorsing Mitt Romney for president, Fox News and ABC News are reporting. "Mitt Romney has earned the Republican Presidential nomination through hard-work, a strong organization, and disciplined message of restoring America after nearly four years [...]


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Marco Rubio shows off foreign policy chops
Wed,25 Apr 2012 12:48 PM PDT
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee member Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., left, jokes with Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., before Rubio spoke about foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, in Washington, Wednesday, April 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)It's not every day that Washingtonians have to fight for an open chair at the Brookings Institution for a Wednesday-afternoon foreign policy event.


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CISPA cybersecurity bill gets veto threat from Obama
Wed,31 Dec 1969 04:00 PM PST
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President Barack Obama speaks at the University of Iowa, Wednesday, April 25, 2012, in Iowa City, Iowa. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)The White House came out strongly against a bipartisan but controversial House bill designed to protect the country's infrastructure from cyberattack, warning that President Barack Obama would veto if it passes in its current form over civil liberties concerns and other worries.


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Senate votes to slow closing of post offices
Wed,25 Apr 2012 05:56 PM PDT
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Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine., Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., and Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., speak about the Postal Reform Bill on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)The Senate offered a lifeline to the nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service on Wednesday, voting to give the struggling agency an $11 billion cash infusion while delaying controversial decisions on closing post offices and ending Saturday delivery.


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Judge refuses to dismiss WikiLeaks case
Wed,25 Apr 2012 07:10 PM PDT
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Bradley Manning: Judge Denies Dismissal, Sets Trial DateA military judge refused on Wednesday to throw out the case against an Army private accused of providing reams of sensitive documents to Wikileaks in the biggest leak of government secrets in U.S. history.


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Edwards trial: Ex-aide offers more details about hiding mistress
Wed,31 Dec 1969 04:00 PM PST
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Andrew Young, former aide to former U.S. Sen. and presidential candidate John Edwards, leaves federal court with attorney David Geneson, right, in Greensboro, N.C., Monday, April 23, 2012. Prosecutors and defense lawyers began making their case to jurors on whether the former presidential candidate violated federal campaign finance laws. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)The third day of the John Edwards conspiracy trial was a lot like the second, with former aide Andrew Young offering more details about how the candidate instructed him to hide his mistress, Rielle Hunter—even after Edwards dropped out of the 2008 presidential race. Young, who was [...]


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Laptop seized: Legal trouble for 'Fox Mole'
Wed,25 Apr 2012 09:22 AM PDT
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Joe MutoJoe Muto, the former Fox News associate-producer-turned-infamous-"Fox Mole," claims he was served with a search warrant by police early Wednesday.


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Family of missing Arizona girl pleads for her return
Wed,31 Dec 1969 04:00 PM PST
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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Tucson Police Department shows Isabel Mercedes Celis, 6, whose parents say was missing from her bedroom when they awoke on Saturday, April 21, 2012. The girl's family was allowed to return to their Tucson home on Tuesday, April 24, a day after authorities kept them away as they searched for clues to her disappearance. (AP Photo/Tucson Police Department)The parents of a 6-year-old girl who disappeared from her home over the weekend said Wednesday they will do anything to ensure her return.


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Colbert Super PAC out-fundraises Ron Paul
Wed,25 Apr 2012 10:36 AM PDT
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Anyone Can Make a Super PAC: So Who Is the 'Real-Life Stephen Colbert'?Stephen Colbert's political action committee has enough cash to play jokes and pull pranks through the presidential campaign,  but for now the comedian is mum on how he plans to spend that money.


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Obama to Rolling Stone on Al Green moment: 'I can sing'
Wed,25 Apr 2012 10:22 AM PDT
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In this magazine cover image released by Rolling Stone, President Barack Obama is seen on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine that hits newsstands on Friday. (AP Photo/Rolling Stone)Combative, confident, even cocky: President Barack Obama told Rolling Stone magazine in a wide-ranging interview published Wednesday that he hopes American voters will "break the fever" gripping today's Republicans and that he felt no stage fright whatsoever when he sang Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" at the Apollo Theater in January. "I can sing. I [...]


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Egypt's most popular comedian guilty of insulting Islam
Wed,25 Apr 2012 08:27 AM PDT
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Egypt's Most Popular Comedian, Adel Imam, Guilty of Insulting IslamThe verdict of a popular Egyptian comedian convicted of offending Islam has been upheld by a Cairo court.


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More Fed officials see rate hike sooner than expected
Wed,25 Apr 2012 12:27 PM PDT
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U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke speaks at news conference following monthly two-day meeting in WashingtonThe most dovish of Federal Reserve officials no longer want to put off raising interest rates until 2016.


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Obama picture with student at Colorado bar goes viral
Wed,25 Apr 2012 12:03 PM PDT
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Obama and studentWhen University of Colorado student Madalyn Starkey posed for a picture with President Barack Obama, she had no idea the hilarious image would go viral. While traveling through Colorado on Tuesday, Obama stopped in at a local pub known as the Sink. In the photograph, Obama is grinning with his arm around Starkey while the [...]


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Study: Antarctic ice melting from warm water below
Wed,25 Apr 2012 12:03 PM PDT
Associated Press - Antarctica's massive ice shelves are shrinking because they are being eaten away from below by warm water, a new study finds. That suggests that future sea levels could rise faster than many scientists have been predicting. Full Story
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Gingrich to officially suspend bid for nomination next week
Wed,25 Apr 2012 07:41 AM PDT
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Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks in Cramerton, N.C., Wednesday, April 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)Newt Gingrich will officially suspend his bid for the presidency Tuesday in Washington, D.C., Yahoo News has confirmed through sources close to the campaign. Gingrich, who was considered Romney's chief rival at the start of the official Republican primary season in January, won two states, South Carolina and Georgia.


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Election outlook: 100 electoral votes will decide presidency
Wed,25 Apr 2012 06:41 AM PDT
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Electoral mapEconomic growth may be stagnating, high-dollar donors may be harder to woo than they were four years ago, and Mitt Romney may be narrowing the gap in public-opinion polls, but President Barack Obama has one key thing going for him at the outset of this general election season: a significant advantage in the battle for 270 electoral votes.


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Can world's 'most threatened' tribe be saved?
Wed,25 Apr 2012 08:00 AM PDT
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The indigenous Awá people of Brazil are in a protracted legal battle to protect their lands from illegal settling and logging. Amerintxia is is probably the oldest Awá. She lives on her own in a small palm shelter, along with her many pets. She still gathers her own food in forest. CREDIT: ©D Pugliese/Survival International Latest Photos Immigrant rights protesters rally at Supreme Court 12 photos - 4 hrs ago Wikileaks source Bradley Manning hearing 7 photos - 1 hr 40 mins ago Man's fossil find stumps experts 3 photos - 1 hr 35 mins ago World's 'most threatened' tribe 5 photos - 2 hrs 7 mins ago North Korea marks army day 8 photos - 2 hrs 41 mins ago Whale found dead had swallowed golf ball 3 photos - 10 hrs ago L.A. Riots: 20 years later 16 photos - Fri, Apr 20, 2012 Secret Service prostitution scandal 15 photos - Sun, Apr 15, 2012 More »A new international campaign hopes to save a group of people who have been dubbed "the most threatened tribe in the world" — the Awá tribe of Brazil — from encroaching outsiders who are gobbling up their land.


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Marines discharge sergeant for Facebook posts
Wed,25 Apr 2012 02:34 PM PDT
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Camera prototype produces description of photo, rather than image
Wed,25 Apr 2012 11:27 AM PDT
Technology News Blog - With image-tweaking services like Instagram turning our everyday photos into vintage snapshots, it seems like photography itself is taking a step back in time. A new camera prototype turns that idea completely on its head by producing a text description of each … Continue reading Full Story
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Obama's slow jam on 'Jimmy Fallon' mocked in pro-Romney ad
Wed,25 Apr 2012 02:10 PM PDT
The Ticket - The Republican National Committee is out with its first explicitly pro-Mitt Romney Web ad, which mocks President Obama for "slow jamming" Tuesday on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon." The video, entitled "A Tale of Two Leaders," intermingles clips of Obama's appearance on the show, in which Fallon calls Obama the "Preezy of the United Steezy" [...] Full Story
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Is the once-thriving Salton Sea drying up?
Wed,25 Apr 2012 02:55 PM PDT
The Upshot - The once thriving sea that was a resort  mecca is in danger of becoming an environmental disaster. Interest in the water body, along with a BBC report, caused searches on "Salton Sea" to surge on the Web. The inland sea, close to Coachella, which may have caught the eye of festival attendees, stretches a massive [...] Full Story
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