MCKEES ROCKS, Pa. – Police say a small-town Pennsylvania politician engaged a SWAT team in a six-hour standoff after threatening his son with a bat and barricading himself in his home. McKees Rocks borough council president Keith Schwab was jailed Sunday on charges of terroristic threats and recklessly endangerment. An …
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NEW YORK – A North Carolina mother of three has a simple message for anti-war celebrities like West Wing star Martin Sheen and singer Sheryl Crow: enough already! Lori Bardsley of Summerfield, N.C., has gotten so sick of hearing entertainers sound off that she has set up Citizens Against Celebrity …
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama Republican Gov. Bob Rileyhas incurred the wrath of ardent church-state separationists for offering early-morning Bible study classes to his staff. “He is a political panhandler for public piety,” said Larry Darby, Alabama state director of American Atheists. “He’s using the machinery of government to promote the …
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LANCASTER, N.H. – The stepfather of a girl who was taken out of the United States a decade ago amid a custody dispute has posted $250,000 cash bail less than week after his arraignment in New Hampshire. Scott Kelley fled with his wife, Genevieve Kelley, and her then-8-year-old daughter in …
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The Sopranos |Annie Lennox |Madonna and Peter Sellers|Radio Payola ‘Carmela Soprano’ Disputes Report on Show Does anyone really know what’s happening with The Sopranos? My colleagues at the New York Daily News got a good scoop the other day from Sopranos creator David Chase. He indicated that he would have …
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WASHINGTON Editor’s note: This is the second report in a three-part series investigating the role of congressional caucuses and the special interests that seek to influence them. While some members of Congress reveled this year in banning the word French from fries to protest France’s refusal to join the United …
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How best to handle the shuttle story. That is the subject of this evening’s Talking Points memo. Some Factor viewers are angry with me over last night’s report, where we asked NASA to explain why it fired five members of its safety board last June, after they had raised serious …
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Johns Hopkins University is being sued by 750 plaintiffs seeking $1 billion in compensation for its alleged role in U.S. government experiments during the 1940s and 1950s that deliberately infected subjects in Guatemala with venereal diseases. The lawsuit, filed in Baltimore Circuit Court, seeks damages for individuals, spouses and children …
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CANBERRA, Australia – Pope Francis’ finance minister has denied an allegation that he offered a bribe to a victim of clergy abuse to protect a pedophile priest. The allegation against Cardinal George Pell was made under oath on Wednesday at a government inquiry known as the Royal Commission into Institutional …
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BEIJING – China is contributing 600 personnel, including 49 from the military, to multinational disaster relief exercises in Malaysia, the first time it has taken part in such an effort. The Defense Ministry says China’s contribution will include experts from the foreign and civil affairs ministry, along with local government …
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