| Dubai opens half-mile-high tower, world's tallest (AP) Posted: 04 Jan 2010 03:07 AM PST  AP - Dubai opened the world's tallest skyscraper Monday in a blaze of fireworks, then added a final flourish: It renamed the half-mile-high tower for the head of neighboring Abu Dhabi, whose billions bailed out Dubai amid last year's financial crisis.
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| Obama Effigy: Feds Probe Hanging Doll Found In Jimmy Carter's Hometown (VIDEO) Posted: 03 Jan 2010 05:43 PM PST  PLAINS, Ga. — The U.S. Secret Service says it is investigating an effigy of President Barack Obama found hanging from a building in the hometown of former President Jimmy Carter. Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan told The Associated Press that the large black doll was found Saturday morning along Main Street in the small town of Plains. Footage from WALB-TV shows the doll was hanging by a noose in front of a red, white and blue sign that says "Plains, Georgia. Home of Jimmy Carter, our 39th President." A witness told the station that the doll had a sign with Obama's name on it. WATCH THE
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| New US flight checks 'discriminate against n****ia' (AFP) Posted: 04 Jan 2010 09:17 AM PST ![]() AFP - n****ia, home of the failed US plane bomber, Monday branded new security measures for passengers flying to the United States unfair and said they amounted to discrimination against its 150 million people.
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| Yemen Says It Killed Militants as Three More Embassies Shut Posted: 03 Jan 2010 11:58 PM PST ![]() Yemeni officials said two militants were killed in a firefight as France, Germany and Japan joined the U.S. and Britain in closing their embassies.
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| Court officer, gunman killed in Las Vegas shootout Posted: 04 Jan 2010 09:35 AM PST ![]() A gunman opened fire at a federal building in Las Vegas Monday, fatally shooting a court security officer and wounding a deputy ...
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| Tax preparers to face new regulation, IRS scrutiny (AP) Posted: 04 Jan 2010 02:51 PM PST ![]() The IRS plans to require tax preparers to pass a test and register with the government to better police a largely unregulated industry used by most taxpayers.
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| Ganahl: Snow, Wind & Cold Continue Posted: 04 Jan 2010 11:40 AM PST ![]() Storm Team 4 Chief Meteorologist Jym Ganahl is calling for snow, wind and cold to continue.
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| Disgraced Miss. judge to report to federal prison Posted: 04 Jan 2010 11:35 AM PST ![]() Bobby DeLaughter, a former Mississippi prosecutor and judge whose legal conquests became the subject of books and a movie, is ...
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| Comedian Artie Lange Hospitalized Posted: 04 Jan 2010 06:25 AM PST  Addiction to heroin and cocaine can't be good for you. Comedian Artie Lange's well-publicized battle with drug addiction may have finally caught up with him. The actor and sidekick to radio host Howard Stern was rushed to the hospital with an undisclosed ailment.
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| A 3rd uninvited guest got into White House dinner (AP) Posted: 04 Jan 2010 12:19 PM PST  AP - A third uninvited guest made his way into the White House state dinner for India's prime minister in November, the Secret Service said Monday.
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| Democrats hoping to ‘ping-pong’ Republicans right out of final health care reform negotiations Posted: 04 Jan 2010 01:43 PM PST ![]() Now that the House and Senate have both passed separate health care reform bills , the legislative process shifts to ironing out the differences. This typically involves having a formal conference committee containing members of both the House and the Senate.
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| Rosie O'Donnell Opens Up About New Girlfriend On Radio Show Posted: 04 Jan 2010 12:10 PM PST  NEW YORK, New York -- Rosie O'Donnell is speaking out about life with her new girlfriend, Tracy Kachtick-Anders, who just days ago, she confirmed she is dating. "Did anybody hear I have a new girlfriend?" Rosie laughed on her "Rosie Radio" show on SIRIUS XM on Monday.
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| Matthew McConaughey And Camila Alves Welcome Daughter Posted: 04 Jan 2010 05:22 AM PST  McConaughey's site: "Matthew, Camila and Levi welcome Miss Vida!" How Camila Alves did it we'll never know, but she sure has made an honest man out of Hollywood's former quintessential bachelor. Matthew McConaughey and Alves welcomed their second child together on Sunday, January 3...here are the details!
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| Bachmann: GOP Should 'Be Re-Defined By The Tea Party Movement' Posted: 04 Jan 2010 02:43 PM PST  At the inception of the tea party phenomena, organizers insisted that "the movement is not tied to the Republican Party." But in recent weeks, the Republican Party has been going all out to bring the vocal activists into the GOP's fold. "We need to stop looking at the tea parties as separate from the Republican party," Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) told National Review last month. In a Dec. 29 interview on Fred Thompson's radio show with guest host Jed Babbin, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) said that if the GOP were "wise," they would "allow themselves to be re-defined by the tea party movement":
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| AP: 2009 bankruptcies total 1.4 million, up 32 pct (AP) Posted: 04 Jan 2010 02:11 PM PST ![]() U.S. consumers and businesses are filing for bankruptcy at a pace that made 2009 the seventh-worst year on record, with more than 1.4 million petitions submitted, an Associated Press tally showed Monday.
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