Bill O'Reilly reacts to abortion doctor's slaying -- Newsday.com

Seeded on Tue Jun 2, 2009 11:46 AM EDT (Newsday.com)

During his opening "Talking Points," O'Reilly condemned the slaying as the sort of "anarchist act" that will "assure the collapse of any society.

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Jury awards $2.5 million to teen beaten by Klan members - CNN.com

Seeded on Fri Nov 14, 2008 11:46 PM EST (CNN)

(CNN) -- A jury awarded $2.5 million in damages on Friday to a Kentucky teenager who was severely beaten by members of a Ku Klux Klan group because they mistakenly thought he was an illegal Latino immigrant, the Southern Poverty Law Center said.

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Iran Says Obama Is "More Dangerous"

Seeded on Thu Nov 13, 2008 3:59 PM EST (nbcchicago.com)

"People who put on a mask of friendship, but with the objective of betrayal, and who enter from the angle of negotiations without preconditions, are more dangerous," Hossein Taeb, deputy commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, said Wednesday, reported The Washington Times.

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BREAKING Bailout plan rejected

Seeded on Mon Sep 29, 2008 2:18 PM EDT (CNN)

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The fate of a controversial $700 billion financial bailout plan was in doubt Monday as a House vote turned against it. The next steps were not immediately clear but supporters were scrambling to put it up for another vote.

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BEAKING NEWS: John McCain requests postponing Friday debate

Wed Sep 24, 2008 3:06 PM EDT

John McCain suspends campaigning to work on economy, requests postponing Friday debate; asks Obama do the same. Got this via text from CNN Breaking news Already been seeded here

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US forces to deliver Georgia aid

Seeded on Wed Aug 13, 2008 1:18 PM EDT (BBC News)

President George W Bush has said the US will use military aircraft and naval forces to deliver aid to Georgia following its conflict with Russia.

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Georgia pulls out of CIS and calls on Ukraine to follow its example

Seeded on Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:16 PM EDT (unian.net)

Georgia made decision to pull out of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) [a grouping ex-Soviet states] and calls on Ukraine to follow its example. According to Georgian and Russian media, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said this on Tuesday.

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Russians block 48 Ukrainian sailors in Georgian port of Pot

Seeded on Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:11 PM EDT (unian.net)

According to him, in particular, a big Ukrainian ferry with 48 crew members on board was blocked in the Georgian port of Poti.

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Russia, France agree on 6 principles to resolve S.Ossetia crisis

Seeded on Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:37 PM EDT (Top Russian news and analysis online | 'RIA Novosti' newswire)

"The first is not to resort to the use of force. The second is to halt all military action. The third is free access to humanitarian aid. The fourth is that Georgian Armed Forces should return to their bases.

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Pictured: The moment a mother loses a desperate battle to save her duckling from the jaws of a heron | Mail Online

Seeded on Tue Jun 24, 2008 12:44 PM EDT (the Mail online)

As a duck, trying to battle with a heron and force it to give up its quarry was always going to be a difficult task.

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5 years since entering U.S., he gets into 7 Ivy Leagues

Seeded on Thu Jun 19, 2008 12:54 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

Lukasz Zbylut has taken "the old college try" to a whole new level. The New York teenager, who couldn't even speak English when he emigrated from Poland only five years ago, applied to seven Ivy League schools� and was accepted by all of them, along with 10 other top schools.

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Girl chases man after lemonade stand robbed of $17.50

Seeded on Tue Jun 17, 2008 7:25 PM EDT (Chicago Sun-Times)

TERRE HAUTE, Ind.---- Call it a lemonade standoff. A girl whose lemonade stand was robbed of $17.50 chased the suspect into a nearby home and called police, who spent nearly an hour trying to coax the man into surrendering.

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Obama Wins Popular Vote!

Seeded on Mon Jun 2, 2008 8:16 PM EDT (Daily Kos)

(Promoted from the diaries by kos) I'm sorry. I simply can't take some of what I'm hearing on cable news as they cover the Clinton win in Puerto Rico and continue to repeat Clinton campaign talking points in her "rationale" to secure the Democratic Presidential nomination.

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Fresh Baked Bread, Anyone? Gruesome Body Bakery

Seeded on Tue May 13, 2008 8:59 AM EDT (InventorSpot)

Seeded by harshpaul (Clipped by Picaso)

Imagine running up to the bakery around the corner and coming across bread shaped like body parts. Sound yummy? Artist Kittiwat Unarrom creates just that; gruesome works of art out of bread.

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Plainclothes officers in trouble - didn't recognize off-duty chief

Seeded on Sat May 10, 2008 8:14 AM EDT (NY Daily News)

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At least one cop has been disciplined for ordering the NYPD's highest-ranking uniformed black officer out of his auto while the three-star chief was off-duty and parked

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Traders bet Obama will win Democratic nomination - Yahoo! News

Seeded on Tue Apr 8, 2008 4:10 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Traders in the Dublin-based Intrade prediction market gave Democratic front-runner Barack Obama an 86 percent chance of being the Democratic presidential nominee, versus a 12.8 percent for Clinton, the New York senator and former first lady.

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What Speech? Thinking Out Loud

Tue Mar 18, 2008 3:42 PM EDT

By oldfogey (Clipped by Picaso)

I lay the recliner fully back, turned up the volume on the larger than life television monitor and prepared to listen to the speech that the pundits said would be the destruction of Obama's campaign or at best a last chance to duck or overcome the racial issues being raised by al …

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ABC News: Couple Called Son Before Killing Selves

Seeded on Thu Mar 13, 2008 5:58 PM EDT (ABC News)

They called their son and another friend at 6 p.m. Monday evening. The son spent the next few hours calling relatives and trying to reach his parents," Dallas Police Department homicide supervisor Lt. Craig Miller said.

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Obama and Clinton neck and neck in Ohio, Texas | Politics | Reuters

Seeded on Tue Mar 4, 2008 2:40 PM EST (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton and rival Barack Obama are running neck-and-neck in Ohio and Texas one day before their crucial Democratic presidential showdowns, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Houston Chronicle poll released on Monday.

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Barnstorming Obama plans to pick Republicans for cabinet - Times Online

Seeded on Sun Mar 2, 2008 1:40 AM EST (The Times)

AS Barack Obama enters the final stages of the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination, he is preparing to detach the core voters of John McCain, the likely Republican nominee, with the same ruthless determination with which he has peeled off Hillary Clinton's supporte …

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Clinton may challenge Texas vote rules - Yahoo! News

Seeded on Fri Feb 29, 2008 12:32 PM EST (Yahoo! News)

Top strategists for Democratic rival Barack Obama said Friday they supported the party's action, suggesting the Clinton campaign was trying to block the reporting of caucus results.

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Cuba signs human rights pledges

Seeded on Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:51 PM EST (BBC News)

Cuba has signed two legally binding human rights agreements at the UN in New York, just days after Raul Castro was sworn in as the new president.

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Fisherman swims 10 hours to shore

Seeded on Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:50 PM EST (BBC News)

The fishermen were thrown into the sea early on Wednesday after their ship hit a reef, prompting a major search and rescue operation. Hours later, fisherman Michael Williams crawled onto New Brighton Beach, north of Byron Bay.

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Explosion, fire reported in Waukegan mall 2/28/08

Seeded on Thu Feb 28, 2008 2:27 PM EST (ABC Local Affiliates)

WAUKEGAN, Ill. -- Firefighters from several departments are battling what appeared to be an explosion and fire at a shopping plaza early Thursday afternoon.

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Everything you never wanted to know about Obama - Tales from the Trail: 2008

Seeded on Thu Feb 28, 2008 3:04 AM EST (Reuters)

"I don't really get starstruck," Obama said. But George Clooney is a friend and he worked with the actor on Darfur issues. Does wife Michelle Obama have a celebrity crush? "She loves Stevie Wonder." Your favorite foods? Chili and cobbler, the senator said.

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