Foreign ministers at the G8 meeting in Canada on Tuesday focused on Iran nuclear ambitions and the actions of two capitals very far away. At the top of the agenda for the world’s eight leading industrial nations was building consensus to impose more United Nations sanctions on Tehran – nearly 6,000 miles away from...
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April 19th Event to Benefit Non-Profit Organization for Children Who Stutter Our Time is proud to announce that the legendary Carly Simon is confirmed to be the Honoree at their 8th Annual Gala, April 19th, 2010, at NYU’s Skirball Center & Rosenthal Pavilion.
For millions of children who stutter, there is no escape from...
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FLORENCIA, Colombia – A Brazilian military helicopter departed on a humanitarian mission Tuesday to pick up a Colombian soldier expected to be freed by leftist rebels after more than 12 years in captivity. Sgt. Pablo Emilio Moncayo is one of the longest-held hostages of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. He was...
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WASHINGTON — Under pressure from the White House, health insurance companies said Tuesday that they would comply with rules to be issued soon by the Obama administration requiring them to cover children with pre-existing medical problems. “Health plans recognize the significant hardship that a family faces when they are unable to obtain coverage for...
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Erykah Badu was willing to bare it all for her “Window Seat” video. But when the singer and a small crew took to the streets of her native Dallas on St. Patrick’s Day to shoot the provocative clip, they did so without an official permit and, they said, with full knowledge that the guerilla...
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A ninth member of a Christian militia group accused of conspiring to kill law enforcement officers to trigger a wider war against the U.S. government appeared before a federal judge on Tuesday. Joshua Matthew Stone, 21, the son of the group’s leader, 45-year-old David Brian Stone, surrendered on Monday night after evading authorities over...
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ROANOKE, Va. — A small plane carrying two people has crashed into the side of a UPS freight facility near the Roanoke airport in western Virginia. Officials say no one on the ground was injured. Roanoke County Fire spokeswoman Jennifer Conley Sexton says the plane was taking off just before 1 p.m. Tuesday when...
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Louisville, Kentucky – A new television ad from Republican Rand Paul is using images of a smoldering World Trade Center and the Pentagon after the Sept. 11 attacks. Paul’s ad is a response to a recent spot by his opponent in the race for Kentucky Senate, Secretary of State Trey Grayson. Grayson said in...
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Video For Lead Single From The Day The Turf Stood Still Details Gentrification in the Fillmore District The Video: As the March 9th release date for DaVinci’s debut album, The Day The Turf Stood Still, approaches, the rising Fillmore District emcee is proud to release the video for the lead single from the album...
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PITTSBURGH (AP)—Pittsburgh Steelers president Art Rooney II says the team is “disappointed” wide receiver Santonio Holmes is being accused in a lawsuit of assaulting a woman in an Orlando nightclub. The lawsuit followed a separate incident involving quarterback Ben Roethlisberger(notes), who became the subject of a police investigation after a college student alleged he...
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