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Five senior journalists with The Sun newspaper were arrested early Saturday as part of an investigation into the alleged bribery of police officers and other public officials, bringing the number of arrests of current or former Sun employees to nine. Rupert Murdoch pledged his continued support for ...

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President Obama’s controversial mandate to require religious organizations to include contraception in their health care coverage has already become fodder for his conservative opponents’ campaigns as they round the bend to their final run on the White House.

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I was given a ceramic Polish Pottery teapot for Christmas. There is a small gap where the spout attaches to the pot on one side maybe an inch long. When you fill the teapot with water it just runs out the hairline gap. I was wondering if there was a simple safe fix: nail polish, E6000 glue, or somet ...

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Authorities in Cairo have referred 19 Americans and two dozen others for criminal trials as part of an investigation into foreign funding of Egyptian nonprofits, putting a new strain on Egyptian-American relations. The Obama administration warned that the action, which appears to threaten the indepe ...

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On Friday, more than 100,000 Pakistanis sympathetic with the country’s largest religious political party, Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam, rallied in Karachi to protest attacks by U.S. drones in the nation’s northwest region. Party leaders also demanded that the country continue its two-month blockade of NATO ...

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by Michael Grabell, ProPublica In addition to the use of controversial airport body scanners, the U.S. government now deploys various X-ray devices at the border, in prisons and on the streets of New York. And some of them expose people to higher doses of radiation.

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Scary to think that the implication behind the Supreme Court’s ruling, which came down on Monday, that police and other law enforcement agents would need a warrant to plant GPS tracking devices on suspects’ vehicles is that this kind of bugging was obviously happening before without that key interme ...

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A group of doctors and environmentalists in Salt Lake City have joined the Occupy movement to sue the third-largest mining corporation in the world for allegedly violating the Clean Air Act with practices that contribute to thousands of pollution-related deaths in Utah each year. The company, Rio Ti ...