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SAN DIEGO — Thousands more residents were ordered to evacuate their homes Tuesday, bringing the number of people chased away by the wind-whipped flames that have engulfed Southern California to at least 300,000.
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Seattle woman has made a rape claim against magician David Copperfield, law enforcement sources tell FOX News. ****
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HARRY Potter is about to wave his magic wand again. With a new film out next week and the final book due on the shelves later this month the boy wizard is certain to conjure up another fortune for JK Rowling in sales and royalties. But the author is just one of the big winners of the Potter gold - here we look at the other lucky muggles who've made a mint out of Harry...
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U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 110th Congress - 1st Session as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate Vote Summary Question: On the Amendment (Coburn Amdt. No. 1311, As Modified ) Vote Number: 202 Vote Date: June 7, 2007, 11:05 AM Required For Majority: 1/2 Vote Result: Amendment Rejected Amendment Number: S.Amdt. 1311 to S.Amdt. 1150 to to S. 1348 (Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 ) Statement of Purpose: To require the enforcement of existing border security and immigration laws and Congressional approval before amnesty can be granted....
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On her MySpace website she lists one of her favourite bands as Coldplay and says her heroes are “my beautiful husband and anyone else who embraces peace”. She describes Dennis as a “very philosophical, deep thinking person” rather than a new age type, but he is a vegan, unlike her — she still cannot resist occasional dairy products. At Kent she unexpectedly signed up for a master’s degree in conflict resolution after meeting the course lecturer in a pub. She knew she had chosen the right subject when her final exam took place on September 11, 2001. “The rest of...
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SCOTLAND'S status as a modern democracy was dealt a grievous blow yesterday by a scandal in which up to one in ten votes in the Holyrood election were thrown in the bin uncounted. In a development that could bring into question the legitimacy of the Scottish Parliament poll, as many as 100,000 ballot papers were spoiled. That averages out as one in 20 votes but in some seats a tenth of the papers were spoiled. http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=715852007
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OAKLAND, Calif. — A section of freeway that funnels traffic off the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge collapsed early Sunday after a gasoline tanker truck overturned and caught fire, authorities said.
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MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa — Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday that if she is elected president, she would make her husband a roaming ambassador to the world, using his skills to repair the nation's tattered image abroad.
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Kitty Carlisle’s career embraced Broadway, opera and the Marx Brothers film, A Night at the Opera, while her marriage to the Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Moss Hart created one of Broadway’s most glamorous couples. A woman of forceful opinions, which she did not hesitate to air, Carlisle never minded who she offended, a character trait which later proved useful in her 20 years as chairwoman of the New York State Council on the Arts.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - When given in the appropriate doses to treat cancer pain, morphine will not hasten a patient's death by interfering with his or her breathing, a new study shows. The findings contradict the conventional wisdom-held by many medical professionals as well as lay people--that giving dying patients opioids for pain can shorten their lives by depressing their respiration. "It's in all the textbooks as something to be aware of, but probably the risk has been exaggerated," Dr. Declan Walsh of The Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio, one of the study's authors, told Reuters Health. "It's not...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth will attend the Kentucky Derby, the pre-eminent American horse race, in May when she makes her first visit to the United States in 16 years, Buckingham Palace said on Wednesday. The British monarch and her husband, Prince Philip, are making the visit to mark the 400th anniversary of the Jamestown settlement, England's first permanent settlement in North America. *** The queen's previous state visits to the United States were in 1957, July 1976 during the U.S. bicentennial celebration and May 1991 during the presidency of George H.W. Bush. She also made a trip to...
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LONDON: Britain's official policy on Iraq is that its troops will leave as soon as they can hand control over to Iraqis. But there is one particular soldier who, according to a crescendo of British newspaper reports, does not seem quite so replaceable. Prince Harry, third in line to the British throne and second son of Prince Charles, is an army officer, reportedly with a hankering to be treated as just another soldier in line for rotation in southern Iraq.
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Life-prolonging Suten will not be offered to advanced cancer sufferers. £2000 monthly price tag deemed too costly for NHS. Critics say Suten is effective and should be made available. "The NHS is saying to [patients], 'Tough luck, there's nothing we can give you'. But that is not the case. If you lived in North America you would get these drugs, but not in Scotland." - Dr Paul Nathan, consultant oncologist *** Sutent works by stopping the signals in the body that tell cancer cells to grow and multiply. The drug also stops blood vessels growing into the tumour.
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To chants of "Obama! Obama!," he told the crowd: "It was here, in Springfield, where North, South, East and West come together that I was reminded of the essential decency of the American people -- where I came to believe that through this decency, we can build a more hopeful America." If the 45-year-old Obama were elected, he would become the nation's first African-American president. "And that is why, in the shadow of the Old State Capitol, where Lincoln once called on a divided house to stand together, where common hopes and common dreams still live, I stand before you...
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By SUE REID - More by this author » Last updated at 22:07pm on 9th February 2007 A new film alleges the U.S. staged the 9/11 disaster to justify the Iraq war The official story of what happened on 9/11 never fails to shock. Four American airliners are hijacked by Osama Bin Laden's terrorists in an attack on the heart of the Western world on September 11, 2001. Two are deliberately flown into New York's famous Twin Towers, which collapse. A third rams into the United States defence headquarters at the Pentagon, in Washington D.C. The last goes down in...
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Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Wednesday said he supports the deadly insurgency in Iraq and urged insurgents to kill more U.S. soldiers. "Carry on. Plan your resistance. Make sure that the Americans will pay a very high price for their adventure," he told an anti-war conference organized by the Perdana Global Peace Organization that he founded after retiring in 2003. "It will help the Americans to change their minds. Hopefully they will understand no one should hegemonize this world," said Mahathir, who is known for his outspoken, anti-Western rhetoric.
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OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Former Vice President Al Gore was nominated for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his wide-reaching efforts to draw the world's attention to the dangers of global warming, a Norwegian lawmaker said Thursday. "A prerequisite for winning the Nobel Peace Prize is making a difference, and Al Gore has made a difference," Conservative Member of Parliament Boerge Brende, a former minister of environment and then of trade, told The Associated Press.
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Jan. 8: Workers who left their offices after smelling a mysterious gas-like odor are seen standing outside of the Time & Life Building. NEW YORK — A mysterious natural gas-like odor hit Manhattan Monday morning causing building evacuations from Rockefeller Center to the city's West Side, but the city's mayor said it was not dangerous.
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Kolkata, India - A 15-year-old girl from eastern India hanged herself in response to the execution of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, police and family members said on Thursday. "She said they had hanged a patriot. We didn't take her seriously when she told us that she wanted to feel the pain Saddam did during the execution," the girl's father, Manmohan Karmakar, told AFP by phone from the town of Kharda. He said his daughter, called Moon Moon, had become extremely depressed after watching Saddam's execution on television. "She kept watching the scene over and again and didn't take food on...
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By ANNIE KARNI Special to the Sun December 12, 2006 An ethnic studies professor from the University of Colorado, Ward Churchill, received a standing ovation last night from a crowd of more than 200 New School students after blaming the 2001 World Trade Center attacks on America's support of Israel and its sanctions against Iraq in 1996. In a two-hour speech at the New School titled "Sterilizing History: The Fabrication of Innocent Americans," delivered without notes, Mr. Churchill traced what he called a pattern of mass murder as American foreign policy from the time of the country's inception to the...
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