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The US was rocked by a military and diplomatic earthquake on Monday after Chinese leaders revealed that the Middle Kingdom has constructed an N-bomb capable of reaching the mainland United States, and is prepared to use it. “If America persists in imposing its imperialist designs on China and the Chinese people, then China will not hesitate to respond with immediate deployment of the N-bomb,” Xi Jinping said in a speech to the Communist Party Congress. Foreign policy experts quickly labeled China’s announcement as the worst blow to American strategic freedom in the nation’s history. “America has built its entire foreign...

ALBANY, N.Y. — For years, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and some Democratic leaders have had an antagonistic relationship with the left-leaning Working Families Party, a labor-backed group whose increasing influence and independence have only widened the divide. So when Mr. Cuomo and state leaders decided this year to expand a public campaign financing commission’s authority — giving it a mandate to rewrite election laws affecting smaller political parties — the independent party’s leaders feared the worst. On Monday, their concerns were realized: The commission approved a slew of changes that will make it harder for political third parties to survive...

A local Kentucky fire chief is in a whole new kind of trouble after video surfaces of him using the n-word at the scene of a traffic accident. "We ain't taking no n-----s here," he says to a Bullitt County Sheriff's deputy at the site of a car crash involving an African-American family and a white man, according to body-cam footage obtained by WDRB-TV.

Police here are warning of a new hallucinogenic drug authorities say has begun circulating the St. Louis area. St. Louis County police say the synthetic drug known as "N-Bomb" has been linked to deaths in other parts of the country including California, Louisiana, Minnesota, North Dakota and Virginia. The drug, sometimes also called "Smiles" is known as N-Bomb for its chemical compositions, 2C-1-NBOMe or 251NBOMe, and can be extremely potent and dangerous, police say. Police say the liquid drug is often called "legal acid" and is derived from mescaline. Users typically take the drug by ingesting blotter paper soaked with...

Racial slur? So what! Two police officers say black chief didn't care BY JOHN MARZULLI DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Sunday, July 27th 2008, 11:11 PM Pace for News Cops Shelron Smikle (l.), 28, and Blanch O’Neal, 38, pictured here at their lawyer’s office, plan to sue NYPD. Cairo for News The cops say when Assistant Chief Gerald Nelson (above) found out they had lodged a complaint about a black sergeant’s N-word-laced rant, Nelson repeated the N-word. Two black cops who reported a boss for using a racial slur say they were viciously chewed out by an African-American chief in the...

Check out Kwame's meltdown before his hand-picked, by-invitation-only audience at his State of the City speech in Detroit on Tuesday, March 11. These people went from Escorts to Escalades after they became Kwame appointees, so naturally they still support their meal ticket. http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z3WBeXBjjZA

Paris, October 20: Washington's moves to cooperate with India, in developing nuclear energy, is a one-off situation based on India's "responsible" track record, which sets it apart from other aspiring nuclear powers, US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns has said. "This cooperation that we're extending to India is unique to India. It is not going to be replicated to other countries," Burns said in Paris on Wednesday on the eve of a trip to India. He said that India differed markedly from Iran or Pakistan, as it has not been a source of nuclear proliferation and...