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The SWAT team arrested the rapper after he barricaded himself in his Ariz. home.

Will a plan for organ recovery ambulances give living patients the short shrift?

Data-recovery specialist salvages info from disk in shuttle accident.

Dresses and jewelry designed by Texans; altar made of Texas limestone.

Traders fear that a fight with Venezuela could stop the flow of oil.

Effort had been suspended after military junta seized thousands of pounds of food and supplies bound for storm-ravaged Irrawaddy Delta.

Lebanon's Iranian-backed Hezbollah tightens grip on city in major blow to U.S.-backed government.

Faced with a national outcry over oil prices and record profits, industry seeks to burnish image.

Overnight thunderstorms and possible tornado shred residences in a Stafford County subdivision.

Vladimir Putin watches his successor, Dmitry Medvedev, take office during a week of careful choreographyIN THE past week tanks, nuclear-bomb carriers and armoured vehicles drove up and down Tversakaya street?Moscow's main drag?and military jets whizzed past your correspondent's kitchen window, scaring children and knocking over plants. Reportedly damage caused to the roads will cost 1 billion roubles ($44m) to repair. This was in preparation for a military parade that was held on Friday May 9th on Red Square.Such parades are held every year, but this was the first time since the cold war that…

Erasable paper?nice idea, no market?BACK in the dark ages of technology, when the nearest thing to wireless broadband was the flickering screen of broadcast television, your correspondent used to fantasise about using the TV signal after the programming had shut down for the night to beam newspapers to people?s homes. The idea was to digitise the news items, features and page-three photos, and have local broadcasters encode the data in the vertical blanking interval between the image frames of their television signals?much as teletext (?Ceefax? on BBC television) went on to do rather…

New clashes between the government and HizbullahLebanon has taken another lurch towards civil war, following the most serious conflict thus far between the government of Fouad Siniora, the Western-backed prime minister, and the opposition, which is led by Hizbullah, the Shia political and military movement backed by Iran and Syria. Developments in Lebanon could have significant regional implications, as any move by Hizbullah to extend its physical control over large parts of the country, notably including Beirut's international airport, would be likely to elicit a strong reaction from Israel…

The world is united. Our correspondent is dizzyOVERDOSE is the only way to end a film festival; I?ve acquitted myself well. Most festivalgoers fly home midweek after an intense opening weekend, but my screenings become more frequent as I hear about more unmissable films (for me, home is just a subway ride away). ...

Political fallout has been limited?so far WHEN Haiti?s prime minister resigned last month after a week of food riots, it seemed to confirm a warning that Bob Zoellick, the president of the World Bank, had given ten days before. He said 100m people were being pushed into hunger and malnutrition?and 30-odd countries faced social upheaval unless food policy improved and the rich world got its act together to help. A month on, policy has not improved, and the rich world?s response has mostly been muddled?yet surprisingly, poor countries have been able to contain the unrest, albeit at heavy…

BEIRUT (AFP) - Hezbollah fighters, their guns blazing, seized control of west Beirut on Friday after three days of deadly street battles with pro-government foes pushed Lebanon dangerously close to all-out civil war.

NEW YORK (AFP) - Oil prices briefly surged to a record high above 126 dollars on Friday, driven into uncharted territory by speculators trying to take advantage of global supply concerns, analysts said.

HARARE (AFP) - South African President Thabo Mbeki on Friday held intensive talks with veteran counterpart Robert Mugabe over Zimbabwe's post-election crisis as doctors reported a dramatic rise in violence.

YANGON (AFP) - The UN said Friday it would resume aid flights into Myanmar after a suspension triggered by a tussle with the military regime over two planeloads of goods meant for desperate cyclone survivors.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The International Monetary Fund on Friday approved a 3.65-billion-dollar loan to Turkey, the final segment of a three-year stand-by credit worth nearly 10 billion dollars.

Air raids on Gaza kill three Palestinian security men after fatal rocket attack.

Government and opposition leaders set to meet for UN-sponsored talks in Djibouti.

Another 29 wounded after blast in the east, a day before landmark regional elections.

Zimbabwe oppostion calls for South African leader to step away from mediation role.

Ethnic Albanians vent anger at UN and local government over Sunday's vote.

South African President Thabo Mbeki leaves Zimbabwe without comment after crisis talks with Robert Mugabe.

Another senior police officer is gunned down in Mexico City, the fourth in under two weeks.

The UN urges Burma to reconsider its attitude towards allowing aid teams into the country to avoid further loss of life.

Lebanon's government says the seizure of most of western Beirut by Shia group Hezbollah is "a bloody coup".

US bank giant Citigroup aims to sell $400bn of assets over the next three years to bolster its financial position.

A Canadian train quarantined after a passenger died Thursday will soon be on its way again, Ontario's top medical officer told reporters.

The United Nations' top aid official in Asia says he is "furious" over the Myanmar government's refusal to allow the organization to distribute aid to cyclone disaster victims. "We off-loaded the food, and then the authorities refused us permission to take that food away," WFP director Tony Banbury said.

Sectarian fighting rocked the Lebanese capital for a third day Friday, with small arms, machine-gun and rocket-propelled-grenade fire echoing through the streets.

South African president Thabo Mbeki is traveling to Zimbabwe's capital Friday for more talks with the political leadership there, the South African Foreign Affairs Ministry said.

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The time-elapse video of a man stuck in an elevator for 41 hours has become quite popular on the video sharing website YouTube. He took the lift for a break but ended up spending nearly two days in it. He had to survive on just a packet of biscuits with no water nor bathroom. That must have been horrible. That’s why I always bring my cell phone.

Ferrari has launched a website previewing their top-secret and soon to be released GT. While you won’t be able to see much, Ferrari has graciously provided four sound clips of the new car’s sweet exhaust note. What gets this Truemorist excited is clip number two, which sounds like gears being changed through an all-new dual-clutch gearbox. A countdown clock promises more info in 10 days. For the time being, turn up your speakers and get listening!

Steve Wilder had a near-death experience last week when he woke up at night and he couldn’t breathe. His air passage was swollen shut. “It just blocked all the way and I just got up and I panicked!” he said. The 55-year-old performed a tracheotomy on himself using a steak knife after realizing he had no other choice.

Tired of cleaning the outside glass of your windows? Take a look at this window design by Jung-In Jang. A built-in squeegee cleans the glass for you each time you slide the window. Why hasn’t anyone thought of this before? I want it. Now.

Pope Benedict XVI reaches out to youth in Sydney. He will be sending out text messages with inspirational messages for six days in honor of World Youth Day in July. In addition, digital prayer walls are being set up online for Catholics. Awesome!

Circuit City is allowing Blockbuster and shareholder Carl Icahn to review its books, a sign the struggling electronics retailer is effectively putting itself up for sale. Shares rallied. (Icahn, Keyes letters)

Citigroup plans to wind down more than $400 billion in assets over the next two to three years as the financial-services giant, long criticized for its bloated cost structure, moves to shed some of its bulk under new CEO Vikram Pandit.

Kerkorian signaled the possibility of activism at Ford as he launched a formal tender offer to buy up to 20 million additional shares of the auto maker.

Superdelegates' moves to back Obama gained steam with endorsements from a union president and two congressmen, including one who switched his backing from rival Clinton. In all, Obama picked up nine more superdelegates.

Fannie Mae is preparing a program of refinancing mortgages for people who owe more than the current value of their homes. The plan is the latest twist in efforts to contain the surge in foreclosures in much of the U.S.

Please. God. No."If you thought spam on your computer was a bother, brace yourself for round two: spammers want to find you on your cellphone. Cellphones have become consumers’ most personal technological devices. That is why some industry executives, along with...read more

This is going to be a gong show. No really."Comedy Central has greenlighted "The Gong Show With Dave Attell," ordering eight half-hour episodes of an updated version of the classic talent show to premiere July 17.The...read more

DMX takes the prize for worst luck with the law in a single week: this is his second arrest since Tuesday. Unfortunately for Mr. X-Gon Give It To Ya, this time it's a touch more serious than the ridiculousness of his...read more

"Mexico CityThe Mexican government expressed its condolences for the cowardly murder of a model civil servant, committed to the safety of Mexican families, Edgar Eusebio Millán Gómez, General Coordinator of...read more

Barack Obama has almost erased Hillary Clinton's once-imposing lead among national convention superdelegates and won fresh labor backing as elements of the Democratic Party began coalescing around the Illinois senator for the fall campaign.

Three teenagers were arrested after two of them told police they dug up a secluded grave north of Houston, removed the skull from the coffin and converted it into a marijuana bong.

Shiite Hezbollah gunmen seized control of key parts of Beirut from Sunni rivals loyal to the U.S.-backed government, in a dramatic show-of-force certain to strengthen the Iranian-allied group's hand.

Now that he's 50, Alec Baldwin tells 60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer that political office is looking more appealing. Safer's report airs Sunday, May 11, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

The governing military junta in Myanmar has agreed to allow a single U.S. cargo aircraft to bring in relief supplies for victims of a devastating cyclone, Bush administration officials said.

Leonard Slatkin, Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra speaks at a luncheon at the National Press Club.Length: 59 min.Published: Today at 1pm (ET)

Spokesman Sean McCormack conducts a daily briefing at the State Department.Length: 43 min.Published: Today at 12:30pm (ET)

Politically engaged young people meet in Washington for a national conference sponsored by the public policy forum Demos, Rock the Vote, and other youth groups. The organizers hope to build a national agenda around the economic issues of young voters.Length: 4 hr. 1 min.Published: Today at 12pm (ET)

White House Drug Czar John Walters releases a new report showing the relationship between teen drug use and mental illness. The report links the use of marijuana as "self-medication" by depressed young people to even deeper depression and suicidal thoughts.Length: 47 min.Published: Today at 10am (ET)

Politically engaged young people meet in Washington for a national conference sponsored by the public policy forum Demos, Rock the Vote, and other youth groups. The organizers hope to build a national agenda around the economic issues of young voters.Length: Published: Today at 10am (ET)

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — A Brazilian prosecutor has appealed the controversial acquittal of a rancher convicted last year for ordering the murder of U.S. nun Dorothy Stang in this country's Amazon forest, extending an emotional trial that's made world headlines.

BELGRADE, Serbia — Serbians head to the polls Sunday for crucial parliamentary elections, still bitterly divided between nationalist anger and tentative optimism about a European future.

WASHINGTON — Sen. Hillary Clinton will campaign beyond Tuesday's West Virginia primary and take her fight for the Democratic presidential nomination all the way to the party's convention this summer if she or Sen. Barack Obama hasn't won enough delegates to clinch the party's nomination, her campaign advisers said Friday.

WASHINGTON — Sen. Hillary Clinton will campaign beyond Tuesday's West Virginia primary and take her fight for the Democratic presidential nomination all the way to the party's convention this summer if she or Sen. Barack Obama hasn't won enough delegates to clinch the party's nomination, her campaign advisers said Friday.

BAGHDAD — Staff Sgt. Luis Falcon, 38, was patrolling the streets of Baqouba, north of Baghdad, when he saw Shahad Abbas. The 11-year-old girl was in a large decrepit wheelchair, and the stumps of her legs where her calves should have been were crusted with dried blood.

Mother's Day is a bigger deal to Michelle Duggar than most Moms. The 41-year-old Arkansas woman is pregnant with her 18th child. Duggar says she is due on New Year's Day. The latest addition to the family will join seven sisters and 10 brothers, all of whose names start with the letter J. The Duggars' oldest child, Josh, is 20, and the youngest, Jennifer, is nine months. The fast-growing family lives in Tontitown in northwest Arkansas in a 650-square-metre home. Duggar and her husband, Jim Bob, say they plan to keep having children as long as God wills it. Duggar has been pregnant for more…

Hey, if your going to ask these guys to risk their lives for this country, the least you could do is leave their porn magazines alone. First Walter Reid, than we find out the barracks are in shambles, now this. What s next, soldiers might have to buy their own body armor....wait that happened already. Support the troops!!! Checkout the article to see what the soldiers think, then let me know what you think... Peace added by: raheims comments: 33 topics : { Troops, Porn }

John McCain?s campaign accused Barack Obama of making the presumptive Republican nominee?s age an issue after his Thursday remark that the Arizona senator was ?losing his bearings as he pursues this nomination." In an interview on CNN's "The Situation Room," Obama said that McCain's contention that Hamas wants him to be president was ?offensive, and I think it's disappointing, because John McCain always says ?I am not going to run that kind of politics.? And to engage in that kind of smear is unfortunate, particularly because my policy toward Hamas has been no different than his. ??So for him…

The United Nations has announced it will resume aid flights to Burma, after they temporarily halted them due to a dispute over the ruling junta impounding everything it had received so far. Paul Risley, spokesman for the UN's World Food Programme, was quoted as saying: "The food aid and equipment that we managed to get in has been confiscated." A Burmese government spokesman denied the withholding of aid from those in affected areas, telling the Associated Press the UN claims had been "baseless accusations". (This story has been updated since it was orginally posted, entitled "UN suspends aid…

Burma wants supplies but not foreign aid workers, its foreign ministry says, hours after the UN chief urged military leaders to prioritise relief workbased on the foreign ministry statement, Burma's government appears unwilling to cooperate. It would accept cash or emergency aid, it said, but not international teams. "Currently Myanmar (Burma) has prioritised receiving emergency relief provisions and is making strenuous efforts to transport those provisions without delay by its own labours to the affected areas" governement says. Want to learn more about Burma/Myanmar?

BERLIN (Reuters) - The Dalai Lama says he understands why Tibetan exiles were angry that the Olympic torch reached the top of Mount Everest but had advised them against protesting.

BEAVERTON, Oregon (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama turned his focus to a general election showdown with John McCain on Friday and said the Republican White House candidate would continue the failed policies of President George W. Bush.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Good weather will help the world's farmers reap record wheat and rice crops this year, the U.S. government said on Friday, which should allay fears of shortages and help bring prices down from current high levels.

YANGON (Reuters) - The United Nations appealed for $187 million in aid on Friday to help 1.5 million victims in cyclone-ravaged Myanmar and said it would resume relief flights despite the military government's seizure of food supplies.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's Iranian-backed Hezbollah group took control of the Muslim half of Beirut on Friday in what the U.S.-backed governing coalition described as "an armed and bloody coup".

Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis working with diabetic mice have examined in unprecedented detail the immune cells long thought to be responsible for type 1 diabetes.

In late 2007, a federal grand jury indicted Bernie Ward, a prominent liberal talk show personality, on two counts of distributing and one count of receiving Internet images of child pornography. Ward accepted a plea deal where he admits to the crime.

Iran hangs women and gays. Saudi Arabia will behead a man for cursing God. Jihadis pour into Afghanistan and Iraq, killing indiscriminately. Hamas takes Gaza in a bloody coup. Now Hezbollah is making a violent power grab in Beirut. It never ends, does it?

We feel it, we see it, we read it. Now our children will begin to taste it as some schools are considering lay-offs of their cafeteria staff in an effort to adhere to government nutritional guidelines in light of the escalating costs of food.

Seems Europeans are imbibing and inhaling at an ever increasing rate. The motivation - getting their rocks off, or should I say socks off. Binge drinking and drug use is being touted as the new Viagra for European youth, with the UK taking top honors.

Obama gathers more superdelegates, expects to surpass Clinton at any moment; Hillary camp scrambles to convince supporters that her campaign is sill alive• Obama Adviser Ousted for Speaking With Hamas• McCain Denies Reports of Snubbing Bush in 2000

Surprise! The public auction of Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch has been canceled. The news came Friday afternoon, just five days before the 2,900-acre spread was set to be sold in public to the highest bidder.

A judge in Florida says the 17-year-old son of wrestler Hulk Hogan should serve eight months in jail for reckless driving.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. military is reinforcing the sides of its topline mine-resistant vehicles to shore up what could be weak points as troops see a spike in armor-piercing roadside bombings across Iraq, The Associated Press has learned....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration accused Iran and Syria on Friday of fueling ongoing violence in Lebanon by inciting members of the radical Shiite Hezbollah movement to take up arms against the country's western-backed government....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Blackwater Worldwide, the security contractor blamed by an angry Iraqi government for the shooting deaths of 17 civilians, is not expected to face criminal charges - all but ensuring the company will keep its multimillion-dollar contract to protect U.S. diplomats....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. Army said Friday it will immediately repair barracks at eight facilities in the wake of inspection at bases worldwide....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former CIA operative Valerie Plame is trying to resurrect a lawsuit against those in the Bush administration she says illegally disclosed her identity....

Despite troubles with Myanmar's military rulers, U.N. World Food Program spokesman Paul Riley says the agency has 240 staffers on the ground hurriedly working with government ministries to get aid to survivors of the cyclone. The agency fears running out of time.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

Investors have been growing cautiously optimistic in recent days that the worst of the credit crisis is over. But now, there's fresh evidence that there's still trouble looming. The insurance giant AIG announced a huge loss related to bad mortgage debt, and Citigroup, the nation's largest bank, is going to sell off some $400 billion in assets as it seeks to become more efficient.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

The big question in Cuba is how far the new president, Raul Castro, is willing to go in changing the country. Many elements of his brother Fidel's rigid system of state socialism are still in place, such as food rationing.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

Final exams start next week at San Diego State University, but dozens of students won't be in class. They face prosecution on drug-related charges after an unprecedented bust on campus. Still, some students and experts say this week's crackdown is not likely to change a thing. Andrew Phelps reports for member station KPBS in San Diego.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

Several more superdelegates threw their support behind Democratic presidential candidate Barak Obama on Friday, all but erasing the once substantial lead of his rival, Hillary Clinton. Clinton vows to continue campaigning. Political analysts E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and David Brooks of The New York Times talk about the race.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

The political science professor, tired of missing meetings due to mobility barriers on campus, succeeded in getting USC to become 'a model now for accessibility,' an advocate says. He was 68. Harlan Hahn a longtime USC professor of political science and champion of disability rights who successfully sued the university to improve access for disabled people campuswide, died April 23 at his Santa Monica home. He was 68.

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The endorsements appear to put Barack Obama ahead of Hillary Clinton in the crucial count as both candidates focus on the contest in Oregon. Sen. Barack Obama appeared to eclipse Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in the crucial race for Democratic superdelegates today as the campaigns turned their sights on Oregon, where balloting by mail is already underway.

About 100 Beverlywood parents gather near the L.A. County Art Museum to protest $4.8 billion in proposed cuts to education. About 100 parents, mostly mothers, gathered near the Los Angeles County Museum of Art this morning to protest potential cuts to education funding.

Frank Christopher Gonzalez was convicted of murdering the deputy as part of robbery in 2006. Sentencing is scheduled for Monday. A Long Beach jury has recommended the death penalty for a man convicted of first-degree murder for the 2006 shooting of an off-duty sheriff's deputy during a robbery.

A line of severe storms swept across the Southeast on Thursday, damaging homes and businesses in at least four states. One person was killed by a tornado in North Carolina.

Oil rose above $126 a barrel for the first time Friday as investors questioned whether a possible confrontation between the U.S. and Venezuela could cut exports from the OPEC member.

The Obama campaign gained steam Friday with endorsements from a union president and nine superdelegates.

Iranian- and Syrian-backed Shiite opposition gunmen seized control of several Beirut neighborhoods from Sunni foes loyal to the U.S.-backed government on Friday.

Beirut has been experiencing some of the worst street fighting and sectarian clashes since Lebanon’s 15-year civil war. Richard Engel, NBC News’ Chief Foreign Correspondent, explains what sparked the outbreak of violence and what the underlying issues are.

For a third day, the bloody fighting between Shiite and Sunni Arab Muslim factions have been brawling it out in the streets of Beirut with firearms and rocket-propelled grenades. This declaration of war was triggered when the coalition led government had banned Hezbollah’s telecommunication system. The coalition government said that the telecommunications system was a means to start a coup to bring back the influences of Syria and Iran. The ties between the US with Syria and Iraq ...

An official source at the Arab League said that an emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers is expected to be held on Sunday in line with a request from Egypt and supported by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to discuss the deteriorating situation in Lebanon, how to find a solution and continue the Arab Initiative to solve the crisis and calm the situation in Lebanon. In a statement today, the source said that earlier today, the general secretariat of the Arab League received the Egyptian requ...

Iraq’s Defense Ministry has said that Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq had been arrested in Mosul. However, nothing was confirmed during that time. The United States Military was working to see if it was really Al-Masri that was detained or not. If that was the case, it would deal a damaging blow to Al-Qaeda’s operations in Iraq. Abu Ayyub al-Masri became the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq when the previous leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed back in 20...

By Dmitry Avaliani in Tbilisi (CRS No. 443 07-May-08) Officials and experts in both Russia and Georgia are warning that the two countries are closer than ever to armed confrontation over the breakaway republic of Abkhazia. Speaking to Russian journalists in the city of Batumi on May 8, Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili said, “I think that a few days ago, we were very close [to war] and this threat is still real.” The rise in tension comes after Russia sent an additiona...

By Matiullah Minapal and Aziz Ahmad Tassal in Helmand (ARR No. 288, 09-Apr-08) The distinctive red, white, and pink poppy flowers have all but gone from the fields in Helmand province, leaving in their place the bare pods containing valuable opium paste.  With harvest season, or “nish”, in full swing, the schools are empty, the fields are buzzing, and even the police are getting in on the action. Gul Wali has come to Helmand from his native Nangarhar province in the ea...

How much did meteorologists know about the cyclone?

How will Hillary work with the Democratic Party?

An outburst of sectarian violence in Lebanon raises questions about Hizbullah's strategy and fresh fears about civil war.

Clinton's latest line: Obama can't win 'white Americans.'

We all know Nixon was nasty. A stunning new book argues that he was also the grandfather of today's politics of hate.

If you thought spam on your computer was a bother, brace yourself for round two: spammers want to find you on your cellphone.

The refusal to allow doctors and disaster relief experts to enter in large numbers contributed to the growing concern that starvation and epidemic diseases could end up killing people on the same scale as the cyclone.

The utility asked state regulators to approve a three-year plan that would would raise rates by 4.9 percent a year through March 2012, or a total of $1.67 billion over the three years.

Now you can view the Pope's home page in a language even more antique than Cobol.

Bedbugs can live in subway trains and stations, an urban entomologist says, as they did 100 years ago in taxis, trains and buses.

BOSTON Reuters - Package delivery company FedEx Corp on Friday slashed its quarterly earnings forecast blaming surging fuel prices.Source: Reuters

Facebook will announce Facebook Connect later today which is essentially a new version of their 2 year old API for third party websites. It will allow users to connect their Facebook identity friends and privacy to any website. Third party websites will be able to implement and offer more features of Facebook Platform off of ...Source: TechCrunch

IPhone customers found free Wi-Fi access at Starbucks. Then they didnt. AT&Ts Web site promised free Wi-Fi. Then it didnt. AT&T is likely going to offer free Wi-Fi but it is mum about when the teasing will stop.Source: NYTimes - Technology

Oil and gas stocks tip lower Friday with record-high oil prices AIGs $7.8 billion quarterly loss and Citigroups plans to shed about half a trillion dollars in assets triggering a triple-digit retreat by the Dow Jones Industrial Average.Source: MarketWatch

Citigroup Inc. plans to reduce about $500 billion of non-core legacy assets over the next several years in a bid to shore up its capital base and divest itself of riskier investments the banking giant said Friday.Source: MarketWatch

Richie Sexson starts a brawl after a high, but not really inside, pitch.

He might be the star of "OSS 117," a deadpan, borderline-brilliant satire of postwar spy movies and preening Euro-idiocy in the Middle East.

How will you spend your "economic stimulus" payment"? Members of Salon's community, Table Talk, reveal their plans.

In 2007 elite U.S. snipers executed an unarmed Iraqi prisoner in cold blood. Have the insidious tactics that led to atrocities in Vietnam reemerged in Iraq?

You know a movie's heading nowhere fast when even its monkey doesn't make you laugh.

a 1 ½ - mile passing lane will open on eastbound Highway 152 between San Felipe Road and Highway 156. is looking west this week on the affected stretch of road. When the passing lane opens, the lane at far right, currently closed to traffic, will be...

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The view driving up the steep hill toward Pacheco Pass was stunning, with a postcardperfect vista of the lush green valley below and to my right. And yet I felt sadness. I could not enjoy the beauty of this Thursday morning trip on Highway 152 east of...

Two days after Vladimir Putin yielded power to his hand-picked successor, Dmitry Medvedev, the Russians revive the Soviet-era tradition of parading symbols of the nations's military prowess across Red Square

TIME.com presents a highly unscientific study of the 10 worst mothers from art and pop culture

Commentary: The administration is once again preying on people's fears, says Robert Baer, by making the dubious case that ending the war will mean $10-a-gallon gas

An arms procession is designed to show how Putin revived Russia's fortunes, armed forces and its national pride

But Dartmouth is 'in a holding pattern' with its wait list.

Hundreds of UC-Berkeley students rallied to spare the department of East Asian Languages and Cultures from cuts.

Obama needs only 169 more delegates for the nomination.

Political bloggers on Clinton and other issues.

This is a sad and dangerous time for Hillary Clinton.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 9 (UPI) -- The city of San Francisco has denied a claim for compensation filed by two brothers who survived a tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo, documents reveal.

ORLANDO, Fla., May 9 (UPI) -- University of Florida defensive back Jamar Hornsby faces several criminal charges for allegedly using a dead student's credit card.

LOS ANGELES, May 9 (UPI) -- Los Angeles officials said a dazzling array of wildflowers has bloomed at Griffith Park, where a large fire razed more than 1,000 acres last year.

DILWORTH, Minn., May 9 (UPI) -- The principal of a Minnesota school where three students were suspended for sitting during the Pledge of Allegiance said the district may change its policy.

CHICAGO, May 9 (UPI) -- Ted Lilly and two relievers combined on a four-hitter Friday to boost the Chicago Cubs to a 3-1 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Frida Kahlo knew a way to show a certain emotion, at once accusatory, nervy, furious, a little adolescent, and sometimes even funny... more ... image You can argue with some credibility that John Stuart Mill was the greatest public intellectual in the history of Britain, maybe even the world... more “Hitler was a fascinator, as many people found," wrote Diana Mosley. "Part of the charm was his extreme naturalness and lack of affectation”... more

Even Jesse Jackson is relieved when he hears footsteps behind him, turns around, sees it's a white man - and knows he won't be mugged. Is this right?... more "Inscriptions and bird droppings are the only two things in Egypt that give any indication of life." Flaubert said it, or so says Edward Said... more Edward Rothstein admits that when it comes to LSD, he inhaled. But in the 1960s, the drug infused the exhalations of musicians, philosophers, and many others... more

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Human beings are impulsive, lazy, busy, inert, irrational creatures prone to all kinds of biases and errors: that's why they need libertarian paternalism... more Nikola Tesla feared earrings, peaches, and touching people’s hair. Sure, another nutty inventor. But men like him changed our world... more Your brain has a mind of its own - and it's not even always yours. But evolution, as Gary Marcus explains, never promised to solve all our problems... more

Alice Walker cared so much about other people's kids, she forgot her own. Her daughter says the writer "resigned from being my mother"... more Philosophers often cannot resist writing about Shakespeare, with his depth and complexity. Alas, they are mostly ill-equipped to do so... more "This is the story of educational romanticism in our schools – its rise, its etiology, and, we have reason to hope, its approaching demise"... more

Barack Obama all but erased Hillary Rodham Clinton's once-imposing lead among national convention superdelegates on Friday and ...

The powerful storm system that swept through the Southeast and the mid-Atlantic states late Thursday and into early Friday produced ...

The United Nations says it will resume food aid flights to Myanmar on Saturday.

Shiite extremists have fired several rockets toward the heavily protected Green Zone and some of them fell short.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says Hezbollah, backed by Syria and Iran, is killing and injuring innocent civilians in Lebanon.

The public will be allowed a peek at rarely seen areas in Federal Parliament House in Canberra today as part of the 20th anniversary celebrations of the opening of the building.

Microsoft is appealing against a record $1.47 billion fine imposed by the European Commission for using high prices to discourage software competition.

South African leader Thabo Mbeki and President Robert Mugabe have held talks on Zimbabwe's election crisis ahead of a possible run-off that has raised fears that violence could escalate.

Lebanon's Iranian-backed Hezbollah group took control of the Muslim half of Beirut in what the US-backed governing Coalition described as "an armed and bloody coup".

The UN World Food Program (WFP) said overnight it would resume aid flights to cyclone-struck Burma, despite the military government's seizure of deliveries at Rangoon airport.

Almost all of the chronic conditions for which pills are prescribed are preventable through changes in lifestyle, diet and exercise.

Right-wingers who fight gay rights are the same sex-phobes who want to stop birth control, sex education and abortion.

The pervasive racism that taints our political discourse will persist until we recognize and reject it.

The pervasive racism that taints our political discourse will persist until we recognize and reject it.

The Iraqi Defense Ministry claims Washington's prime target, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, has been arrested, but the White House is skeptical.

Onion Radio News - with Doyle Redland

The earliest-known fossilized feces was found recently in Oregon, placing humans on the American continents 1000 years earlier than previously...

SEATTLE—"Once I saw two guys kissing in the bathroom, but I thought they were just drunk. Now it makes perfect sense, though," resident Frank Klein said.