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ACORN and the nuts

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Public Policy Polling’s  newest national survey finds that a 52% majority of GOP voters nationally think that ACORN stole the Presidential election for Barack Obama last year, with only 27% granting that he won it legitimately….Public Policy Polling’s report on a survey of 1,066 registered voters from November 13th to 15th.   Read more

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French Slap Down Irish After Hand of Gaul

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9:22pm UK, Thursday November 19, 2009 Rob Cole, Sky News Online France has warned the Irish government not to interfere in the escalating row over whether the two countries’ World Cup qualifying [...]

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Meester, Lil Wayne collaborate for new LP

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Rex Features Leighton Meester has revealed that she has collaborated with Lil Wayne on her debut album. The Gossip Girl actress confirmed that she teamed up with the ‘Lollipop’ rapper on a track called ‘Make It Rain’. Explaining how the partnership came about, Meester told MTV: “I sent him a couple of my songs. “He’s [...]

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Woman leaves $40,000 at shrine for safekeeping

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A woman quietly left $40,000 worth of rare U.S. coins near a Catholic shrine for safekeeping so the Virgin Mary could watch over her life savings while she was out of town, and apparently it worked: The money was returned to her when she got back a week later. Read more

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Obama meets with half brother

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BEIJING — President Obama met briefly with a half-brother who lives in China and who recently wrote a semiautobiographical novel about the abusive Kenyan father they shared. An Obama aide said the meeting with Mark Ndesandjo took place Monday night after the president arrived in Beijing during his China tour. “I don’t know [...]

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Drew Joseph: Garamendi’s committee assignments

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It looks like newly elected Rep. John Garamendi, D-Walnut Grove, will be joining the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the Science and Technology Committee. The House Democratic… Read more

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Staying at the Basra ‘B&B’

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It is jokingly dubbed ‘the most expensive B&B in the world’. Then again the trailer camp is the only ‘bed and breakfast’ that also provides lunch, dinner, a gym, 24-hour Internet access and a relatively secure place to stay in Basra.Situated within the newly-acquired American military base in this southern-Iraqi province, the B&B provides private [...]

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Miss England gives up crown over brawl reports

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LONDON (Reuters) – Beauty pageant winner Miss England gave up her title on Friday after reports she had been involved in a nightclub brawl with another beauty queen. Read more

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White House aides: No Afghan decision before Thanksgiving

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SEOUL — President Barack Obama will not announce his decision on sending more troops to Afghanistan before the Thanksgiving holiday, senior aides said on Thursday. Read more

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Venezuela’s Chávez Takes a Mighty Swing at Golf

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CARACAS, Venezuela — Every day, Pascual Cicenia plays golf on an emerald course that is 18 holes of tropical heaven in the middle of this chaotic city. He doesn’t take it for granted, he said, especially now that President Hugo Chávez has disparaged the sport as an elitist endeavor with few friends in his populist [...]

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Sides gear up for fight over U.S. ban on travel to Cuba

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A battle over Cuba policy is escalating in Congress, with proponents saying they have their best chance in years of repealing the ban on U.S. tourist travel to the island. Read more

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World Digest: Iraqi Kurds threaten to boycott January vote

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IRAQ Kurds threaten to boycott 2010 vote Kurdish officials threatened Tuesday to boycott the upcoming national elections in the three provinces they control in northern Iraq unless more parliament seats are allocated to the region. The threat came two days after Iraq’s Sunni vice president said he would veto the election law passed last week [...]

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Lithuania investigates possible CIA ‘black site’

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ANTAVILIAI, LITHUANIA — Residents of this village were mystified five years ago when tight-lipped American construction workers suddenly appeared at a mothballed riding stable here and built a large, two-story building without windows, ringed by a metal fence and security cameras. Read more

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Karzai to take oath, future of Afghan war at stake

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KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai is to be sworn into office for a second full term on Thursday as he struggles to rebuild a tarnished reputation and convince the West he is still a credible partner after eight years of war. Read more

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Reid unveils broad Senate healthcare plan

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid released a long-awaited healthcare reform plan on Wednesday that budget analysts said would extend coverage to tens of millions of the uninsured and reduce the deficit over 10 years. Read more

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Karzai prepares for inauguration

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Afghanistan is preparing for President Hamid Karzai to be sworn in for a second term as the country’s leader. Read more

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EU-Russia summit sees climate progress, rights row (AFP)

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STOCKHOLM (AFP) – EU criticism of Russia’s rights record and fears Moscow will delay its WTO entry clouded EU-Russia talks Wednesday, but the two sides aligned on climate issues ahead of a key summit in December. Read more

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Iraq vote faces likely delay (AP)

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AP – Iraq’s Sunni Arab vice president Tariq al-Hashemi speaks during a Press conference about the upcoming … Slideshow:Iraq Play Video Iraq Video:Around the World: 11/18 FOX News Iraq Video:Young Iraqis jet ski in Baghdad Reuters By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press Writer Christopher Torchia, Associated Press Writer – Wed Nov 18, 2:39 pm ET BAGHDAD – Iraq’s path toward political stability after [...]

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Bride leaves ceremony a widow as she weds her dead fiance

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THE bride wore white but, as the mayor sadly pointed out, she was a widow before she left the town hall. By special permission of the French President, Magali Jaskiewicz, a 26-year-old-mother of two from eastern France, has married her dead fiance. Read more

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Mumbai Survivor Celebrates 3rd Birthday

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Moshe Holtzberg celebrated his third birthday on Wednesday the way many Jewish children do–he got his first haircut. He appeared not to recall the tragic events of a year ago, when his parents were killed in a terror attack in Mumbai, India. Read more

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