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Insurance Industry Executive Apologizes to Michael Moore
Raw Story - Mon Nov 22, 2010
Filmmaker Michael Moore received an apology from a former health insurance industry executive for his role in attempting to smear the documentarian and his documentary on the for-profit health care industry, Sicko. More»

Pat-down backlash grows during holiday travel rush
CNN - Sun Nov 21, 2010
As backlash against airline passenger pat downs intensified with a viral online video, the nation's top airline security official said Monday that his agency is walking a fine line between privacy concerns and public safety. More»

Secret Papers Detail U.S. Aid for Ex-Nazis
New York Times - Fri Nov 12, 2010
WASHINGTON - A secret history of the United States government's Nazi-hunting operation concludes that American intelligence officials created a "safe haven" in the United States for Nazis and their collaborators after World War II, and it details decades of clashes, often hidden, with other nations over war criminals here and abroad. More»

Mysterious missile launched off the California coast... but no one owns up to firing it
The Daily Mail - Mon Nov 8, 2010
A mysterious missile lit up the sky off the coast of Southern California yesterday - but military chiefs have yet to reveal who launched it. More»

New York child sued for woman's death after bike crash
BBC - Thu Oct 28, 2010
New York - A 4 year old child can be sued for crashing a bicycle into an elderly pedestrian and causing injuries that led to her death, a judge has ruled. More»

Frozen vegetables recall: glass shards in Wal-Mart, Kroger veggies
Christian Science Monitor - Wed Oct 20, 2010
A Tennessee company is recalling 12 tons of frozen peas and other frozen vegetables marketed by Kroger and Wal-Mart because they may contain pieces of glass. More»

U.S. apologises for scientists DELIBERATELY infecting mentally ill patients with STDs
The Daily Mail - Fri Oct 1, 2010
America faces global outrage after it apologised for deliberately infecting patients in a mental hospital with STDs in science experiments. More»

9/11's forgotten victims: 'We're living in a toxic time bomb'
The Daily Mail - Sat Aug 28, 2010
The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001 are seared on our collective consciousness. More»

Is Your Ice Cream Made With Monsanto's Artificial Hormones?
Huffington Post - Wed Aug 18, 2010
Monsanto has been in the news this week, with a US District Court Judge ruling that the USDA has to at least go through the motions of regulating the company's genetically engineered sugar beets. More»

Terrorist interrogation tapes found
Associated Press - Mon Aug 16, 2010
WASHINGTON - The CIA has videotapes, after all, of interrogations in a secret overseas prison of admitted 9/11 plotter Ramzi Binalshibh. More»

Feds: No Charges In Pa. School Laptop-Spying Case
Associated Press - Mon Aug 16, 2010
PHILADELPHIA - Federal prosecutors will not file charges against a school district or its employees over the use of software to remotely monitor students. More»

Churchill and Eisenhower 'agreed to cover up RAF plane's UFO encounter during WWII', secret files reveal
The Daily Mail - Wed Aug 4, 2010
Sir Winston Churchill was accused of covering up a close encounter between an RAF aircraft and a UFO during the Second World War, newly-released files reveal today. More»

High court trims Miranda warning rights bit by bit
Associated Press - Sun Aug 1, 2010
WASHINGTON - You have the right to remain silent, but only if you tell the police that you're remaining silent. More»

Woman Convicted For Blown Tire Released From Prison
WSB-TV - Thu Jul 29, 2010
ATLANTA - An Atlanta woman who served two years of prison time after her faulty tires caused a fatal wreck was released from prison Friday. More»

FBI director defends bureau over test cheating
Associated Press - Tue Jul 27, 2010
WASHINGTON - FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress on Wednesday that he does not know how many of his agents cheated on an important exam on the bureau's policies, an embarrassing revelation that raises questions about whether the FBI knows its own rules for conducting surveillance on Americans. More»

US judge pleads guilty to child prison scam
BBC - Thu Jul 22, 2010
Former Pennsylvania judge Michael Conahan has pleaded guilty to a racketeering conspiracy charge for helping put juvenile defendants behind bars in exchange for bribes. More»

Tea Party Federation kicks out Williams over blog post
CNN - Sat Jul 17, 2010
The National Tea Party Federation, an organization that represents the Tea Party political movement around the country, has expelled conservative commentator Mark Williams and his Tea Party Express because of an inflammatory blog post he wrote, federation spokesman David Webb said Sunday. More»

Aide: Blago hid in bathroom from budget director
Associated Press - Thu Jul 8, 2010
CHICAGO - Rod Blagojevich hid in the bathroom, ducked into a back room and left the office early to avoid discussing complex issues with his budget director, his former deputy said Thursday at the ousted governor's corruption trial. More»

Records show US medical staff experimented on terror suspects
AFP - Sun Jun 6, 2010
WASHINGTON - Medical personnel apparently experimented on terror detainees during CIA-led torture after the September 11 attacks, aiming to improve interrogation techniques, a human rights group said Monday. More»

Bank of America to pay borrowers $108 million
Associated Press - Sun Jun 6, 2010
WASHINGTON - Bank of America will pay $108 million to settle federal charges that Countrywide Financial Corp, which it acquired nearly two years ago, collected outsized fees from borrowers facing foreclosure. More»

Many Gulf federal judges have oil links
Associated Press - Sat Jun 5, 2010
MIAMI - More than half of the federal judges in districts where the bulk of Gulf oil spill-related lawsuits are pending have financial connections to the oil and gas industry, complicating the task of finding judges without conflicts to hear the cases, an Associated Press analysis of judicial financial disclosure reports shows. More»

Arizona School Demands Black & Latino Students' Faces On Mural Be Changed To White
Wonkette - Fri Jun 4, 2010
Hard to find even the Gallows Humor in this story, so maybe we won't even try. More»

Mystery Roadkill - 5ft Carp
Dayton Daily News - Tue Jun 1, 2010
SPRINGBORO, Ohio - Springboro road crews responded to an unusual reported roadkill this morning, June 2: a nearly 5-foot fish found by the side of the road. More»

Rare photo shows Marilyn Monroe with JFK, RFK
CNN - Mon May 31, 2010
Los Angeles, California - Marilyn Monroe's sultry rendition of "Happy Birthday" sung for President John F Kennedy's 45th birthday celebration marked the actress' last major public appearance before her mysterious death in August 1962. More»

Lawyers offer to reduce fees in 9/11 health case
Associated Press - Mon May 31, 2010
NEW YORK - Lawyers for thousands of ground zero workers suing over their exposure to dust from the destroyed World Trade Center have offered to lower their legal fees in an attempt to salvage a major settlement in the case. More»

Fox host Van Susteren asks blog readers to gauge her intelligence
Yahoo! - Fri May 28, 2010
For journalists, hate mail comes with the territory. More»

Georgia Students Wear Ku Klux Klan Outfits To School
WSB-TV - Sun May 23, 2010
DAHLONEGA, Georgia - School officials said a Lumpkin County High School teacher went too far with a class project. More»

Cleaning oil-soaked wetlands may be impossible
Associated Press - Sat May 22, 2010
NEW ORLEANS - The gooey oil washing into the maze of marshes along the Gulf Coast could prove impossible to remove, leaving a toxic stew lethal to fish and wildlife, government officials and independent scientists said. More»

Caught On Tape: Officers' Convenience Store Rant
WSB-TV - Sat May 22, 2010
CHEROKEE COUNTY, Georgia - A local police officer is captured on security video threatening to use his Taser on the owner of a Shell Gas station in Cherokee County, while also threatening to "Send him back to India. More»

Atty: Video shows police fired into Detroit home
Associated Press - Sun May 16, 2010
DETROIT - Police who carried out a raid on a family home that left a 7-year-old girl dead over the weekend were accompanied by a camera crew for a reality television show, and an attorney says video of the siege contradicts the police account of what happened. More»

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