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L.A. police: 2 arrests in Chinese student killings

2010electionyear — Sat, 19 May 2012 03:41:35 +0000

Two young men have were arrested Friday in the killings of two Chinese graduate students who were shot to death near the University of Southern California campus last month, police said.

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Iran, Syria among top issues for G-8 and NATO

2010electionyear — Sat, 19 May 2012 03:37:26 +0000

Leaders of the largest industrialized countries are displaying strong unity in pursuing both diplomacy and sanctions against the development of an Iranian nuclear bomb and found common ground in focusing on political transition in violence-wracked Syria. That from a senior U.S. official.

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Stabbed Ohio woman hits child with car, both dead

2010electionyear — Sat, 19 May 2012 02:24:11 +0000

A woman allegedly stabbed by her best friend during an argument while sitting behind the wheel of a car tried to drive away and struck her attacker’s 2-year-old daughter, authorities said Friday. The woman and the toddler both died.

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Police nab airline pilot with loaded gun in luggage

2010electionyear — Sat, 19 May 2012 01:58:29 +0000

BUFFALO, New York (Reuters) – An airline pilot was arrested Friday morning at Buffalo Niagara International Airport after security screeners discovered a loaded revolver in his baggage. Brett Dieter, 52, of Barbersville, Virginia, arrived at the upstate New York airport Friday to pilot a flight to New York City’s LaGuardia International Airport for Piedmont Airlines, a passenger airline that subcontracts under U.S. Airways. While at a security checkpoint, a scan of Dieter’s bag revealed a .357 magnum revolver loaded with five rounds. …

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Driver who was hero in ’76 Calif. bus kidnap dies

2010electionyear — Sat, 19 May 2012 01:58:00 +0000

The nation called Ed Ray a hero when he led a terrified group of children to safety after they were kidnapped aboard their school bus and held underground for ransom in the summer of 1976.

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Wake for Mary Kennedy held amid apparent rift

2010electionyear — Sat, 19 May 2012 01:47:40 +0000

The two sides of Mary Richardson Kennedy’s grieving family faced off in court Friday over custody of her body, just hours before she was mourned at a wake at the estate where she committed suicide.

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Soldier faces murder charges in Iraq base deaths

2010electionyear — Sat, 19 May 2012 01:43:43 +0000

Murder charges have been filed against a sergeant accused of killing four other soldiers and a Navy officer in May 2009 at a mental health clinic in Iraq, the Army said Friday.

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Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points — Good Enough for My Money

2010electionyear — Sat, 19 May 2012 01:41:34 +0000

So, it’s official. Disco is dead. The passing of Donna Summer brings to a close an era in American music that… well… if you didn’t live through it, it’s hard to explain. Especially the outfits people wore in public. And making John Travolta a movie star (although he did atone somewhat, by genuflecting to the 1950s immediately thereafter, in Grease ). Music history aside, it was a somewhat eclectic week in politics. The House — in one of their rare moments when they actually meet and attempt to get something done — passed a bunch of bills which have exactly zero chance of becoming law. Well, at least they had fun, right? Republicans were doing their usual clown routine out on the campaign trail, including questioning Obama’s commitment to America and (once again) his birth certificate . Sigh. The more things change, the more the clown makeup remains the same, I suppose. On a lighter note in clowning around, it seems arriving at a red carpet in a dog crate on top of a car is now chic . Heh. Chicago is about to become “Protest Central” this weekend, for a meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The G-8 meeting was also supposed to have happened in Chicago, but was instead hastily whisked away to Camp David in the Maryland mountains, where popular protest is impossible (Camp David is definitely not a “free speech zone,” to put it in Orwellian terms). This likely won’t deflate the balloon of protest in the Windy City, but we’ll all just have to see what happens over the weekend. House Republicans passed a budget bill which hikes spending further than what they already agreed to — yes, you read that right, Republicans are spending too much money — because it is the one budget item that they’ll never ever consider cutting: the Pentagon. They’ll happily slash money for the poor, for the retired, and for the hungry… as long as we can build Ronald Reagan’s missile defense system to protect us against the Soviet Union (which, someone really ought to tell Mitt Romney and the rest of the Republicans, no longer actually exists). Americans Elect suffered a spectacular failure this week. These were the Wall Street kids who wanted to play in the big presidential sandbox, by buying ballot access in all 50 states so that they could run a “balanced ticket” of one moderate Republican and one moderate Democrat. However, it seems Americans aren’t all that interested in the pipe dream of the Beltway chattering class for some sort of non-partisan “centrist” ticket, and not enough people voted online for anyone — not even, astonishingly enough, Ron Paul — for them to qualify for the next round of voting. C’mon, guys, just end the window-dressing attempts and go ahead and offer the ballot access you’ve already won (in over half the states) to Michael Bloomberg, which was really the whole reason you created this fake-grassroots movement in the first place, OK? Stop pretending you weren’t going to do this anyway, and just jump in with both feet. Enough of this looking backward, though, let’s move forward to the rest of this week’s nonsense.

Feds say Colorado wildfire started on camp stove

2010electionyear — Sat, 19 May 2012 01:19:49 +0000

Warm, dry weather hindered hundreds of firefighters battling a blaze in northern Colorado that federal officials say started with a camp stove.

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Boehner: All options on table in gun-running probe

2010electionyear — Sat, 19 May 2012 01:19:43 +0000

House Speaker John Boehner says “all options are on the table” in the ongoing congressional investigation into the “Fast and Furious” operation and whether the House would move to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt should he refuse to fully comply.

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