Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has been nominated for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian politician behind the proposal said, a day after the deadline for nominations expired.
Snorre Valen on Wednesday said that the whistleblowing website ...
Posted Friday, February 4th 2011 at 3:54PM
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Hundreds of Jordanians have marched in Amman, the capital, demanding economic and political reforms, while also supporting the revolution unfolding in Egypt.
Protesters from leftist groups and the Muslim Brotherhood marched from the prime minister's ...
Posted Friday, February 4th 2011 at 3:50PM
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader has called the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia an "Islamic liberation movement". In his address, during Friday prayers at Tehran University in Iran's capital, he said that people are witnessing the reverb ...
Posted Friday, February 4th 2011 at 12:35PM
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NEW ORLEANS — When Hurricane Katrina hit and the murky waters rushed through levee breaches, even the facts were drowned. Official documents were destroyed, years of photographs were ruined, and a city’s ability to know itself was lost. Answers ...
Posted Friday, February 4th 2011 at 12:24PM
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It was hard to be married to Tom Cruise, but for Nicole Kidman, the divorce was even harder. The Australian actress, who was married to the actor from 1990-2000, opened up about her marriage and split from Cruise in the new Marie Claire UK. "That w ...
Posted Thursday, February 3rd 2011 at 9:34PM
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Eighteen Democratic senators continue to ignore the fact that their home states are so opposed to President Obama’s health care law that they have sued to block it from taking effect. The U.S. Senate voted 47-51 Wednesday on repealing the massive ...
Posted Thursday, February 3rd 2011 at 8:31PM
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On Wednesday, Democrats in the Senate successfully blocked the repeal of health reform -- preventing Republicans from tacking it on as an amendment to a completely unrelated bill. But Republicans in Congress aren't finished with the political games. ...
Posted Thursday, February 3rd 2011 at 7:57PM
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Whatever your age have fun with language games. Playing while learning languages, is the easiest and less stressful way of becoming bilingual, we can all learn from children. Children have a window of opportunity to learn a foreign language, any for ...
Posted Thursday, February 3rd 2011 at 7:40PM
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Whether you need to someone to help you move furniture at 2 p.m. or move the earth at 2 a.m., it’s good to have a friend you can call on. Friends with benefits - those benefits being sex with no strings attached - is the theme of two new movies (o ...
Posted Thursday, February 3rd 2011 at 3:29PM
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(WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. racial minorities accounted for roughly 85 percent of the nation's population growth over the last decade — one of the largest shares ever — with Hispanics accounting for much of the gain in many of the states picking up ...
Posted Thursday, February 3rd 2011 at 3:22PM
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NEW YORK (AP) — Isn't it lovely? The Apollo Theater says singer songwriter Stevie Wonder will be inducted into the New York City institution's Hall of Fame. The theater announced Wednesday that the songwriter of hits like "I Just Called to Say I L ...
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LOS ANGELES (January 29, 2011) -- Chris Brown has completed a domestic violence counseling program required as part of the singer’s guilty plea to assaulting then-girlfriend Rihanna nearly two years ago. On Friday, Los Angeles Superior Court ...
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ATLANTA (January 31, 2011) -- Filmmaker Spike Lee joined Education Secretary Arne Duncan in issuing a call Monday for more black men to become teachers, making their plea at the country’s only all-male historically black college. The two took part ...
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President Barack Obama gave an unusually personal speech about his religious faith on Thursday, saying that "it is the biblical injunction to serve the least of these that keeps me going and keeps me from being overwhelmed," in address to a prayer br ...
Posted Thursday, February 3rd 2011 at 11:19AM
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PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — The country's most famous groundhog predicted an early spring Wednesday but wasn't willing to go out on a limb to forecast whether his state's Pittsburgh Steelers will win the Super Bowl. Punxsutawney Phil emerged just aft ...
Posted Wednesday, February 2nd 2011 at 10:41PM
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The U.S. Senate voted 51-47 today against repealing the massive health care law. All 51 Democrats opposed the repeal; all 47 Republicans supported the effort. “They (Democrats) know it’s a rotten bill,” Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, told Fox News. ...
Posted Wednesday, February 2nd 2011 at 10:19PM
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The fight for custody of baby Nahla Aubry is heating up. Mom Halle Berry, who is currently dating her recent Dark Tide movie co-star Olivier Martinez, has reportedly been replaced in a big comedy film she was recently cast for. And her rep says Hal ...
Posted Tuesday, February 1st 2011 at 8:27PM
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Before we can explore exact methods of the underground railroad, we must first understand the basic methods of communication among slaves. It was prohibited for slaves to learn to read and write. Though some did, it was fairly uncommon for slaves to ...
Posted Tuesday, February 1st 2011 at 3:17PM
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There are intriguing stories of how quilting was used to help the slaves escape through the Underground Railroad. A Log Cabin quilt hanging in a window with a black center for the chimney hole was said to indicate a safe house. Underground Railroad q ...
Posted Tuesday, February 1st 2011 at 3:04PM
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(ABC 6 NEWS) -- It's been 25 years since seven astronauts were killed when the space shuttle Challenger exploded. Decades later, kids who weren't even alive back then are learning…
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Posted Friday, January 28th 2011 at 8:27PM
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It's been 25 years since seven astronauts were killed when the space shuttle Challenger exploded. Decades later, kids who weren't even alive back then are learning… ...
Posted Friday, January 28th 2011 at 8:23PM
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When I was 13 years old, my mother told me, "Daddy's not your real father." I do not remember what started this conversation. We were sitting on the couch in the living room, and I think we might have been talking about the way Alzheimer's runs in my ...
Posted Friday, January 28th 2011 at 8:09PM
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As a nation holds its breath, Nelson Mandela is reportedly recovering from a collapsed lung at a Johannesburg hospital, cloaked by levels of secrecy that have triggered wild rumours and near panic.
The 92-year-old hero of the anti-apartheid strugg ...
Posted Thursday, January 27th 2011 at 8:55PM
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The rumors are true. Singer Monica and NBA Lakers star Shannon Brown are married. Their wedding was held in their home in Los Angeles. The two lovebirds originally met on the set of her video for “Love All Over Me”,
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Posted Thursday, January 27th 2011 at 12:34AM
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AP -- The Huffington Post and BET co-founder Sheila Johnson are launching a HuffPost section devoted to African Americans. The section, “HuffPost GlobalBlack,” is expected to debut in early March. The Huffington Post is set to make an official ...
Posted Thursday, January 27th 2011 at 12:26AM
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