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Sotomayor: My ‘Wise Latina’ Comments Not So Different from Samuel Alito

This is getting out of hand! One comment in a speech is the only thing Republicans have against the most experienced judge to appear in front of the US Senate for Supreme Court Confirmation in three generations. do you think she will get confirmed

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Sotomayor: My ‘Wise Latina’ Comments Not So Different from Samuel Alito

Los Angeles accused of criminalizing homelessness

Two major advocacy groups for the homeless on Tuesday ranked Los Angeles as the “meanest” city in the United States, citing a Skid Row police crackdown they say has criminalized poverty and homelessness there.

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Resident Evil shirt gives massive lols

I’d risk flashing boob to show off this shirt. Who’s with me?! added by: Nettle

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US urges China to set 2050 emissions targets

China and other developing countries should join the United States in setting mid-century targets to cut carbon emissions in the battle against global warming, the U.S. energy secretary said Wednesday

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‘Many dead’ in Iranian air crash

At least 168 passengers and crew are feared dead after a Caspian Airlines plane crashed in the north of Iran, state media says.

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Conservative "News" outlets offered to spin missing SC governor story

In a report published Tuesday, South Carolina newspaper The State discloses the first in a series of e-mails straight from Governor Mark Sanford’s staff, obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests. But in this report, the most interesting tidbit is not about the governor himself, but the media surrounding him

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Major General Jagath Jayasuriya assumed duties today

Major General Jagath Jayasuriya assumed duties today as the new Army Commander, with the current Army Commander Sarath Fonseka retiring from his post as the chief of the Army. General Sarath Fonseka officially handed over the token sword to Major General Jayasuriya upon..

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SpongeBob turns 10 and is valued at $8 billion

At a festival in Germany, when six women walked by wearing specially-created “SpongeBob SquarePants” shirts, Stephen Hillenburg’s wife nudged him: Why don’t you tell them who you are? Hillenburg, who created SpongeBob and all his undersea friends at the Krusty Krab, declined. “I thought that it was so surreal, they probably wouldn’t believe me,” he recalled Monday

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House lays groundwork for CIA probe

WASHINGTON – The House Intelligence Committee has asked the CIA to provide documents about the now-canceled program to target al-Qaida leaders, U.S. congressional officials said Tuesday

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Texting Teen Falls Down NYC Manhole; Will Sue City?

“A teen in New York City fell down a manhole while she was sending a text message on her cell phone. Alexa Longueira was about to send a text t a friend when she fell down the open manhole on Staten Island, she told local reporters

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