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Anthony Gucciardi | Up until modern times the word ‘organic’ was not even used to describe real food.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) -- President Barack Obama declared Wednesday the world has a "new feeling about America" and more respect for its leadership, weaving re-election themes into a commencement speech to jubilant graduates of the U.S. Air Force Academy....

Infowars.com | Film features 43 experts in building engineering, physics, chemistry, and other technical fields, plus a half-dozen psychologists.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A House committee chairman charged Wednesday that the CIA and Defense Department jeopardized national security by cooperating too closely with filmmakers producing a movie on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden....

Kurt Nimmo | Chemist and radiation safety instructor predicts control of all fuel pools will be lost if #4 collapses.

Crains New York: Big glitch in feds’ case against Spongetech by Aaron Elstein:

The government has majorly messed up its seemingly airtight case against the chief executive of Spongetech Delivery Systems, a New York-based maker of SpongeBob SquarePants sponges that allegedly faked 99% of its sales.

Last week, a federal judge ruled that reams of emails and other potentially damaging evidence couldn’t be used in court because the government took too long to examine the bounty.

My prior post on the case is here.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A privately built space capsule that's zipping its way to the International Space Station has also launched something else: A new for-profit space race....

NEW ALBANY, Ind. (AP) -- Prosecutors have charged a southern Indiana man accused in two killings with a third count of murder in the death of a woman whose body was found buried in his backyard....

CHICAGO (AP) — Patrick Fitzgerald, one of the most feared U.S. attorneys in the nation and the architect of convictions against two Illinois governors and a former vice presidential aide, announced Wednesday that he is stepping down from the post he has held for more than a decade in Chicago.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Robert Van Handel was a 15-year-old seminarian at St. Anthony's, a prestigious Franciscan boarding school, when, he said, a priest slipped into the infirmary where he was recovering from a fever and began to molest him. The priest told him it would help draw the fever out....

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A high-ranking church official accused of moving predator-priests to unwitting parishes took the stand in his own defense Wednesday, telling jurors in the groundbreaking clergy sex-abuse trial that he had no authority to make priest transfers....

John Daly | China tells Australia "the time for Cold War alliances has passed."

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the nation's top military leaders pleaded Wednesday for Senate approval of a long-spurned high seas treaty, arguing that the pact will boost U.S. national security and create much-needed American jobs....

BBC - The Forum | 'Science Fiction writer Elizabeth Moon argues that everyone should be given a barcode at birth.'

Susanne Posel | Obama issues EO called "Blocking Property of Persons Threatening the Peace, Security, or Stability of Yemen."

The Monitor | Mexico is dangerous territory for journalists looking to report on drug violence in the country.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- A Florida A&M drum major who died after being hazed on a bus was known for his opposition to hazing but agreed to go through a brutal initiation ritual because it was seen as an honor, according to interviews with band mates released Wednesday....

KVIA ABC-7 | Marine agents patrol Texas' watery Gulf of Mexico border in search of contraband smugglers.

Infowars.com | Top banker reveals that financial regulation is being tailored to support the UN’s Millennium Development Goals.

Kurt Nimmo | Toll roads and turnpikes operated by foreign companies like Cintra do not answer to citizens.