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Senator: Prostitution scandal wider than believed

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:47
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Several small groups of Secret Service employees separately visited clubs, bars and brothels in Colombia prior to a visit by President Barack Obama last month and engaged in reckless, "morally repugnant" behavior, Sen. Susan Collins says....
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Moon chips from Vegas casino mogul sent to NASA

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:47
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- It's been a long, strange trip for what appears to be several tiny chips of lunar rock that found their way into a casino mogul's hands after being collected by the first men on the moon....
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Kennedy, The New York Post and the truth

Greg Palast - Articles - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:47

What a terrible task to take on at such a dark moment when I would prefer to keep my thoughts private, but someone must speak.
I am, and I hope you are, sickened to see Rupert Murdoch's New York Post savage our colleague Robert F. Kennedy Jr. while he and his children are in great distress.
I will not answer, and thereby repeat, the cruel libels thrown at Kennedy by the Post.
But let me get this on the record: Kennedy is, and this is no exaggeration, the most committed family man I know. Every single day, he shuts down work, no matter the flood of urgent demands from around the world, for family time, for his kids. He is deeply religious, with a piety and intelligence he communicates with his family so impressive it makes me doubt my atheism.
Kennedy uses his family name, not to further his career, but to widen his children's understanding and involvement in the world and to try to teach our ignorant nation lessons in moral conduct that his kids have already learned well.
To blame Kennedy for his wife's illness is just further proof of the conclusion of Britain's Parliament that Murdoch is "unfit to run a newspaper."  But then, no one would say the NY Post is a newspaper.
Again, I want to extend the condolences of the entire Palast crew to Mary Richardson Kennedy's family.
When Bobby's grief and mourning pauses––because it will never end––we look forward to resuming our partnership with him.

- Greg Palast

No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,

More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.

Comforter, where, where is your comforting?

 

...O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall

Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap

May who ne’er hung there. Nor does long our small

Durance deal with that steep or deep. 
 

- Gerard Manley Hopkins




Journalist Greg Palast, with Bobby Kennedy Jr., investigated the threat to voters' civil rights for Rolling Stone magazine and BBC Television. www.GregPalast.com

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Police dogs from around the nation compete in Fla.

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:47
LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) -- With barely a woof and many a sniff, police canines from around the country are gathering in Lakeland, Fla., this week to see who will be top dog....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Police dogs from around the nation compete in Fla.

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:47
LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) -- With barely a woof and many a sniff, police canines from around the country are gathering in Lakeland, Fla., this week to see who will be top dog....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Tales of lunar rocks through the years

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:47
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The saga of lunar rock traveling from the first moon landing in 1969 to the Las Vegas Strip in 1987 and back to NASA in 2012 recalls other moon rock stories. Here are a few:...
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Tales of lunar rocks through the years

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:47
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The saga of lunar rock traveling from the first moon landing in 1969 to the Las Vegas Strip in 1987 and back to NASA in 2012 recalls other moon rock stories. Here are a few:...
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Tales of lunar rocks through the years

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:47
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The saga of lunar rock traveling from the first moon landing in 1969 to the Las Vegas Strip in 1987 and back to NASA in 2012 recalls other moon rock stories. Here are a few:...
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Library of Congress taps 25 sounds for registry

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:47
WASHINGTON (AP) -- From rare audio interviews of former slaves to recordings by Donna Summer and the Grateful Dead, 25 sounds that shaped the American cultural landscape are being inducted into the National Recording Registry....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Report: More support needed for kinship caregivers

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:47
NEW YORK (AP) -- As more of America's children are raised by relatives other than their parents, state and local governments need to do better in helping these families cope with an array of financial and emotional challenges, a new report concludes....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Report: More support needed for kinship caregivers

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:47
NEW YORK (AP) -- As more of America's children are raised by relatives other than their parents, state and local governments need to do better in helping these families cope with an array of financial and emotional challenges, a new report concludes....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

5 Western states shielding part of executions

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:47
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- A San Francisco-based federal appeals court ruled in 2002 that every aspect of an execution should be open to witnesses, from the moment the condemned enters into the death chamber to his final heartbeat....
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5 Western states shielding part of executions

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:47
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- A San Francisco-based federal appeals court ruled in 2002 that every aspect of an execution should be open to witnesses, from the moment the condemned enters into the death chamber to his final heartbeat....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Senator: Prostitution scandal wider than believed

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:47
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Several small groups of Secret Service employees separately visited clubs, bars and brothels in Colombia prior to a visit by President Barack Obama last month and engaged in reckless, "morally repugnant" behavior, Sen. Susan Collins says....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Astrodome fades, crumbles as Houston decides fate

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:47
HOUSTON (AP) -- The Astrodome was once the envy of other cities, a fully air conditioned facility with a translucent roof that kept out the heat and humidity, gave synthetic grass its name, made Houston a sports entertainment destination and sparked the imaginations of baseball lovers, concert-goers and some of the country's most creative minds....
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US executions go from town square to behind bars

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:47
America's executions have changed dramatically over the years, morphing from daylong events in the town square to somber and tightly controlled affairs held deep inside prisons....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Small dairies go under as milk prices sink again

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:47
PLAINFIELD, Vt. (AP) -- The MacLaren brothers are third-generation dairy farmers, but they will likely be the last in their family....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Joplin remembers deadly tornado, 1 year later

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:47
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) -- Carrying small American flags and wearing T-shirts bearing the names of friends and loved ones who died when a massive tornado tore through Joplin one year ago, thousands of people made a somber march Tuesday through some of the town's hardest-hit neighborhoods....
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Report: More support needed for kinship caregivers

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:47
NEW YORK (AP) -- As more of America's children are raised by relatives other than their parents, state and local governments need to do better in helping these families cope with an array of financial and emotional challenges, a new report concludes....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US
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