... who previously retired, a New Jersey correction officer, a former New York City Sanitation Department police officer, and two other unidentified men. The majority of the men all worked at the Brooklyn station house sometime in the past. These eight men accepted thousands of dollars in bribes to drive a caravan of M-16 rifles and handguns, as well as stolen merchandise, across state lines. For these crimes, they face ... charges of conspiracy to transport firearms across state lines, conspiracy to transport defaced firearms across state lines, conspiracy to sell firearms across state lin...

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To add to the growing tension between Iran and the United States, members of the Iranian Parliament's human rights committee have taken a strong, public stand against the planned execution of a woman in Virginia. According to a British newspaper, "the parliamentary human rights committee said her case reflected ...

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The Occupy movement that began months ago in New York and has since grasped hold of the rest of the country turned violent for the first time on November 2nd in Oakland when a small group of protestors smashed the windows of a Wells Fargo bank branch during a protest of wealth inequalities. The Occupy Oakland movement scheduled a noon rally in front of City Hall and then a free lunch afterward. The day's events were planned to wrap up with a "general strike mass convergence, rally, and labor cookout." Each of these were intended to be peaceful protests, but a small faction began passing out fl...

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A landlord of a Philadelphian apartment discovered four mentally handicapped people chained in the basement when he went to investigate a short circuit on October 15th. Turgut Gozleveli discovered dogs locked inside of the boiler room and four adults hiding underneath a blanket. They were hunched together in a space not tall enough for an adult to stand, surrounded in human waste with only a jug of orange juice (Hoye). He unchained them while asking questions about their identity, but he didn't receive any answers. Believing them to be illegal immigrants, Gosleveli called in the police who qui...

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... and call it transportation in a world full of cars and freeways, you do him no favors. This is the sort of thinking that is killing analog television. The effects of the full switchover to digital television broadcasts are likely to be as catastrophic as the Y2K phenomenon proved to be - it's a lot of hoopla over a bang that will likely be less than a fizzle. That's likely what lawmakers ... had in mind when they enacted the law that requires television stations to make the switch which has been rescheduled for June 12, 2009. While certainly 6.5 million households that now receive signa...

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... networking service called the Google+ project. The project looks conspicuously a lot like Facebook, but Google insists its added some tweeks that will hopefully prove this new initiative to be successful (Miller). The Google+ project that launched on June 28th is only available to a select group of Google users who will test the product and then invite others to join. Like Facebook, the social networking site ... allows people to share and discuss status updates, photos and links. The major difference is that the Google+ project is meant for ... as colleagues, roommates, or running bud...

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... fashion he wants. Absolute majority of these programs comes free of charge, but without support from the vendors. The open-source software has recently gained popularity in governmental and commercial sector, especially in some European countries. Apart from the obvious advantage it has over the programs you need to pay for - that it comes free of charge, open-source software has other good sides as ... sometimes cannot save files in some formats so your partners and friends may have problems opening the files you send them) and in some cases the alternative is much, much weaker than th...

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... data in that many prisoners have minor children, who very rarely get to interact with their parents. It is reported in 2007 that there were roughly 1,706,600 minor children in the U. S. living without a parent due to the parent's prison stay. The statistics, also include (from surveys) information on the amount of time these children are in contact with their incarcerated parent, ... sources of financial contributions to the children's households, caregiver information for the children and more. This type of data can help in ... reducing risk of recidivism due to the desire of incarcera...

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... moments. Voting turnouts broke some records, and with the election of Senator Barack Obama, the United States allowed a new era of American politics to be ushered in. And the way it all happened was revolutionary, too. The Internet has, it seems, forever changed the way Americans experience their political lives. The Internet has infiltrated our everyday lives in countless ways: ... the candidates the questions they wanted answered. Never before has that been done. Because YouTube is such an enormously popular website across a diverse demographic and because the new arrangement allowed f...

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... a termination settlement," Cain told Fox News (Grinberg). Cain told Politico that he did not recall such an instance, but when pressed later by radio host, Laura Ingraham, Cain suddenly remembered the instance. "The word settlement suggested to me some sort of legal settlement," he explained about the mix-up, "and later as I thought about it and thought about it and I did recall an agreement with ... the lady that left who made the false accusation. So that's when I said yes, there was an agreement." Ingraham and Robin Meade from CNN were ... reluctant to let it go at that, demanding t...

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... to compete against online retailers who don't collect sales tax. "We still have enough people who think a music store is pretty cool to be around, but we have lost seven or eight music stores in the Bay Area in the last five years," Tucker said. "People think they are getting a deal by ordering their stuff online and out of state, but, in fact, they are hurting the ... schools, the police" (Hull). The State Board of Equalization estimates that around 25,000 ... 't understand. A lot of people make a few dollars here and there by being affiliates, and they really need the money" (Hull). R...

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... time since leaving the group. From the inside circle, Rathbun and Rinder both saw the abuse being dealt by the church. Their first report listed several issues involving Scientology's highest leaders, particularly David Miscavige, who succeeded L. Ron Hubbard as Scientology's leader. The issues included physical abuse of staff, mental abuse and cruelty, high pressure marketing tactics, character assignation, and threats. Miscavige was reported to have taken ruthless ... control of the organization after Hubbard's death and ... ...

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... simultaneously with her news conference in London. "Just as the experiences of reading requires that the imaginations of the author and the reader work together to create the story, so Pottermore will be built, in part, by you, the reader. The digital generation will be able to enjoy a safe, unique online reading experience built around the Harry Potter books. Pottermore will be the place where fans of any age can share, participate ... in, and rediscover the stories" (Clark). Rowling even announced that the seven original ... ...

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... American rights movement, such as Malcolm X. But according to the speaker in this message, Obama is nothing like those men, who he refers to as "honourable black Americans". The message lasted more than 11 minutes, and is spoken entirely in Arabic with English subtitles. The words "The departure of Bush and the arrival of Obama" are accompanied on the screen by a still image of Malcolm X on a Muslim prayer ... rug, as well as images of Obama wearing a Jewish yarmulke, and a picture of al-Zawahiri. "You have reached the position ... of president, and a heavy legacy of failure and crimes ...

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... Party more conservative. Others wish to completely reorder the political system, mostly by shrinking it drastically (Barstow). One thing most of the Tea Partiers do have in common though is the fact that most had previously been uninvolved in politics. Not until the recession hit did many of them feel the need to contribute their input. After seeing the jobs lost, the homes foreclosed, and the retirement funds depleted, they felt ... an increasing need to know the root cause and who to blame for it. Many believe that their constitutional rights are being ignored by government (Barstow)....

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... and many have lost their homes or are in danger of losing their homes, it seems that the bulk of Americans are more plagued by the promise of woe than the reality thereof. Internationally, the economic news for the travel industry is even better. 43 percent of international respondents to the same survey stated that they saw economic conditions as "terrible" and of those, only 15% have cancelled ... or delayed travel plans as the result of a sluggish or receding economy. In a time when gas prices have recently ... ...

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... in May has repeatedly lied, according to law enforcement officials. Forensic evidence concludes that a sexual encounter between Strauss-Kahn and the housekeeper undoubtedly occurred, but little else of what the accuser has said during the case is believable (Dwyer). The holes in the case include the housekeeper's asylum application and possible links to criminal activities, including drug dealing and ... money laundering. Senior prosecutors met with Strauss-Kahn's lawyers to discuss whether to dismiss the felony charges. State ... because of the accuser's testimony, plans to tell the co...

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The United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women recently awarded $10 million in grants to 13 initiatives in 18 countries. The UN Trust Fund, which is managed by the United Nations Development Fund for Women, or UNIFEM, was established in 1996 by the United Nations, and still remains the only multilateral grant-making mechanism solely devoted to supporting local and national efforts to end violence against women and girls. Its recent grant completed the UN Trust Fund's 14th grant-making cycle of 2009, which awarded a total of $20.5 million to 26 projects ...

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... name appeared on Glen Mulcaire's list, the private investigator hired by The News of the World. The list contained about 4,000 people rumored to be targets of the tabloid's phone scandal (Somaiya). "The last edition of The News of the World made great play of the paper's relationship with the Payne family," said Tom Watson, a parliament member who investigated the phone scandal. "I have nothing but contempt for the people that did this" (Somaiya). Brooks ... committing two more murders. In September, public hearings will take place. These hearings plan to make good use of eyewitnesses. ...

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... demands this result," said Ketanji Brown Jackson, the commission's vice chairman (Serrano). The law will go into effect in November barring that Congress does not veto it, although that is highly unlikely. The average crack sentence will be reduced by about 37 months, which could save more than $200 million in the next five years according to the federal Bureau of Prisons. Almost six percent of ... the federal inmate population will be released. However, the reductions are not made automatically to every prisoner. Each prisoner must file a petition and ... show that they are no longer a...

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... $113,149 in wealth. Furthermore, unemployment rates for blacks and Hispanics rose at a faster pace than for whites, according to a study by the Center for American Progress. At the same time, median family income was declining faster for the minority groups than for whites (The Huffington Post). "The median wealth of white households is 20 times that of black households and 18 times of Hispanic households," wrote ... in 2005 was derived from owned homes," revealed one report. Naturally, the drop in the housing market affected Latinos greatly (Costa). Rakesh Kochhar, Associate Director f...

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... claimed she was abducted at a government checkpoint and held for days while officials bound, beat, poured alcohol in her eyes, and gang raped her repeatedly. The accused men plan to sue her, according to government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim (The Huffington Post). Al-Obeidy fled from Libya into Tunisia aided by a defecting military officer and his family. Apparently, she left in a military car and was able ... to the Qatari authorities not to deport al-Obeidy. "We tried all night to prevent her deportation," said Vincent Cochetel of the UNHCR office. UNHCR argued that al-Obeidy had refuge...

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... regulation law and helping to deliver the House majority to the Republicans last fall. In turn, Obama accused the group of using foreign money to fund ads attacking the Democrats, an allegation that they have said is a "threat to our democracy" (Dennis). He then presented a speech aimed at demonstrating that Obama is not anti-business, where he expressed his plan to create jobs by encouraging firms to use their cash on ... hand to "get in the game." He promised to make sales calls for American products and cut burdensome regulations. While setting a conciliatory tone before he sends the...

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... a 15-hour fire consisting of 100-foot flames (Uncoverage). China's crisis is one of a lesser degree than the crisis in the Gulf, according to the Associated Press, who reported that the spill had only spread over 165 square miles, just a small area compared to the 2,700 square miles covered by BP's oil spill (Adams). MSNBC.com further reported that China's spill released approximately 400,000 gallons of oil ... as compared to the 94 million to 184 million gallons now polluting the Gulf, although The Huffington Post believes the damage is dramatically underestimated. They estimate that t...

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... became offensive as they initiated air strikes on South Ossetia rebel forces. According to the Republic of Georgia, just as rebel forces had become aggressive toward Georgian cities, Russian troops had slowly been building a huge presence in the region. On August 8, in response to air raids on South Ossetia by Georgia that killed hundreds of civilians, Russia marched full force into South ... Ossetia and not only chased the Georgian troops out of the state, but also invaded Georgia and embarked on a bitter four-day killing spree ... . The cause of the conflict goes back to the fall of th...

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