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Osama bin Laden is dead and his body has been recovered by U.S. authorities, U.S. officials said on Sunday.U.S. President Barack Obama was to make the dramatic announcement shortly in a hastily called, late-night appearance at the White House.As they waited for his statement, multiple news organizations reported sources in the White House had confirmed bin Laden's death almost a decade after the 9/11 attacks on the...

Donald Trump pushed back Sunday at President Barack Obama for making him the "focus of the evening" in his White House Correspondents' Dinner speech, and laced into Saturday Night Live comedian Seth Meyers as a "stutterer" whose delivery was lacking.Continue ReadingTrump's comments came in a quick phone-in to "Fox and Friends," a day after he sat almost stone-faced while the president and Meyers ripped him repeatedly,...

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Some people complain about the pace of baseball, calling a nine-inning game an eternity. These people obviously had never heard of the 33-inning game in 1981 between the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings. This week, Bill interviews author Dan Barry about his book, Bottom of the 33rd. Click on the listen link above to hear the interview.Bill’s Thoughts on Bottom of the 33rdAt 8:00 PM on April 18th, 1981,...

The Royal Wedding of Prince William & Catherine MiddletonApril 29, 2011 at 06:00am EDT - The Royal ChannelThe Royal WeddingOfficial site about the wedding of Prince William and Miss Catherine Middleton. Includes background and news and videos about the service, procession, ...www.officialroyalwedding2011.org/ - CachedVideos for Royal Wedding - Report videosThank you for the feedback. Report another video.Please...

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.Both were shot in the...

Why is the Federal Reserve forking over $220 million in bailout money to the wives of two Morgan Stanley bigwigs?by Matt TaibbiAmerica has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial. The official budget is public record and hotly debated: Money comes in as taxes and goes out as jet fighters, DEA agents, wheat subsidies and Medicare, plus pensions and bennies for that great untamed socialist menace called a unionized...

By BNO NewsISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BNO NEWS) -- Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday acquitted five men accused of participating in a 2002 gang rape in southern Muzafargarh district, Geo Television reported.The Court upheld the verdict of the Lahore High Court (LHC) of exonerating the five men and sentencing another one, Abdul Khaliq, to life in prison. The Supreme Court suspended the initial 2005 verdict of LHC. However,...

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TORONTO - A Toronto janitor is cleaning up after learning his Lotto Max ticket bagged him a $16.6-million payout.The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. says John Addo checked his ticket Saturday at a local store and found he had one of the three winning tickets in Friday's $50-million draw.The Ghana native, who came to Canada 20 years ago, has been working seven days a week for an industrial cleaning company to make ends...

EXCLUSIVE: American Idol's Pia Toscano Scores a Record Deal!Credit: Kaminski/Splash NewsSaturday – April 09, 2011 – 10:55amComments (73) » Well that was fast!Less than 24 hours after her shocking early American Idol exit, season 10 finalist Pia Toscano has scored a record deal, UsMagazine.com has exclusively confirmed.PHOTOS: Idol's most shocking elliminations everThe 22-year-old New Yorker -- booted from the Fox series...

NDP FACT CHECKReality check: The Ignatieff stand-up and be counted tour?JANUARY 12, 2011“He is standing up and willing to be counted” Martha Hall Findlay, Globe and Mail, January 10, 2011Standing up to be counted? Sounds like a great theme for a tour of Liberal ridings! Let’s check the record:Michael Ignatieff was absent for a shocking 77% of House of Commons votes in 2010. That’s 107 votes missed.That compares to 44%...

Analysis: who won the debate? Canadian federal election leaders' debate GLOBAL NEWSAPRIL 12, 2011 9:19 PM Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, right, gestures to Prime Minister Stephen Harper as the debate during the English language federal election debate in Ottawa Ont., on Tuesday, April 12, 2011.Photograph by: Adrian Wyld, CP ImagesDr. Royce Koop is a Post Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Studies at...

ShareEx Prime Minister Harper must now call an election after he lost his job today. MP Harper must now see the Governor General on Saturday and Announce he lost and will call a new election on Saturday. Election is suspected to be in the next 60 daysIt’s official — the government has fallen from power, clearing the way for a spring election.The opposition Liberals, NDP and Bloc Québécois came together Friday afternoon...

By Reality Check Team on April 12, 2011 5:59 PMCategories: Leaders' debateDebate's on and we're off to our fact-checking pile of facts and figures. First up tonight was Conservative Leader Stephen Harper answering a question about corporate taxes and how he would justify them. Ready for the recession? It quickly turned into an attack by Bloc Leader Gilles Duceppe, who charged that the Conservatives were unprepared for...

Inside The Budget Deal: Vulnerable Populations Targeted, But Family Planning SavedFirst 12-04-2011 11:44 AM EDT | Updated: 12-04-2011 12:00 AM EDTBut not the budget items that are off limits during elections...both democrats and republicans avoid the big three where the most money is wasted...WASHINGTON –- Congressional leaders unveiled their final budget deal early Tuesday, a $1.049 trillion spending plan that...

The big story of the week is the end of Glen Beck’s show on Fox News. Has he been cancelled? Is this a reaction to claims Beck’s show was too divisive? Had the sponsors pulled out? Well Beck claims he is ‘transitioning” off the air. His boss, Darth Vader made flesh, Roger Ailes has offered a helping hand: “Half of the headlines say he’s been canceled, The other half say he quit. We’re pretty happy with both of them.”Loyalty.For...

TrumpDonald Trump is potentially going to run for the Republican Nomination for President. Yep. Donald Trump. Host of the American version of “The Apprentice.” That’s the equivalent of Alan Sugar going for Prime Minister.I can see no reason why he wouldn’t be a great President. I mean he recently bankrupted his own casino company. A casino. His own casino. Only a very special person could do that.He also gets on with...

Independent.co.ukTrump trumped in 'birther' campaignWednesday, 30 March 2011The billionaire businessman Donald Trump, star of the US version of The Apprentice and aspiring Republican presidential candidate, may have put the brakes on his campaign before it even got off the ground.Interviewed on the Fox television network on Monday, Mr Trump appeared to throw in his lot with the "birthers" who question whether President...

Leo- Tuesday, April 5, 2011There is nothing to be gained by taking a pessimistic view of life at a time when the sky has so much to offer you. A successful outcome to a particularly difficult dilemma awaits you. Don’t take anything too seriously. The universe will soon deliver a run of positive news much to your joy. Proof is on the way.Richard Branson unveils deep-sea submarine plansREUTERSAPRIL 5, 2011 7:42 PMVirgin...

Back to A story of survival rises from the ruins of a fishing villageA story of survival rises from the ruins of a fishing villageMarch 15, 2011Bill SchillerA Japanese rescue team member walks through the completely leveled village of Saito in northeastern Japan Monday, March 14, 2011.David Guttenfelder/APTARO VILLAGE, JAPAN—The seawalls that buffer this once-bucolic fishing village from the ocean were supposed to keep...

HUFFINGTONPOST.COM - Unlike most of us, Irving Przyborski didn't wait until April 14 to fill out his taxes this year. He got around to it in mid-March -- a decision that turned out to be worth nine million dollars.Going through his tax documents, WBBM radio reports, Przyborski came across an old Illinois Lottery ticket from March of 2010. He had bought a number of tickets around that time, and went through most of them,...

hide «Colonel SandersCARLOS OSORIO/TORONTO STAR4) The Colonel’s suburban bungalow: Colonel Harland Sanders wasn’t actually a Colonel. He wasn’t actually a Kentuckian either. But he was one of the most famous residents ever to move to Mississauga, living at 1337 Melton Dr. for several months a year from 1964 until his death in 1980. Sanders, who sold his American shares of the Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise in 1964,...