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A banner displayed at the Eaton Centre in Toronto predicts that Judgement Day will occur on May 21, 2011. Courtesy Brian Cameron/Flickr.comThe Family Radio website says president Harold Camping came up with the Judgment Day prediction based on 'evidence found in the Bible.' The IndependentIf the signs are to be believed, the end of the world as we know it starts on May 21.Billboards are popping up around the globe,...

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Kenneth KiddFeature WriterWe may never know precisely how it all happened.But after days of confusing and sometimes contradictory reports by U.S. officials and others, some clarity is finally emerging from what even the White House has dubbed “the fog of war” surrounding the death of Osama bin Laden.We now know, for instance, that what was first described as a 40-minute firefight inside bin Laden’s Pakistan compound...

Missing B.C. woman found in U.S., but husband is still missing(The Canadian Press) – 22 minutes agoELKO, Nev. — It is an astonishing tale of survival against all odds.A British Columbia woman who vanished with her husband seven weeks ago on their way to Las Vegas was found alive Friday in a remote part of northeastern Nevada, police said.Hunters found Rita Chretien, 56, with her van in Elko County, according to a joint...

'Deathers' take over where birthers left offBy Shannon Travis, CNN Political ProducerWASHINGTON (CNN) -- With "birthers" mostly silent, "deathers" are now pushing a new conspiracy theory.The release of President Obama's birth certificate last week apparently tamped down -- to a large degree -- skeptics who questioned whether he could legally serve as president because they said he wasn't a natural-born citizen. Now,...

'Celebrity Apprentice': And the fired celebrity is...by Dalton RossCategories: Donald Trump, Reality TV, Television, The Celebrity ApprenticeComments 854 Add commentImage credit: Ali Goldstein/NBCFirings! Hirings! Dudes in red cowboy boots! Meat Loaf spending half the task in the bathroom! It was two-hours of madness on tonight’s Celebrity Apprentice, headed by NeNe’s verbal beat down of Star Jones. But who was sent...

New results will appear below as they become available. Pause‎ seamarie‎ #Celebrity Apprentice - aww - was sure he'd announce who got fired before signing off.Twitter - 1 minute ago‎ DanWhitley‎ RT @jimmyfallon: Got Bin Laden AND interrupted Celebrity Apprentice? Win for Obama all around.Twitter - 2 minutes ago‎ SandyKess‎ RT @Kenny_Gizzle: I bet Celebrity Apprentice got interrupted for this breaking news, oh yea Obama...

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...