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[b]An Iranian court has convicted an American man of working for the CIA and sentenced him to death, state radio reported Monday.[/b]

An Iranian court has convicted an American man of working for the CIA and sentenced him to death, state radio reported Monday.

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rhiannon12866/217 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:14:55 There used to be just two Stephen Colberts, and they were hard enough to distinguish. The main difference was that one thought the other was an idiot. The idiot Colbert was the one who made a nice paycheck by appearing four times a week on “The Colbert Report” (pronounced in the French fashion, with... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rhiannon12866/216 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 21:46:13 Michelle Obama's 2010 push for an overhaul of a White House advisory team she viewed as more concerned with electioneering than backing expansive health-care reforms and other major initiatives that President Obama espoused before his historic 2008 win reflects a coming of age for a woman initially ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rhiannon12866/211 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:42:40 Source: [b]USA Today[/b]

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Four soldiers with an Indiana-based National Guard unit were killed in Afghanistan and a fifth was injured when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb as they were working to clear a supply route of the improvised bombs, guard officials said Saturday.

I... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rhiannon12866/210 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:34:12 TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - Survivors of a deadly mass shooting that gravely wounded Representative Gabrielle Giffords on January 8 last year will join thousands of Tucson residents at emotional memorial events this weekend.

A gunman toting a semiautomatic pistol pumped bullet after bullet into a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rhiannon12866/214 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 11:48:44 Source: [b]ABC News[/b]

An American-born teen from Texas who told law enforcement officials that she was a 21-year-old Colombian woman and ended up deported to that South American nation was returned to her waiting family at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.

Jakadrien Turner, 15, was reu... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rhiannon12866/212 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 11:35:07 DALLAS - A Texas teenager who was deported to Colombia after claiming to be an illegal immigrant was back in the United States on Friday and at the center of an international mystery over how a minor could be sent to a country where she is not a citizen.

Her family has questioned why U.S. officia... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rhiannon12866/215 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 11:09:06 [b]Google Honors 'Graveyard Guru' Charles Addams With Doodle[/b]

Google is giving a nod to the Addams Family.

The Internet search leader is celebrating what would have been the 100th birthday of Addams Family creator Charles Addams with a Doodle featuring the creepy, kooky, mysteriously spooky... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rhiannon12866/209 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 10:19:32 [i]Jon Soltz, Iraq War Veteran and Chairman of VoteVets.org, appears on News Nation with Tamron Hall to talk about President Obama's new defense policy.[/i]... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rhiannon12866/208 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:21:22 With the year we've had, he could turn this into a full length feature... :crazy:... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rhiannon12866/207 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:59:20 Source: [b]CNN[/b]

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- General Motors is recalling the Chevrolet Volt to make changes that it says will help prevent fires from coolant leaks which may follow a severe side impact.

Coolant leaks days after National Highway Traffic Safety Administration side crash tests caused ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rhiannon12866/213 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:45:41 Source: [b]Los Angeles Times[/b]

REPORTING FROM SEOUL -– In North Korea, a new Kim may be in command but the same old human rights violations are still in play, including a renewed lethal crackdown on defectors, according to South Korean media reports.

Weeks after 20-something Kim Jong Un assume... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rhiannon12866/206 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:29:40 Source: [b]USA Today[/b]

BEIRUT (AP) – Syrian authorities have released more than 500 prisoners accused of involvement in anti-regime activities, state TV reported Thursday, in what appeared to be another gesture to comply with the Arab League plan to end the regime's 9-month-old crackdown on disse... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rhiannon12866/205 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:59:19 Source: [b]BBC News[/b]

At least 25 people have been killed and 100 more are missing after a landslide struck a mining village in the southern Philippines, officials say.

The landslide occurred at about 3:00 a.m. on Thursday morning (19:00 GMT Wednesday) in Pantukan, Compostela Valley province, ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rhiannon12866/204 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:55:06 Source: [b]Alanta Journal Constitution[/b]

BAGHDAD — Iraqi officials say two explosions in a Shiite neighborhood of eastern Baghdad have killed six people and wounded at least 16 others.

In the first attack, police officials say a motorbike bomb went off near a gathering of day laborers in the S... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rhiannon12866/203 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:47:28 Source: [b]CNN[/b]

Los Angeles (CNN) -- A German man arrested in Los Angeles early Monday after a string of 52 fires -- mostly in parked cars -- was charged Wednesday with 37 counts of arson, prosecutors said.

Harry Burkhart, 24, was due to appear in a Los Angeles court Wednesday in connection w... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rhiannon12866/202 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:29:32 Source: [b]The Christian Science Monitor[/b]

[b]Iowa caucus results, with most of the votes counted, show Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum in a dead heat. If the caucus results hold, the importance of the South Carolina primary will grow.[/b]

DES MOINES, Iowa

With 92 percent of the votes tallied... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rhiannon12866/201 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:05:05 The latest from Mark Fiore! :applause:... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rhiannon12866/200 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:44:39 (CNN) -- As you're being inundated with wall-to-wall coverage of the Iowa caucuses this week, keep the following number in mind: zero.

The quest for the GOP's presidential nomination is ultimately a race for delegates. With 2,286 delegates attending the party's national convention in Tampa at the... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rhiannon12866/199 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:23:27 A Florida animal sanctuary says Cheetah, the chimpanzee sidekick in the Tarzan movies of the early 1930s, has died at 80. But other accounts call that claim into question.

Debbie Cobb, outreach director at the Suncoast Primate Sanctuary in Palm Harbor, said Wednesday that her grandparents acquire... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rhiannon12866/198 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:37:02 David Hickman was a star football player in McLeansville, North Carolina. He was a quiet man with a larger-than-life presence. He also holds the distinction of being the last soldier to die before the official announcement of the end of the Iraq war. That fact has made him a part of history, CNN aff... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rhiannon12866/197 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 02:02:53 Just in case anyone missed any of these...... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rhiannon12866/196 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 05:13:16 NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Word that the government is letting BP end its cleanup of the Gulf Coast left many residents seething and fearful over who would monitor or respond to any lingering effects of the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

Estimates that 90 percent of the region's shores have been cleane... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rhiannon12866/195 Thu, 10 Nov 2011 03:03:35 Fossil-fuel consumers worldwide received about six times more government subsidies than were given to the renewable-energy industry, according to the chief adviser to oil-importing nations.

State spending to cut retail prices of gasoline, coal and natural gas rose 36 percent to $409 billion as g... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rhiannon12866/194 Thu, 10 Nov 2011 02:36:10 Unbelievable! :crazy:... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Rhiannon12866/193 Sun, 09 Oct 2011 06:52:31