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“Satirist Al Franken and controversial libertarian Neal Boortz will make their debut on the St. Louis airwaves Wednesday when sports station KRFT-AM (1190) flips to an all-talk format. The station also will air radio powerhouse Don Imus and hip-hop sports show ‘Two Live Stews.’”
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WASHINGTON - The White House has rejected hurricane disaster-recovery loans at a higher rate than any other administration in the last 15 years, according to a congressional study by Democrats.
The report, expected to be released Wednesday, said business and home loan approval rates averaged about 60 percent after Hurricane Andrew devastated much of south Florida in 1992. The trend continued through the rest of President George H.W. Bush's administration and into the Clinton administration, acc...
Acts of violence against Iraqi women who do not wear headscarves have more than tripled in the three years since the US invasion, according to the Women's Rights Association in Iraq. Many of the attacks are carried out by family members to protect the family's "honor," reports IRIN News, the United Nations News Service.
"Women are being killed because they don't wear headscarves and veils," said WRA spokeswoman Mayada Zuhair, IRIN reports. "A life is being taken because of a simple piece of clo...
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