House Republicans will target freshman Rep. Tom Perriello in a new television commercial that criticizes the Virginia Democrat for his recent vote in favor of controversial energy reform legislation.
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China’s last-minute decision to postpone a controversial content-filtering application on computers sold there is the latest example of the trouble that Western technology companies face doing business in the world’s fastest growing economy.
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More than two dozen television satellite trucks lined the narrow, two-lane road leading to Neverland Ranch early Wednesday, jostling to reserve space for a public viewing of pop icon Michael Jackson’s body that won’t happen for two more days.
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Had the government not delayed its controversial order that all computers be equipped with Green Dam by July 1, the result would have been the same — Chinese computer retailers were far from ready.
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Alexandra township, north of Johannesburg, is a densely populated melting pot with some of South Africa’s worst social ills: poverty, unemployment, HIV/AIDS and crime.
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Michael Jackson suffered from severe bouts of insomnia and pleaded for a powerful sedative despite knowing its harmful effects, a nutritionist who worked with the singer said Tuesday.
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Friends and family of actress Farrah Fawcett — including longtime partner Ryan O’Neal and their son Redmond, who was temporarily freed from jail for the service — gathered Tuesday to say goodbye.
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A panel of New York National Guard officers has recommended that an Iraq war veteran who admitted his homosexuality must leave the service, his supporters said Tuesday.
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A student controller was directing planes during two runway mishaps in the past month at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, apparently giving instructions that placed planes on possible collision courses, federal investigators say.
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Australia’s reputation as the happy, go lucky country was turned on it’s head in the late 1990s as the usually safe streets of the Victorian capital were transformed into a gangland war zone.
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