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Nothing Compares 2U

This was voted the sixth saddest love song of all time in a yahoo poll.

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Bush WH rejected tougher mortgage rules ignored meltdown warnings in 2005

WASHINGTON – The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns on no-money-down, interest-only mortgages years before... more

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Dear Current TV, Please stop recycling PODS such enthusiasm and so frequently!

I used to LOVE Current TV. Now I turn it on once a week or so, and within 4 minutes I am watching a pod that I have watched 15... more

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Bush snubbed at G-20

I was wondering why the event ended an hour early... It appears in this video that President Bush's approval is in a... more

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Scientists say Copernicus' remains found

WARSAW, Poland – Researchers believe they have identified the remains of Nicolaus Copernicus by comparing DNA from a... more

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Stevens ousted; Dems eye power of 60

The Democratic pursuit of 60 Senate seats received new life Tuesday night after Alaska Democrat Mark Begich was declared the... more

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Hate Crimes Spike Since Obama Win

Atlanta – In rural Georgia, a group of high-schoolers gets a visit from the Secret Service after posting... more

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Is Cindy McCain having an affair?

The National Enquirer has published a new political "world exclusive": The ENQUIRER's exclusive bombshell... more

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Paulson Changes Bailout - Stocks Sink

WASHINGTON – The government has abandoned the original centerpiece of its $700 billion rescue effort for the financial... more

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White House Dog Hunt: VOTE EARS!

Ever since president-elect Obama mentioned that his kids are getting a puppy, dog lovers around the world have been panting with... more

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Bush less popular than Nixon in final days

With 71 days left in office, President Bush is less popular than President Nixon was at the time of his resignation, according to... more

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13 trucks carrying supplies to U.S. troops hijacked

LANDIKOTAL, Pakistan (Reuters) – Militants in northwest Pakistan hijacked 13 trucks carrying supplies for Western forces in... more

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Air Force aims to 'rewrite laws of cyberspace'

The Air Force is fed up with a seemingly endless barrage of attacks on its computer networks from stealthy adversaries whose... more

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Final Presidential Polls

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In the hours before Election Day, as inevitable as winter, comes an onslaught of dirty tricks — confusing e-mails, disturbing phone calls and insinuating fliers left on doorsteps during the night.

The intent, almost always, is to keep folks from voting or to confuse them, usually through intimidation or misinformation. But in this presidential race, in which a black man leads most polls, some of the deceit has a decidedly racist bent.

Complaints have surfaced in predominantly African-American neighborhoods of Philadelphia where fliers have circulated, warning voters they could be arrested at the polls if they had unpaid parking tickets or if they had criminal convictions.

Over the weekend in Virginia, bogus fliers with an authentic-looking commonwealth seal said fears of high voter turnout had prompted election officials to hold two elections — one on Tuesday for Republicans and another on Wednesday for Democrats.

In New Mexico, two Hispanic women filed a lawsuit last week claiming they were harassed by a private investigator working for a Republican lawyer who came to their homes and threatened to call immigration authorities, even though they are U.S. citizens.

"He was questioning her status, saying that he needed to see her papers and documents to show that she was a U.S. citizen and was a legitimate voter," said Guadalupe Bojorquez, speaking on behalf of her mother, Dora Escobedo, a 67-year-old Albuquerque resident who speaks only Spanish. "He totally, totally scared the heck out of her."

In Pennsylvania, e-mails appeared linking Democrat Barack Obama to the Holocaust. "Jewish Americans cannot afford to make the wrong decision on Tuesday, Nov. 4," said the electronic message, paid for by an entity calling itself the Republican Federal Committee. "Many of our ancestors ignored the warning signs in the 1930s and 1940s and made a tragic mistake."

Laughlin McDonald, who leads the ACLU's Voting Rights Project, said he has never seen "an election where there was more interest and more voter turnout, and more efforts to suppress registration and turnout. And that has a real impact on minorities."

The Obama campaign and civil rights advocacy groups have signed up millions of new voters for this presidential race. In Ohio alone, some 600,000 have submitted new voter registration cards.

Across the country, many of these first-time voters are young and strong Obama supporters. Many are also black and Hispanic...

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Bush team rushes environment policy changes

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As the U.S. presidential candidates sprint toward the finish line, the Bush administration is also... more

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Cloud thickening chemical released by trees can fight global warming

Trees could be more important to the Earth's climate than previously thought, according to a new study that reveals forests help to block out the sun.

Scientists in the UK and Germany have discovered that trees release a chemical that thickens clouds above them, which reflects more sunlight and so cools the Earth. The research suggests that chopping down forests could accelerate global warming more than was thought, and that protecting existing trees could be one of the best ways to tackle the problem.

Dominick Spracklen, of the Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science at Leeds University, said: "We think this could have quite a significant effect. You can think of forests as climate air conditioners."

The scientists looked at chemicals called terpenes that are released from boreal forests across northern regions such as Canada, Scandinavia and Russia. The chemicals give pine forests their distinctive smell, but their function has puzzled experts for years. Some believe the trees release them to communicate, while others say they could offer protection from air pollution.

The team found the terpenes react in the air to form tiny particles called aerosols. The particles help turn water vapour in the atmosphere into clouds.

Spracklen said the team's computer models showed that the pine particles doubled the thickness of clouds some 1,000m above the forests, and would reflect an extra 5% sunlight back into space.

He said: "It might not sound a lot, but that is quite a strong cooling effect. The climate is such a finely balanced system that we think this effect is large enough to reduce temperatures over quite large areas. It gives us another reason to preserve forests."

The research, which will be published in a special edition of the Royal Society journal Philosophical Transactions A, is the first to quantify the cooling effect of the released chemicals. The scientists say the findings "must be included in climate models in order to make realistic predictions".
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Trees could be more important to the Earth's climate than previously thought, according to a new study that reveals forests... more