Police say a suspect in the killings of four police officers in Washington State was not in a house they had surrounded.
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Salon
Police: Suspected cop killer not in house
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The suspect in the slaying of four police officers gunned down in a coffee shop was not found Monday in the Seattle home where he was thought to have been holed up overnight, likely wounded from his bloody encounter with the officers.
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Blog.seattlepi.com
Huckabee's office releases statement about police killings
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Huck PAC, Mike Huckabee's political action committee, released a statement Sunday night about the slaying of four police officers in Pierce County. When Huckabee was Arkansas governor he commuted the sentence of the person of interest in the case.
Sam Jones
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The Guardian World News
US police held siege at empty house
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Officers had thought suspect in shooting of four police at cafe was lying dead inside residence they surrounded Detectives surrounding a house in Seattle where they believed the wounded killer of four police was hiding have gone inside to find it empty. The four officers were shot dead yesterday in a suburban US coffee shop. Police had earlier ...
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March 21, 2007: Benjamin Barber explains why consumer culture is bad for humanity copyright ? 2009 Betsy L. Angert. BeThink.org Great News! The good life will soon return to America. Auspiciously, months before the holiday shopping season began, Americans were told that after more than a year of fiscal recession , or what some have characterized ...
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My Left Wing
Sunday Open Thread
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We cannot stand here in a free society, proclaiming that we care about human life, and do nothing in the face of [Darfur], in my opinion. Don Cheadle Born November 29, 1964
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Noreply
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Hullabaloo
Rolling The Dice
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Rolling The Dice by digby From what I can gather, this climate change pseudo-scandal is going to be with us for a while so if you haven't delved into it in any detail, it's probably a good idea to do so. The number of Inhoffian cretins bellowing on TV about hoaxes is growing by the hour. This article by Brad Plumer seems to be a good place to ...
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ELIZABETH JENSEN
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NYT
With the program’s Web employees now in the fold, “NewsHour” is changing its name, adding a co-anchor and raising its presence online.
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Reuters
Senate to begin debate on healthcare overhaul
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate opens debate on a broad healthcare overhaul on Monday with senators seeking an elusive compromise on thorny issues like a government-run insurance plan, abortion coverage and holding down costs.
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TMZ reports: In an attempt to determine whether the injuries Tiger Wood sustained are consistent with a car accident or domestic violence, the Florida Highway Patrol reportedly is working on obtaining a search warrant, which would allow them access to medical records from the hospital that treated the golfer.
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Marc Cooper
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Marc Cooper
Into The Woods
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I hope that Tiger Woods decides to finally talk to the cops before Tuesday night so that out exalted news media have some resources to cover President Obama' s speech from West Point on the coming escalation in Afghanistan. If you ever wanted to know what the real news value was of an American soldier's life we now know: about .0002% of a ...
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Advocates for Animals has welcomed much of the Marine (Scotland) Bill report1 released today by the Scottish Parliament Rural Affairs Committee, which proposes improvements to protect Scotland’s seals.
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Michael Arrington
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TechCrunch
It was so close I could taste it. Two weeks ago we were ready to publicly launch the CrunchPad . The device was stable enough for a demo. It went hours without crashing. We could even let people play with the device themselves - the user interface was intuitive enough that people "got it" without any instructions. And the look of pure joy on the ...
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Gordon Brown confirms he will send 500 more troops to Afghanistan - taking the total UK deployment to more than 10,000.
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Janine Mendes-Franco
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Global Voices Online
Dominina Weekly shares its thoughts on regional politicians.
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Www.dominica-weekly.com
DOMINICA - Life Unscripted on the Nature Island
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Our region appears to be one of those few places where politicians can normally get away with doing as little as possible for their constituents. The politicians who are elected by the people seem to rarely find they have any need to ensure that they can give, at least, a good account of their stewardship as far as effectively taking care of the ...
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Big Tent Democrat
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TalkLeft
Remember the whole 'the Nobel Peace Prize is aspirational' line? Kevin Drum wonders how that work'd out? On Tuesday Barack Obama will announce a major escalation of the war in Afghanistan. A week later he'll be in Oslo accepting his Nobel Peace Prize. Pretty good timing, no? I support the President's policy in Afghaistan. I did not support the ...
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Whatever It Is
President Pepe? Really?
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Name of the Day: Honduran not-quite-legitimate-president-elect Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo. Actually, I don’t think I believe the high turnout figures they’re claiming. What do you think, does he look more like a Porfirio or a Pepe?
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Stephen Brook
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Media news
Lord Mandelson calls Christopher Meyer 'a slightly absurd individual', without naming him, in praise of successor Lord Mandelson attacked the former head of the Press Complaints Commission, Sir Christopher Meyer, today, calling him an "absurd individual". Mandelson praised the current PCC chair, Lady Buscombe, who took over from Meyer earlier ...
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Dubai's government said on Monday it was not responsible for the debts of its flagship conglomerate, offering little clarity on a plan to delay billions in debt repayments that has rattled world markets.
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SPIEGEL ONLINE
End of the Boom?: Dubai's Debt Woes Unsettle Financial World
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Global investors with money in Dubai are suddenly feeling very nervous, now that it has become clear that the emirate's state-run holding company Dubai World is unable to repay billions in debt. There is even talk of a possible national bankruptcy, which could trigger a new financial crisis.
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The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of helping to murder 27,900 Jews in the Holocaust, started in Munich on Monday under the glare of the world's press. His lawyer said Demjanjuk would have been killed if he hadn't carried out his orders -- and caused outrage by claiming he was "on the same level" with Holocaust survivors.
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IBM has purchased Ounce Labs, a privately held software security provider, the companies said Tuesday. Software developers often face both security and compliance issues with their products. Ounce Labs uses its technology to scan the source code of an application, hunting for security holes and compliance failures. Ounce tries to track down ...
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Police admit a report of dog breeding at the Liverpool house where a boy was mauled to death was not properly investigated.
Janine Mendes-Franco
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Global Voices Online
This Beach Called Life features a press ad that was taken out by “a group who knows Trinidad and Tobago better than any foreign or local politician”, adding in a follow-up post : “The only thing that CHOGM did for citizens of this country was to send the fed up level well above 69% but still far away from the instability level ...
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All the stories from this week's Media section of the Guardian
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TechCrunch
Streamreaders just keep getting better and better. A new version of TweetDeck is rolling out today with some major improvements, including support for Lists, Retweets, maps for geo-tagged messages, and LinkedIn streams. TweetDeck has already been downloaded more than 10 million times, and its active user base is in the low millions so this is a ...
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Www.techcrunchit.com
Calling Twitter’s bluff
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Ever since FriendFeed was sold to Facebook, we’ve been told over and over again that the company and its community were toast. And as if to underline the fact, FriendFeed’s access to the Twitter firehose was terminated and vaguely replaced with a slow version that is currently delivering Twitter posts between 20 minutes and two hours ...
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Eggs are thrown at the Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion and Social Action, Baroness Warsi, as she visited Luton.
A veteran, a code pink protester, and Cindy Sheehan walk into a protest. What could go wrong? So the vet walks up to the protesters with a negative attitude, pushing his chest out. Bad. Then Sheehan shoves the bullhorn in his face. Even worse. This is what happens when deeply held convictions mix with street theater and a-holery [...]
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