A defiant George Lucas showed his Indiana Jones-caliber feistiness when the filmmaker ended nearly 25 years of neighborhood oppostion to a California studio by announcing the land would instead be used to build low-income housing.
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Nearly a decade after he claims he was abducted as part of the CIA's extraordinary rendition program and beaten in a secret prison in Afghanistan, lawyers for Khaled El-Masri appeared in a European court Wednesday to make his case against the local government that allegedly handed him over to the American spies in the first place.
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An aide to the billionaire whom political advisers say wanted to fund TV ads about President Barack Obama's former pastor says the $10 million proposal will not go forward.
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Tanned and toned athletes in eye-popping outfits will compete for Olympic medals outside the British prime minister's famous Downing Street home, but it's government workers, not the U.K. leader, who will get the VIP view.
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Nicknamed the Queen of Disco, Grammy Award winning singer Donna Summer has died at age 63, after a battle with breast cancer.Summer had numerous hits in the 1970’s and 1980’s that include She Works Hard...
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Sean King wore black face for his 2nd grade presentation.
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Photos from the Lakers' 77-75 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals on Wednesday.
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Legendary singer on her new album "Crayons" and her musical influences.
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Mary Richardson Kennedy, wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., died of asphyxiation by hanging, reports the Westchester County Medical Examiner's office.
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Republican Mitt Romney is discouraging supporters from going forward with an advertising strategy that would highlight President Barack Obama's ties to his controversial pastor.
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has come out publically and called for a friendly PAC planning to run an ad against Obama linking him to his controversial pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright...
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A gauge of future U.S. economic activity fell in April for the first time in seven months, an...
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Court records show a Miami college student intends to plead guilty to making threatening posts against President Barack Obama on Facebook.
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This week, Congress is considering two pieces of legislation relating to Iran. The first...
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ARUSHA, Tanzania (AP) — Former Rwanda soccer captain Patrick Mafisango has died in a car crash in...
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* Denmark still needs to wean itself off coal * Future progress harder, struggle to find the cash...
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