RIO DE JANEIRO – A tornado battered a city in southern Brazil, killing two people, injuring 120 others and forcing more than 1,000 people from their homes, officials said Tuesday. The National Institute of Meteorology said a supercell storm produced the tornado that struck Xanxere city in the state of …
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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan – Pakistani intelligence officials say missiles fired from a U.S. drone struck a compound in the North Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border, killing five militants. The two officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief reporters, said three …
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JERUSALEM – Israeli police say an American tourist has died while hiking during a heatwave in Israel on a trial leading to the ancient Jewish desert fortress of Masada. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says the 20-year-old woman from Florida fell about 5 meters (about 16 feet) at the site of …
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A Texas man was convicted of duping investors with tales of a fake Walt Disney theme park and resort project. Thomas W. Lucas Jr., a member of a Dallas-area real estate famiy, was convicted on seven wire fraud counts and one count of making false statements to the FBI. It …
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AUSTELL, Ga. – A metro Atlanta man told police a spider thief snuck into a crawlspace under his home and stole five of his 18 pet tarantulas. Austell police say they’ve issued an arrest warrant for a man accused of possessing the arachnids. Dwayne Melton tells WSB-TV (http://bit.ly/1MOqNI2) the spiders …
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Animal rights group PETA is rolling out its controversial “Sex Talk” ad — in which two parents urge their daughter to have a lot of sex and “pop out all the kids you want” — in the top 10 teen pregnancy states to promote spaying and neutering of pets. The …
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As we have been reporting, a group of far-left bloggers has succeeded in frightening most of the Democratic presidential candidates and moving the party significantly to the left at least in the primary season. The lead intimidators are MoveOn, Media Matters and the vicious Daily Kos. These people savagely attack …
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Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Troop Withdrawal? News reports have repeatedly characterized the Reed-Levin amendment, which brought the Senate to a halt, as requiring U.S. troops to be out of Iraq by the end of next April. But the actual language of the measure does no such …
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Want Greta’s blog delivered directly to your e-mail box? Click here to sign up! Last night we had Chuck Norris and his wife Gena in the bureau. Many people wanted pictures taken with them and they were gracious. We taped an interview with them that will air on Friday. They …
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