CO Middle School Evacuated - "Active Shooter"

Jefferson County authorities confirm an "active shooter" inside Platte Canyon High School, and students from that school and the adjoining Fitzsimmons Middle School are being evacuated.

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World Leading Cocaine Smuggling brothers plead guilty

Two Colombian brothers pleaded guilty Tuesday to U.S. drug trafficking and money laundering charges stemming from their roles as founders of the Cali cocaine cartel, and agreed to forfeit billions of dollars of assets linked to their drug trade.

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Da Vinci's Mona Lisa (story update): She was a new mother

Mona Lisa, the mysterious woman immortalized in Leonardo da Vinci's 16th century masterpiece, had just given birth to her second son when she sat for the painting, a French art expert said on Tuesday.The discovery was made by a team of Canadian scientists who used special infrared and three-dimensional technology.

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2 Sago miners commit suicide;

Two miners whose jobs included watching for safety hazards inside the Sago Mine before the deadly explosion last January committed suicide. Neither man was blamed for the disaster that killed 12, and neither one's family has definitively linked the suicides to the accident. But those who knew the men say there is little doubt they were haunted.

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Taliban says bin Laden alive

Dubai-based Al Arabiya television on Tuesday quoted a Taliban official as saying al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was alive and in good health. The Arabic channel said its Pakistan bureau had received a call from the unnamed Taliban official a few days after a leaked French secret document said Saudi intelligence believed bin Laden died.

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US Army Gen. John Batiste: Iraq war fueled Islamic radicals

"If we had seriously laid out and considered the full range of requirements for the war in Iraq, we would likely have taken a different course of action that would have maintained a clear focus on our main effort in Afghanistan, not fueled Islamic fundamentalism across the globe, and not created more enemies than there were insurgents," Batiste

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Scientists to unveil secrets of Mona Lisa

Scientists are due to unveil some of the secrets behind Western art's most enigmatic smile this week, when they present the findings of the most extensive three dimensional scan ever undertaken on the Mona Lisa.

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More Army Officers Slam Rumsfeld

Bush says the military overwhelmingly supports Rumsfeld. This, as most of Bush's claims, is not the case. "Rumsfeld is incompetent strategically, operationally and tactically ..." - Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton. "The administration did not tell the truth for fear of losing support ... " - Maj. Gen. John R. S. Batiste.

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British Cover Up Secret UFO Unit

The Ministry of Defence went to extraordinary lengths to cover up its true involvement in investigating UFOs, according to secret documents revealed under the Freedom of Information Act.

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What's Wrong With American Media: In Four Simple Pictures

Can it be possible to simply and eloquently show how the American media has a problem with a few pictures? You be the judge. Some may say these pictures sum up what's wrong with America, period.

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New anti-terrorism rules will require children to have passports

New anti-terrorism rules will for the first time soon require American children under the age of 16 to obtain U.S. passports to return home by air or sea from visits to Canada, Mexico or the Caribbean. The passport requirement will affect an estimated 557,000 children, according to the customs agency.

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Spy Shots: 2009 Porsche Panamera (4 Door Sportscar)

"Wendelin Wiedeking has just recently announced, in an interview with the German motoring magazine Auto Motor & Sport, that Porsche's new four-door coupe, dubbed Panamera, has begun its testing marathon at the challenging Nuerburgring this week - and we have the first pictures that show the real car in full action."

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"Iraq War Has Made Terror Worse" - US Intel Agencies

According to the National Intelligence Estimate, a report from all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, the war in Iraq has made global terrorism worse by fanning Islamic radicalism and providing a training ground for terrorists who are being exported to other countries. This contradicts the Neocon theory about "fighting them over there."

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American Secrets in the Mountains of Afghanistan

its commander had nominated each of his men ? as well as himself ? for medals for valor. The team's performance was heralded as evidence that the Guard could play as equals with the regular Army in the war on terrorism. .......But the team also had come home with secrets.

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Bin Laden May Feel Lure to Disprove His "Death"

A leaked intelligence report of Osama bin Laden's death has met scepticism from Western and Muslim governments but may increase a clamor from his followers to show himself on video for the first time in nearly two years. One theory surrounding the mysterious French leak is that it was designed precisely to flush the al Qaeda leader into the open..

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Man dying in a pool of blood on a busy street and nobody stops to help

"As I took a right turn ... I saw a man lying on the ground in a small pool of blood. He wasn't dead." ... "the man managed to sit up and wave to passing cars. No one stopped ... No one did anything ... The only reaction came from a woman in the grocery store. In a low voice, she said, 'My God, bless his soul'"

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Bush enforced laws that didn't yet exist.

When a president declares himself above the law, you are living in an official dictatorship.

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Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terrorism Threat

A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks.

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Woman's Fetus Apparently Cut From Womb

The body of a woman who apparently had a fetus cut from her womb was found in a vacant lot, and police said Friday they had captured a woman in the case. State police said a 26-year-old woman, whom they described as a person of interest, had buried a baby Thursday that she said had been stillborn...

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Chavez, in Harlem, Offers Discounted Oil To NYC Poor

Now that Hugo Chavez has finished his anti-American rants at the U.N., he's beginning a program of rewards for America's poor. The Venezuelan president was at a Harlem church Thursday, making good on a pledge to help low-income families in New York purchase deeply discounted oil.

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British Poll: Living to 100 worth giving up sex for

Four out of 10 Britons are willing to give up sex if that meant they would live to be 100 years old, a new survey showed. Long life at the cost of celibacy proved more popular with women than men as 48 percent of women surveyed said they would give up sex to live until 100 but only 31 percent of men agreed.

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Smithsonian Unveils New Arts Pavilion

With native dancing and displays of tribal relics, the National Museum of the American Indian is unveiling its $5 million arts and performance pavilion in Lower Manhattan, the city's newest cultural attraction. The Diker Pavilion adds 6,000 square feet to the museum's public space, boosting it by one third, and provides a stage for music, dance...

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Pentagon: Refutes 'Able Danger' Claim

A new Pentagon report knocks down the idea that a secret military unit had garnered intelligence a year before the Sept. 11 attacks that might have stopped the hijackers, a senior defense official said Thursday.

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Columbia Scraps Plans for Ahmadinejad

Columbia University scrapped plans Thursday for a speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, citing security and logistical problems. The cancellation came after a Jewish activist group expressed outrage that the hard-line leader had been invited to speak.

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US Attorney General Forgets Sending Canadian to Syrian Torture Cell

Asked at a news conference on Tuesday about a Canadian commission's finding that the man, Maher Arar, was wrongly sent to Syria and tortured there, Mr. Gonzales replied, "Well, we were not responsible for his removal to Syria." He added, "I'm not aware that he was tortured."

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Bush vs. Reality: A President in Denial

By most reliable accounts, three and a half years into the U.S. occupation, Iraq is in chaos -- if not in a state of civil war, then awfully close. But President Bush insists it's not so

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Edmonton host asks vampire website to leave in wake of Montreal shooting

A Canadian web-hosting company has dropped a vampire- themed site after media reports linked the perpetrator of a Montreal school shooting that killed one woman with the site VampireFreaks.com. Edmonton-based HostOnFiber.com has asked the online magazine Some Lives Are Different to find an alternative host within 30 days.

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Venezuela Coup Linked to Bush Team

This is for all you apologists who modded me down for saying that the Bush administration was behind the coup against Chavez. Not only is Bush involved, but members of the old Iran-Contra gang are involved: Elliot Abrams, convicted for lying to Congress (and pardoned by HW Bush!), Oliver North point man Otto Reich. Read the article!

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Mexican president pledges to extradite all drug lords wanted by U.S.

President Vicente Fox said Tuesday that Mexico is willing to extradite any drug lord in its custody wanted by the United States. President Fox said Mexico currently has 16 "big leaders" of drug gangs in jail along with 75,000 lower level members of various cartels

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Ohio Man Sentenced in Coffee Urine Case

A former postal worker who poured urine into his co-workers' coffee must serve six months in a jail work-release program. Thomas Shaheen, 50, of suburban Springfield Township, also must pay $1,200 to the people he used to work with to cover their cost of making a secret video of his role in tainting the office coffee.

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Guess Who Was Providing "Security" For Twin Towers Up To 9/11?

[Quoted from Linked Source] "Marvin P. Bush, the president?s younger brother, was a principal in a company called Securacom that provided security for the World Trade Center, United Airlines, and Dulles International Airport. The company, Burns noted, was backed by KuwAm, a Kuwaiti-American investment firm on whose board Marvin Bush also served."

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