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Church Apologises To Charles Darwin - 126 Years After Death

dailymail.co.uk — The Church of England will tomorrow officially apologise to Charles Darwin for misunderstanding his theory of evolution.More… (World News)

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Student Auctioning Virginity at Brothel

news.aol.com — A 22-year-old woman in the United States is publicly auctioning her virginity to pay for her college education, sparking a heated online debate about sex and moralityMore… (World News)

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House rejects $700-bln Wall St bailout bill

reuters.com — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives on Monday rejected by a vote of 228-205 a Wall Street bailout bill that would have authorized the Treasury Department to spend up to $700 billion to purchase broken mortgage-backed bonds from banks...More… (World News)

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Bed, Bath & Beyond Manager Who Refused 911 Call, Charged

consumerist.com — Police have charged Elizabeth Miller, the manager of the Bed, Bath & Beyond in Lexington, Kentucky, who refused to let a couple use the store's phone to call 911 to report a three-year-old locked in a van, and refused to make an announcement over the store's PA system.More… (World News)

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13 yr-old Boy with Alopecia Banned frm Wearing Cap in School

dailymail.co.uk — Since losing his hair to a serious illness as a young child, Dale Platts' New York Yankees cap has not only helped the 13-year-old cope with the cruelty of other children, but it also protects his head & lashless eyes from the sun. But the schoolboy has now been ordered to remove the cap after his school decided it went against its uniform policy.More… (World News)

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CHINA DECLARES ECONOMIC WAR, Demands $700bil bailout from US

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fedupusa.org — JUST IN: China + Saudi Arabia hold billions worth of bad loans and are threatening to stop lending money to the US Govt, blackmailing the US into buying them back. "Bush said he would veto any bill that prohibited the purchase of foreign securities" WE MUST STOP THIS NOW, THIS BAILOUT IS NOT FOR MAINSTREET OR WALLSTREET IT IS FOR THE CHINESE!More… (World News)

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Record number of suicides in US Army.

npr.org — The U.S. Army is nearing a grim statistic: The number of soldiers who committed suicide this year is on pace to be an all-time high: 115 soldiers committed suicides in 2007. They will be a lot more to come when soldiers come back home with post traumatic stress disorder and in the middle of a recession. How can Bush and Cheney sleep at night?More… (World News)

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Verizon Refuses To Help Locate Body Of Missing Woman 4 Days

consumerist.com — Verizon, which has no problem helping the government spy on its customers, suddenly turned stupid in June when a police department asked them for help finding the body of a woman who had been abducted on camera.More… (World News)

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Bush had no plan to catch Bin Laden

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atimes.com — The U.S. missed the opportunity to catch Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in 2001, new evidence reveals, because Washington was obsessed with starting the Iraq War and failed to allocate enough troops to the task. The blunder was allegedly compounded by a decision to turn down an offer of 60,000 Pakistani troops.More… (World News)

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Pedophile GOP Rep. to face no charges

rawstory.com — Former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley isn't expected to face charges after a lengthy investigation into his lurid messages to underage congressional pages, two federal law enforcement officials told The Associated Press on Thursday.More… (World News)

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Commando: US officials stopped plans to kill bin Laden

rawstory.com — After September 11, 2001, a team of elite Delta Force commandos was sent into Afghanistan with an assignment to find and kill Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora -- but that mission failed. The commander of the Delta Force team has now written a book which tells what he says is the true story of what went wrong. More… (World News)

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The Banking Collapse Will Propel Obama to Victory

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eyesonobama.com — If he wants it to... The Obama Campaign should immediately release an ad that asks why McCain has been wasting his time talking about nonsense when we have real problems in our lives. If they do, they can successfully reframe the debate on the issues.More… (World News)

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ABC News: McCain Gaffes Could Undercut Message on Economy

abcnews.go.com — In recent days, John McCain has made a series of verbal gaffes that have undercut his campaign claim that he is the candidate who is ready to safeguard the nation's struggling economy, some political analysts believe. More… (World News)

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Man Sues Doctors For Amputating Penis

consumerist.com — What part of "circumcision" was unclear? That's basically what a Kentucky man and his wife are asking of two doctors who cut off the man's penis while he was under the knife. More… (World News)

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FBI Prevents Agents from Telling 'Truth' About 9/11 on PBS

blogs.cqpolitics.com — The FBI has blocked two of its veteran counterterrorism agents from going public with accusations that the CIA deliberately withheld crucial intelligence before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.More… (World News)

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