Mass. man charged with plotting terror attacks

- U.S. federal prosecutors have charged a Massachusetts man with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, alleging he and co-conspirators traveled to the Middle East seeking training, discussed attacking a shopping center, and watched and distributed "jihadi'' videos," Reuters reported on Wednesday.

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Minn. ice company to pay $9M in antitrust case

A packaged ice company has agreed to pay a $9 million criminal fine for allegedly conspiring with a competitor to divide up the ice market in the Detroit area and southeastern Michigan.

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US, Russia share notes on defunct Oregon charity

Recent court filings in a criminal case against the operator of a defunct Oregon charity reveal that federal prosecutors traveled to Russia in an attempt to find proof that the organization had been involved in terrorism.

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PI pleads no contest in California conspiracy case

A private investigator who once worked for A-list defendants such as Michael Jackson and Winona Ryder pleaded no contest Tuesday to charges that he tried to pay off a suspected rape victim.

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NJ man gets 2 years in prison for steroid ring

A businessman who sold steroids and human growth hormone to bodybuilders from around the country was sentenced to two years in federal prison Friday by a judge who called him the ringleader of a far-reaching operation.

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Men guilty of selling prosthetic for drug tests

Two men whose company sold a device known as the Whizzinator that helped men cheat on drug tests have pleaded guilty in federal court in Pittsburgh. George Wills and Robert Catalano each pleaded guilty Monday to two conspiracy counts. They owned the California-based Internet company Puck Technology.

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ACLU seeks to clear 2 charities in Holy Land case

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a motion in federal court Wednesday seeking to clear two groups named as unindicted coconspirators in a terrorism-financing case.

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Doc Gets 2 Years in Steroid Case

Two doctors who doled out illegal steroids and human growth hormone prescriptions to perhaps thousands of people were sentenced Friday, one to two years in prison and the other to a year of home confinement.

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Clinton: Right-Wing Conspiracy Is Back

Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton told Democrats Tuesday the "vast, right-wing conspiracy" is back, using a phrase she once coined to describe partisan criticism.

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Crowd Remembers JFK Assassination

About 300 people, including history buffs, conspiracy theorists and even two Elvis impersonators, gathered in Dealey Plaza on Wednesday to mark the 43rd anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination in a loosely organized ceremony that was part memorial and part circus.

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Internet Floats Lay Conspiracy Theories

Ken Lay has taken his place alongside Elvis Presley in the pantheon of people whose deaths have not been fully believed. In Internet sites and blogs, conspiracy theorists and jokesters have floated the idea that the Enron founder's powerful friends helped him fake his death to escape sentencing in one of the biggest corporate frauds in U.S. history.

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Some of the most embarrassing e-mails are attributed to Philip Jones, the Director of the CRU; Keith Briffa, his assistant; Michael E. Mann of the University of Virginia; Malcolm Hughes at the University of Arizona; and others.

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I know we could debate the morality of the theft that made this information available: some will say it was a completely unwarranted breach of privacy, whereas others will liken it to a 'black ops' mission essential for ending the conspiracy of global warming.

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rmy commanders should also talk to insurgent leaders with "blood on their hands" in order to hasten the end of the conflict in Afghanistan.

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The Internet has rendered global gossip that in previous epochs would have remained local. It also allowed rumour-mongers to leverage traditional and trusted means of communication - texts and images - to lend credence to the most outlandish claims.

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In a news release by the national center for disease control, it was reported that new data indicates that in the last six month, 20 million had contracted " Swine Flu" and that no fewer than 4000 people including 450 children had died from it.

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Americans generally like to hear good news. They like to believe that a new President will right old wrongs, that clean energy will replace dirty oil, and that fresh thinking will set the economy straight. American pundits tend to restrain their pessimism and to hope for the best.

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On December 18, 2008, Bush IT expert Mike Connell, a highly skilled pilot, was killed in a sudden crash while flying his small aircraft from Washington DC to his Akron/Canton home airport.

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To think that Barack Obama, the leader of the Democratic Party, the most corrupt political organization in Western history, would lecture the President of Afghanistan on the merits of clean government and honest elections is just...incomprehensible.

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I had my doubts about how much of this story was being covered up when the first reports said two others had been detained in connection with the shooting and then that detail was changed to a lone gunman.

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As our society debates the merits of universal health care and the morality of gay clergy leading Lutheran congregations, I'm stuck in a much more important mental mudbath: wondering if Lady Gaga is the most dangerous person in the world.

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Are iPods Inherently Evil?

The iPod... A revolutionary, portable, media device unleashed on human civilization by Apple in October of 2001. Since it's initial release it has become more powerful, more popular, and has more functionality than anyone could have ever imagined.

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WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee cleared its version of a climate and energy bill, despite a Republican boycott of the vote and a "no" from powerful Montana Democrat Max Baucus.

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Whether Democrats conceived the idea of a minimum wage as an economic tool with which to buy the votes of those at the bottom rung of the economic ladder, or if the potential political benefits occurred to them as an afterthought, we may never know.

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What is being witnessed in Colombia reflects what Marx (and Engels) alluded to when concerning the activities of ruling powers under ingrained capitalist conditions.

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The Birthers have been somewhat disillusioned with O'Reilly and some of his colleagues before -- there's the lack of investigative journalism done by the network that would prove, once and for all, that President Obama was in fact born in Antarctica, for instance.

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What follows is a detailed listing of major terrorist plots and racist rampages that have emerged from the American radical right in the years since Oklahoma City.

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CATHOLIC Archbishop Denis Hart has sent a letter to every Melbourne parish warning priests not to read to congregations a letter from a woman who says she was procured by nuns so a priest could rape her when she was a child.

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The far-reaching insider trading scandal now appears to have reached the top ranks of the high-tech industry with reports Tuesday that Hector Ruiz, former CEO and chairman of Sunnyvale chip company Advanced Micro Devices, leaked confidential AMD information to alleged conspirator …

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Article II, Section 4 of the United States Constitution tells us that "The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." In t …

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Of all the fantastic musings and mutterings about the H1N1 flu and vaccine, few are more outrageous than the pronouncements of retired Army Maj. Gen. Albert Stubblebine III and his psychiatrist wife, Rima Laibow...

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The upcoming movie The Men Who Stare at Goats tells the story of a military operation that attempted to create Jedi warriors who could teleport through walls and kill goats by staring at them. It all sounds pretty far-fetched ...

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It's well known that in Farright Town, Ford are the only patriotic car maker. GM and Chrysler 'sold out' to Obama and are now puppets of the Evil Empire. Watch Glenn Beck take on GM in his latest conspiracy theory...

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The GHQ attack has drawn accusations from several quarters in Pakistan that it was inspired by foreign powers; some have named India and the US among the usual suspects.

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Eight bikers charged in a sweeping federal indictment aimed at the Pagans Motorcycle Club are due back in court.

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For those who like to say with absolutely certainty, but with no basis in fact, that there is "not a dimes worth of difference" between the two major parties, consider this: the Republican Party is composed primarily of individuals whose primary political interest is in being …

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