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A British auction house says a set of 15 letters and other writings by the rakish Romantic poet Lord Byron have sold for 277,250 pounds (nearly $460,00).
A coal group and two contractors knew about forged lobbying letters sent to three House Democrats before a vote on climate legislation, but the lawmakers were in the dark, documents obtained by a congressional committee show.
In letters written to her mother, the woman charged in the 2002 kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart has sought forgiveness for any pain she has caused and says she expects to spend the rest of her life in prison.
A congressional chairman is demanding answers from a coal group about forged letters criticizing major climate legislation that were sent to three congressional offices ahead of the vote.
The handwritten letter to the governor is polite, articulate and to the point.
A Washington grassroots lobbying firm has acknowledged forging anti-climate bill letters purporting to be from a local NAACP chapter and a Latino advocacy group to a Virginia lawmaker, and a congressional committee said it was launching an investigation.
A trove of letters to one of baseball's founding fathers has been removed from an upcoming auction while the FBI investigates whether they were among items stolen from the New York Public Library years ago.
A collection of 130 letters and short notes written by the late German actress Marlene Dietrich sold Wednesday for euro3,000 ($4,200), an auction house said.
More than 100 victims of failed financier Bernard Madoff's multibillion-dollar fraud urged a judge Monday to sentence him harshly, saying he ruined their lives, leaving many of them depressed, bitter and hopeless.
A Polish survivor of a Nazi concentration camp published a book Tuesday recollecting her family's relationship and vacations with Pope John Paul II, including letters from the late pontiff.
End war, forever. Make the planet greener. Please help my dad find work. Make it rain candy!
Hillary Rodham Clinton, President-elect Barack Obama's choice for secretary of state, rejected calls Tuesday for more details about donors to her husband's foundation, saying she has revealed enough to avoid even the hint of conflicts. An Associated Press review found that Clinton stepped in at least a half-dozen times on issues involving businesses and others who later gave to the charity.
Authorities say that U.S. embassies in Germany and Romania received letters Tuesday containing a suspicious white powder.
A suspicious white powder that was sent in a letter to Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire (GREG'-wahr) has been declared harmless.
Suspicious packages have been sent to National Guard and Reserve facilities in 36 states, federal authorities said Wednesday.
Nine more states and the U.S. Virgin Islands have intercepted envelopes sent to government offices containing suspicious powder.
Several letters that Princess Diana wrote to her former nanny, including one comparing her own dancing skills to those of an elephant, will be auctioned in London next week, and they are expected to sell for thousands of dollars.
Collectors paid thousands of pounds (dollars) Saturday for letters from British royalty to a trusted servant, including a note from the late Queen Mother Elizabeth requesting the aide pack bottles of gin and Dubonnet for an outing, "in case it is needed."
For four centuries, they were the ultimate pack rats. Now a Maryland family's massive collection of letters, maps and printed bills has surfaced in the attic of a former plantation, providing a firsthand account of life from the 1660s through World War II.
A nuclear engineer from California has been sentenced to more than four years in federal prison for sending threatening letters to President Bush, first lady Laura Bush and others.
A nonprofit digital library has successfully fought an FBI attempt to seize information about one of its users, and is calling on other groups to challenge government agencies attempting to obtain online customer information without a judge's order.
The FBI is resisting legislation that would put more restrictions on domestic surveillance of Americans' private records, saying the agency already has tightened its rules to crack down on wrongful use of national security letters.
Abraham Lincoln's heartfelt reply to a group of youngsters who asked him to free America's "little slave children" has sold for $3.4 million.
The military is using the FBI to skirt legal restrictions on domestic surveillance to obtain private records of Americans' Internet service providers, financial institutions and telephone companies, the ACLU said Tuesday.
Top-level FBI counterterrorism executives issued improper blanket demands in 2006 for records of 3,860 telephone lines to justify the fact that agents already had obtained the data using an illegal procedure that is now prohibited, the Justice Department inspector general reported Thursday.
Don't Bother Writing SantaWhen a postal worker identified a registered sex offender working as a volunteer of the Operation Santa program, the United States Postal Service decided to change the rules nationwide for how we communicate with Old Saint Nick.
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Indian heroine's letter unearthedA previously undiscovered letter written by one of India's best known female rebels against British colonial rule has been found by academics. The letter was written by Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi, shortly before the Indian mutiny - or first war of independence - in 1857.
No more letters from North Pole? Ho ho oh no!Since 1954, volunteers in North Pole, Alaska, have opened thousands of letters addressed to Santa and sent replies with North Pole postmarks. But after one volunteer was recognized as a sex offender, the Postal Service is dropping the program - and people are outraged.
Writing Study Ties Autism To Motor-Skill ProblemsMany children with autism not only struggle with social skills and communication, they also have great difficulty with handwriting, according to a new study in the journal Neurology.
Mark Steyn: Shooter exposes hole in U.S. terror strategySame ideological pathologies that drive al-Qaida overpowered Hasan's American identity.
Mark Steyn: Obama makes Bush his blame czarIt's now Obama's war, his jobless rate, his debt, etc.
Obama's Strategic Confusion His move on missile defense raises troubling questions.
Obama feeds allies to bear by Ralph PetersObama's foreign policy embodies a line from "Animal House": "You [screwed] up -- you trusted us!"
Mark Steyn: Obama helping Putin restitch Iron CurtainScrapping of U.S. missile defense plans hands big victory to Russia's new czar.
Lawrence of Arabia letters discoveredThe correspondence from the First World War hero of the Arab revolt are to his financier Robin Buxton and he writes of his love of motorbikes that was eventually to kill him.
This fascinating video reveals what happens when someone writes to the White House. i had always envisaged that they all went straight into a bin because of the sheer volume of them.
Jail removes Bible verses from letters to inmate; ACLU on casePrisoner and free-speech advocates are demanding a written guarantee that inmates at a Virginia jail can receive letters containing religious material after a prisoner said his mail was censored.
Thomas Jefferson & John Adams: A revolutionary reconciliationTogether, they crafted The Declaration of Independence. Later, they served their new nation as diplomats. Eventually, they became bitter political rivals.
Apprentice postman torches election materials A stressed-out trainee with Deutsche Post has admitted to burning election documents and brochures instead of delivering them, police in the southern town of Göppingen reported.
She defends book about her friend, John Paul IIPope John Paul II had a woman friend with whom he shared spiritual thoughts in letters over decades. Now Wanda Poltawska, 87, is defending her book of correspondence with the pope against criticism that she "exaggerated" their friendship and could delay his beatification.
Britain's Boyle: A voice can be heaven-sentComparing the impact made by Susan Boyle's performance to a shooting star on a desolate night.
The A-Z of Google MapsA Melbourne man has completed a six-month-long quest to turn topography into typography. Rhett Dashwood has just published a Google Maps alphabet featuring all 26 letters which he found in man-made or naturally-occurring formations...
Impact of WWI on Sikh soldiers based on their lettersGreat article showing the spirit of the Khalsa (saint/soldiers)
Forgotten Franklin letters offer glimpse into U.S. historyAn American professor doing research in London stumbled across a series of previously unknown letters written by, to, and about Benjamin Franklin, a stunning find that sheds new light on early U.S. history.
Sailor's Prisoner of War letters discovered in cornflakes packetA set of wartime letters written from behind the wire by a captured sailor to his devastated new bride have been found inside a cornflakes box.
April 19, 2009 Dear Newsviners, Thank you for reading and commenting on "Letters Home From Boot Camp." This is my final addition to the series.
What's on offer for health care? [Letter]AS AN 87-year-old retired physician active in the effort to achieve single-payer, universal health care in the United States, and a member of Physicians for a National Health Program [2], I call your attention to my series of articles on the Rag Blog [3].
The 'Tea Parties' -- the Rightwing Assault on Reason [Letter]Paul Krugman hits the nail right on the head in "Tea Parties Forever" (column, April 13). The radical assault on reason and the violent rhetoric coming from the likes of the right's mouthpieces are nothing new.
Inland Revenue 'bins letters and ignores phone calls' The Inland Revenue's phone service is a "massive mess" with mistakes ignored and letters thrown away, according to a whistle-blower featured in a television documentary tonight.
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