Archive for February 11th, 2010

Gov. Paterson: Somebody is after me – CNN


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Gov. Paterson: Somebody is after me
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New York Gov. David Paterson visited "Larry King Live" on Thursday to address a flurry of rumors. New York Gov. David Paterson on rumors: "None of this is true. It's a flat-out lie." New York (CNN) -- Those lurid rumors flying ...
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China demands U-turn on Obama’s Dalai Lama meet (AFP)

Notebooks printed with portraits of US President Barack Obama (centre) alongside the late Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong in Shanghai on February 10. China on Friday demanded the White House cancel a meeting between US President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama, warning that already strained ties between the two powers would be damaged further.(AFP/File/Philippe Lopez)AFP - China on Friday demanded the White House cancel a meeting between US President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama, warning that already strained ties between the two powers would be damaged further.


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British fashion designer McQueen found dead at 40 (AP)

FILE - In this Feb. 29, 2008 file photo, British fashion designer Alexander McQueen acknowledges applause at the end of his fall winter 2008-2009 ready-to-wear collection presented in Paris. McQueen was found dead at his London home on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010, his spokeswoman said. He was 40 years old. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)AP - His runway shows were often like performance pieces: One featured models with headwear made of trash. Another showed off 10-inch heels shaped like lobster claws.


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Army discharging single mom who refused deployment (AP)

FILE - This undated self-portrait provided by Army Spc. Alexis Hutchinson shows Spc. Hutchinson and her son, Kamani. Hutchinson learned Thursday, Feb. 11. 2010 that she is being discharged from the military instead of facing a court-martial after she refused to deploy to Afghanistan, saying she had no family able to care for her infant son. (AP Photo/Alexis Hutchinson, File)  NO SALESAP - A single-mom soldier who says she refused to deploy to Afghanistan because she had no family able to care for her young son will be discharged from the military instead of facing a court-martial, the Army said Thursday.


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Stolen plane, chalk-drawn feet: Teen burglar back? (AP)

In this photo provided by the Islands' Sounder newspaper, chalk drawings of bare feet are shown Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010, on the floor of the Homegrown Market on Orcas Island, Wash., after the store was broken into overnight. The burglary, and the fact that a stolen airplane was found at the Orcas Island airport are leading to speculation that Colton Harris-Moore, known as Washington state's infamous teenage 'barefoot bandit,' may be back in action. (AP Photo/Courtesy Islands' Sounder, Meredith Griffith)AP - A stolen airplane found in the San Juan Islands and chalk-outline feet drawn all over a burgled grocery store suggest that Washington's infamous teenage "barefoot burglar" is back at it. Authorities across western Washington state have been hoping to catch alleged bandit Colton Harris-Moore since the lanky 18-year-old escaped from a halfway house in April 2008.


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Texas gov. candidate questions any US role in 9/11 (AP)

In this photo made Jan. 14, 2010, Republican gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina sits during a pre debate run-through in Denton, Texas. Medina said on the Glenn Beck Show that there were 'some very good arguments' that the U.S. was involved in bringing down the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/LM Otero)AP - A Republican gubernatorial candidate said Thursday she has questions about whether the U.S. government was involved in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks — a statement she swiftly backed away from and one that drew immediate criticism from her better-known rivals in the race.


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