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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann, a former White House hopeful and a favorite of the conservative Tea Party movement, has a new political option: she can run for office in Switzerland.  

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Student's 'Jesus' shirt sparks feud with school

A Christian student suspended from a high school in Nova Scotia for sporting a T-shirt with the slogan "Life is wasted without Jesus" vows to wear it when he returns to class next week. William Swinimer, who's in Grade 12, was suspended from Forest Heights Community School in Ch …

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Mass. clinic 'tortured' teen with electric therapy, mom says at trial-video

The scene of a disabled young man screaming through electric-shock therapy looks straight out of 1950, but it is at the heart of a civil trial under way this week in Massachusetts.The video of Andre McCollins receiving the shocks at a Boston-area clinic went public for the first  …

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Half billion year old worm may be man's oldest relative

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Romney arrogantly states America deserves Canadian oil

But it was this remark to supporters, reported by CTV News, that brought some Canadians up short: "I'll get us that oil from Canada that we deserve."

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Saskatchewan man digs out his basement with remote-controlled mini trucks and tractors | Good News - Yahoo! News

"It's been a great hobby thus far, dreaming up—building all sorts of different miniature equipment from kits or from scratch for this 'mining' project. If it wasn't for this mining project I probably would have lost ...

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LED snowboarding: stunning video shows lit up snowboarder at night | Good News - Yahoo! News

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This is what you get when profiling muslims

MONTREAL - A casual text message to work colleagues encouraging them to ''blow away'' the competition at a trade show allegedly plunged a Muslim man into a terrorism probe. Telecommunications sales manager Saad Allami says the innocent message, aimed at pumping up his staff, has …

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Americans put their health-care costs in spotlight after flap over skier Sarah Burke's hospital bill | Daily Brew - Yahoo! News

  The whopping medical bill faced by the family of Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke, who died from a head injury while practising at Park City, Utah, has triggered a spasm of embarrassment among Americans over their health-care system. Burke, of Squamish, B.C., died at …

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Britain OKs television ads for abortion clinics - Washington Times

 Britain’s broadcast advertising body has given the go-ahead for private abortion clinics to advertise their services on television, angering those who say that the move desensitizes the public to the practice.

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Exclusive: EU agrees to embargo on Iranian crude -

BRUSSELS/TEHRAN (Reuters) - European governments have agreed in principle to ban imports of Iranian oil, EU diplomats said Wednesday, dealing a blow to Tehran that crowns new Western sanctions months before an Iranian election. The prospective embargo by the European Union, alon …

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Victoria Jackson: Muslim Brotherhood Taking Over America, Six Hour FBI Meeting

"I just went to a briefing in Washington DC, across the street from the Capitol, at the Longworth building at 8:30 am two days ago and it changed my life," Jackson said last week on her web show, "Politichicks."

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9 yr old suspended for calling teacher cute...sexual harassement?

A North Carolina primary school student was suspended for two days because he called a teacher "cute," which, according to the principal, is form of sexual harassment.

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Herman Cain says he expects new accusation to be made public that he had an extended affair - Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON - Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain says he's expecting another accusation soon to be made public — that he once had an extended extramarital affair with a woman.

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Daily Kos: FALL OF THE HOUSE OF MURDOCH XXX: BREAKING: James Resigns from NI Newspapers

Companies House filings show James Murdoch has stepped down from the boards of both News Group Newspapers Limited, publisher of The Sun, and Times Newspapers Limited, which operates The Times and Sunday Times.

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Hey American Politicians look to Canada for Debt Solution

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Finance officials bit their nails and nervously watched the clock. There were 30 minutes left in a bond auction aimed at funding the deficit and there was not a single bid. Sounds like today's Italy or Greece? No, this was Canada in 1994.

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Spec-Ops Command: SEAL raid book 'a lie' -author attacks Obama White house

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Special Operations Command is calling a former Navy SEAL's book bogus over its claims to describe the "real" version of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. "It's just not true," U.S. Special Operations Command spokesman Col. Tim Nye said.

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Mississippi to decide if fertilized egg is a human being - Yahoo! News

(Reuters) - Mississippi on Tuesday could be the first state in the nation to define a fertilized egg as a person, a controversial concept aimed at outlawing abortion, some types of birth control and infertility methods that result in the loss of embryos. The so-called "personhoo …

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Afghan baby shot in the head calmed by Chief Master Sergeant gebhardt

John Gebhardt's wife, Mindy, said that this little girl's entire family was executed. The insurgents intended to execute the little girl also, and shot her in the head...but they failed to kill her.

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Harold Camping is 'embarrassed' world did not end on Oct. 21

  Oakland - Harold Camping of the Family Radio network, who predicted the world will end on October 21, has said he is embarrassed the world did not come to an end on October 21 after all. According to KBOI2.com, Harold Camping has expressed his embarrassment that God did  …

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Canadian courts wont extradite terrorist who is the brother of jailed terrorist- BTW he was tortured

Last year, the Ontario Superior Court decided there were sufficient grounds to send Khadr to the U.S. based on self-incriminating statements he'd given the RCMP. However, the court ruled the U.S.

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If your American, Canadian or European- you are NOT the 99%

“We are the 99 per cent,” the protesters chant, eyes aflame with reformist zeal. It’s a compelling slogan, well-suited to the times and to the social-media soup in which we are increasingly immersed. The wrinkle: It’s not true.

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Hotel worker quits job with help from marching band | Daily Buzz - Yahoo! News

  Hotel worker quits job with help from marching band By Jordan Chittley | Daily Buzz – 9 hours ago tweet27 Email Print

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