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  • Slavery in America must never be forgotten

    Just as many of you will never forget the oppression — indeed, extermination — of your foreparents in foreign lands, discrimination in their new country and their constant battle for inclusion and acceptance in a place they came to call ...

  • Review “Bling Ring” stylish lacks substance

    Writer-director Sophia Coppola, best known for 2003's art-house darling "Lost In Translation," has achieved great heights in terms of her career as a filmmaker dually because of the credibility of her last name and the amount of success she has garnered in the world of independent cinema. Coppola's latest effort "The Bling Ring," takes an all-too-familiar look at ...

  • Review “Yeezus” is the reason for the season

    4.5 out of 5 stars With no singles, no radio airplay and no album cover, Kanye West's sixth solo album, "Yeezus," is still estimated to sell half a million albums in its first week, adding another consecutive No. 1 album to Kanye's catalog of all-platinum albums. But how did we get here? West, now 36, was just an emerging producer-turned-rapper when he released his debut, ...

  • Ex-BP employees face new indictments over spill

    Federal prosecutors have secured new indictments against a former BP engineer and a former BP executive charged separately with obstructing probes of the company's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of ...

  • Tropical Storm Barry forms off Mexican coast

    Forecasters say a tropical depression crossing Mexico's Bay of Campeche is getting better organized and is expected to become a tropical storm before making landfall along Mexico's Gulf ...

Movie Review

Rumble in the Bronx (Hong Faan Kui)

Even if you could overlook the lame slapstick comedy, the stilted, poorly dubbed dialogue, stolen diamonds that look like glass marbles, the producers' attempt to pass off a Canadian location crested with scenic mountains as the Bronx, and the fact that the only sympathy in the film comes from gangsters beating on a whiny kid in a wheelchair, "Rumble in the Bronx" would still be a bad movie. Ever ... ...

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  • Texas Border Checkpoint Mostly Ensnares Americans For Drug Offenses

    Fifteen miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, a sleepy Texas county with more square miles than people is home to a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint. But while the checkpoint is intended to snag immigration ...

  • As fires rage feds cut funding on prevention

    federal government is spending less and less on its main program for preventing blazes in the first place. A combination of government austerity and the ballooning cost of battling the ruinous fires has taken a bite out of federal efforts to remove the dead trees and flammable underbrush that clog Western forests. The ...

  • 94th Reno Rodeo opens Thursday Wests richest

    RENO, Nev. (AP) -- An up-and-coming young buck who's trading his basketball shoes for cowboy boots and the defending world champion bull rider are among the headliners this week at the 94th Reno ...

  • EPA levies $2.5M penalty against US cement maker

    BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- The Environmental Protection Agency levied a $2.5 million penalty against a big cement maker and required the company to invest $30 million in pollution controls at plants in nine states alleged to have violated the federal Clean Air ...

  • Cuts to food stamps threaten farm bill

    White House opposition to the House's massive farm bill could leave some Republicans and conservative groups in the awkward position of agreeing with President ...

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