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Nov 18 2009
A paparazzo testified Tuesday that an Ohio police chief told him he had access to ultrasound photographs belonging to the woman who carried twins for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick. Justin Steffman of New York testified that suspended...
Nov 17 2009
School board members in Miami have won their battle to remove a children’s book from the shelves of Miami-Dade school libraries because they said the book presented an inaccurate picture of life in Cuba. On Monday, the US Supreme Court declined...
Nov 13 2009
Iran’s closest allies in the Middle East are seizing on a deadlock in U.S.-backed peace efforts to try to sway a frustrated Arab world to their side. Radicals have escalated their rhetoric as hopes for progress on an Israeli-Palestinian deal have...
Nov 6 2009
Jennifer Smith, a Texas real estate agent, remembers when she considered her car an office, her cellphone a professional lifeline. If it rang, she picked it up. If she thought of information to share, she dialed. She knew that it wasn’t the best...
Nov 6 2009
Will it be China that finally pays the huge bills for repairing and rebuilding Afghanistan and Iraq — and reaps the rewards? It’s looking that way: as the US and Britain look for an exit from the battle zones, China is digging in. From its point of...
Nov 4 2009
Not too long ago, Ricardo Herrero was one of Miami’s Cuban-American hardliners, an ardent supporter of the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba as well as the ban on U.S. travel to the communist island. But a half dozen trips to Cuba during this decade...
Nov 2 2009
Even at the best of times, nothing is quite what it seems in Latin America. When the de facto government of Honduras buckled under international pressure this weekend, apparently agreeing to bury the hatchet with the president they ousted four months...
Oct 24 2009
Negotiators trying to resolve the Honduran political crisis said Friday that talks have broken off, the third such announcement in the past week. The interim government declared the negotiations collapsed hours after making a new offer to the...
Oct 22 2009
Christina Turner feared that she might have been sexually assaulted after two men slipped her a knockout drug. She thought she was taking proper precautions when her doctor prescribed a month’s worth of anti-AIDS medicine. Only later did she...
Oct 21 2009
Iran is in talks with the U.S., Russia and France over the details of a plan that would require it to ship much of a crucial uranium stockpile abroad. The U.S. and other world powers believe that transferring the material, low-enriched uranium, out of...