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Why Some Are Miffed that Obama Is Skipping an Event

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Playing Hooky Some of the nation’s mayors are miffed over the Obama administration’s decision to skip the annual Conference of Mayors in Providence, Rhode Island. The administration is doing so to avoid crossing a labor union picket line by the city’s firefighters …

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Celebrity Blogger Gets Earful Following Gay Slur

Poor Perez. After Perez Hilton’s slur-laden reaction to an alleged assault by the manager of the Black Eyed Peas, even former allies of the celebrity blogger have turned against him. Officials at the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) have called on Hilton to apologize for the “vulgar anti-gay …

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U.S. Nabs Millions of Dollars in 83-Nation Cash-Smuggling Sting Operation

LOS ANGELES – Whether it’s gun running, drug smuggling or human trafficking, crime has one common currency: Cold, hard cash. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents recently completed the largest cash-smuggling sting in history, a five-day operation involving police in 83 countries that uncovered more than $27 million in undeclared at …

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