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Privacy veil lifted, 1940 census opens window to past

Maggie Evans, of the richest family on the block, can never go home. A clowder of feral cats roams the front yard. In the past two years, there have been five homicides within 1,500 feet of the house she once gave that name: Home, for her, no longer exists.

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Abu Qatada refused bail by judge

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-06-13 09:51
The radical cleric will stay in jail until at least his deportation appeal in October, partly because of the security threat during the Olympics, a judge rules.
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Google Exposed as NSA Front

TruthNews.US - News - Fri, 2025-06-13 09:51
Infowars.com | The takeover of the Internet is literally a fascist partnership between Google, the NSA, US CYBERCOM and other key entities.

Region was radically different in 1940

In 1940, the office-tower core of downtown Washington, D.C., was the black section of town; much of Southeast was entirely white; the suburbs did not exist and almost no one went to college.

Houses in the Washington area were then, as now, far more expensive than in other parts of ...

Court hears pre-wedding raid case

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-06-13 09:51
A legal challenge by environmental campaigners against a police raid on the eve of the royal wedding is due at the High Court.
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VIDEO: Lagarde tax jibe angers Greeks

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-06-13 09:51
The head of the International Monetary Fund has attracted strong criticism over a newspaper interview in which she suggested the Greek people could help themselves by not dodging their taxes.
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VIDEO: Lagarde tax jibe angers Greeks

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-06-13 09:51
The head of the International Monetary Fund has attracted strong criticism over a newspaper interview in which she suggested the Greek people could help themselves by not dodging their taxes.
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Blair defends Murdoch friendship

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-06-13 09:51
Ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair tells the Leveson Inquiry his friendship with Rupert Murdoch was "a working relationship" until he left office.
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3 rescued from plane crash site in remote Idaho

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-06-13 09:51
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Idaho National Guard rescuers plucked a California fireman, his wife and their adult daughter from a snow-covered mountain-side Sunday afternoon, more than 15 hours after the trio survived a nighttime plane crash onto a steep, forested slope in a remote part of the state....
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Inbreeding 'threatens meerkats'

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-06-13 09:51
The survival chances of meerkats is being threatened by inbreeding, according to a new study.
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Gardeners told 'wash off compost'

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-06-13 09:51
Gardeners are warned to wash their hands after using compost following a series of Legionella cases in Scotland over the past five years.
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In pictures: Life on a Kenyan dump

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-06-13 09:51
Kenyans who survive on what others throw away
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£82m loan scheme to target young

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-06-13 09:51
An £82m loan scheme for young people wanting to create a business is launched by Prime Minister David Cameron.
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Rio slum dwellers join peace run

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-06-13 09:51
Police officers and celebrities in Rio de Janeiro join some 1,500 residents in a race through the streets of a slum once ruled by drug gangs.
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Curbs on religious slaughter urged

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-06-13 09:51
Debate pits religious sensitivities against animal welfare campaigners
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American Scene: Two survive sinking of banner-towing plane

SAN DIEGO — The pilot and passenger of a banner-towing plane made an emergency landing on San Diego Bay and were plucked out of the water before the aircraft sank, authorities said Saturday.

The pilot of the single-engine Cessna 150 reported engine problems and went in the water south of ...

Prosecutors in Patz murder case face tough challenges

NEW YORK — For prosecutors, the work is just beginning after the astonishing arrest last week of a man who police say confessed to strangling a 6-year-old New York City boy 33 years ago in one of the nation's most bewildering missing-child cases.

Pedro Hernandez, 51, was charged with second-degree ...

Fire, winds force ghost town to evacuate

GLENWOOD, N.M. — Crews fighting a wildfire in the Gila National Forest in New Mexico planned to take advantage of lighter winds Sunday by building protection lines on key flanks of the blaze and preparing to send water-dropping helicopters into the air for the first time in several days.

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VIDEO: Unicyclist goes extreme

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-06-13 09:51
Extreme unicyclist Hugo Duguay explains why life on one wheel is better spent jumping down stairs then going around in circles.
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