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from Al Jazeera
Six Guantanamo prisoners resettled in Uruguay
Release of the men held for more than 12 years represents largest single group to leave US detention camp.
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from Breitbart
MASSIVE DOWNTOWN L.A. FIRE BELIEVED TO BE STARTED INTENTIONALLY
A fire that torched a towering residential construction project on Monday morning in downtown Los Angeles and shot flames seven stories into the air is now believed to have been started intentionally.
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from The Hill
Cheney: CIA report 'is just a crock'
Former Vice President Dick Cheney issued a pre-emptive strike against a soon-to-be-released Senate report on the CIA's Bush-era enhanced interrogation techniques against suspected terrorists, describing the findings as "just a crock."
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from KHQ Local News (NBC Spokane)
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from MEDIAite
from The Political Insider
Famous Reporter Tells All: Obama Uses VULGAR Language in Private Meetings to Keep Media in Line
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Famous Reporter Tells All: Obama Uses VULGAR Language in Private Meetings to Keep Media in Line
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from The Spokesman-Review
School bomb threat leads to felony charge
A Coeur d’Alene man is charged with a felony for allegedly calling in a bomb threat Friday for Atlas Elementary School.
Thieves steal five stained glass windows from church
Spokane police are seeking a thief who made off with five stained glass windows from All Saints Lutheran Church Sunday.
9th Circuit judges skeptical in Idaho case challenging NSA cell phone surveillance
A three-judge panel of the 9thh Circuit Court of Appeals was highly skeptical Monday of arguments on behalf of a Coeur d’Alene woman that NSA cell phone surveillance violates her constitutional right to privacy.
Washington dropping mandate to replace license plates
The Washington state law that requires vehicle owners to buy new license plates after seven years is being rescinded in favor of letting owners keep their plates for as long as they want.
Pearl Harbor survivors mark 73rd anniversary in Spokane
On Sunday, the 73rd anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Stars and Stripes STA bus delivered its precious cargo to the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena. The five remaining military members of the Lilac City Pearl Harbor Survivors Association had come to honor their fallen comrades at the new Pearl Harbor Survivors Memorial.
Uruguay accepts six Guantanamo detainees
Six prisoners held for 12 years at Guantanamo Bay have arrived as refugees in Uruguay, a South American nation with only a tiny Muslim population, amid a renewed push by President Barack Obama to close the prison.
Hanks, Sting among Kennedy Center honorees
Tom Hanks and Sting joined Lily Tomlin, singer Al Green and ballerina Patricia McBride in being awarded this year’s Kennedy Center Honors.
Chlorine gas sickens 19 at Chicago FurFest convention
Chlorine gas sickened several people and forced the evacuation of thousands of guests from a suburban Chicago hotel early Sunday, including many dressed in cartoonish animal costumes for an annual furries convention who were ushered across the street to a convention center hosting a dog show.
In brief: Norovirus sickens 200 on cruise ship
Health authorities in New Zealand said today that about 200 passengers on a cruise ship have been sickened by an outbreak of norovirus.
Skier, 35, dies in Alaska avalanche
Alaska State Troopers say a man died after being caught in an avalanche while skiing.
Rolling Stone amends apology
Rolling Stone has clarified its apology over a story that had reported a female student was gang-raped at a University of Virginia fraternity, telling readers the mistakes were the magazine’s fault, not the alleged victim’s.
Senate report on CIA expected to spur attacks
Foreign governments and U.S. intelligence agencies are predicting that the release of a Senate report examining the use of torture by the CIA will cause “violence and deaths” abroad, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Sunday.
People: Prince William, Kate arrive in NYC
Britain’s Prince William and his wife, Kate, arrived in New York City on Sunday, the royal couple’s first official visit to the U.S. and their first experience with the Big Apple.
Marilyn Monroe’s love letters sold
Joe DiMaggio’s love letter to Marilyn Monroe has sold for $78,125 at a Beverly Hills auction. The letter during their brief, volatile marriage was among 300 items, dubbed “Marilyn Monroe’s Lost Archives,” that went on the block. A handwritten letter from Monroe to her third and final husband, playwright Arthur Miller, sold for $43,750.
Korkie’s body heading home to South Africa
Pierre Korkie was supposed to be released Sunday from 18 months of captivity in Yemen under a deal struck by an aid group. Instead, he was killed Saturday along with American photojournalist Luke Somers during a U.S.-led rescue attempt. Ten al-Qaida militants also were slain in the raid, Yemeni security officials said.
Three dead, but no major typhoon damage in Philippines
Typhoon Hagupit weakened today, a day after it left at least three people dead and sent more than a million others into shelters, sparing the central Philippines the massive devastation that a monster storm brought to the region last year.
In brief: Syria says Israeli airstrikes hit near Damascus
Israeli warplanes bombed two areas near Damascus on Sunday, striking near the city’s international airport as well as outside a town close to the Lebanese border, the Syrian military said.
Japan economy falters in 3Q
The contraction in Japan’s economy last quarter was larger than initially estimated, according to figures released today that confirmed a recession ahead of an election on Sunday.
Tenth Sierra Leone doctor dies of Ebola
Another Sierra Leonean doctor has died from Ebola, the 10th to succumb to the disease, in what the country’s chief medical officer on Sunday called a shocking trend.
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The Rock Doc: Love of coffee might be genetic, research shows
Western governors discuss sage grouse
In brief: Missing Cheney girl returns to family home
A 15-year-old Cheney girl missing since Thanksgiving showed up at her family’s home Sunday morning.
Man tests negative for Ebola in Seattle
King County health officials said initial test results on a man who recently returned from the West African nation of Mali have come back negative for Ebola.
Obama calls for patience in struggle against racism
President Barack Obama, responding to the wave of protests and racial tensions across the country in recent weeks, appealed for patience and persistence in solving what he described as an issue “that is deeply rooted in our society … our history.”
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Where’s line on cruel, unusual?
Woman reaches high point through GU program
Professor Adrian Popa, chairman of the Organizational Leadership Program, created the Leadership and Hardiness class, which is open to everyone, anywhere, not just Gonzaga graduate students.
Sedentary lifestyle harms long-term health
Prediabetes serves as loud wakeup call
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from Zero Hedge
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We've Habituated To A Rigged, Fraudulent Market
Fraud generates risk, and risk eventually breaks out in the "safest" parts of the financial plumbing, the ones nobody gives a second thought to because they're "low risk."
We've Habituated To A Rigged, Fraudulent Market
Fraud generates risk, and risk eventually breaks out in the "safest" parts of the financial plumbing, the ones nobody gives a second thought to because they're "low risk."
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