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Mexico Saint Death Cult Killing Suspects Charged 8
37 minutes ago
HERMOSILLO, Mexico -- Mexican prosecutors have formally charged eight people in the grisly cult slayings of two 10-year-old boys and a 55-year-old woman.The suspects are mainly members of an extended family whose purported leader has said they killed the victims as an offering to "Santa Muerte," or Saint Death, between 2009 and 2012.Read More...
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Elise Sax: Changing Careers in Midlife
39 minutes ago
College graduates are pondering who they are and who they will become, but maybe these questions can't be answered at graduation. Because I got to tell you, I'm a hell of a lot older than they are, and I'm asking myself: Who am I? Where am I? I used to know, but then I changed.Read More...
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T.P. Allen: Teach Your Children Well
40 minutes ago
I am privileged to live in Rwanda, where life's questions are frequent topic of discussion for my many visitors and me. Of this I am now convinced: It no doubt involves personal service and the great joy of giving yourself away to others -- losing yourself to find yourself and your purpose.Read More...
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Debra Ollivier: Marilu Henner On 'Total Memory Makeover'
40 minutes ago
Marilu Henner, who many remember as the character Elaine on the sitcom "Taxi," is the author of Total Memory Makeover: Uncover Your Past, Take Charge of Your Future. She is one of only 12 documented cases of Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory, or HSAM.Read More...
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Boomer Marketing: A Report Card
42 minutes ago
They say one of these is born every seven seconds. No, not a star -- a boomer. Yet despite the fact that people over 50 control 75 percent of America’s wealth, most businesses are still dragging their feet when it comes to creating age-appropriate boomer marketing.“You get [the thinking] that everybody wants to be young,” said Brent Bouchez, founder of Agency five0, an advertising firm that helps businesses like Coca-Cola create campaigns targeted to boomers. “A lot of ads designed for the 30-year-olds are actually alienating to the older crowd. They feel ignored by marketers.”It’s a foolhardy slight, given the ...
'Hot In Cleveland': 'Storage Wars' Stars Dan And Laura Dotson Run A Storage Auction (VIDEO)
53 minutes ago
It was "Storage Wars" meets "Hot in Cleveland" (Wed., 10 p.m. ET on TV Land) as Dan and Laura Dotson played themselves on the popular comedy. In the episode, the couple sold a storage unit to Victoria Chase, who was desperate to find something major to distract the media.That embarrassing Japanese commercial for what are essentially adult diaper-pants made it state-side, and suddenly it's all anyone is talking about. While a painting they had hopes for proved to be a fake, they found a letter attacked to it that may well have been written by Abraham Lincoln. Even more salacious, ...
Education Report: Chronic Absenteeism Undermines Over 5 Million Students
54 minutes ago
Danet Robaina-Cline, an attendance counselor at Chaparral High, considers her school lucky.Like other schools in Las Vegas, a city reeling from the worst ravages of the foreclosure crisis, Chaparral serves impoverished children. They live in foster care or homeless shelters. They must watch over their younger siblings or move several times a year. But because Chaparral is in the middle of a well-funded turnaround process, it's one of the very few schools that can afford an attendance counselor.It's one of the very few schools that could have picked up on the fact that a certain student was the sole breadwinner ...
'Duck Dynasty': The Robertsons Find An Alligator Lurking In Their Yard (VIDEO)
55 minutes ago
On Wednesday night's episode of "Duck Dynasty" (Wed., 10 p.m. ET on A&E) the Robertsons found themselves with an uninvited guest -- a wild alligator. The creature was lurking underneath some junk in the yard and getting rid of it proved to be tricky. Eventually, however, Willie managed to lure it out with some raw chicken on a string and then drag it out of the yard.Bad news for Miss Kay who'd been hoping to catch the animal and turn it into some of her famous "gator balls."Read More...
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Ratko Mladic War Crimes Trial: Judge Suspends Case Indefinitely Due to Disclosure Errors By Prosecutors
57 minutes ago
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Judge in Ratko Mladic trial suspends case indefinitely due to disclosure errors by prosecutors.Read More...
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Mladic War Crimes Trial: Sebrenica Massacre Focus Of Trial's Second Day
1 hour 1 minute ago
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Prosecutors on Thursday were outlining their evidence of the alleged involvement of former Bosnian Serb military chief Gen. Ratko Mladic in Europe's worst mass murder since World War II, the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.On the second day of the 70-year-old's genocide trial, Yugoslav war crimes tribunal prosecutors will focus on the bloody climax of the 1992-95 Bosnian war, when Serb forces systematically executed some 8,000 Muslim men and boy in the U.N.-protected enclave in northeastern Bosnia and buried them in mass graves.Read More...
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Honduras Area Demands U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency To Leave After Deadly Operation
1 hour 2 minutes ago
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- People in Honduras' predominantly Indian Mosquito coast region burned down government offices and demanded that U.S. drug agents leave the area, reacting angrily to an anti-drug operation in which a local mayor said police gunfire killed four innocent people, including two pregnant women.Animosity is being aimed at both Honduran authorities and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, which confirmed on Wednesday that some of its agents were on a U.S.-owned helicopter with Honduran police officers when the shooting happened Friday on the Patuca River in northeastern Honduras.Read More...
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Robert Scheer: Obama Can't Knock the Hustle
1 hour 42 minutes ago
How did we end up with such smart scoundrels? Even after it was known that Jamie Dimon's bank blew more than $2 billion on the same suspect derivatives trading that has bankrupted the world's economy, Barack Obama still had praise for the intellect of his political backer and the integrity of the bank he heads: "JPMorgan is one of the best-managed banks there is," the president told the hosts of ABC's "The View" in an interview televised Tuesday, adding, "Jamie Dimon, the head of it, is one of the smartest bankers we got. And they still lost $2 billion and ...
Iran Nuclear Talks: Tehran Warns West Against Pressure Strategy
2 hours 18 minutes ago
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's top nuclear negotiator said Thursday his country is seeking "cooperation" from world powers in next week's nuclear talks in Baghdad and warned against pressure by the West.Saeed Jalili said the talks in the Iraqi capital have to recognize Iran's rights to a nuclear program, insisting Tehran will not yield to any "pressure strategy."Read More...
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'Toddlers & Tiaras': Damitri'ana Represents Africa In 'America's Genuine Jewel' Pageant (VIDEO)
2 hours 27 minutes ago
On "Toddlers & Tiaras" (Wed, 10 p.m. ET on TLC) Wednesday night the contestants faced-off in the "America's Genuine Jewel" pageant.The theme was "All Around The World," so the girls picked a country to represent before donning national costume for the "World Wear Competition."Eight-year-old Damitri'ana chose Africa as her country, and she was confident: "I'm gonna do Africa proud."Read More...
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Russia Protests: Occupation Of Moscow Square
2 hours 43 minutes ago
MOSCOW -- Several dozen people continue to occupy a square in central Moscow after some of their fellow protesters were detained Wednesday night.Police detained about 20 activists at Kudrinskaya Square where demonstrators had moved after police uprooted them from another camp in the latest move in a broadening crackdown on opponents of President Vladimir Putin.Read More...
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