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For Philadelphia bicyclist a cat is his co-pilot
PHILADELPHIA -- For bicyclist Rudi Saldia, you could say a cat is his co-pilot.Saldia often buzzes around Philadelphia with his year-old feline Mary Jane perched on his shoulder. Their urban adventures have turned heads on the street and garnered big hits on YouTube.The 26-year-old bike courier didn't intend to become Internet-famous. He originally shot footage of the outings only to prove ...
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Twist in Fox ‘hound’
WASHINGTON - The government’s efforts to snoop on Fox News reporter James Rosen during a leak investigation were broader than first revealed - extending to other Fox reporters and even included Rosen’s parents’ home on Staten Island.The feds swept up information on several phone numbers associated with Fox News’ bureau in DC, the network confirmed, and two phone numbers ...
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Surgery to remove 1.8kg furball
IT'S not unusual for a cat to get a hairball, but a 180-kilogram tiger has needed help from veterinary surgeons when he couldn't hack up a soccer ball-sized furball by ...
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M16 Had Secret D-Day Hit List Records Reveal
MI6 drew up a secret hit list of key German figures to be assassinated in preparation for the D-Day landings, according to official papers made public for the first time. The targets included senior Gestapo officers in France as well as logistics experts considered vital to the movements of the German troops who would confront the Allied invasion force, files released by the National Archives ...
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Surgeons remove tigers basketball-sized hairball
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- It's not unusual for a cat to get a hairball, but a 400-pound tiger needed help from veterinary surgeons in Florida when he couldn't hack up a basketball-size hairball by himself.The 17-year-old tiger named Ty underwent the procedure Wednesday at a veterinary center in the Tampa Bay area community of Clearwater. Doctors said in a statement that they safely removed ...
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The Game [Blu-Ray]
In David Finchers The Game, a stylishly wrought descent into the unknown, Michael Douglas stars as Nicholas Van Orton, a chilly investment banker whose controlled life is torn out from under him when he submits to an elaborate game, the rules of which remain maddeningly obscure. When the film o ... ...
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Strange calls for special prosecutor in IRS case
Attorney General Luther Strange Strange pointed out that an IRS official invoked the Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination earlier Wednesday when called before a House committee. (Dave Martin | Associated Press | ...
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Top House Republicans calls second round of sequester idiotic but says his hands are tied
reports on the outlook for the second year of the sequester, which will reduce spending in FY2014 from $1.043 trillion to $967 billion. In all likelihood, the $76 billion in additional austerity will come from another round of indiscriminate cuts. And The Republican head of the House's Appropriations Committee isn't ...
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Guptagate report Highlights and curious details
"Clearly," the government authors write, "someone is not telling the truth." That is a rather obvious deduction, given the contents of the 30-page report into what went wrong to allow a private plane, ferrying wedding guests, to land at the country's top air ...
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Phillips strange double lifts Reds over Mets 7-4
Brandon Phillips bounced a bizarre double over first base to snap a ninth-inning tie, and the Cincinnati Reds completed a three-game sweep of the struggling New York Mets with a 7-4 victory ...
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Girls tossed from mall over cancer hats
Three sisters say they were kicked out of a Pennsylvania mall because they refused to remove profanity-laden hats expressing their hatred of ...
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