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New Theory: Van Gogh Was Murdered
(Newser) - The accepted explanation for Vincent Van Gogh's death may be all wrong. While the standard story is that the artist shot himself in a field, managing to return to a nearby inn before he died, a new 900-page book paints a very different picture. In Van Gogh: The Life,... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, World, Media, Crime & Courts.
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Computer Expert Leaks Thousands of Protester Emails
(Newser) - A cyber-security expert has released thousands of Occupy Wall Street protesters' emails —and says he has learned which of the protesters are affiliated with Anonymous. Group members are participating in the movement, Gawker notes, but Tom Ryan, who leaked some 3,900 messages from an Occupy Wall Street mailing... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, US, Technology.
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Indy Winner Dan Wheldon Killed in Vegas Crash
(Newser) - Two-time Indy 500 winner Dan Wheldon died yesterday in a horrific 15-car crash in Las Vegas. The fiery accident, which sent three other drivers to the hospital, occurred just days after the 33-year-old British father of two and others expressed fears about crowded conditions and super-fast speeds of up to... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, US, Sports.
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Cop Accused of Organizing Orgies for DSK
(Newser) - Dominique Strauss-Kahn's name has appeared in another sex scandal, reports the Daily Mail . This time, a French investigation into a prostitution racket has turned up a high-ranking police officer who had hoped to lead Strauss-Kahn's protection unit, should DSK be elected French president next year. That police official... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, World, Crime & Courts.
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Calif. Medical Association Backs Legalizing Pot
(Newser) - The California Medical Association has thrown down the marijuana gauntlet by officially supporting the legalization of pot. The move comes just a week after the feds warned several medical marijuana dispensaries in the state to close up . Organization members want pot legalized and regulated so the drug can be more... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, US, .
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NYC Cop Punches Protester
(Newser) - A New York City cop has been filmed viciously punching a Manhattan protester in the face in the middle of a street packed with demonstrators. The target, New Yorker Felix Rivera-Pitre, and his attorney are calling for an investigation, notes the San Francisco Chronicle . Rivera-Pitre was grabbed by police after... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, US.
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Teen Dies of Football Brain Injury
(Newser) - A 16-year-old New York high school athlete collapsed during a football game with a head injury and died hours later from bleeding in the brain. LInesman Ridge Barden passed out after a "blunt-force trauma" collision during the third quarter of a game in Homer. "I don't think... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, , Sports.
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Cantor Backs Off Calling Protesters a 'Mob'
(Newser) - House Majority Leader Eric Cantor backed away yesterday from earlier comments that the Occupy Wall Street protesters were "mobs," expressing some sympathy for the movement and people's frustrations, reports Bloomberg . “There is a growing frustration out there across this country, and it’s warranted,” acknowledged... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, Politics.
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Football Star in Trouble for Flipping the Bird
(Newser) - Mighty linebacker AJ Hawk, we salute you and your sack of St. Louis quarterback Sam Bradford in last night's Packers-Rams game. Oh, apparently you saluted yourself, and with just one finger, reports the Huffington Post . Hawk later apologized for the gesture , calling it a "bad joke" and promising... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, Sports.
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Cornel West Busted in Protest at Supreme Court
(Newser) - Activist Princeton University professor and well-known commentator Cornel West was one of 19 people arrested on the steps of the Supreme Court yesterday afternoon, protesting the influence of corporate money in politics, reports AP . The group was busted when they refused to leave the grounds, according to a spokeswoman for... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, US, Crime & Courts.
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Iran Demands Access to 'Bomb Plotter'
(Newser) - Iran is demanding access to the Iranian-American man accused of plotting to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States , reports Reuters . "There is no doubt regarding the baselessness of the US allegations," said an Iranian official, according to Iran's state broadcaster IRIB. "However, providing personal... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, World, Crime & Courts.
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François Hollande to Run Against Sarkozy
(Newser) - The French Socialists have a candidate for next year's presidential elections (and, surprise, it's not DSK), so now preparations can really begin for the Nicolas Sarkozy showdown, reports the BBC . The Socialists yesterday chose François Hollande—a longtime party official who has never held a ministerial-level office—... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, World, Politics.
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Air India Fliers Stranded on Plane 8 Hours
(Newser) - Stunned Air India passengers found themselves trapped for eight hours on a fogbound plane sitting on the tarmac in London's Gatwick Airport. The real kicker? The flight's final destination was London's Heathrow Airport, just minutes away. As fury mounted, police were called to keep the peace, reports... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, World.
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Did 'Lost' Da Vinci Sell for Only $21K?
(Newser) - Christie's auction house let a "lost" Leonardo Da Vinci portrait fly out the door for a mere $21,000, according to art experts with a growing group of supporters. The portrait was from a 500-year-old book about the duke of Milan and likely features an illegitimate daughter, according... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, Business, Arts & Living.
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Seattle Superhero Makes Court Appearance
(Newser) - Even superheroes aren't above the law. Self-appointed Seattle crime-fighter Phoenix Jones was in court last week following his arrest in a pepper-spray debacle . No charges have yet been filed against Jones' mild-mannered alter-ego (read: real identity), one Benjamin Fodor; prosecutors told the judge they want more time to make... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, US, Crime & Courts.
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French Oysters: 'More Precious Than Pearls'
(Newser) - The world's most delicious oysters exist in the French region of Brittany, where "they are generally smaller than other varieties but intensely flavored," writes Susan Spano in the Los Angeles Times . She recounts her 3-day oyster tour of France's Atlantic coast, where she devoured dozens of... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, World, .
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Israel to Free Bombers, Killers in Soldier Swap
(Newser) - The founders of Hamas' militant wing. The organizer of a Jerusalem bombing that killed 15. A woman who lured a lovelorn Israeli teen to a Palestinian city to be murdered. All will be released in Israel's planned swap of Palestinian political prisoners for a single kidnapped Israeli solder, the... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, World.
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Climate Change Makes Animals, People 'Shrink'
(Newser) - Plants, polar bears, and people are among the living things likely to shrink thanks to global warming, scientists say. Drawing on several scientific papers, the Telegraph reports that warmer, drier weather makes plants and animals get smaller, which reduces food supplies for those higher up the food chain. "The... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, Science & Health.
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'Occupy' Amasses $230K War Chest
(Newser) - "Occupy Wall Street" has racked up $230,000 in donations and has a warehouse stacked with supplies ranging from peanut butter to tampons, the New York Post reports. Money orders, online donations, and about $1,000-a-day stuffed into a plastic jug in Zuccotti Park, New York, account for the... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, Politics.
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Zachary Quinto Comes Out of the Closet
(Newser) - Plagued by despair over a gay teenager's suicide, actor Zachary Quinto has come out as a gay man in a new magazine profile. The inheritor of the Mr. Spock role in "Star Trek" said the suicide of a bullied gay teen filled him with "indescribable despair,"... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, Gossip.
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Catholics Stole 300K Babies From Mothers
(Newser) - A secret network of priests, nuns, and doctors have stolen up to 300,000 babies from mothers in Spain and sold them to other parents, a BBC documentary shows. Their scheme: Tell the mother her baby died in childbirth, and sell the newborn to a more devout and wealthy couple.... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, World.
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Upscale Wines Come in ... a Box?
(Newser) - Companies selling boxed wines want Americans to pour their next glass of fine vino from, dare we say it, a spigot. In fact, sales of new deluxe boxed wines spiked 19% last year, and wine reviewers are beginning to dispense praise. While upmarket boxed wines may still turn off wine... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, Arts & Living, .
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'Occupiers' Arrested Across US; Rome Tallies Damage
(Newser) - Police arrested hundreds of "Occupy Wall Street" protesters today who endured chilly nights outdoors in Chicago, New York, Denver, and Arizona, the New York Daily News reports. As the Chicago Tribune has it, officers rounded up about 175 demonstrators who refused to clear Congress Plaza after 1am. The arrests... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, US, Politics.
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Top State in High-Tech Job Hiring Is...
(Newser) - And the state filling the most high-tech jobs last year was … Michigan? Though many might have guessed California and its Silicon Valley would fill the top slot, the Great Lakes state actually takes top honors. “The fact that Michigan added more tech jobs in 2010 than any other... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, US, Technology.
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Steve Jobs Designed the iPhone 5
(Newser) - While pancreatic cancer was slowly killing him , Steve Jobs dedicated his final months to a new project: the iPhone 5. The next-generation phone "was the last project that Steve Jobs was intimately involved with from concept to final design," a financial analyst wrote in a report acquired by... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, Technology, .
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Cain Takes Heat Over 9-9-9 Plan
(Newser) - Sudden GOP frontrunner Herman Cain defended his 9-9-9 tax plan on the talk show circuit today, shooting back at critics who say it would jack taxes for the poor, middle class, and elderly. "There are invisible taxes that are built into everything we buy," said Cain, adding... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, Politics.
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Obama: King 'Stirred Our Conscience'
(Newser) - Forty-three years after Martin Luther King Jr. was killed by an assassin's bullets, the nation's first black president today led an all-star tribute to the civil rights activist who "stirred our conscience" and made our Union "more perfect." "I know we will overcome,"... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, Politics.
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Harold Camping: Doomsday Is Definitely Friday
(Newser) - The end is nigh—no, really this time!—but don’t bother repenting. That’s what Harold Camping, America’s favorite doomsday prophet , is preaching these days. In a message on his website spotted by USA Today , Camping says that Oct. 21, “at this point, looks like it... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, Arts & Living.
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Occupiers Are Democracy's 'Primal Scream'
(Newser) - Don't underestimate the parallels between Tahrir Square and Occupy Wall Street, writes Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times . He's interviewed plenty of protesters in both locations, and he says that people's responses were largely the same, the feeling that a small ruling elite is rigging the... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, US.
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Obama's 'Bundlers' Shift Into High Gear
(Newser) - President Obama's big-money "bundlers" are on the rise, with at least 41 supporters now having raised more than $500,000 each for the president, reports MSNBC . That's a sizeable jump from the 27 bundlers—well-connected supporters who help candidates raise big money—reported three months ago. It'... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, Politics.
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Khamenei Warns US: Don't Mess With Iran
(AP) - Iran's supreme leader warned the United States today that any measures taken against Tehran over an alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington would elicit a "resolute" response. "If US officials have some delusions, (they must) know that any unsuitable act, whether political or security,... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, World.
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6 Tips for Never Getting Lost
(Newser) - How would you find your way around a city if your GPS or the maps application on your smartphone suddenly stopped working? Many modern people, reliant on digital geographic devices, would be completely lost. There are, however, tricks that can help the directionally perplexed—ones that don't require any... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, , World.
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Lady Gaga Channels Marilyn at Clinton Fete
(Newser) - In perhaps a case of history repeating itself, a blonde bombshell serenaded a notoriously libidinous Democratic president last night: But this time it was Lady Gaga sending up Bill Clinton, so things wouldn't have been complete without some extra raunch and an F-bomb. Appearing at last night's "... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, , Politics, Gossip.
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Bachmann: I'll Finish the Border Fence
(Newser) - She's not using John McCain's painfully forced "complete the danged fence" phrase, but Michele Bachmann is vowing to do just that. Yesterday the struggling Tea Party favorite signed a pledge to complete a double fence along the whole US-Mexico border by 2013, calling it "job No.... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, World, Politics.
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Burma's Thaw Now Extends to Media
(Newser) - The political thawing of tropical Burma seems to be continuing, as the second-least-free country in the world for journalism (after North Korea) has begun to relax its tight controls over the media. As the Wall Street Journal reports, pictures of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi have appeared in newspapers... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, World.
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Herman Cain Has Long Ties to Koch Brothers
(Newser) - Herman Cain is the plain-talking and surging Republican presidential candidate everyone knows for his 9-9-9 plan and his days at the helm of Godfather's Pizza. But the AP takes a closer look at his resume, and finds close and longstanding ties to Americans for Prosperity, the right-leaning advocacy group... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, Politics.
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Waitress Gets Revenge on Rude, Cheap Customer
(Newser) - A crazy story about a waitress getting gipped and insulted by a customer just may have a happy ending: The tale began last weekend when Seattle waitress Victoria Liss collected a bill from a customer who wrote in "0" on the tip line and added, "P.S. You... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, October 17, 2011 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Home, US.
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