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FBI Seeking 'Terror Trio' Believed Sent by al-Qaeda Boss
(Newser) - The FBI, CIA, and police are attempting to track down a trio of men they believe arrived in the US last month to launch a terror attack on the anniversary of 9/11. The men, who officials believe were sent by al-Qaeda boss Ayman al-Zawahiri, are suspected of plotting a car... More » |
Woman Dies Hours After Injecting Beef Fat Into Face
(Newser) - Add this to the list of really awful ways to go: An Illinois woman injected heated beef fat into her face yesterday, and died shortly thereafter. Janet Hardt, 63, had done it several times before, says a source, but after injecting the substance around her mouth and chin this time,... More » |
Worker 'Moving Equipment' Plunged 6M Into Darkness
(Newser) - Power company officials believe a worker moving a piece of monitoring equipment in an Arizona utility substation likely turned off the lights yesterday for a massive 6 million customers stretching through southern California and Mexico. "This was not a deliberate act. The employee was just switching out a piece... More » |
Jackie O: MLK a 'Phony'
(Newser) - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was not a fan of Martin Luther King Jr, once describing him as "tricky" and a "phony," after hearing FBI tapes of him with a woman other than his wife in a hotel room. That's just one of the revelations contained in a... More » |
Obama's Plan 'Bolder, Better Than Expected'
(Newser) - Pundits handed out good grades aplenty for President Obama's new jobs proposal last night, with generally positive feedback from liberals like Paul Krugman—but also from conservatives like David Frum and Andrew Sullivan. Krugman writes in the New York Times that he was "favorably surprised by the new... More » |
Bizarre Contagion Sign Made of Bacteria
(Newser) - The producers of the sick new thriller Contagion came up with a creepy way to promote their product. Warner Bros. Pictures Canada hired microbiologists to culture bacteria on two signs that grew to spell out the name of the movie in a most disgusting way, reports Adweek . Scientists inoculated two... More »
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