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Peanuts creator Charles Schulz's love letters to mistress up for auction

Alexander BesantDecember 5, 2012 22:28

The mistress of the American cartoonist who created Peanuts, Charles Schulz, is putting their love letters up for auction.

Diarrhea among US soldiers forces search for cure

Alexander BesantDecember 5, 2012 10:47

The Pentagon has taken aim at a little-reported problem among US military personnel: diarrhea.

Dick Cheney to write a book about his heart

Alexander BesantDecember 4, 2012 21:05

Dick Cheney is said to be writing a medical memoir about life with heart disease.

Prisoners in North Carolina allege sadistic acts by guards

Alexander BesantDecember 3, 2012 23:08

Inmates in a North Carolina prison allege that guards forced them to rub hot sauce on their genitalia, among other sadistic requests.

Geithner predicts Republicans will take fiscal cliff deal

Kaitlin FunaroDecember 2, 2012 15:24

The White House wants to let the Bush-era tax cuts expire only for those making more than $200,000 per year.

Strike shuts Port of Los Angeles for 4th day

Kaitlin FunaroNovember 30, 2012 23:40

Union representatives fear that their jobs, which are mainly computer-based, will be sent to places with lower labor costs from Taiwan to Texas.

Criticized GOP adds a woman to chair House committee

Kaitlin FunaroNovember 30, 2012 23:08

House Republicans have named Rep. Candice Miller to chair a committee after coming under fire for appointing only white men to the top Congressional jobs. Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) announced Friday that Rep. Miller, a Republican from Michigan, will lead the House Administration Committee, reports the Washington Post.

Joe Biden talks taxes and pies at DC's first Costco

Kaitlin FunaroNovember 30, 2012 00:06

The vice president flashed his membership card at Washington DC's first Costco superstore and immediately set out looking for pies.

WikiLeaks scandal's Bradley Manning: 'I'm going to die' in military prison

Kaitlin FunaroNovember 29, 2012 23:11

Manning spent more than 900 days in military prisons in the Middle East and the US.

Texas wants to seize Warren Jeffs' polygamist ranch

Kaitlin FunaroNovember 28, 2012 15:13

The Texas attorney general made a motion to seize the Eldorado ranch used by convicted sex offender and polygamist Warren Jeffs, reports AP. The 1,600 acre Yearning for Zion Ranch is owned by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a polygamist Mormon sect.