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4 April 2011
Former assistant testifies that she saw trainer inject an unknown substance into Barry Bonds' belly button ...
Workers' bodies discovered at Japanese nuclear power plant, amidst unsuccessful attempt to use concrete to stanch flow of radioactive water into ocean, as Mayor pleads for help ...
Transocean, owner of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that exploded off the Gulf of Mexico last year, lauds its "exemplary" safety record while handing executives fat bonuses … and BP gets OK to resume drilling in Gulf of Mexico ...
Governor Rick Scott (R-Florida) orders deep cuts to programs that serve tens of thousands of residents with Down syndrome and other developmental disabilities ...
Tennessee Governor Ned McWherter dies of cancer at a Nashville hospital ...
Former New Jersey Congressman John Adler dies of complications from a staph infection around the heart at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia ...5 April 2011
Doomed workers at Japanese nuclear power plant use newspaper and sawdust to try, unsuccessfully, to block the pipes dumping contaminated water into Pacific Ocean ...
Senate Republicans call for complete repeal of Wall Street reform, since 2008 economic collapse really wasn't a big deal ...
Family Research Council stands up for anti-worker legislation in Wisconsin, as zombies protest against Governor Scott Walker ...
Sean Parker's relationship status has changed ...
US Senators Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) and Harry Reid (D-Nevada) seek end run around First Amendment to silence wingnut anti-Muslim preacher ...
Katie Couric says her big regret at the tremendously tedious CBS Evening News is, "We probably would have been better off playing it a little safer" ...
Vandal who attacked Gauguin painting says she did it because his artwork "has nudity and is bad for the children" ...
Viral researcher Baruch S. Blumberg, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Medicine, dies from a heart attack shortly after giving a keynote speech at Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California ...6 April 2011
Court again says US Homeland Security Department can seize and search your computer without a warrant ...
Radiation measured at millions of times safe levels in Pacific Ocean water near Japan's crippled nuclear power plant ...
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd C.Blankfein received compensation valued at $14M in 2010, up from $1M in 2009 ...
7 April 2011
US Rep Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) explains that President Obama is bombing Libya to deplete the US military so he can call up the private army the health care bill created for him ...
Governor Scott Walker (R-Wisconsin) gives cushy $85.5K/year government job to major donor's young, underqualified son ...
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's trial for allegedly soliciting an under-age prostitute begins, and is instantly adjourned ...
Gollum actor Andy Serkis to serve as second unit director on Peter Jackson's upcoming Hobbit films ...
8 April 2011
New FBI files suggest that Notorious B.I.G. was murdered by the same people who have been suspects all along ...
Turns out it's not a good idea to hire someone with no experience in education — like Cathleen Black — to run New York City's public schools ...
In letter to President Obama, Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi sounds like guilt-inducing, overbearing mother ...
9 April 2011
From prison, Bernie Madoff says senior executives at JP Morgan Chase were well aware of his swindles ...
Obama administration says 4th Amendment shouldn't apply to emails because … well, because that would make them have to work harder ...
University College London study finds structural differences in the brains of liberals, conservatives ...
Film director Sidney Lumet dies from lymphoma at his home in Manhattan ...
