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Former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson has withdrawn as commencement speaker at Vassar College following student backlash over his border policies — a decision that has stirred division at the elite "Little Ivy" school in upstate New York.

After being in the shadows for many years after being smeared by the Clinton attack team, Juanita Broaddrick (Jane Doe number 5) in the Paula Jones Lawsuit against Bill Clinton, this week Broaddrick has quietly emerged to post a few poignant Tweets. Today she wrote: I was 35 years old when Bill Clinton, Ark. Attorney General raped me and Hillary tried to silence me. I am now 73... it never goes away See more of her Tweets here: https://twitter.com/atensnut

The French government minister who led calls to free Roman Polanski was under pressure to resign today after it emerged he paid for sex with ‘young boys’. Frederic Mitterand, who is openly gay and a close friend of First Lady Carla Bruni, had described the arrest of the film director for sleeping with a 13-year-old girl as ‘absolutely horrifying’. But critics were today pointing to the Culture Minister's autobiography ‘The Bad Life’, in which he admits having been a sex tourist in Thailand. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1218962/French-minister-Frederic-Mitterand-demanded-Roman-Polanski-freed-paid-sex-young-boys-Thailand.html#ixzz0TMOILKV2

Chicago - As New York Knicks forward Antonio Davis awaited word Thursday on whether he will be suspended for climbing into the stands to confront a man during a game in Chicago, that fan said he did nothing wrong and was attacked by Davis' wife... "It's a lie," 22 year old Michael Axelrod said... Axelrod's father, David is a prominent Democratic political consultant in Chicago who has worked with Senators Barack Obama and Hillare Clinton....

Last year's biggest-selling nonfiction book, 'A Million Little Pieces' has been ripped to shreds. Author James Frey "wholly fabricated or wildly embellished? such details as spending three months behind bars in Ohio, having a role in a car accident that killed two high school students and being an outlaw "wanted in three states" says the Smoking Gun, an investigative website.

SANTA BARBARA,Calif. - Michael Jackson's prosecutors said Friday they still believe the pop star could be a danger to children, despite his acquittal on charges of molesting a boy two years ago....Santa Barbara County District Attorney Tom Sneddon and his two lead deputies said in an interview with the Associated Press..."They don't even stop when they get treatment.. This is a sickness that is very, very difficult to cure."

HOW WELL I remember Debbie Rowe from her days as an assistant in the office of L.A.'s popular dermatologist Arnie Klein. Debbie was "nice" but no rocket scientist. So when she announces how overjoyed she is now that "the justice system really works," adding: "I would never have married a pedophile" — it is to laugh. Debbie Rowe and Michael Jackson had a legal marriage but no wedlock. Their vows were never consummated by touching. She was strictly a broodmare for the two children she carried and eventually handed over to him in toto. (Most of us mistakenly thought he...

Yesterday I learned that there was a small rift among the jurors. Initially, three believed Jackson took liberties with kids. But they also thought the evidence, or lack of it, made him "not guilty" of molesting his latest teen accuser....Nine jurors believed he was completely "innocent". And there is the difference. "I'm adamant," juror Susan Drake told me yesterday." I think he's not guilty and I think he's innocent."

Santa Maria, Calif.- You made your choice, people. Now live with it. ... They gave the famous boy-lover a free pass. They decided to overlook - in effect, to embrace - a pattern of brazen, bizarre behavior toward young children that few parents with anything but sawdust in their craniums would tolerate.

Santa Maria, Calif.-Jurors deciding the child molestation case against Michael Jackson may have to reach as many as 20 separate decisisons because of the complicated instructions given to them by the judge. It could take them a long time to sort out. A detailed study of the 98 pages of legal instructions shows the panel is facing a task that could be confounding even to those familiar with the law.

New Haven, Conn - Serial killer Michael Ross is competent to forgo his death penalty appeals, a judge said Friday, ruling that New England's first execution in 45 years can proceed as scheduled next month.... Ross, who has admitted killing and raping eight young women in Connecticut and New York in the early 1980's, is scheduled to die by lethal injection.

New Haven, Conn- A New London Superior Court judge ruled Friday that serial killer Michael Ross is mentally competent to forgo his death penalty appeals.

Bethesda, Md, Jan.22 - If Michael Bruce Ross, a convicted serial killer, is executed on schedule Wednesday morning in a northern Connecticut prison, he will die without having been prosecuted for raping and strangling Dzung Ngoc Tu on the campus of Cornell University in May 1981

We already know Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 911" will win Favorite Picture. But Passion for Fairness can confirm that "The Passion of the Christ" will win BEST DRAMA at tonight's People's Choice Awards. And Mel Gibson WILL attend the ceremony.

Gov.M. Jodi Rell said on Monday that she would not grant a reprieve to a serial killer who is to become the first person in the Northeast to be executed in more than 40 years. She also said she would veto any effort by the General Assembly to repeal Connecticut's death penalty law.

The number of voters pulling the lever for Mr. Bush soared to 543,000 in New York City in 2004. That's an astonishing increase of more than 35 % over the 400,000 votes the Texan won in 2000. And Mr. Kerry, meanwhile, got about 9000 fewer votes in New York City in 2004 than Vice President Gore got in 2000.

Linda Ronstadt has been many things to many people:a rock 'n' roll pinup girl......and, recently, a vocal Michael Moore supporter... Don't get her started on the recent presidential election."People don't realize that by voting Republican, they voted against themselves,"she says.

Legendary Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth has stopped "runnin' with the devil" to do God's work -- riding ambulances in gritty neighborhoods throughout the city to become a paramedic.

Ottawa- Prime Minister Paul Martin moved immediately yesterday to begin fixing stubborn trade irritants with a reinvigorated George W. Bush as he warned his MPs behind closed doors to use restraint when passing judgment on Mr. Bush's election victory. But even as he raised his concerns, one of his more outspoken MPs continued to criticize the U.S. leader, referring to him yesterday as a "war-like" man....Ms. Parrish, who also said that Mr. Bush's re-election demonstrates that Americans are "out of step" with the rest of the world..

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