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The Mediterranean house – which was the address for [Rick] Singer’s Key Worldwide Foundation – was listed for sale Feb. 20 at $2.599 million, nearly three weeks before his court appearance on Tuesday, March 12. Records show Singer paid $1.55 million for the Newport Beach home in 2012. Built in 2003, the 5,167-square-foot house sits on “one of the most sought after blocks” in Newport Heights, the listing description said, touting high ceilings, stone floors, a gourmet kitchen and butler’s pantry. An office suite,  secluded patio and firepit also were highlighted, as were the master suite decks and “spa-like” bathroom...

RUSH: Brian in Ocean City, Maryland. Glad you waited, sir. Welcome to the program. CALLER: Thanks, Rush. My thing about this, you started to mention something in your argument before about we don't treat animals this way, and I noticed you caught yourself because we wouldn't keep an animal alive like this because we would consider it cruel to the animal. RUSH: I didn't catch myself at all. I wasn't going to make that point. It was going to be just the opposite. We go out of our way to protect animals. CALLER: We do, but if an animal is...

NEW YORK (AP) - An FBI informant who set himself on fire in front of the White House played a role in at least three terror investigations, court documents show. Defense attorneys said Wednesday they are re-examining Mohamed Alanssi's role in the cases against their clients, who are accused of helping fund Osama bin Laden, al-Qaida and the Palestinian group Hamas. "Ultimately what I'm heading for is a motion for dismissal," said Frank Hancock, the lawyer for Abad Elfgeeh, a Yemeni-born man accused of illegally sending millions of dollars overseas. A spokesman for U.S. Attorney Roslynn Mauskopf, who filed the...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Al-Jazeera television said on Tuesday it would replace its chief executive officer but insisted the decision had not been due to allegations the channel had been infiltrated by Iraqi intelligence. Spokesman Jihad Ballout said CEO Mohammed Jassem al-Ali, who headed the channel since its launch eight years ago, would remain on the board of directors but would hand over the day-to-day running to someone else. "Mohammed Jassem al-Ali was seconded from Qatar Television to set up and run Al Jazeera and what has been decided is that this secondment be ceased and for him to go back...