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ON TV Hitler's Stealth Fighter airs Sunday, June 28, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on the National Geographic Channel. Preview Hitler's Stealth Fighter >> July 25, 2009--At a Northrop Grumman facility in California, top stealth-plane experts admire their handiwork in late 2008—a full-size, though flightless, replica of a Horten 2-29, aka Hitler's stealth fighter, created for a documentary airing June 28 on the National Geographic Channel. (Read the full story.) The team tested the re-created Nazi jet against World War II-style radar. With its radar-resistant design and 600-mile-an-hour (970-kilometer-an-hour) speed, the team concluded, the Ho 2-29 would have allowed British antiaircraft...

Wednesday, Jun 24, 2009 @05:18pm CST An Evansville mother is behind bars for putting her teenager in handcuffs to "teach her a lesson". Dawn Wininger is facing neglect charges. Police say officers were sent to east Missouri Street and found Winingers' 13 year old daughter in handcuffs. She told police her mom had handcuffed her four or five hours ago. Wininger says she put the handcuffs on her daughter but had intended to take them off after a only few minutes, but fell asleep. Child Protective Services took custody of the girl and a 5 year old child, who was...

Do you think that the people have made an idol out of our own government? Do we look to Washington to provide everything that we need as if it were the Almighty?

Melanie Oudin, 17, beats No. 6 ranked Jankovic in a 6-7, 7-5, 6-2 win.A 17-year-old Atlantan who hadn't won a Grand Slam match before last Tuesday just became the only female American not surnamed Williams to withstand Wimbledon's ruthless first week. Melanie Oudin turned up across from the first top-10 opponent of her life this afternoon, and she treated No. 6 Jelena Jankovic of Serbia much as she had No. 26 Sybille Bammer and No. 74 Yaroslava Shvedova. She used her compelling movement around the court to prove maddeningly impenetrable to her higher-ranked opponent, and she rebounded from a first-set...

In his decade spent living and working in Las Vegas, the doctor at the heart of the Michael Jackson death investigation has left a trail of legal and financial troubles. Dr. Conrad Murray's legal troubles in Las Vegas began in 2002, two years after he opened Global Cardiovascular Associates on East Flamingo Road near Eastern Avenue. In February 2002, the Clark County district attorney's office filed a lien against Murray because of unpaid child support owed to Nenita Malibiran in California. That case followed him throughout the decade. In 2006 he was hit with another lien for nearly $3,100 in...

A Port Washington, N.Y., lawyer and martial arts enthusiast asked the Supreme Court on Friday to use his case to expand the coverage of the Second Amendment’s “right to keep and bear arms” so that it applies to restrict or bar state and local laws, as well as those at the federal level. James M. Maloney’s petition in Maloney v. Rice is the third case on that point to reach the Court in recent weeks. This one, however, seeks to challenge a ruling that has gained a special prominence because one of the judges on the Second Circuit Court panel...

A rallying cry can be heard across the country, from the swanky streets of New York's SoHo to the tiny town of Randolph, Kan.: "Save our post office!" As the United States Postal Service, weighed down by a crippling multibillion-dollar deficit, shrinks its operations, post offices across the country are on the chopping block. Each year, hundreds of postal operations shutter, but this coming fall could be the single biggest consolidation in Postal Service history. Over the next three months, more than 3,200 post offices and retail outlets -- out of 34,000 -- will be reviewed for possible closure or...

WASHINGTON - Spc. Moonsammy Narinesammy isn’t worried about dying in Iraq. He’s worried about spending the rest of his life in Guyana. Narinesammy, 31, who has months left on his deployment, spends all of his free time between missions trying to solve his wife’s citizenship problems. Immigration and Naturalization Services officials are finalizing deportation paperwork for Ratashwarie, while she waits nervously in New York. "I don’t know if somebody is going to knock on the door one day and haul me away while my daughter is out at school," she said.

Wisconsin officials on Friday reacted with disappointment and outright disdain for General Motors' decision to put a new small-car assembly line at a plant in Michigan rather than Janesville. Officials ranging from the governor to economic development officials in Janesville were wondering out loud whether the state had been used by GM to squeeze more incentives out of Michigan, the eventual winner in the competition that also included a plant in Spring Hill, Tenn. After hearing from GM on Friday, Gov. Jim Doyle issued a statement saying he was "deeply disappointed" that GM hadn't chosen "a very strong package" offered...

The War of Resistance began in 1931, but didn't kick into high gear until 1937. It ended when Harry Truman assured the Japanese that the United States was no longer interested in fighting World War II, and was willing to turn Japan into sea glass to prove his determination. Japan threw in the towel on all war fronts. Note that this War is sometimes to referred to the second such war, with the first installment occurring in 1894-95.

What a wake-up call. A 24-year-old Kansas City man suffered a stab wound to his face and shoulder Wednesday when his girlfriend allegedly tried to wake him from sleepwalking. Police said the victim was intoxicated when he came home to his apartment. The girlfriend awoke about 1:30 a.m. and saw him urinating in the closet. She thought he was sleepwalking because he had done that in the past.

Story Updated: Jun 27, 2009 at 5:16 PM PDT By KATU.com Staff CLACKAMAS, Ore. - A man upset at the way McDonald's employees handled his order was arrested after allegedly calling 911 repeatedly on Friday to report the restaurant had robbed him, authorities said. Jeremy Lloyd Martin, 23, was charged with improper use of the 911 service, the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office said. According to a tape of the 911 calls released by Clackamas County 911, a man initially told a dispatcher that he was at the McDonald's near the intersection of Southeast Sunnyside Road and Southeast 82nd Avenue and...

Earlier this week, after the news of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford's (R) disappearance to Argentina and his adulterous relationship came out, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry (D), took a shot at Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (R): Too bad," Kerry said, "if a governor had to go missing, it couldn't have been the governor of Alaska. You know, Sarah Palin." Palin jabbed at Kerry in return, as you can see the video at my posting "Video Of Governor Palin Speaking To Troops In Kosovo" (She is great, so go watch it.)

MoveOn.org, the liberal advocacy group, is threatening to run ads against North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan if she does not support President Barack Obama’s health care plan. Justin Ruben, executive director of MoveOn.org said the group was prepared to “run ads in North Carolina and DC asking that she advocate for the public option and support the president in truly solving the nation’s health care crisis,” Rob Christensen reports “Given recent comments showing that Senator Hagan is not supporting the public health insurance option, MoveOn.org will be making clear that our 115,000 members in North Carolina -- many of whom...

Some D.C. public charter schools continue selective admissions practices that discourage special-needs students from enrolling, and students citywide with possible disabilities still face delays in special education evaluations, a federal court monitor said this week. "Charter schools . . . generally have not enrolled students with significant disabilities who required extensive hours of special services or education," the monitor, Amy Totenberg, wrote in a report prepared for a court hearing yesterday.

CLEVELAND — Investigators said this afternoon that several hundred gallons of what appears to be a type of cooking oil pouring out of a sewer pipe has killed or disabled hundreds of gulls on the Cuyahoga River. The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District had called the Ohio EPA on Wednesday to report that the substance was pouring into the river out of a storm sewer near the Kingsbury Run tributary, EPA officials said. Sewer workers were using an oil/trash containment boom to contain and collect the oil, but at some point the oil got out from under the boom and...

The number of California hotels in default or foreclosed on jumped 125% in the last 60 days. The state now has 31 hotels that have been foreclosed on and 175 in default... With 19.6% of the total, San Bernardino County leads the state in foreclosed hotels. Riverside County follows with 16.1% and San Diego County has 12.9%. Los Angeles County, with 12% of the total, has the most hotels in default. San Bernardino County is next with 9.7% and San Diego County follows with 8.0%. Non-franchised hotels account for a disproportionate number of foreclosures. They make up about 87% of...

Obama’s Failure of Moral Courage Posted By Timothy Birdnow On June 27, 2009 @ 12:05 am “Courage,” according to Merriam-Webster, means “mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty.” Courage was considered the prime virtue through most of recorded history among virtually all peoples on the Earth, and has only recently been displaced by liberal Western concepts such as tolerance and comity. Children are no longer instilled with the desire to express courage — moral or otherwise — but instead are taught to value “openness,” “diversity,” “conflict resolution,” and other liberal forms of pacifism designed...

Officials: Move Would Reassert Power To Hold Terror Suspects Indefinitely Obama administration officials, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, are crafting language for an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely, according to three senior government officials with knowledge of White House deliberations. Such an order would embrace claims by former president George W. Bush that certain people can be detained without trial for long periods under the laws of war. Obama advisers are concerned that an order, which would bypass Congress, could place...

According to the world?s leading expert on polar bears, their numbers are higher than they were 30 years ago Photo: AP Over the coming days a curiously revealing event will be taking place in Copenhagen. Top of the agenda at a meeting of the Polar Bear Specialist Group (set up under the International Union for the Conservation of Nature/Species Survival Commission) will be the need to produce a suitably scary report on how polar bears are being threatened with extinction by man-made global warming.This is one of a steady drizzle of events planned to stoke up alarm in the run-up...