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Shoigu, after a "pause", announced sabotage at an ammunition depot in the Crimea The Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation said that the cause of the explosions on the morning of August 16 in the occupied Crimea was sabotage. This version was announced by the invaders only a few hours after the explosion. A new explanation of the "clap" was published by the press service of the Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation. The ministry claims that as a result of the explosions, damage was caused to power lines, power plants, residential buildings and a number of other...

SAN FRANCISCO — Don't believe the hype, says U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer. Social Security is not "in crisis," "almost bankrupt" or "collapsing" as the Bush Administration claims, Boxer, D-Calif., told several dozen senior citizens and reporters gathered Friday at the San Francisco Senior Center on Beach Street. Conservative estimates say the system can keep paying out full benefits for 38 more years if nothing at all is done, she noted — that means workers now 37 or older would be fully funded until age 75. But nobody's suggesting not doing anything at all, she added. "Yes, there is a challenge...

[Former Los Angeles police officer Terry] Schauer said he stopped Streisand for running a red light in the 1970s -- and she erupted in an obscenity-filled rage. "She gave me the worst verbal abuse I got in my entire career. "I was stopped at a red light when this Thunderbird convertible goes straight through the red light. I couldn't believe it. I'm sitting in a police car in my uniform, but it made no difference." Schauer gave chase and stopped Streisand's car. "I didn't recognize her at first. "I told her I'd stopped her for running the red light --...

Superstar diva Barbra Streisand has used her website to attack claims she isn't patriotic. Some America media sources slammed the actress/singer a traitor after she made outspoken anti-George W. Bush and anti-war statements. But the Funny Girl actress angrily responds, "I, for one, am a patriotic American who loves this country." She adds, "Saddam Hussein is a horrific dictator who should disarm. . . . But I do not think war is the answer right now." And of the attack on her, she continues, "It used to be in politics that there was a certain amount of class and eloquence,...