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There is one chair in the room, and they sit him in it. He pulls out his wallet. He's looking for a number. A phone number, an address. That is why he is here. Fernando the lawyer. Fernando the drug trafficker. He's got a load of marijuana, and they want it.Fernando thinks he's in the company of friends. He thinks this man standing in front of him, this Lalo, is going to deliver the marijuana for him to New York. That's what the numbers are for. They are contacts. They are the people Lalo will call, the people who are...

Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis hurried through the medieval monastery that is part of her 500-room palace. It was a chilly autumn night in Bavaria, with rain spitting outside, as she arrived at the chapel to pray. The room glowed red, lit from a crypt below where her husband and other family members lay in their coffins. The princess knelt and soft bells sounded. Her dinner guests, a British baroness and her husband, slipped in to join her as a priest led prayers. Princess Gloria, 64, who burst onto the international scene in the 1980s..as since evolved into a...

It appears that Meghan Markle had a tiff with her grandmother-in-law, Queen Elizabeth before her wedding. According to reports in The Sun, the Queen and Meghan had a row over her choice of headgear at the wedding. Meghan had reportedly picked a tiara with emeralds but she was told she couldn't wear it given its history couldn't be established and that it might have originated Russia. When Harry got worked up when his sweet princess didn't get what she desired, the Queen had to step in and is quoted saying: "Meghan cannot have whatever she wants.... She gets the tiara she's...

The Left has led sickening celebrations in response to the death of former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

The real Nancy Pelosi — multi-millionaire, non-union resort, dining and winery baronessNovember 10th, 2006 Why doesn’t the LA Times or San Francisco Chronicle write about this? Where is the journalists’ oversight by mainstream media? It’s up to citizen journalistsBy Mick GregoryNancy Pelosi’s socialist political views are exactly what have kept her elected in San Francisco, along with the flow of union campaign money. The staunch “union supporter” Pelosi has even received the Cesar Chavez Award from the United Farm Workers Union. But her $25 million Napa vineyards and winery, she and her husband own is a non-union shop. The...

LANCASTER - Across the fence from Baroness Patricia Scotland, inmates in prison jumpsuits, some without shirts, called out for attention. A cold wind blew through the prison yard and the visitors across the barbed wire-laden fence might have been an odd sight for the inmates, who stood in the courtyard on a recreation break. The men, many with shaved heads and several with tattoos, flashed gang signs at the visiting official, who was accompanied by the prison warden, Charles Harrison. But Scotland, minister of state for criminal justice and offender management in the United Kingdom, walked in the other direction...