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Remarkable detail of the plot to kill an Iranian nuclear scientist emerged on Saturday, a day after the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh reverberated around the world. Sixty two people were involved in the scheme, according to Mohamad Ahwaze, an Iranian journalist who exposed the extent of the COVID-19 pandemic in his country. Ahwaze said he had obtained leaked Iranian information.

Unpaid furloughs at Gannett Co. Inc. in McLean will now include nearly 1,500 employees at its flagship USA Today. USA Today employees will be required to take one week of unpaid leave between now and July. In a memo to employees Thursday, USA Today publisher David Hunke also said an existing pay freeze, first implemented in February 2009, will be extended by at least 90 days. A USA Today spokesperson confirms the furloughs and pay freeze extension affect all 1,495 of USA Today’s employees. "National advertising revenues in general were still down from the previous year as were paid advertising...

House Republicans were heading toward a down-in-the-dumps holiday. Then the House ethics committee handed them a gift. The committee's investigation of Rep. Charles Rangel's tax problems is expanding, turning what has been a minor headache for Democratic leaders into a New Year's migraine. The last thing Democrats need is an ethics cloud hovering over 20-term House veteran who, as House Ways and Means Committee chairman, will play a critical role in advancing President-elect Barack Obama's goals of an economic recovery plan, middle-class tax relief and expanded health insurance. It was only last month that the top House Democrat, Speaker Nancy...

Paris - American porn mogul Larry Flynt said he may decide to go into exile if George W Bush is re-elected president of the United States. "If Bush is re-elected - but I don't want to even consider the thought for one second - I really have to think about living somewhere else," Flynt said early Monday in a strip club on the Champs Elysees in Paris where he was celebrating his 62nd birthday. Flynt, who made his fortune after publishing the popular porn magazine Hustler, said he had come to Paris to "escape the nauseating atmosphere of the electoral...

Terry McAuliffe, head of the DNC, just said he was going to quit his job as of February 2005. He's given 25 years of public service to the Party of Dependence on Government, and he's outta here.Judge Napolitano was asking McPunk some good questions.To my horror, Terry said he had five kids. Those poor children.

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Admiral Poindexter, he of the TIA and the Terrorism Futures Market idea, has resigned, and Rummy has accepted. RATS + Mainstream Media = Politics of Personal Destruction.More details TK...

As of Saturday, July 20, 2002 at 2pm in Calhoun Georgia, at the Newtown Baptist Church, Darth Sidious exchanged wedding vows with his lovely Bride, Lisa. Yours truly was there to witness the happy event. Groom cried, Bride cried, I cried (Yeah, I decided to admit that before Darth gets the chance to spill the beans on me). The day before on Friday, I arrived in Atlanta and Darth himself picked me up at the airport for our very first face to face meeting. As delightful, as a terrific person as as he is online, he is ten million times...

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