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Bad Smell Blanketing the DC Metro Area Friday, 16 Mar 2012 WASHINGTON - Reports of a really bad odor blanketing the metro area have been reported from downtown D.C. to Fairfax County to Oxon Hill! You may have smelled it Thursday night or Friday morning - and lots of people are talking about it...

Hip-hop star KANYE WEST is advising his white counterparts that they can only use certain slang terms when they're out of style for black people. The JESUS WALKS rapper - who recently charged that US President GEORGE W BUSH "doesn't care" about African Americans - believes that certain slang words should only be able to cross racial barriers when they're no longer in style for black people. He says, "I think white people are allowed to say 'bling'. They are allowed to say old-school black slang, like 'hottie' and 'homie'. "Actually, I do not think that (white people) are allowed...

WASHINGTON, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Pressing his case against an assault on Baghdad, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark said on Wednesday the United States had no legitimate reason to attack Iraq and that it would be a grave mistake to do so. "The claim that Iraq is a threat is a complete fraud. I don't think they believe it for a minute," Clark said, referring to the Bush administration's stated grounds for seeking to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Clark, who served in the Johnson administration at the height of the Vietnam war, said it would be "the...