DAILY NEWS
A bedbug epidemic has exploded in every corner of New York City – striking even upper East Side luxury apartments owned by Gov. Spitzer’s father, the Daily News has learned.
The blood-sucking nocturnal creatures have infested a Park Ave. penthouse, an artist’s colony in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a $25 million Central Park [...]

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By TINA DAUNT, CAUSE CÉLÈBRE
WITH less than a week until Iowa’s first vote is cast in the 2008 presidential election, the politicians aren’t the only ones feeling the heat: Celebrities, who have become important players in the political fundraising process, are under increasing pressure to campaign for their favorite candidates in [...]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The housing market plunged deeper into despair last month, with sales of new homes plummeting to their lowest level in more than 12 years.
The slump worsened even more than most analysts expected, heightening fears that the country might be thrust into a recession.
New-home sales tumbled 9 percent in November [...]

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By MUNIR AHMED
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) – Pakistan’s government asserted Friday that al-Qaida was behind the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, and offered the transcript from a phone tap as proof. Hundreds of thousands mobbed her funeral as the army tried to quell rioting across the nation that left 27 dead.
President Pervez Musharraf’s [...]

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By BEN FELLER
CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) – President Bush on Friday used a “pocket veto” to reject a sweeping defense bill because he dislikes a provision that would expose the Iraqi government to expensive lawsuits seeking damages from the Saddam Hussein era.
In a statement, Bush said the legislation “would imperil billions of [...]

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Washington Post
Despite more than 20,000 lawsuits filed against music fans in the years since they started finding free tunes online rather than buying CDs from record companies, the recording industry has utterly failed to halt the decline of the record album or the rise of digital music sharing.
Still, hardly a month [...]

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By J. Grant Swank, Jr.
So devout Mormon Mitt Romney supports state laws encouraging homosexual lifestyles. He also endorses state laws permitting human embryo research.
When he gets to the White House, how else will he surprise American moralists?
Considering Mormonism itself, a friend said to me, “Who can trust a person who [...]

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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) ― Connecticut high school students can now enroll in online courses taught by state teachers.
The pilot program offers courses in basic subjects for students who need credits to graduate. It also offers other electives, such as Mandarin [...]

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London Daily Mail
The Pope has ordered his bishops to set up exorcism squads to tackle the rise of Satanism.
Vatican chiefs are concerned at what they see as an increased interest in the occult.
They have introduced courses for priests to combat what they call the most extreme form of “Godlessness.”
Each bishop is to be told to [...]

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WorldNetDaily
A lawsuit alleging officials in Miami-Dade County violated the U.S. Constitution and federal law by demanding that members of Bible studies, even if only two or three people were involved, own an least 2.5 acres of land to meet has been dropped after county officials changed their minds.
The lawsuit by [...]

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WorldNetDaily
The U.S. Mint has announced that it will spend a year implementing a new requirement from Congress that instructs the motto “In God We Trust” be moved from the edge of the $1 coins to either the front or the back.
Congress has approved a consolidated spending bill, and President Bush signed it [...]

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By J. Grant Swank, Jr.
It’s time for you Muslims to give up killing and maiming one another as well as the so-called infidels.
Your cult is based on despair and mayhem. The more one kills, the more one gets in Allah’s eternity, that is, for the Muslim males for the Muslim females are [...]

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CBN
Rocco Morelli lived a dual life: politician by day and mafia prince by night. Find out how he got caught red-handed in the most unsuspecting of places…
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King James Version
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
New International Version
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, [...]

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By JESSE J. HOLLAND
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 3 million people will have to wait until February to get their tax refunds because of Congress’ late fix to the alternative minimum tax, the IRS said Thursday.
Congress put a one-year freeze on growth of the alternative minimum tax last week, shielding many [...]

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