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Why Sarah Palin Really Quit Us


The online magazine Slate takes a fairly entertaining stab at answering the biggest political question to come rolling out of Alaska since…..well, since ever! Dahlia Lithwick, a contributing editor at Newsweek and senior editor at Slate, calls the soon-to-be ex...

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July 9, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (22)

Clem's Chronicles: H1N1 Swine Flu/Buffett on the Economy/Sen. Ensign


Clem Lane here-tonight's news: H1N1 SWINE FLU-While the “swine flu” may have faded from the headlines, it hasn’t gone away. There was an H1N1 Swine Flu summit held today at the National Institute of Health’s Maryland headquarters that some 500...

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Death of a Salesmen, Almost: Billy Mays Ads Live On


ABC's Troy McMullen reports from New York: Death hasn’t stopped TV pitchman Billy Mays. Viewers can still find him -- in his signature sport shirt and khaki paints -- hawking everything from OxiClean to Orange Glo even though he’s been...

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Eyewitness Inside Tehran Describes Brutal Police Attacks and Shootings


ABC's Lara Setrakian with an update on Iran: An apparent eyewitness account from Tehran today, came to me in an email in Persian. "At 5 pm we went to one of the meeting points, but there was no one there...At...

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'United Breaks Guitars': Hot on YouTube


ABC’s Jared Wiener, Zach Fannin and Kristi Berner report: Canadian musician and songwriter Dave Carroll took his year-long battle with United Airlines to YouTube this week. Now his video riff ‘United Breaks Guitars’ is not only a YouTube sensation, but...

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3 Kinds of E. Coli Linked to Nestle's Cookie Dough


ABC's Brian Hartman reports from Washington: ABC News has learned investigators have linked at least three different kinds of E. coli to Nestle’s cookie dough but they remain stumped as to just how the bacteria got in the product. The...

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Can Lance Armstrong Pull Through for the Win?


ABC's Miguel Marquez reports from France: After 112 miles rainy miles of the Mediterranean coastline Lance Armstrong looked like he had been through hell. As he made his way to the team bus Armstrong could be overheard telling a team...

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Quotes of the Day: 'We are not in a free fall but we are not in a recovery either'


"We are not in a free fall, but we are not in a recovery either. I would say that this is a severe recession, I mean a very severe recession.” -- Warren Buffett, to ABC News “The official party line...

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LA Taxpayers Picking Up A Pricey Tab for Jackson Memorials


So how much did the Michael Jackson memorialization cost the city of Los Angeles? Turns out the extra police, the overtime, the logistics, tallies to $1.4 million in fees for LA. The city tried to solicit donations from the public...

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ABC's Jim Sciutto: Thousand Take to Streets in Iran


ABC's Senior Foreign Correspondent Jim Sciutto covered the recent Iranian election protests from the streets of Tehran: Today, Iranian opposition supporters defied an enormous security presence on the streets of Tehran to gather, by some estimates, in the thousands. In...

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