May 13, 2008 -
Country singer John Michael Montgomery has check himself into a rehabilitation center at an undisclosed location. The singer is seeking treatment for substance abuse, severe anxiety attacks and a sleeping disorder. All concert dates and personal appearances have been canceled for the next 30 days.
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May 01, 2008 -
Usher is desperate to record collaborations with both rocker John Mayer and singer/songwriter Michael Buble.
The You Make Me Wanna hitmaker has included a duet with fellow singer Ne-Yo on his new album, Here I Stand, but has now picked out the two other stars for possible future projects.
And Usher has even picked out which songs he would like to reinterpret with each artist.
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May 01, 2008 -
John Mayer not only has a new love (Jennifer Aniston, as Us Weekly reports in its latest issue, on newsstands now).
He also has a new 'do.
The singer, 30, hit NYC's Meatpacking District, where he got his locks styled.
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Nov 18, 2009 -
Last week, Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) came out in strong support of Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to prosecute the five 9/11 defendants in U.S. federal court and sharply criticized Republicans who were attacking the decision.
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Nov 18, 2009 -
- OPINION: WONDER LAND
- NOVEMBER 12, 2009
The only good news out of the Fort Hood massacre is that U.S. electronic surveillance technology was able to pick up Major Hasan's phone calls to an al Qaeda-loving imam in Yemen. The bad news is the people and agencies listening to Hasan didn't know what to do about it.
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Aug 15, 2009 -
This handout photo of shows attorney John Branca, left, and Michael Jackson at Branca's December 1987
A week after Michael Jackson died, his longtime lawyer and friend, John Branca, arrived at a meeting with the singer's family. He carried the pop star's will, and with it, the news on who would benefit from the King of Pop's estate.
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Nov 15, 2009 -
Agnew speeches sparked move toward soft news
Michael Socolow (Bangor Daily News)
It remains the most influential indictment of American journalism ever made. Forty years ago today, this famous figure began railing against the corporate media. “A broader spectrum of national opinion should be represented among the commentators of the network news,” he argued, explaining that “men who can articulate other points of view should be brought forward, and the American people should be made aware of the trend toward the monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.”
American democracy's perilous dependence on the corporate, capitalist media had previously been detailed.
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Nov 12, 2009 -
The Republican National Committee’s health insurance plan covers elective abortion – a procedure the party’s own platform calls “a fundamental assault on innocent human life.”
Federal Election Commission Records show the RNC purchases its insurance from Cigna. Two sales agents for the company said that the RNC’s policy covers elective abortion.
Informed of the coverage, RNC spokeswoman Gail Gitcho told POLITICO that the policy pre-dates the tenure of current RNC Chairman Michael Steele.
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Nov 11, 2009 -
On Monday the U.S. Supreme Court heard two cases that could have major implications for the way juvenile offenders are treated in our criminal justice system. Sullivan v.
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Nov 10, 2009 -
Editor's Note: This Tuesday, President Obama will attend a memorial service for the shootings at Ft. Hood last Friday. He would do well to consider that the war policies he's continuing, extending the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, are the underlying cause of acts of madness and desperation by soldiers at Ft.
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