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TOKYO – A bear injured nine people at highway rest stop in central Japan before being shot dead in a souvenir shop, a firefighter said Sunday. The black bear seriously injured four men Saturday afternoon in Nyukawa, a small mountain town about 140 miles west of Tokyo, said firefighter Tomohiko …

A British woman whose noisy sex sessions were officially branded anti-social behavior was warned Friday she would face jail if she fails to stop the excessively loud lovemaking. Caroline Cartwright, 48, was given an 8-week prison term suspended for 12 months, meaning if she engages in overly noisy coupling again …

RALEIGH, N.C. – Two former Blackwater contractors were arrested Thursday on murder charges in the shootings of two Afghans after a traffic accident last year, according to an indictment obtained by The Associated Press. The indictment charges Justin Cannon, 27, and Chris Drotleff, 29, with second-degree murder, attempted murder and …

Police and supporters of President Hugo Chavez clashed with students in cities across the country Monday during protests over the government forcing an opposition channel off cable TV. Two youths were reported killed and 16 people suffered injuries. Merida Gov. Marcos Diaz says one of the victims was shot dead. …

SYDNEY – A conservationist group that lost one of its ships in a clash with Japanese whalers off Antarctica has filed a piracy complaint in the Netherlands against the captain and crew of the whaling vessel, one of the group’s leaders said Saturday. The filing comes after the bow of …

TOKYO – Toyota Motor Corp. said Thursday it will extend its U.S. car recall to Europe due to problems with gas pedals, but is unsure how many vehicles will be affected — a fresh blow to the world’s largest automaker as it struggles to salvage its safety reputation. The company …

Washington, D.C. – In 1794, during George Washington’s second term as president, Congress finally got around to appropriating funds to build six wooden-hulled frigates that were “sufficiently armed” to protect American shipping from pirates and fast enough to evade British and French “ships of the line.” It wasn’t enough. America …

Our Founding Fathers were once revered in this country as divinely inspired, courageous visionaries. But now, after the past 100 years of “enlightenment,” we’ve come to realize that they were nothing but old, white, racist, heathens. The “myth” of our Christian founding has been obliterated and, at best, we now …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Put on Ice The blizzard conditions here in the nation’s capital have shut down most area federal government activity. A scheduled Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works hearing discussing the impacts of global warming had to be postponed because of the …

Well, no matter how large and loud the political dissatisfaction becomes, it appears that many entrenched Washington insiders still can’t read the signs. The mistake that the Democrats in power seem to be making is assuming that the Tea Party is made up of a bunch of well-organized Republicans in …