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Mom of 2 Jackson Kids Weighs Custody Fight
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:30:05 EDT
Debbie Rowe Tells TV Station She'd Undergo DNA Testing But Her Attorney Says She Hasn't Reached Final Decision on Custody
Video: Jackson's Last Concert Rehearsal
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:39:06 EDT
Footage released by AEG Live shows Michael Jackson rehearsing for his 'This Is It' comeback concert two days prior to his death.
Feds Seize Madoff Penthouse, Wife Evicted
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:00:08 EDT
Ruth Madoff Reportedly Pleaded with U.S. Marshals to Allow Her to Keep Her Fur Coat
How To Dump Your Doc
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:00:08 EDT
Considering Firing Your Doctor? Dr. Jon LaPook Talks About How and When to Do It
Celebrity Circuit
Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:16:54 EDT
Kate Winslet at Tennis Match; Plus, Miley Cyrus, Jessica Simpson and Johnny Depp
Feds Seize Madoff Penthouse, Wife Evicted
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:00:08 EDT
Ruth Madoff Reportedly Pleaded with U.S. Marshals to Allow Her to Keep Her Fur Coat
Mom of 2 Jackson Kids Weighs Custody Fight
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:30:05 EDT
Debbie Rowe Tells TV Station She'd Undergo DNA Testing But Her Attorney Says She Hasn't Reached Final Decision on Custody
Washington Unplugged: Obama's Russia Trip
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:30:05 EDT
Air France Jet Not Destroyed In Air
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:30:03 EDT
Report Says Flight 447 Fell Vertically Into Atlantic Ocean Off Brazilian Coast
Jackson Memorial Set for Tuesday in L.A.
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:50:03 EDT
Funeral for Pop Icon Will Be Held at Staples Center; Time Not Yet Announced
"Angry" S.C. 1st Lady: I May Forgive Him
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:30:03 EDT
Jenny Sanford Says It's Up to Her Unfaithful Husband to Save Their 20-year Marriage
Market Tough for Older Workers Post-Layoff
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:45:45 EDT
Job Seekers Take Creative Tacks to Avoid Age Discrimination
Washington Post Cancels Lobbyist Event
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:51:07 EDT
Politico: Amid Uproar, Newspaper Scraps Plans For "Salon" Where Lobbyists Could Pay $25K To Talk With Reporters, Officials
Push In S. Afghanistan Sends a Message
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:30:02 EDT
As 4,000 Marines Try to Recapture South from Taliban Ahead of Elections, Soldier Still Missing Near Pakistan Border
Judge May Throw Out MySpace Mom Conviction
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:32:34 EDT
Woman Who Harassed 13-Year-Old, Driving Her to Suicide, Not Guilty of Computer Crimes, Judge Says
Coming Soon: High Speed Rail to Vegas?
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:00:44 EDT
Dept. of Transportation Designation Brings Long Sought-After Route Closer to Reality
New Progress Against ALS
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:30:03 EDT
Seventy Years After Gehrig's Famous Speech, the Fight Against ALS Continues
Jackson Memorial Set for Tuesday in L.A.
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:50:03 EDT
Funeral for Pop Icon Will Be Held at Staples Center; Time Not Yet Announced
Full Coverage: Michael Jackson's Death
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:50:03 EDT
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Obama to tell Putin: Time to move past Cold War (AP)
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:43:42 GMT
President Barack Obama gestures during his interview with The Associated Press, Thursday, July 2, 2009, in the West Wing of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - Days from his first Moscow summit, President Barack Obama declared Thursday that former Russian President Vladimir Putin "still has a lot of sway" in his nation and needs an in-person reminder the Cold War is over.


Marines suffer first casualties in Afghan campaign (AP)
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:43:43 GMT
U.S. Marines from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, 1st Battalion 5th Marines move in formation through farm fields after landing by helicopter in an overnight night air assault near the Taliban stronghold of Nawa in Afghanistan's Helmand province Thursday July 2, 2009. Thousands of U.S. Marines poured from helicopters and armored vehicles into Taliban-controlled villages of southern Afghanistan Thursday in the first major operation under President Barack Obama's strategy to stabilize the country.  (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)AP - U.S. Marines suffered their first casualties of a massive new military campaign Thursday as they engaged in sporadic gunbattles along 55 miles of Taliban-controlled heartland in southern Afghanistan.


Los Angeles police under scrutiny in Jackson death (AP)
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:43:46 GMT
Los Angeles Police officers stand by a moving van outside the home rented by Michael Jackson in the Holmby Hills section of Los Angeles Saturday, June 27, 2009. Janet Jackson arrived at the Holmby Hills estate Saturday, where moving vans arrived earlier in the day. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - The investigation of Michael Jackson's death is widening as questions intensify about the drugs he took, the doctors who provided them and the actions of police.


Feds seize Madoff penthouse, wife leaves (AP)
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:55:14 GMT
FILE - In this March 22, 2009 file photo, the building in midtown Manhattan in New York where Bernard Madoff and wife Ruth own a penthouse apartment is seen in this aerial view. The U.S. Marshals Service have taken possession of the $7 million Manhattan penthouse Thursday, July 2, 2009.  (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)AP - Federal marshals seized disgraced financier Bernard Madoff's $7 million Manhattan penthouse on Thursday and forced his wife to move out and leave her possessions behind, including a fur coat she had asked to take with her, an official told The Associated Press.


Lawyer: Rowe deciding whether to seek custody (AP)
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:04:34 GMT
FILE - In this Monday, Oct. 27, 2003 file picture, Michael Jackson thanks the audience during the Radio Music Awards at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Joe Cavaretta, file)AP - Deborah Rowe, the ex-wife of Michael Jackson and the mother of two of his children, has not reached a final decision on whether to seek custody of the children, a lawyer said Thursday.


FBI notes: Saddam Hussein sought familiar refuge (AP)
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:44:04 GMT
FILE - In this image released by the U.S. Army on Dec. 14, 2003,  former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is shown in custody after he was arrested near his Tikrit home.  Unclassified FBI interviews conducted during his incarceration at a U.S. detention center show new details about the late Iraqi dictator's life on the run - both before and after he was ousted.(AP Photo/U.S. Army)AP - After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein stayed in Baghdad until he saw "the city was about to fall." Months later, he was caught hiding at the same farm where he had fled in 1959 after taking part in an attempt to kill the country's prime minister.


French: Air France plane hit the sea belly first (AP)
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:44:07 GMT
Workers unload debris, belonging to crashed Air France flight AF447, from the Brazilian Navy's Constitution Frigate in the port of Recife, northeast of Brazil, Sunday, June 14, 2009. A burst of last-minute automatic messages sent by Air France Flight 447 includes one about a problem with a rudder safety device but that does not explain what sent the jet plunging into the Atlantic Ocean, an aviation expert said. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)AP - Air France Flight 447 slammed into the Atlantic Ocean, intact and belly first, at such a high speed that the 228 people aboard probably had no time to even inflate their life jackets, French investigators said Thursday in their first report into the June 1 accident.


GOP, White House at odds on Sotomayor documents (AP)
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:55:31 GMT
AP - A top Republican pressed for more information Thursday about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's ties to a Puerto Rican civil rights group he said took extreme positions on race, as the White House argued that the material was irrelevant to the judge's nomination.
Police: Conn. teens mishear sex screams, beat man (AP)
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:37:48 GMT
AP - A 16-year-old girl thought she heard her mother being assaulted by her boyfriend and rounded up some friends who beat him up, only to learn later that the couple actually were having sex, the woman and police said. The girl misinterpreted the woman's amorous screams, and she and four other teens went to the woman's bedroom in the Torrington home on June 6, police Lt. Bruce Whiteley said Thursday.
Un-bee-lievable: Bee swarm delays Astros' 7-2 win (AP)
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:52:00 GMT
An unidentified usher tries to move a swarm of bees as they cover a chair in left field during the ninth inning of a baseball game between the San Diego Padres and the Houston Astros, Thursday, July 2, 2009, in San Diego. The swarm delayed the game. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)AP - Talk about adding a late-inning buzz to a ballgame. The Houston Astros — who once had the "Killer Bs" — beat the San Diego Padres 7-2 on Thursday, but only after waiting out a 52-minute delay in the top of the ninth inning caused when a swarm of bees took over part of left field at Petco Park.


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Brake on upturn: jobless consumers
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 20:54:00 GMT
Job seekers wait to speak to a recruiter during a job fair held in Chicago.Many forecasters now expect the U.S. economy to begin growing later this year. But it probably won’t feel like a recovery for most people. By John W. Schoen.


Conviction in Web hoax to be tossed
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:05:36 GMT
Lori Drew after a sentencing hearing in May in Los Angeles. Drew's attorney Dean Steward said  Thurdsay that the U.S. attorney's office in L.A. shouldn't have brought charges in a case that began in Missouri and was rejected by prosecutors there.Federal judge tentatively acquitted a Missouri mother for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old neighbor girl who later killed herself.


Jackson funeral set for Tuesday
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 17:11:44 GMT
July 2: Michael Jackson's public memorial service will take place at LA's Staples Center on July 7th. NBC's Michael Okwu reports preparations at the site are already underway. (MSNBC)An executive with a concert promoter says Michael Jackson’s memorial service will be Tuesday at Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles — if that’s what his mother wants.


Cops seek record aid to avoid cuts
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 23:55:23 GMT
President Barack Obama greets officers at the Columbus Police Graduation Exercises in Columbus, Ohio, on March 6. The nation's police departments are asking for federal money to forestall big local tax hikes or possible mass layoffs.The nation's police departments are clamoring for an unprecedented amount of federal aid to forestall big local tax hikes or the possible layoff of nearly 40,000 police officers.


Obama delays release of CIA report
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:40:49 GMT
The Obama administration said Thursday that it needs two more months to review an internal CIA report on the agency's secret detention and interrogation program before making it public.
Stocks dive sharply after jobs report
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:11:40 GMT
Major stock indexes ended down more than 2 percent Tuesday after the U.S. unemployment rate hit a 26-year high.
Jackson's ex: 'I want my children'
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:22:57 GMT
Michael Jackson and Debbie Rowe pose for a wedding photo minutes after they were married in California on Nov. 14, 1996.Debbie Rowe wants custody of the two children she had with Michael Jackson and said she was willing to submit to any testing, including DNA, to prove that she is the children's true biological mother.


Bee swarm delays Astros’ victory over Padres
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 23:50:04 GMT
San Diego Padres left fielder Kyle Blanks stands in a swarm of bees during the ninth inning of Thursday's game against the Astros.The Houston Astros — who once had the “Killer B’s” — beat the San Diego Padres 7-2 on Thursday, but only after waiting out a 52-minute delay in the top of the ninth inning caused when a swarm of bees took over part of left field at Petco Park.


S.C. first lady: I’m angry, can forgive him
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 21:38:21 GMT
Jenny Sanford, wife of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, says she told her husband in no uncertain terms to stop seeing his lover.South Carolina's first lady said Gov. Mark Sanford's actions were "inexcusable" but she was willing to forgive him.


Iran arrests 7 allegedly tied to exiles
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 18:47:31 GMT
July 2: Although the first phase of the protests in Iran have been quieted, the crisis is not yet over. NBC's Ali Arouzi reports. (Nightly News)Iran announces more arrests in the post-election turmoil, detaining seven alleged provocateurs of violence it says were linked to Iranian exiles.


Facebook: ‘Why not give your ex another shot?’
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 14:58:01 GMT
"Look. I'm sick of you and you obviously loathe me. But Facebook seems to think we still have something, so what say we give it another go?"Users are beginning to notice that the social network's  'friend suggestions' are getting a little ... um ... inappropriate. What's up with that?


Video shows police chief, cop kissing
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:19:13 GMT
July 2: In this edition of the News You Can’t Use, MSNBC’s Willie Geist shares the story of two cops caught canoodling by their cruisers’ camera. (MSNBC)The police chief of an Ohio town has retired after a video became public showing him and a female officer kissing and caressing in the front of a police cruiser while a prisoner was in the back seat.


Biden to meet with Iraq leaders
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 17:49:32 GMT
Vice President Joe Biden arrives in Baghdad Thursday for a three-day visit as security personnel stand guard.Vice President Joe Biden arrives in Iraq to visit U.S. troops and meet with Iraqi leaders, including President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.


NYC victims fight back against iPhone thieves
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 19:27:45 GMT
Apple iPhone users can now fight back against thieves who want their gadgets.One device allows a user to remotely activate a loud siren designed to rattle the thief. Another application, designed for iPhones, can reveal the phone's location.


Oops! Why we say what we’re trying to hide
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 20:49:33 GMT
The very act of trying to avoid saying or doing something can sometimes cause it to happen. Scientists have figured out one surprising reason why we make social gaffes we desperately wish to avoid: The very act of trying to avoid saying or doing something can cause it to happen.


OAS chief: Honduras sanctions likely
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:16:04 GMT
Supporters of Honduras' ousted president, Manuel Zelaya, confront police during a march in Tegucigalpa on Thursday.A top diplomat says he is heading to Honduras to demand the return of the toppled president. He says if the demand is rejected, sanctions  will likely be imposed on the impoverished  nation.


Doomed Flight 447 fell intact into sea
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 19:20:17 GMT
July 2: Investigators on Thursday revealed more about what they believe happened to the plane that fell into the Atlantic Ocean last month on its way from Rio to Paris. NBC's Tom Costello reports.  (Nightly News)Air France Flight 447 slammed into the Atlantic Ocean, intact and belly first, at such a high speed that the 228 people aboard probably had no time to even inflate life jackets, investigators said.


Obama health czar led companies in trouble
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 13:18:02 GMT
President Barack Obama introduces Nancy-Ann DeParle on March 2 as director for health reform. After serving as a director of companies under federal investigation, she's back in government.Nancy-Ann DeParle, President Barack Obama’s health policy czar, served as a director of corporations that faced scores of federal investigations, whistleblower lawsuits and other regulatory actions, according to government records reviewed by the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University.


Sip 'n' starve: Dangerous diets in disguise
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 13:27:29 GMT
Some women in Los Angeles are forswearing dieting and embracing a new euphemism for it: cleansing. In reality, however, lemon juice is not a meal, and taken to extremes, cleansing is anything but healthy.In L.A., the latest “healthy” method for staying slim can border on the downright dangerous — and it’s probably already changing the way we all think about diets.


El Niño has two personalities, study finds
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 18:36:40 GMT
El Nino may have a split personality.
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WATCH VIDEO: Michael Jackson Rehearses, Days Before Death
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:06:25 -0400

After Grim Employment Report, Obama Stresses Green Jobs
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:00:25 -0400
Hours after disappointing jobs report, president touts green job creation.

Obama: Putin Has 'One Foot in Old Ways'
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:03:38 -0400
AP Interview: Putin has 'one foot in old ways,' Obama says on Russia trip eve.

Ruth Madoff Evicted from Penthouse
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:18:35 -0400
Locks changed; U.S. marshalls now have custody of $7 mill duplex.

George: Biden in Iraq -- 'This Is The Moment'
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:12:14 -0400
George's Bottom Line: Vice President Joe Biden on why the president sent him to Iraq to oversee the pullout of U.S. troops from some Iraqi cities.

Charges Dropped in Pizza Delivery Rape
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:12:58 -0400
Rape charges dropped against cheating husband in bizarre case.

Judge Tosses 'MySpace Mom' Verdict
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:22:54 -0400
Lori Drew had faced 3 yrs in test case for novel prosecution of "cyberbullying."

U.S. Soldier Feared Kidnapped in Afghanistan
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:07:32 -0400

More Missile Tests From Defiant N.K.
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:21:14 -0400
Reports: NKorea fires 2 missiles in violation of U.N. resolution.

Why Did I Say That? It's Scientific
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:38:33 -0400
Brain researchers unlock clues behind why we say what we know we shouldn't.

The Mystery of the Shrinking Sheep
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:20:33 -0400
Why are they growing smaller? Study says warming climate.

Moonlighting: Do You Tell Your Boss?
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:20:00 -0400
Could telling the truth about that second job cost you your day job?

Has the Housing Market Hit Bottom?
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:06:00 -0400
A look at how 10 cities across America are weathering the housing crisis.

No Vicodin? No Fear! Alternatives Exist
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:11:15 -0400
Doctors say even if the FDA bans combination drugs, relief is still possible.

Superior Searcher: Google vs. Bing
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:38:07 -0400
Google has an impressive competitor in Microsoft's Bing.

Oldest Jonas Bro Pops the Question
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:22:38 -0400
Kevin Jonas of the Jonas Brothers proposes to girlfriend of two years.

WATCH: Dog Attacker Caught on Tape
Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:14:18 -0400

WATCH: Oxycontin Theft Caught on Tape
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:45:18 -0400

WATCH: Drunk Takes Bulldozer on Joyride
Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:53:15 -0400

PHOTOS: Stand By Your Man
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:03:03 -0400
These famous women showed fierce loyalty, even in the face of betrayal.

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