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LONDON, Nov. 9 (UPI) — Authorities say newly released documents from Britain’s first criminal asylum could shed light on the identity of Jack the Ripper.
Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire, England, has opened all archives more than 100 years old, The Sunday Telegraph reported.
Broadmoor was home to Thomas Hayne Cutbush, a leading suspect in Britain’s most infamous [...]

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Nathan Hodge

An accident on board a Russian nuclear submarine has claimed at least 20 lives, the worst submarine disaster in nearly a decade.
According to Russian news reports, the ship in question is the K-152 Nerpa, an Akula-class attack submarine. The accident occurred during sea trials in the Pacific Ocean; Russian news agency RIA-Novosti reports the [...]

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by David Gutierrez
Global Research, November 9, 2008
NaturalNews - 2008-11-03
The Supreme Court may rule that pharmaceutical companies cannot be sued for dangerous or even deadly side effects from their drugs if those side effects arise from an FDA-approved use.
Under a legal argument known as “pre-emption,” the FDA’s approval of a drug absolves companies of any responsibility [...]

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The Bush administration has stonewalled, misled and denied documents to Congress, and subpoenaed the phone records of investigative reporters.
When Barack Obama takes the oath of office on January 20, Americans won’t just get a new president; they might finally learn the full extent of George W. Bush’s warrantless domestic wiretapping.
Since The New York Times first [...]

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By JEFF ZELENY
CHICAGO — President-elect Barack Obama is poised to move swiftly to reverse actions that President Bush took using executive authority, and his transition team is reviewing limits on stem cell research and the expansion of oil and gas drilling, among other issues, members of the team said Sunday.

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Joe Sudbay (DC) · 11/08/2008 03:07:00 PM ET
Obama won an electoral vote in Nebraska. Only Maine and Nebraska apportion electoral votes by Congressional District. And, this is the first time it’s happened.

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The governor expresses hope that Proposition 8 would be overturned as protesters continued to march outside churches across California.
By Michael Rothfeld and Tony Barboza
November 10, 2008
Reporting from Sacramento and Lake Forest — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Sunday expressed hope that the California Supreme Court would overturn Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that outlawed same-sex [...]

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By ERIC SCHMITT and MARK MAZZETTI
WASHINGTON — The United States military since 2004 has used broad, secret authority to carry out nearly a dozen previously undisclosed attacks against Al Qaeda and other militants in Syria, Pakistan and elsewhere, according to senior American officials.

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Chris in Paris · 11/10/2008 06:13:00 AM ET 
Who needs Congress when you have Henry Paulson there to save Wall Street at every corner? Every time I heard a Wall Street pundit tell everyone how fantastic Paulson was and how lucky we would all be if only he could be begged into staying, I wanted [...]