The Stories

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• Update: Taliban Kabul Strike Deadliest in Afghan Capital Since War Began
  Posted October 29, 2011 at 5:59 pm by Madeleine Morgenstern

  "We will not let these guys win."

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• Make it a Million: Member of Saudi Royal Family Offers Additional $900,000 for Kidnapping an Israeli Soldier
  Posted October 29, 2011 at 5:30 pm by Sharona Schwartz

  Matching $100,000 offered last week by a Saudi cleric.

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• Halloween at the White House Includes M&Ms, Sugar Cookies and Yes — Dried Fruit
  Posted October 29, 2011 at 4:53 pm by Madeleine Morgenstern

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• Mute, Autistic Boy Missing for Six Days Found Alive in Virginia Woods
  Posted October 29, 2011 at 3:57 pm by Madeleine Morgenstern

  "There is a God. He listens to prayers, and prayers were answered."

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• Which Cities Are Leaving ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protesters Alone?
  Posted October 29, 2011 at 2:48 pm by Christopher Santarelli

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• Cop Late for Off-Duty Job Pulled Over Driving 120 MPH
  Posted October 29, 2011 at 1:38 pm by Christopher Santarelli

  Officer Fausto Lopez was arrested at gunpoint after leading police on a brief high-speed chase.

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• Saturday Bonus: BadLipReading Team Tackles Herman Cain With ‘Big Potato Moths’ & More…
  Posted October 29, 2011 at 1:33 pm by Scott Baker

  "Everybody needs Toucan stubs."

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• Muffingate Returns: Inspector General Now Agrees That the Muffins Didn’t Cost Taxpayers $16 a Piece
  Posted October 29, 2011 at 1:12 pm by Christopher Santarelli

  The revised report still described beef Wellington hors d’oeuvres at $7.32 per serving, and a $76-per-person lunch at a conference at a Hilton in San Francisco, featuring slow-cooked Berkshire pork carnitas, hearts-of-romaine salad — and coffee at $8.24 a cup.

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• LDS Hosted Halloween Party Criticized for No ‘Cross-Gender’ Costume Rule
  Posted October 29, 2011 at 12:25 pm by Christopher Santarelli

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• Oakland’s Police Chief Takes Responsibility for Clash With Protesters But Defends Officers Use of Force
  Posted October 29, 2011 at 11:30 am by Christopher Santarelli

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• Man Answers the Door Naked When Police Go to Home to Arrest Child Porn Suspect
  Posted October 29, 2011 at 10:30 am by Christopher Santarelli

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• 13 American NATO Service Members Killed by Suicide Bomber in Afghanistan
  Posted October 29, 2011 at 9:45 am by Christopher Santarelli

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• Mother in Burning Building Drops Baby From Window Into Arms of Stranger
  Posted October 29, 2011 at 9:34 am by Christopher Santarelli

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• Atheist Group Takes Down Billboard With Inaccurate Anti-Christian Jefferson Quote
  Posted October 29, 2011 at 8:52 am by Christopher Santarelli

  "I do not find in Christianity one redeeming feature. It is founded on fables and mythology."

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• Politico Reporter Views Cain ‘Smoking’ Ad as ‘Weirdly Postcoital’
  Posted October 29, 2011 at 7:46 am by Christopher Santarelli

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• Homeless Man Severs His Own Arm With Homemade Guillotine
  Posted October 29, 2011 at 7:05 am by Christopher Santarelli

  "I hope that's a Halloween costume."

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• Are College Degrees Hindering Innovation? This Author Thinks So
  Posted October 29, 2011 at 6:41 am by Liz Klimas

  "...you find that the only thing you can do with your human capitol is work at Starbucks, then you think 'maybe I was fed a lie.'"

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• French Christians Protest ‘Blasphemous’ Play Where Fake Excrement Is Hurled at Image of Christ
  Posted October 29, 2011 at 6:00 am by Christopher Santarelli

  Paris can't tolerate "such expressions of fundamentalism and intolerance."

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• Update: No Anthrax Vaccine Testing on Children Until Ethical Issues Resolved
  Posted October 29, 2011 at 12:00 am by Liz Klimas

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• ‘Sperm Bike’ Pedals Male Gametes Around Seattle
  Posted October 28, 2011 at 11:52 pm by Liz Klimas

  "When you put a giant sperm on a bike, you get some attention."

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• Cardinals Win ‘Remarkable’ World Series!
  Posted October 28, 2011 at 11:41 pm by Scott Baker

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• Not Just for Thrills: The Real Meaning of ‘The Exorcist’
  Posted October 28, 2011 at 11:30 pm by Becket Adams

  ". . . a sermon that no one could possibly sleep through.”

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• Deadly Day: Syrian Security Forces Fire on Protesters, At Least 40 Killed
  Posted October 28, 2011 at 10:23 pm by Tiffany Gabbay

  They were also hunted down in house-to-house-raids

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• MSNBC Analyst to Martin Bashir: GOP Sees Herman Cain as a ‘Black Man Who Knows His Place’
  Posted October 28, 2011 at 9:50 pm by Tiffany Gabbay

  "I know that's harsh, but that's how it sure seems to me."

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• Jon Huntsman’s Daughters Parody Cain Smoking Ad
  Posted October 28, 2011 at 9:26 pm by Tiffany Gabbay

  They wore fake mustaches.

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