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Scale of government's AP records seizure surprises many
WASHINGTON — Three years ago, the Obama administration brought criminal charges under the Espionage Act against Thomas Drake, an Air Force veteran and intelligence expert at the National Security Agency in Maryland. He was not accused of aiding...
Tags: Eric Holder, Central Intelligence Agency, Judges, Journalism, Lewis Libby
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'Downton Abbey' gets Diddy-fueled makeover in Funny or Die spoof
Diddy's rather confusing Twitter announcement that he'll be appearing as a series regular on the wildly popular British aristocracy drama "Downton Abbey" has manifested itself as a mediocre Funny or Die video. And aren't we all a little relieved? We'...
Tags: Ken Jeong, Social Media, Maggie Smith, Twitter, Inc., Downton Abbey (tv program)
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Kenneth Branagh's 'The Magic Flute' to screen stateside
After a trip to Amsterdam in the summer of 2008, Los Angeles Times music critic Mark Swed brought back a curious souvenir: a three-disc Dutch edition of Kenneth Branagh's "The Magic Flute,” which he’d spotted in a remote record-store window....
Tags: Kenneth Branagh
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Vietnam veterans' new battle: getting disability compensation
Vietnam veteran John Otte did his best to forget the war. He got married, raised two sons and made a career working at credit unions. But as Otte neared retirement, memories of combat flooded back. Starting in 2005, he filed a series of claims with...
Tags: Iraq, Diseases and Illnesses, Agent Orange Poisoning (1961-1971), American Legion, Diabetes
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Bertie Carvel gives his all as 'Matilda's' demonic Miss Trunchbull
NEW YORK — Miss Agatha Trunchbull, headmistress of Crunchem Hall school, hates pigtails. They're good only to serve as handles by which she can toss a rebellious child into the air — a feat this one-time Olympic hammer-throwing champion...
Tags: Celebrities, Abusive Behavior, Les Miserables (movie), Matthew Warchus, Psychology
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Dr. Christian de Duve dies at 95; Nobel-winning scientist
For the first half of the 20th century, the cell was a mysterious, unfathomable entity. Nutrients went in and hormones, wastes and other products came out. But what happened in between was anybody's guess. Light microscopes could reveal the rough...
Tags: Cardiac Arrhythmia, Belgium, Biology, Colleges and Universities, Awards and Prizes
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Water war between Klamath River farmers, tribes poised to erupt
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — For decades this rural basin has battled over the Klamath River's most precious resource: water that sustains fish, irrigates farms and powers the hydroelectric dams that block one of the largest salmon runs on the West Coast....
Tags: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Congress, Environmental Issues, Water Supply, Hydroelectricity
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The boy behind Kristallnacht
On the night of Nov. 7, 1938, at the German Embassy in Paris, a 17-year-old Polish Jew named Herschel Grynszpan gained access to the office of a low-ranking Nazi named Ernst vom Rath by promising to turn over an "important document." Instead, Grynszpan...
Tags: Judaism, France, Olympic Games, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Murder
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William Wilson dies at 78; former Times art critic
For William Wilson, the former Los Angeles Times art critic who died Saturday at the age of 78, art was a childhood refuge, a teenage survival mechanism, and, finally, a career that saw him chronicle the city's rise in art-world stature from his first...
Tags: Artists, Alzheimer's Disease, Arts, Museums, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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Old Globe's 2013-14 season to include extra helpings of the Bard
The Old Globe’s new artistic director, Barry Edelstein, is a noted Shakespearean, and its 2013-14 season, the first he’s picked, will give extra emphasis to the Bard, beyond the separate summer series that typically offers at least two...
Tags: Roger Rees, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment, Entertainment Events, Music
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17 outlandish garlic dishes: Celebrate National Garlic Day with garlic chocolate and garlic beer
Garlic cloves dipped in dark chocolate? Garlic cheesecake? Garlic beer? Bam! It's National Garlic Day, a day set aside on the foodie calendar to celebrate all things Allium sativum. Garlic, a species of the onion family, has been with humankind for...
Tags: Recipes, University of Maryland Medical Center, Heart Disease
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He's got Armenia under his skin, and we get a guidebook
By some measures, Matthew Karanian was a Connecticut Yankee: a 34-year-old litigator in Hartford, American-born and bred. But he had a wild idea. So he took a summer off, headed for the rustic land of his ancestors, and soon found that Armenia was...
Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Russia, UNESCO, Yerevan (Armenia), Armenia
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