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CNN Top Stories, 06.01.09 09:00 UTC

Lawyers: Move Polanski case out of Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Lawyers for exiled film director Roman Polanski are asking that a judge outside of Los Angeles be assigned to decide its motion to dismiss a 30-year-old sex offense case against him, claiming prosecutorial and judicial misconduct.

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CNN Top Stories, 03.01.09 11:30 UTC

114-year-old U.S. woman to be world's oldest

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Gertrude Baines, a spry 114-year-old California resident, will likely be crowned the world's oldest woman, according to the organization that keeps track of such honors.

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Seattle Times, 31.12.08 10:03 UTC

Comments on Mexico drug trafficking from around America

At times, the fight against drug trafficking in Mexico seems hopeless. The Los Angeles Times asked experts and public figures in the United States, Mexico and other parts of Latin America for their ...

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NPR, 30.12.08 16:32 UTC

Flap Over 'Magic Negro' Song Roils RNC

by Liz Halloran NPR.org, December 30, 2008 · In the search for someone to lead the Republican Party out of its political wilderness, the winnowing has begun. Former Tennessee GOP chairman Chip ...

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 29.12.08 16:31 UTC

GOP chief 'shocked' by Obama parody

WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the Republican National Committee said over the weekend that he was "shocked and appalled" that one of his potential successors had sent committee members a CD this ...

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Times Online World News, 28.12.08 21:31 UTC

Republicans shamed by Chip Saltsman's Barack Obama CD parody

A leading contender to become chairman of the Republican Party has left senior officials horrified after he distributed a CD featuring a parody song called Barack the Magic Negro. At a time when the ...

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Telegraph, 28.12.08 21:02 UTC

Republican party candidate distributes controversial Barack Obama song

A candidate to lead the Republican party is facing a wave of criticism after he sent other senior US politicians a Christmas CD featuring the song "Barack the Magic Negro".

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CNN Top Stories, 28.12.08 04:01 UTC

Santa shooter carried secret guilt, attorney says

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- The man who police say dressed as Santa Claus and killed nine people at a Christmas Eve party lived with guilt from an incident that left his son from a previous relationship a paraplegic, according to an attorney who once represented the woman in that relationship.

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Los Angeles Daily News, 27.12.08 23:00 UTC

Santa gunman lost job, wife before gory attack

But things quickly turned sour and divorce documents paint a bitter picture of Bruce Pardo's increasing desperation as he lost first his wife, then his job and finally the dog. By fall 2008, Pardo ...

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USA Today, 27.12.08 21:36 UTC

RNC chair 'shocked and appalled' by Obama parody

WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the Republican National Committee on Saturday admonished one of his potential successors for giving members a CD featuring a song called "Barack the Magic Negro."