LL Cool J, Bill Withers to Be Honored

Rapper LL Cool J and R&B; crooner Bill Withers will be honored for their musical contributions by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, the organization announced Friday.

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Woman, 62, Fights $1,431 Cable Porn Bill

A 62-year-old retired schoolteacher is fighting with a cable company over a hefty bill for porn and gangsta rap programming she says she never ordered.

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Calif. Assembly Committee OKs Oil Tax Bill

A bill that would slap a windfall profits tax on California oil producers was approved by a state Assembly committee as gasoline prices surged past $3 a gallon.

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Swindlers Try to Sell $1 Million Bill

Even at half price, a $1 million bill is no bargain.

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Man Gets $218 Trillion Phone Bill

A Malaysian man said he nearly fainted when he recieved a $218 trillion phone bill and was ordered to pay up within 10 days or face prosecution, a newspaper reported Monday.

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Clintons' Speeches Invite Comparison

It was a case of Clinton deja vu.

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Johanns Releases Farm Program Wish List

James March has about 60 acres of farmland in southwestern Wisconsin and gets paid not to cultivate it.

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Spanish Gov't to Present Anti-Doping Bill

The Spanish government will present a bill that aims to fight doping through out-of-competition testing and tougher sanctions, including prison sentences.

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Bill Paxton Finds Romance in 'Big Love'

Each winter at a Texas ranch owned by actor Bill Paxton's family, an Angus bull would set up shop for a few months of intensive breeding.

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Man Tries to Buy Condoms With Fake $100

A 23-year-old man was arrested after he tried to buy condoms and cologne with a fake $100 bill, authorities said.

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$10,000 Bill Sent to N.Y. for Safe Keeping

A rare $10,000 bill is getting a new home. The bill — one of 15 large-denomination bills at a Chase Bank branch in Green Bay — was shipped to the bank's corporate archives in New York for safe keeping.

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Pa. Governor to Veto Voter ID Bill

Gov. Ed Rendell says he will veto a bill that would require voters to show identification at the polls because he believes it would disenfranchise some of the state's most vulnerable residents.

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Soldier Says He Was Charged for Armor

A former U.S. soldier injured in Iraq says he was forced to pay $700 for a blood-soaked Kevlar vest that was destroyed after medics removed it to treat shrapnel wounds to his right arm.

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Dallas hospital plans to bill Mexico 

DALLAS -- Parkland Memorial Hospital plans to bill Mexico and other countries to help cover the costs of health care for indigents.

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Bill O'Reilly vs. Phil Donahue

Transcript of the Bill O'Reilly interview with Phil Donahue after he shouted down Jeremy Glick on the Factor. Old news, but it needs saving and re-telling.

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Seed Newsvine

A new Bill of Rights? But in court who are the judges? In the European Court of Human Rights we have judges from different nations with a big incentive to be fair. British judges sometimes, believe a witness simply because he is wearing a police uniform.

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Bush vetoes public records bill, signs key lime pie

Gov. Jeb Bush vetoed a bill that would have required prompt replies to public records requests while signing 37 measures into law Tuesday, including legislation making key lime Florida's official state pie.

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Consumerist bills Verizon $1000 for selling records to NSA

Back in mid-may, we decided that the best way to protest the phone companies selling our records to the NSA was to send our cell phone company a bill for $1000.

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Steve Jobs is hurt as Bill Gates left

Steve may smile or may hate it. It was Bill and its troop who brought Apple down in 80’s. MSFT shunned them out of mass limelight and deprived of wealth and fortunes.

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Wake-Up: Bill would limit consumers' credit rights

Bill would limit consumers' credit rights SEATTLE — Congress is considering pre-empting laws in 17 states that allow anyone to freeze their own credit and instead restricting the privilege to ID theft victims.

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O'Reilly

The problem with a blowhard like O'Reilly is that millions of Americans believe his nonsense. He shoots from the hip on his bully pulpit. And the more people complain, it just feeds the beast. A sad state of affairs for American media.

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Bill O'Reilly Accuses U.S. Army of Nazi War Crime

So I'm officially confused... Somewhere in Bill O'Reilly's crazy head of conservative invokations he mixed up the fact that the Malmedy Massacre was in fact done by the Nazi's.

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Gov. Bush To Sign 'Dining With Dogs' Bill

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Dogs may soon be allowed to accompany their owners out to dinner.

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California Rejects US Republic Form of Government

“The bill would pledge California's 55 Electoral College votes to the winner of the national popular vote, a system critics charged was an attempt to circumvent the U.S. Constitution.”

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Conservatives Must Hold Firm on Immigration

I strongly believe we need to preserve a Republican majority, even though that majority is often controlled by dictatorial moderates – as in the Gang of 14, seven of which are Republicans.

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Glitch causes $96m water bills

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What says Bill Gates about Search technologies

In his opinion now when it is necessary to the companies to reconsider the concepts incorporated in a basis of processes of interaction of the employees with the corporate data.

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Ahnuld's visit to sign congestion bill creates traffic jam

Arnold Schwarzenegger visited the Caldecott Tunnel this morning to sign legislation that puts a congestion-busting transportation bond measure on the November ballot, but his visit to the Orinda side of the tunnel caused westbound traffic to slow and extended the morning slog towa

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Woman, 62, Fights $1,431 Cable Porn Bill

YONKERS, N.Y. - A 62-year-old retired schoolteacher is fighting with a cable company over a hefty bill for porn and gangsta rap programming she says she never ordered.

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Bill would prohibit mandatory microchip implants

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» 2007 Intelligence Authorization Bill, Gives CIA & NSA Domestic Arrest Powers For Any Felony

The 2007 Intelligence Authorization Bill in The House would give the CIA & NSA the power to arrest anyone for any felony, regardless of it having anything to do with foreign intelligence. Very scary stuff.

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Frist will revive immigration bill

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist will bring a stalled immigration bill back to the Senate floor by Memorial Day, a Republican leadership aide said Friday.

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Colorado Governer Vetoes Bill Requiring Nutritious Food In School Vending Machines

Colorado Governor Bill Owens vetoed a bill that required that half of the offerings in every school vending machine be nutritious. He reasoned that politicians should examine their own vending machines in the State Capital before trying to legislate what other people eat.

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Republican Congressman Henry Bonilla: Immigration Marches Not Making Big Impact

Reported from KSAT.com in San Antonio. Probably one of the more idiotic comments you'll here, especially considering he is Hispanic as well.

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Man hit with $218 trillion phone bill

A man is charged $218 trillion for a phone bill he thought he disconnected for his dead father. Crazy.

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Immigrant Bill Snared by Web of Suspicion - Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON — This week's Senate stalemate on immigration sent a sobering message: Distrust between Republicans and Democrats has reached a level that can derail agreements, even when leaders in both parties publicly endorse the same policies

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Sen. Clinton says immigration bill would make her a criminal

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton charged Wednesday that a House GOP immigration bill would make her and her Senate aides criminals, and warned of a "ticking time bomb" lurking in the U.S. economy.

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New $5 bill coming this fall

HOCKEY!

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