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GOP Fighting IRS Investigation of Fundraising Practices

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After a spate of requests by Democrats and campaign finance groups for an IRS investigation of a number of section 501(c) organizations accused of abusing...

League of United Latin American Citizens of California (LULAC) Endorses Prop. 19

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Surprise surprise. Latinos are getting behind the California ballot initiative to legalize pot. The Washington, D.C.-based League of United Latin American Citizens of California (LULAC) endorsed Prop. 19 Friday, with state director Argentina Dávila-Luévano saying, "The current prohibition laws are not working for Latinos, nor for society as a whole."

Summer Jib (Video)

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Skiing In Summer Could Be This Much Fun?

Jailed for Killing Mother With an Axe, Woman Puts Hit on Husband

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Don't mess with Martha Walker. She's currently being held in jail in Florida without bond for murdering her own mother with an axe. While in jail for that atrocity, she shopped around for a hitman to kill her husband, since she was unable to do it herself.

Conan O’Brien Gets His Own Foursquare Badge (and a Blimp)

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As Conan O'Brien prepares to make his big return to late night television on November 8, the comedian is also returning to his social media roots for a

New Tech Could Create Textured Touch Screens

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We all know the problem with touch screens. You can't text under the table while you're in a meeting. Or while you're driving. Or while you're doing anything other than watching the screen carefully to ensure that the letter you tapped is the one that appeared on the screen.

Peter Jackson says, ‘You can't believe everything you read.’

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Despite somewhat concrete reports from the NY and LA Times regarding The Hobbit, Peter Jackson says they do not yet have a greenlight.

Ok I Am Ready To Go, Lets Skate! (Pic)

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Rescue drill reaches 33 trapped Chilean miners

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Anxious family members and exhausted rescue workers reveled in joyful relief after a drill pierced the roof of an underground mine in Chile where 33 men have been trapped since August 5.

Lifehacker Readers' Solutions for Your Home's Bad Wi-Fi Coverage

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#wifi We recently detailed a few solutions for bad wi-fi household coverage, and our commenters had a lot of experience, knowledge, and work-arounds of their own to share. Here's how Lifehacker readers got around shoddy wireless coverage in their own homes and offices. More

New analysis of Kent State audio indicates pistol fire preceded National Guard shootings

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The discovery adds new perspective to -- and raises new questions about -- one of the signature events of the 20th century, after four decades of spirited discussion and research.

7 Reasons We Shouldn't Completely Give Up On TV

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There are a lot of terrible, trashy, mind-numbing things on television, yes, but there are a few shows out there that redeem the medium, all together.

Is GlassGate the Latest Crack in the iPhone's Armor?

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Antennagate is grinding to a halt, more or less, but is Glassgate about to begin? It could be: speaking of grinding, it appears that third-party cases, especially those that slide on, are capable of trapping particulate matter between themselves and the iPhone 4's glass back, which could lead to scratching or even shattering of the entire rear pane of glass.

Pirates fan bets against his team all year…and wins

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Talk about making lemonade out of lemons. One baseball bettor made a small fortune fading the worst team in the majors, betting against the lowly Pittsburgh Pirates in all 162 games this season.

Marvel and DC Drop Comic Prices from Obscene to Just High

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Yesterday at the New York Comic Con, both Marvel and DC announced that they were ditching the $3.99 price point for future comics, and would instead be selling all regular comics at $2.99. That Marvel and DC both announced the same initiative on the same day was a massive coincidence...

GOP Widens Generic House Lead

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Republicans have increased their lead over Democrats by six points since last month in a generic ballot for Congress.

Google Cuts The Cord On Its Free 411 Service

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In April 2007, Google launched a feature that, for the time, was very nifty: a free, fully automated 411 service called Goog-411 that would accept verbal commands to look up business listings. Today, after over three years of dutifully dolling out free information to millions of phones, Google is announcing that it will be shuttering the service on November 12. As Google alludes to in its blog post, the 411 service didnt exist solely because Google wanted to help people out it also gave Google a vast amount of voice data, allowing it to improve its speech recognition technology for the voice services that are now present throughout Android and on many other phones, including the iPhone, BlackBerry, Nokia S60, and Windows. In the blog post, Google also hints that well be seeing much more voice functionality on the way: Our success encouraged us to aim for more innovation. Thus, were putting all of our resources into speech-enabling the next generation of Google products and services across a multitude of languages. Heres how we described the service back when it first launched. Goog-411 can be accessed by dialing 1-800-GOOG-411. The product is completely automated and there is no way to talk to a human for additional or clarifying information. You tell it your city and state, and then ask for a specific business or business category. In my tests the product was excellent. Although the voice recognition was only working at about 70% efficiency, I just said back and retried when it didnt understand what I said. Results are spoken back or text messaged back to you, and you are automatically put through to the phone number requested. [crunchbase url="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/google" name="Google"]

Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Looks Amazing on the iPhone! (Video)

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This trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 on iPhone is just as dynamic and entertaining as on other platforms. Lookin' good Sonic.

UAW members to picket UAW HQ over GM deal

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Wage cuts through a UAW deal at GM's Orion Township Plant are causing a row with UAW rank and file. The problem is that UAW leadership that agreed to the deal, and not the workers themselves.

Republicans Prefer A Strip Club on Ground Zero

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A new Public Policy Survey of New York Republicans shed some light on the paradoxical behavior of the GOP. It turns out that the self titled Party of Family Values would rather build a strip club on Ground Zero than a mosque. 21% of Republicans supported the strip club, and only 4% supported the mosque.

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