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BEIJING (AP) -- An ailing Chinese labor activist imprisoned for two decades died in a hospital Wednesday one year after being released from jail, and a relative raised doubt on the official explanation that he had hanged himself....

Marketing Week | Millionaire super-geek Sean Parker's new 'Airtime' has been described as "Facebook meets Skype".

huffingtonpost.com | Millions of dollars' worth of drugs smuggled aboard commercial flights.

Jonathan Weisman | All of the expiring Bush-era tax cuts should be extended temporarily in the face of a slowing economy.

John Myers | Violence on the streets by an armed “irascible and vocal Majority.”

BRUSSELS (AP) -- European officials proposed Wednesday a new system of financial regulations that aims to keep bank failures from costing taxpayers billions and bankrupting governments....

SAINTE-MARIE-DU-MONT, France (AP) -- With World War II-era military planes darting overhead and Normandy's Utah Beach visible in the distance, a bronze statue emerged from beneath a camouflage parachute, in tribute to a man whose quiet leadership was chronicled in the book and television series "Band of Brothers."...

Washington's Blog | Radioactive water is being dumped into the Pacific at an alarming rate.

Kurt Nimmo | Escalation of cyber war as official enemies engage in retaliation against U.S. government and its proxies.

TORONTO (AP) -- Body parts mailed to two Vancouver schools were sent from Montreal and are thought to be linked to the killing and dismemberment of a Chinese student there, police said Wednesday....

FRANKFURT (AP) -- The European Central Bank has left its benchmark interest rate unchanged as it increases the pressure on eurozone leaders to tackle a government debt crisis that threatens the global economy....

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- Three suicide attackers blew themselves up in the largest city in southern Afghanistan Wednesday, killing 22 people and wounding at least 50 others in a dusty marketplace that was turned into a gruesome scene of blood and bodies....

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- Three suicide attackers blew themselves up in the largest city in southern Afghanistan Wednesday, killing 22 people and wounding at least 50 others in a dusty marketplace that was turned into a gruesome scene of blood and bodies....

Paul Joseph Watson | System alerts authorities to "suspicious behavior" before crime is committed.

LONDON (AP) -- Archaeologists in London have discovered the remains of an Elizabethan theater where some of William Shakespeare's plays were first performed - a venue immortalized as "this wooden O" in the prologue to "Henry V."...

NJ.com | Since 9/11, NYPD has been targeting Muslims, conducting surveillance of neighborhoods, restaurants, and mosques.

A.M. Freyed | Even the biggest financiers of all are frankly endorsing this phony movement.

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's prime minister says he has ordered the construction of 300 new homes in a West Bank settlement....

Infowars.com | So you thought you could cheer during your daughter's graduation ceremony, did you? We have a police van waiting for people like you.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- Three suicide attackers blew themselves up in the largest city in southern Afghanistan Wednesday, killing 22 people and wounding at least 50 others in a dusty marketplace that was turned into a gruesome scene of blood and bodies....