Los Angeles Times
Tech executive's Lego bar-code scam was extensive, police allege
More details are emerging in the case of a Silicon Valley software executive accused of using fake bar codes to buy massive amounts of Lego sets.
Police allege Thomas Langenbach, a 47-year-old vice president of global software giant SAP, brought his own bar code stickers to Target stores in Mountain View, used them to cover up the real bar codes and purchased hundreds of boxes of the p...
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politico
Trump pitches Trump
Rosie Gray summed up the pitch Donald Trump is making for himself as a potential Republican National Convention keynote speaker yesterday, one that followed an ABC News story wondering aloud whether The Donald could be a Mitt Romney Veep prospect.
The short answer on the latter is no. And on the former, it's a bit hard to see him as keynote.
But it's very easy to see Republicans needing to give...
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TechCrunch
Qwiki Launches A Publishing Platform For ABC News And Others
Qwiki, the startup that won Disrupt in 2010, is announcing a new platform today for bloggers and other online publishers.
The company's initial product basically assembled a multimedia "story" around Wikipedia articles, with images, videos, maps, and more. But the vision was bigger — to present a new kind of information experience.
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The Nation
Obama, Romney tied on economy
WASHINGTON - The race for the White House is tightening up with President Obama and Mitt Romney in a dead heat on the question of who could best fix the economy, a new poll showed Tuesday. The incumbent and his all-but-certain challenger are tied at 47pc apiece on handling the economy, according to the survey by ABC News and The Washington Post, although if the election were held today ...
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Huffington Post
Donna Summer Gospel Music: Legendary Singer Sang Christian Songs (VIDEOS)
Donna Summer, affectionally called Queen of Disco, passed away on the 17th of May. She was 63 and died battling cancer. While Donna Summer might be remembered most for her disco hits, Christianity had a profound impact on her life and music. She was brought up in a devout Christian family and began singing in church when she was eight-years-old. "I opened my mouth and this voice just shot out o...
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Huffington Post
Akilah Bolden-Monifa: The First Gay President?
President Obama helped move marriage equality forward, and his courageous statement will go down in history. "It is important for me to go ahead and...
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omg
And the winner is? The sitcom, TV networks hope
(Reuters) - The big winner of this year's upfront TV advertising sales season was an old favorite: the sitcom. By the time the curtain came down on the network previews on Thursday, 16 of the 36 new scripted shows added to the programming lineups of the big four broadcast networks - CBS Corp, Walt Disney Co's ABC, News Corp's Fox and Comcast Corp's NBC - were comedies. Upfront week is the telev...
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Washington Post
George W. Bush endorses Mitt Romney
As presidential endorsements go, this one could hardly have been more low-key. ABC News caught up with former president George W. Bush in an elevator in downtown Washington on Tuesday and asked the question that elicited the sound bite.
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Salon
W’s elevator endorsement trick
The 43rd president is a willing accomplice in the Romney effort to pretend 2008 never happened
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Mashable
Obama Gets Huge Twitter Boost After Gay Marriage Support [CHARTS]
When President Obama became the first sitting president to declare support for gay marriage in an interview with ABC News on Wednesday, the announceme…
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Entertainment Online
President Obama's Gay Marriage Support: Ellen DeGeneres, Kim Kardashian & More Tweet Thanks
Wedding bells are getting louder for same-sex couples.
If you haven't heard by now, President Barack Obama says in a new interview with ABC News that he now supports gay...
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Entertainment Online
President Obama's Gay Marriage Support: Ellen DeGeneres, Kim Kardashian & More Tweet Thanks
Wedding bells are getting louder for same-sex couples.
If you haven't heard by now, President Barack Obama says in a new interview with ABC News that he now supports gay...
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Telegraph
Barack Obama endorses same sex marriage
US President Barack Obama tells ABC News that he is in favour of gay marriage.
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BBC
VIDEO: Obama supports same-sex marriage
Barack Obama becomes the first US president to back gay marriage, as he speaks out on the politically charged issue in an interview with ABC News.
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perez hilton
Obama Confirms His Support For Gay Marriage!!!
THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT!!!
Despite some perceived confusion, President Barack Obama has concluded same-sex couples should be allowed to marry!!!!
In an ABC News interview with Robin Roberts, he firmly stated:
I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about [...]
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Al Jazhera
Obama backs marriage for same-sex couples
Comments to ABC News signal shift from previous position that his personal views on the issue "were evolving".
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BBC
Obama supports same-sex marriage
Barack Obama becomes the first US president to back gay marriage, as he speaks out on the politically charged issue in an interview with ABC News.
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TMZ
President Barack Obama -- I Support Gay Marriage
For the first time in the history of the United States ... the sitting President has endorsed gay marriage. In an interview with ABC News, President Barack Obama said, "I think same sex couples should be able to get married."Obama explained, "I have…
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USA Today
Obama endorses same-sex marriage
President Obama became the first U.S. president to endorse gay marriage, telling ABC News today that it "should be legal."
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el universal
Obama expresa su apoyo al matrimonio gay
Durante una entrevista a la ABC News el Presidente manifestó su opinión acerca de las parejas homosexuales
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Daily Telegraph
Masterchef off the boil aginst red-hot The Voice
CHANNEL 10 has been served an embarrassing ratings blow, with the ABC News pulling a bigger audience than Masterchef last night.
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WSJ
Univisión y ABC unen fuerzas para crear un canal de noticias en inglés
La empresa conjunta entre ABC News de Disney y Univision News busca llegar a la población hispana nacida en EE.UU., que crece con rapidez y a menudo habla inglés más que español. Este grupo es el que ahora impulsa el crecimiento del grupo con más fuerza que los inmigrantes que hablan español.
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physorg
For US Hispanics, a new media outlet -- in English
ABC News and the Spanish-language media group Univision unveiled plans Monday for a new Web service and cable television channel for US Hispanics, mainly in English.
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AP
ABC, Univision teaming for news network in English
NEW YORK (AP) -- ABC News and Univision are teaming up to start an English-language news network aimed at Latinos....
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ElPais
"La misión contra Bin Laden fue el día más importante de mi mandato"
El presidente analiza los detalles de la operación en una entrevista exclusiva con la cadena NBC
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AllThingsDigital
Facebook's "Life-Saving Tool": Organ Donor Status
Now you can heart, not just "Like", on Facebook: The company has rolled out a feature allowing users to show on their Facebook Timelines whether they're an organ donor. The news was announced during an ABC News splash with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg early this morning, following yesterday's hints that a "life-saving tool" was coming to the social network.
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Foreign Policy
The Things They Carried: The War Reporter - Interview by Benjamin Pauker
ABC News senior foreign affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz reveals what's inside her carry-on bag.
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National Post
Secret Service sex scandal to cost at least three agents their jobs
Two leading congressmen meanwhile revealed in a letter to Secret Service chief Mark Sullivan obtained by ABC News that agents accused of consorting with prostitutes may have been careless with 'sensitive security information'
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dlisted
New Year's Eve Is Canceled FOREVER!
The most overused phrase of 2012 is "the Mayans were right," but really, the Mayans were right, because 2012 is frozen is in time now that Dick Clark is no longer here to count us down into the next year. TMZ says that Dick went up to the great big American Bandstand in the sky this at the age of 82.
Dick underwent some kind of outpatient procedure at L.A.'s St. John...
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Times of India
US Nazi becomes lobbyist for first time
For the first time, a member of the American Nazi Party has become a Washington lobbyist with the purpose of helping pass favorable legislation through the US Congress, ABC News reported.
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Daily Mail
John Stossel reveals he left ABC News because he 'hated it there' (and he had to beg for his job at Fox News)
Longtime 20/20 journalist John Stossel, pictured, left ABC News because he 'hated it,' and had to beg for a job at rival Fox News.
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Nikkei
*North Korea Rocket Flare Following Launch Larger Than Expected; Indicating Failure - ABC News |
American Scientist
Cell Phones and Cancer: Critics Say Kids Risk Brain Tumors
Scientists are calling into
question a study published last year
that failed to find a link between
cell phone use and brain tumors in
children and teens. They say the
study actually shows that cell phone
use more than doubles the risk of
brain tumors in children and
adolescents.from ABC News
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THE AUSTRALIAN
ABC counsels staff over website errors
AN internal investigation haas found the ABC News Online site made "errors of judgment" in relation to coal-seam gas.
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Hoy
Siete muertos en un tiroteo en una universidad cristiana en Oakland
Cinco personas han muerto este lunes durante un tiroteo ocurrido en la Universidad de Oikos, un centro cristiano situado en la localidad estadounidense de Oakland, en California, según ha informado la cadena de televisión ABC News.
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The Guardian
Bill Clinton says laws need 'reappraisal' in wake of Trayvon Martin case
Former US president laments the expansion of America's concealed weapons laws in comments about teenager's deathBill Clinton has stepped into the furore over the shooting of Trayvon Martin by calling for a reappraisal of Florida's controversial "stand your ground" law.The former US president said the death of the unarmed teenager at the hands of a neighbourhood watch leader was an "incredible p...
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Reuters
Shooter of Florida teen appears uninjured in video
SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - The neighborhood watch volunteer who shot dead an unarmed black teenager in Florida appeared uninjured when he was brought into the police station on the night of the shooting, according to a video released by ABC News on Wednesday.
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National Post
Trayvon Martin killer George Zimmerman appears uninjured in police video after shooting
Neighbourhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, who shot dead unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida, appeared uninjured when he was brought into the police station on the night of the shooting, according to a video released by ABC News on Wednesday.
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THE GLOBE AND MAIL
'Each new culture is a puzzle for me to figure out'
Joshua Marston, the 43-year-old American director of , and now the Albanian feature , came by his international résumé honestly, working as a journalist for Life and ABC News during the Gulf War, and teaching English in Prague before returning to school to study (first international relations, and then film). (2004), the story of a pregnant teenaged Colombian girl who becomes a drug mule, earne...
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USA Today
Report: Slain teen was on cellphone
Trayvon Martin, the teenager killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Florida, was on a cellphone at the time, ABC News reports.
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Washington Post
JonBenet Ramsey, Encyclopedia Britannica and Pi Day: Morning roundup
The father of JonBenet Ramsey, a child beauty pageant contestant slain 16 years ago at age 6, told ABC News on Tuesday that he no longer believes it’s a good idea to put your child on public display.
John Ramsey criticized the show “Toddlers and Tiaras,” saying: “Patsy and JonBenet didn't approach it that way. We — they just did it for fun.”
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amNY
JonBenet Ramsey's father calls toddler pageants 'very bizarre'
The father of murdered child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey called the current crop of reality TV pageants "very bizarre" in an interview Tuesday with ABC News.
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BoingBoing
More on the Supreme Court ruling forcing FBI to turn off 3,000 GPS trackers
At ABC News, a thorough "explainer" by Ariane de Vogue on the January Supreme Court ruling that requires the FBI to immediately stop using GPS tracking devices to spy on suspects. Today, FBI Director Bob Mueller said the Bureau will cooperate, but not without complaint: “Trackers enabled us to utilize resources elsewhere, so it is [...]
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New York Times
The Choice Blog: Rick Santorum Calls Obama a "Snob" for Encouraging College for All
On the ABC News Program "This Week," Mr. Santorum said that pressuring everyone to pursue higher education isn't fair because college isn't for everyone.
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Barrons
Apple, Foxconn Respond to Nightline Factory Segment
ABC News today posted on its Web site some statements offered by Apple (AAPL), by its manufacturing partner Foxconn Technology Group (2354TW), and by the Fair Labor Association (FLA) regarding the Nightline segment aired Monday about conditions in Foxconn factories making Apple products. In the statements, Apple implies a worker interviewed at Foxconn working on [...]
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Gizmodo
Inside Foxconn: TV Crew Enters Apple's Factories for the First Time Ever [Video]
ABC News' Nightline program delivered what they claimed would be an unprecedented look inside the Foxconntroversy: their TV crew would have unfettered access to facilities and people. So what did they expose? More »
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The Jerusalem Post
'Iranian terror cell in Bangkok hid bombs in radios'
ABC News: Bangkok bomber was photographed holding portable radios found to contain ball bearings, magnets.
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Los Angeles Times
The Morning Fix: A Super Bowl record!
Univision and ABC News in talks about a new cable news channel, Red Box wants into the streaming business, and the Super Bowl sets a ratings record.
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New York Times
Media Decoder Blog: Univision and Disney In Talks For An English-Language News Channel
The channel would combine resources from ABC News and Univision's news division to take on established players like CNN, MSNBC and Fox News.
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news.com.au
Oh noes! My breakfast television is all the same!
THEY might look the same, but we all have to choose between Sunrise or Today. Otherwise it's ABC News Breakfast...
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Reuters
Obama: Spat with Arizona governor not a big deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A tense airport exchange with Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, in which she wagged her finger in his face, was blown out of proportion, President Barack Obama said in an ABC News interview on Thursday.
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CNN
Newt Gingrich wanted 'open marriage,' ex-wife says
Newt Gingrich offered his second wife a choice of an open marriage or a divorce when he revealed to her he was having an affair with the woman he later made his third wife, Marianne Gingrich said in interviews with ABC News and The Washington Post.
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AP
ABC News to air interview with Gingrich ex-wife
NEW YORK (AP) -- ABC News plans to air an interview with the second wife of Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich on "Nightline" just two days before the GOP's South Carolina primary....
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Les Echos
Le républicain Huntsman va se retirer lundi de la course à la Maison Blanche
[[348104]] MYRTLE BEACH (Etats-Unis) (AFP) : Jon Huntsman a décidé de se retirer de la course à l'investiture républicaine pour l'élection présidentielle aux Etats-Unis, a annoncé dimanche soir à ABC News son porte-parole. Le retrait de M. Huntsman, le plus modéré des candidats républicains, sera...
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AP
ABC News president: We're not going soft
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- ABC News President Ben Sherwood says organizations like his need to broaden the definition of what they do....
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Slashdot
Bob Anderson, the Man Behind Vader's Lightsaber, Dies at 89
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Australia's ABC News: "Bob Anderson, an Olympic swordsman who staged fights for films including the Star Wars and Lord of the Rings trilogy, has died at the age of 89. ... Anderson donned Darth Vader's black helmet and fought light-sabre battles in two of the three original Star Wars films, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, but his...
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sueddeutsche
Präsident Assad über die Gräuel in Syrien: "Was ist denn passiert?"
In einem Interview mit dem US-Sender ABC News hat Syriens Präsident Baschar al-Assad jegliche Verantwortung für die Toten, für Folter und Vergewaltigungen in seinem Land von sich gewiesen. Die meisten Opfer gebe es unter seinen Anhängern und den Sicherheitskräften, behauptet er - und macht sich dann über die Vereinten Nationen lustig.
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The Jerusalem Post
Assad denies responsibility in Syrian crackdown
Syrian president tells ABC news deliberate policy of repression and errors committed by some officials is different, says orders to kill civilians didn't come from Damascus.
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The Jerusalem Post
'Assad: Syria troops' violence not my responsibility'
Syrian president tells ABC news deliberate policy of repression and errors committed by some officials is different.
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Washington Post
Penn State scandal: Sandusky lawyer anticipates more charges; Paterno’s power was questioned
The lawyer for Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State coach who faces 40 charges of child sex abuse, said he anticipates that more charges may be forthcoming.
In an ABC News interview, Joe Amendola said fears that Sandusky’s bail could be revoked and he could be placed in jail.
“My concern is if they bring new charges based upon new people coming forth, that bail's going to be set, and he's go...
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Les Echos
Le secteur financier iranien dans le collimateur de Washington
Le département américain du Trésor s'apprête à décréter ce lundi l'Iran zone de préoccupation prioritaire en ce qui concerne le blanchiment d'argent, ce qui permettrait d'accentuer les pressions financières des Etats-Unis, a-t-on appris de source officielle à Washington. ABC News et le Wall Street...
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DnJournal
Toys.com Sale Continues to Bring Mainstream Media Attention to Domains with ABC News Story
The $5.1 million sale of Toys.com to ToyRUS last Friday continues to draw mainstream media attention to domain names. Yesterday it was The BBC, today it is ABC News. I was interviewed for both stories and have some comments on how the media spotlight is helping raise domain awareness on Main Street.
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Countries |
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| 3 | Norwegian | 0.260 |
| 4 | German | 0.240 |
| 5 | French | 0.060 |
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