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A Saudi oil firm paid former British prime minister Tony Blair a fee of about £41,000 a month and a 2 percent slice of each contract he helped arrange. A document obtained by the Sunday Times indicates that Blair struck the secret deal with PetroSaudi, a company jointly founded by Prince...

An Ontario Liberal government bill designed to reduce costs for the auto insurance industry entered public hearings on Wednesday. Supporting the bill were groups such as the Insurance Bureau of Canada, the main lobby group for the auto insurance industry, as well as insurer heavy weights such as...

So how screwed up are the people who attend his church.....? www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC_BU0-rDSg

Costco is among the companies that will choose to remain closed on Thanksgiving Day, a spokesperson confirmed to ThinkProgress. None of the nearly 127,000 people who work for the company will have to come in on the holiday. In explaining why it decided to stay closed, the...

A campaign finance director for a pro-solar energy candidate running for Louisiana’s utility regulatory board had his home and cars blown up Thursday. No one was injured in the explosions, and authorities have yet to established a direct link between the apparent attacks and the campaign’s...

Once upon a time, hedge fund manager Eddie Lampert was living a Wall Street fairy tale. His fairy godmother was Ayn Rand, the dashing diva of free-market ideology whose quirky economic notions would transform him into a glamorous business hero. For a while, it seemed to work like a charm...

Camden County man died Monday morning after being struck by a one-pound tape measure that fell 50 stories from a high-rise under construction in Jersey City, N.J., authorities said. Gary Anderson, 58, of Somerdale, was delivering drywall to the downtown construction site about 8:40 a.m. when...

Why are people still using dogs rather than some kind of fancy IED detection technology? I think the answer simply is that for bomb detection, dogs work better, and their track record is stronger. In 2010 Lt. Gen. [Michael] Oates gave a report on how many billions of dollars had been spent on...

Two siblings are speaking out for the first time about how Halifax police "invaded" one of their homes in the middle of the night, then assaulted him as he tried to protect his sister from getting seriously hurt. "I was fearful for her life," said Bishop, a GM salesman. "I was watching them...

State laws and court rulings have combined to erect roadblocks at the doors of Wisconsin courthouses, placing strict limits on who can sue for medical malpractice, how much money they can collect and where the money will come from. A Milwaukee woman who lost all four of her limbs as a...

Seven people accused of witchcraft have been burned alive in Tanzania, police said Friday, adding they have arrested 23 people in connection with the crimes. "They were attacked and burnt to death by a mob of villagers who accused them of engaging in witchcraft," the police chief for the...

It’s clear Ontarians don’t want, by a very wide margin, their government to divest an asset they see as a money maker,” said Forum president Lorne Bozinoff. Three major players are officially in the high-stakes game to win Ontario’s prized $3.3-billion-a-year lottery business, the Star...

Ottawa mayoral candidate Robert White has left the decision up to the voters: “If I am not elected I will move away from this backwater of a city.” White’s unusual campaign promise comes at the end of his response to a Citizen questionnaire sent to all candidates for mayor and council. The...

Kevani Kanda was just six years old when her family accused her of being a witch. She was being molested by a relative and the trauma made her wet the bed and sleepwalk. But instead of trying to find out what was wrong, Kanda's family were convinced she was possessed by an evil spirit. For...

Calgary removes $559,000 sculpture after realizing it’s basically a giant sun laser that burns through clothing After a sun-singed jacket, some software glitches and more than a year with blue construction fence around a beautification project, city officials have removed a $559,000 art...

A violent drug dealer who hid from police in the basement of his family’s Onoway house for 17 years was finally sent to prison Friday.Since 1995, Benjamin Louis Young had been wanted on a Canada-wide warrant after he abducted and beat a man he believed stole two pounds of marijuana from him...

After spending nearly half a billion dollars on 20 planes to outfit the Afghan Air Force, the Defense Department turned around and scrapped 16 of the aircraft for 6 cents on the pound—just $32,000, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction has learned. SIGAR determined that...

A bank in Florida refused to cash a check for an armless man because he could not provide a thumbprint. "They looked at my prosthetic hands and the teller said, 'Well, obviously you can't give us a thumbprint'," Steve Valdez told CNN on Wednesday. But he said the Bank of America Corp branch in...

Eleven children die in Robert Reid Hospital over the weekend SANTO DOMINGO. Eleven children with different pathologies died over the weekend at the Robert Reid Cabral Children's Hospital, where the central oxygen system suffered a breakdown and the 2 elevators were out of service, which...

On PBS last night -Oct 08- they had a well done show on this ZMapp and how the Canadian guy came up with it and why it works by using the EBOLA! virus to fight EBOLA!. This is the drug they gave to the 2 Americans brought back with EBOLA! and are supposedly cured............. Video...