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  • NASAs Cassini may reveal how Earth looks like from Saturn

    On July 19, 2013, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be turned to image Saturn and its entire ring system during a total eclipse of the Sun, as it has done twice before during its previous 9 years in orbit. But this time, the images that will be collected have been specifically designed for something very special. They will capture, in natural color, a glimpse of our own planet next to Saturn and ...

  • AP PHOTOS Heats overtime escape to defend title

    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Video shows Justin Bieber running into a photographer with his white Ferrari in Hollywood, but police say there was no crime and the injuries aren't ...

  • Hamid Karzai suspends talks with US over Taliban move

    Taliban in efforts to find a political solution to the war. Karzai says he has suspended negotiations with the US on what troops will remain in the country after 2014. He says he did this "in view of the contradiction between acts and the statements made by the United States of America in regard to the peace process." The Afghan president's statement was released by his office on ...

  • GOP senator IRS to pay $70M in employee bonuses

    By STEPHEN OHLEMACHERAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The Internal Revenue Service is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses despite an Obama administration directive to cancel discretionary bonuses because of automatic spending cuts enacted this year, according to a GOP senator. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa says his office has learned that the IRS is executing an agreement with the ...

  • Social issues still fire up GOP despite 2012 loss

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican lawmakers have a message for those who want the party to soften its emphasis on social conservatism in hopes of reaching a wider national audience: Not so fast. ...

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A Generation (Pokolenie) [DVD]

A Generation (Pokolenie) [DVD]

A Generation (Pokolenie) was Andrzej Wajda's directorial debut, the first of an unintended trilogy of films made in the late 1950s (including 1957's Kanal and 1958's Ashes and Diamonds) about the Polish resistance against the German occupiers during World War II ... ...

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  • Obama relying on untested oversight board on NSA

    The obscure oversight board that President Barack Obama wants to scrutinize the National Security Agency's secret surveillance system is little known for good reason. The U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board has operated fitfully during its eight years of its low-profile existence, stymied by Congressional in-fighting and its work at times censored by government lawyers. The ...

  • Afghan Taliban say they killed 4 U.S. troops

    View Photo Associated Press/Ahmad Jamshid - Top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, Joseph Dunford, talks to media representatives at the ISAF headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, June, 18, 2013. Dunford ...

  • Ohio woman accuses 3 of holding her captive

    authorities she was held captive for more than a year by three people who forced her to do housework, raided her bank account and menaced her with snakes ...

  • Turkeys standing man to join ranks of icons

    The image was stark (AP) -- a silent, solitary figure standing in passive defiance to the Turkish prime minister's demand for protesters to clear Taksim Square in central ...

  • Investors look for answers on economy from Fed

    In this Wednesday, May 22, 2013 photo, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Federal Reserve ends a policy meeting Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Investors have been nervously speculating that the Fed will soon scale back its economic stimulus and send interest rates up and stock prices down. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce ...

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