Odd Stuff & News

New twists in the Miranda rights process


You have the right to remain silent, but only if you tell the police that you’re remaining silent. You have a right to a lawyer […]


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Trader Joe’s co-owner’s death, secretive life


Theo Albrecht, secretive co-owner of Trader Joe’s, dies at 88 Theo Albrecht, the secretive co-founder of Germany’s worldwide discount supermarket chain Aldi, a co-owner of […]


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Zsa Zsa Gabor hospitalized


Zsa Zsa Gabor’s publicist says the 93-year-old actress has been rushed to a hospital after falling out of bed and breaking several bones. John Blanchette […]


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Children’s Rights in the War Theater


Who Guards the Guards? ‘He never slept in a bed of myths, He didn’t live his childhood.’ ‘Song’, Adonis (Ali Ahmad Said) Victims of a […]


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President Paying Dead People


Here’s an idea, Uncle Sam: Stop writing checks to dead people. The government sent benefit checks to 20,000 departed Americans over three years, totaling more […]


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Attorney says Gary Coleman, wife divorced in 2008


Former child TV actor Gary Coleman and his wife were divorced in 2008, an attorney for the late “Diff’rent Strokes” star said Wednesday, the same […]


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Growing Number of Aircraft Near-Collisions


The growing number of aircraft near-misses in US skies is making civilian aviation authorities increasingly concerned and has prompted them to reexamine air traffic control […]


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Walgreen to hold off selling genetic test kits


The largest U.S. drugstore chain, Walgreen Co., said Wednesday it will hold off selling what was poised to be the first over-the-counter genetic test, after […]


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`Idol Gives Back’ promises Bill Gates surprise


Simon Fuller, the entertainment magnate behind “American Idol” and its charity event airing Wednesday, is trumpeting a starry lineup that includes Elton John, Alicia Keys […]


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