WASHINGTON, D.C. May 31 (DPI) -- Just days after President Obama announced new restrictions on drone strikes as part of a draw-down on the war on terror, a drone strike killed a high-ranking Taliban c
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SAN FRANCISCO May 31 (DPI) - Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg has spent the last few months promoting her book encouraging women to assert themselves more in the workplace.
But posters identifyin
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA May 23 (DPI) - The Washington Post used the Freedom of Information Act to force a billionaire hedge fund manager and the University of Virginia to disclose his private remarks at a
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NEW YORK, NY, May 20 (DPI) - Tech analysts say amateur pornography - in effect, millions of adult photo blogs -- has driven the modest growth of the social-blogging platform Tumblr, acquired today by
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WASHINGTON, D.C. May 14 (DPI) -- Comment boards are alight this morning with bipartisan outrage over revelations that the Justice Department unilaterally confiscated phone records of The Associated Pr
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WASHINGTON, D.C. May 13 (DPI) -- Last night's segment of "60 Minutes" on the 2012 rescue of an aid worker in Somalia turned out to be another book promotion for CBS Corp. publisher Simon & Schuste
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WASHINGTON, D.C. May 2 (DPI) -- The 747 cargo jet that crashed on takeoff in Afghanistan may have been the target of sabotage, or it fell victim to a stall because of overloading and thin-air conditio
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NEW YORK, N.Y. April 29 (DPI) - NBA veteran Jason Collins announced his gay sexual orientation in a Sports Illustrated online article today, a move treated by some media outlets as akin to Jackie
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NEW YORK, NY April 16 (DPI) - The Boston Marathon bombing was America's first terror incident in the social-media age, as comment boards flooded almost instantaneously with one-line remarks of sadness
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NEW YORK, NY April 10 (DPI) -- The New York Times today posted an 8,000-word magazine-style profile of ex-congressman Anthony Weiner, a fawning promotion of the disgraced liberal Democrat who's lookin
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