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‘Cult-Like’ Group Found Alive, No Plans of Group Suicide

On the Saturday the husbands of two women reported them missing, saying they were part of a “cult-like group” and had been “brainwashed” by its leader.

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The Internet Wins: Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert Announce D.C. Rallies

When the web calls, Stewart and Colbert answer.

Shirley Sherrod

Update: Shirley Sherrod Declines Agriculture Dept. Job Offer

After a media firestorm about out-of-context comments she made in an address to the NAACP forced her to resign, Shirley Sherrod has turned down a new job offer at the Department of Agriculture.

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Calif. Gay Marriage On Hold During Appeal Process

The gay-marriage ban put in place by Proposition 8 in California will remain as Judge Walker Vaughn’s decision to overturn it is appealed.

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Oil Spill: BP Reports Some Success with Siphon

After nearly a month of hand-wringing, finger-pointing, and head-scratching over the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, British Petroleum is finally reporting something worth some back-slapping.

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Greyson Michael Chance Makes It From YouTube to Ellen

Congrats, Greyson Michael Carter. Ellen Degeneres has made you this week’s breakout Internet star.

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Oil Spill: Hearings Find a List of Failures

Emerging evidence in Capitol Hill hearings on the Gulf of Mexico oil rig disaster is increasingly showing that a lack of regulation is largely behind the blowout

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The Sole Survivor of the Libyan Plane Crash

A frame grab from Libyan TV shows a Dutch boy, the lone survivor of the Afriqiyah airline crash at Tripoli airport, being treated in a hospital in Tripoli on Monday. The crash killed 103 people. (More via CNN)