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Most popular news on 19 June 2009 |
Jury rules against Minn. woman in download case
AP - A replay of the nation's only file-sharing case to go to trial has ended with the same result — a Minnesota woman was found to have violated music copyrights and must pay huge damages to the recording industry.
Officials: US tracking suspicious ship from NKorea
AP - The U.S. military is tracking a ship from North Korea that may be carrying illicit weapons, the first vessel monitored under tougher new United Nations rules meant to rein in and punish the communist government following a nuclear test, officials said Thursday.
The End Game in Iran: Four Ways the Crisis May Resolve
Time.com - Will Iran's leaders repeat their own revolution or mimic the tragedy of China or the sclerotic compromise of Zimbabwe?
Billionaire Stanford to appear in federal court
AP - Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford, chairman of the troubled Stanford Financial Group, is scheduled to appear in federal court Friday on fraud charges after surrendering to FBI agents in Virginia the day before, officials said.
Ensign helped mistress's husband get 2 jobs
AP - Sen. John Ensign helped his mistress's husband get two jobs during the time the rising Republican senator acknowledges carrying on an extramarital affair, an Ensign spokesman said Thursday.
Olive Garden backtracks on ads
Politico - The Olive Garden restaurant chain is denying that it canceled all of its scheduled ads on CBS late night comic David Letterman’s “Late Show” in response to a crude joke Letterman told about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s daughter and instead contends that its ad schedule concluded.
Senate Dems pare back health bill
AP - Key Senate Democrats, bidding for bipartisan support on health care, pared back subsidies designed to make insurance more affordable on Thursday and floated a compromise that rules out direct government competition against private insurers.
Archuleta's dad enters plea in prostitution case
AP - The father of last year's "American Idol" runner-up David Archuleta (ar-choo-LET'-ah) has pleaded no contest to patronizing a prostitute in a Salt Lake City suburb.
Judge to review Cheney interview in CIA leak case
AP - A federal judge said Thursday that he wants to look at notes from the FBI's interview with former Vice President Dick Cheney during the investigation into who leaked the identity of a CIA operative.
TLC: Jon & Kate announcing a major decision Monday
AP - The TLC network says its biggest stars, Jon and Kate Gosselin, will announce a major decision on their reality show, "Jon & Kate Plus 8."
PETA wishes Obama hadn't swatted that fly
AP - The group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants the flyswatter in chief to try taking a more humane attitude the next time he's bedeviled by a fly in the White House.
Katherine Heigl returning to "Grey's Anatomy"
Reuters - It has been a real-life cliffhanger bigger than the one faced by her character Izzie in the season finale of "Grey's Anatomy": Will co-star Katherine Heigl return to "Grey's" next season?
Thousands mourn Iranians killed in protests
Reuters - Iran's supreme leader will address the nation on Friday for the first time since a disputed election result triggered the biggest protests the Islamic Republic has seen.
Kelly Preston takes first role since son's death
AP - Kelly Preston is returning to work after the death of her teenage son in January.
Hundreds of thousands stage somber rally in Iran
AP - Hundreds of thousands of protesters dressed in black and green flooded the streets of Tehran on Thursday in a somber, candlelit show of defiance and mourning for those killed in clashes after Iran's disputed presidential election. The massive march — the fourth this week — sent a powerful message that opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi has the popular backing to sustain his unprecedented challenge to Iran's ruling clerics.
Carrie Prejean Turns Up Legal Heat on Pageant Officials
E! Online - Carrie Prejean insists she didn't shirk her duties as Miss California?and she wants to make sure the people she might sue know it.
Williams sisters still a tough act to beat
Reuters - Say it quietly but Venus Williams is just one year short of her 30th birthday, a genuine golden oldie in an era where the top women players routinely peak quickly before fading into an early retirement.
Brüno: Gays Ask for Changes
E! Online - No doubt about it?Sacha Baron Cohen uses every negative gay stereotype you could possibly imagine in his portrayal of Brüno, his Austrian fashion journalist alter ego.
Federal gay marriage challenge has Hollywood style
Reuters - The story of two famous U.S. lawyers from opposite ends of the political spectrum banding together to launch a bold and unexpected fight for gay marriage sounds like it could have been written in Hollywood.
Shanna Moakler Moseying Back to Miss Cali?
E! Online - Don't shoot the messenger?or, since there's apparently some confusion on the matter, the dog.
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