Humberto Millan Salazar, Mexican Journalist, Found Dead After Kidnapping

CULIACAN, Mexico — Mexican authorities say the body of an online newspaper journalist has been found a day after he was kidnapped.Sinaloa state assistant prosecutor Martin Robles says the body of 53-year-old Humberto Millan Salazar was found in a farm building outside the city of Culiacan with a gunshot wound in the face.Culiacan is the capital of the northwestern state of Sinaloa, where some of Mexico's most powerful drug gangs operate.Millan Salazar was the director of the online newspaper A-Discusion and also worked in radio. Robles says he was snatched from his vehicle by at least four men in Culiacan early Wednesday.Mexico's National Human...

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David Letterman Wishes Regis Philbin A Happy Birthday (VIDEO)

It was Regis Philbin's birthday yesterday, and David Letterman celebrated the happy occasion by doing an entirely Regis-themed Top 10 List for him. Dave and Reege are, of course, longtime friends (one might even call them soulmates) and Regis has been a frequent guest on the "Late Show" for decades.The list included lots of old-age jokes, but ended on a rather pointedly topical note. Can you guess what #1 was?WATCH...

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BBC journalist killed during Taliban attack 'may have been shot by US forces'

The investigation says that it is clear that Khpulwak died from gunshot wounds, but that "who pulled the trigger is less clear". Photograph: Simon Lim/AFP/Getty ImagesA BBC journalist who died during a Taliban suicide attack may have been shot dead by US special forces, an independent investigation has found.Ahmed Omed Khpulwak was one of more than 20 people killed in attacks on a TV station in Uruzgan province, in the south of Afghanistan, on 28 July.The Taliban was initially blamed for the 25-year-old's death, but aninvestigation by the Kabul-based Afghanistan Analysts' Network (AAN) said Khpulwak may...

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Obama's 2009 stimulus is still boosting jobs

The $825 billion economic stimulus law signed by President Obama in February 2009 is having a positive impact on the economy about 30 months later, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.In its latest quarterly report, the agency said the law's combination of aid to states and localities, public works projects, tax cuts and other spending increased the number of people with jobs by 1 million to 2.9 million from April to June.It said the law lowered the unemployment rate for that quarter by 0.5 to 1.6 percentage points -- meaning the rate could have been above 10% without the law's stimulative provisions. It said the law...

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Blast at U.N. offices in Nigeria kills at least 18

Update at 7:18 a.m. ET: CNN quotes journalist Alkasim Abdulkadir as saying it appears that a car bomb went off in front of the building causing a wall to cave in.Original post: An apparent bomb attack has leveled one wing of a U.N. building in Nigeria's capital and left several people dead, according to U.N. officials, the Associated Press reports.The AP quotes Michael Ofilaje, a UNICEF worker at the building in Abuja, as saying he saw "scattered bodies" and that "many people are dead."The BBC's Nigeria correspondent reports that emergency services are removing bodies from the building while a number of wounded are being...

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Study: Humans inherited some immune genes in dalliances with Neanderthals

Before driving them to extinction, early modern humans didn't minddallying with the Neanderthal tribes and in the process passed on many of their genes that now mark our greatly improved immune systems, the San Francisco Chroniclereports. This Ice Age interbreeding took place in a part of the world now known as Europe, according to a study published Thursday in the journal ScienceExpress. In the report, Peter Parham, a Stanford microbiologist and immunologist, says he and 22 colleagues from five nations traced the genetic history of varied peoples who moved into Europe and the Middle East from Africa. The German anthropologist...

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Obama's vacation: Lazy days, long dinners

President Obama must finally be relaxed. In between Libya's revolution, the financial markets' gyrations, the East Coast's biggest earthquake in a century and the impending wrath of Hurricane Irene, Obama finally had a full day to chill Thursday. Evidence: a day at the beach with his family that stretched for nearly five hours, and an evening at a classic Martha's Vineyard restaurant that stretched for another three. Joining the president and first lady Michelle Obama for dinner were Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and his wife, Diane; Democratic power broker Vernon Jordan and his wife, Ann; and White House counselor Valerie Jarrett...

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