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• American folk music legend Odetta dies at 77
Odetta called on her fellow blacks to "take pride in the history of the American Negro" and was active in the civil rights movement. When she sang at the March on Washington in August 1963, "Odetta's great, full-throated voice carried almost to ...
• Obama faces delicate task with CIA
... must grapple with is the future of C.I.A. detention: will the agency continue to hold prisoners secretly, question them using more aggressive methods than allowed for military interrogators, and transfer terrorism suspects to countries with a history ...
• Rome’ might not be history, series creator says
LOS ANGELES - The creator of CBS’ red-hot police procedural “The Mentalist” has unfinished business in Italy. Bruno Heller says he wants to produce a theatrical wrap-up to his critically beloved and prematurely canceled HBO drama “Rome ...
• History of terror attacks
The use of heavily armed "fedayeen" or suicide attackers bears the hallmarks of Pakistan-based militant groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba or Jaish-e-Mohammed, blamed for a 2001 attack on India's parliament. Both groups made their name fighting Indian rule ...
• GM, Chrysler sales fall more than 40 percent
Toward the end of the month, Ford also announced offers of employee pricing, zero-percent financing and cash incentives on a variety of its vehicles in a move to offset one of the worst sales declines in the industry’s history. Automakers’ sales ...