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DC Sniper Makes Shocking New Claims ... to William Shatner

10 minutes ago |AOL News

(July 30) -- Convicted D.C. sniper Lee Boyd Malvo made shocking new claims about his crime spree -- during an interview with actor William Shatner. In the interview that aired on A&E on Thursday ...

Obama Considering Immigration Moves to Bypass Congress?

48 minutes ago |Politics Daily

(July 30) -- The U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services is considering ways to achieve aspects of the White House plan for immigration reform -- including giving some illegals permanent-resident statu ...

Los Angeles Wildfire Threatens 1,500 Homes

1 hour 2 minutes ago |AOL News

Mike Meadows, AP

(July 30) -- Flames from an aggressive wildfire are threatening more than 1,500 homes in northern Los Angeles County today. The fast-moving blaze has already burned through seven miles of brush and s ...

WikiLeaks' Assange Strikes Back at Pentagon

1 hour 29 minutes ago |AOL News

Peter Macdiarmid, Getty Images

(July 30) -- A day after a senior Pentagon official asserted that WikiLeaks may have blood on its hands for posting classified documents on the war in Afghanistan, the site's founder blasted the Pent ...

Natural Gas Explosion Kills Worker in Los Angeles

2 hours 3 minutes ago |AP

LOS ANGELES (July 30) -- An apparent natural gas explosion at a welding shop Friday collapsed part of the building and hurled two workers into the street, killing one and leaving the other in critic ...

Billionaire Brothers Charged: 6 Standout Facts About Samuel and Charles Wyly

2 hours 5 minutes ago |AOL News Surge Desk

(July 30) -- A six-year investigation culminated on Thursday when the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Dallas billionaire brothers Samuel and Charles Wyly with securities fraud violations t ...

Economic Growth Drops in Second Quarter

2 hours 20 minutes ago |DailyFinance

Eric Risberg, AP

(July 30) -- As expected, the U.S. economy slowed in the second quarter to a 2.4% growth rate, the U.S. Commerce Department announced Friday, but that disappointing statistic was offset somewhat by t ...

Vampire Novelist Anne Rice Quits Christianity, Not Christ

5 hours 2 minutes ago |Politics Daily

Paul Hawthorne, Getty Images

(July 30) -- Bestselling novelist Anne Rice, whose 1976 novel "Interview with the Vampire" was way ahead of the current vampire craze, in the last decade reinvented herself as a Christian writer who ...

Rangel Charged With 13 Violations of House Rules

5 hours 46 minutes ago |Politics Daily

Harry Hamburg, AP

(July 30) -- The House Ethics Committee formally charged Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) on Thursday with 13 counts of violating the rules of the House of Representatives. The charges were announced at ...

Disney Sells Film Company Miramax for $660 Million

6 hours 25 minutes ago |DailyFinance

David Roark, Disney / AP

(July 30) -- The Walt Disney Co. has reached an agreement to sell storied arthouse-film company Miramax -- and its valuable library of more than 600 movies -- to a consortium of private investors for ...

New BP Boss Hopes to Ease Anxiety Over Recovery

6 hours 36 minutes ago |AOL News

Cheryl Gerber, AP

(July 30) -- BP's incoming CEO is trying to calm fears in the Gulf Coast over the Deepwater Horizon disaster by laying out his company's plans for the area's long-term recovery -- even before he tech ...

BP Gas Stations Debate Changing Their Name

6 hours 53 minutes ago |AP

Steven Senne, AP

NEW ORLEANS (July 30) -- BP gas station owners across the country are divided over whether the oil giant stained by its handling of the Gulf spill should rebrand U.S. outlets as Amoco or another name ...