The canvassing of nearly 100 homes and workplaces of donors that were listed on John C. Liu’s campaign finance reports has raised questions about the source and legitimacy of some donations.

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Leeks and potatoes may have been the source of an E. coli outbreak in the UK earlier this year, according to the Health Protection Agency (HPA).

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Leek soil linked to E. coli cases

Germany may be the only European nation that is large enough and rich enough to cover the debts of its struggling neighbors, but its citizens are reluctant to be the source of the bailout.

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News Analysis: Germany Is Flying Above the Economic Storm in Europe

Police in India ask two members of a trust linked to late guru Sri Sathya Sai Baba to explain the source of a large amount of cash.

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Michele Bachmann is expected to formally roll out her campaign for the Republican presidential nomination Monday in Iowa, where she will try to capi­tal­ize on the momentum she generated with her strong showing in last week’s GOP debate. The kickoff will take place in or near Waterloo, the town where the Minnesota congresswoman was born, an Iowa source familiar with the event said Tuesday. She is expected to get a warm welcome because of her local ties, the source said, and because she is already popular among the social conservatives who make up much of the Republican base in that state. Read full article > >

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Michele Bachmann, officially running for president

Washington Nationals Manager Jim Riggleman had laid out countless scenarios for lineups since before spring training. Recently, when the Nationals’ offense slipped to another level of impotence, he took two of his ideas and blended them into one. The moves — bumping the pitcher to eighth in the lineup and placing Jayson Werth in the leadoff spot — were meant to provide a last-ditch shove to the offense. Whether or not the shuffle has been the source of the team’s recent surge, the Nationals have been jolted. In Wednesday’s 10-0 dismantling of the Cardinals at Nationals Park, Washington thoroughly exorcised two recent demons: an inconsistent offense and a lack of run support for starter Livan Hernandez . Read full article > >

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Nationals vs. Cardinals: Livan Hernandez pitches three-hit shutout as Washington rolls

New data released in Germany strongly suggests that locally produced bean sprouts were the source of the deadly E. coli outbreak.

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Bean sprouts ‘source of E. coli’

The first 23 samples of bean sprouts from a German farm suspected of being the source of an E. coli outbreak test negative but further tests are pending.

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First farm E. coli tests negative

Germans are warned not to eat cucumbers until tests find the source of a E.coli outbreak that has killed up to 13 people and spread across Europe.

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Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will undergo skull surgery Wednesday, a source said Tuesday. While the surgery details have not officially been released, the source said Giffords will have part of her skull replaced. It was removed after she was shot in…

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Giffords to Undergo Brain Surgery

Pakistan, perhaps the world’s greatest victim of terrorism, joins the other targets of al-Qaeda — the people of the United States, Britain, Spain, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Turkey, Yemen, Kenya, Tanzania, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Algeria — in our satisfaction that the source of the greatest evil of the new millennium has been silenced, and his victims given justice. He was not anywhere we had anticipated he would be, but now he is gone.

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Pakistan did its part

An investigation is under way in Japan to establish the source of the radiation leak at the quake-hit nuclear plant, which left two workers in hospital.

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Japan inquiry into nuclear leak

It’s been a wild couple of days here at the SXSW Film Festival, with films screening around the clock in between tons of panels, really cool parties (like the one Fandango hosted last night alongside the Alamo Drafthouse) and surprise events, like when Pee-Wee Herman popped up with an ice cream truck and began handing out free ice cream to everyone waiting on line for The Innkeepers (which we heard very good things about). The two films that have stood out to me so far were Source Code, the opening night movie directed by Duncan Jones – a tight little sci-fi thriller that my buddy described as “Inception meets Groundhog Day meets D

Perhaps Ricky Gervais will be available? Anne Hathaway and James Franco won’t be back to host the Oscars next year-in fact, they “hate each other” a source tells Us Weekly. Another source says, “She had to provide all the energy–he was just phoning it…

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Hathaway, Franco ‘Hate Each Other’

The former British prime minister Tony Blair appeared before an inquiry into the Iraq war, and invoked the attacks of Sept. 11 as the source of his subsequent policies towards Iraq.

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Blair Testifies Before British Inquiry Into Iraq War