At the center of an international sex scandal, the lawyer for the woman who accused International Monetary Fund Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault said she is “traumatized” by the whole incident. “There is no way in which there is any…

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Lawyer: Hotel Maid ‘Traumatized’

The deaths of former government officials in Benghazi, the center of the Libyan resistance, appear to be rooted in vengeance and have raised the specter of a death squad.

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Killings and Rumors Unsettle a Libyan City

Each decade after tabulating the decennial census, the U.S. Census Bureau calculates the exact geographic mean center of the country’s population. No, really. According to government demographers, the center is determined “as the place where an imaginary, flat, weightless and rigid map of the United States would balance perfectly if all 308,745,538 residents counted in the 2010 Census were of identical weight.” Read full article > >

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Officials move physical center of the U.S. population farther west

Bahrain tore down the monument at the center of Pearl Square in a symbolic end to the popular protests put down by the government.

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Bahrain Tears Down Monument as Protesters Seethe

SENDAI, JAPAN – In the center of this city, the economic hub of northern Japan , the traffic lights and vending machines are still working.

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Japan earthquake, tsunami leave scenes of destruction in northeastern city of Sendai

Ms. Russell was the actress at the center of one of the most highly publicized censorship episodes in movie history, the delayed release of the 1940s western “The Outlaw.”

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Jane Russell, Star of Westerns, Dies at 89

First lady Michelle Obama found herself at the center of an unlikely breast-feeding debate this week when three prominent conservative women criticized her for encouraging the creation of a “nanny state.”

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Mother’s milk stirs political debate

First lady Michelle Obama found herself at the center of an unlikely breast-feeding debate this week when three prominent conservative women criticized her for encouraging the creation of a “nanny state.”

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Mother’s milk stirs political debate

First lady Michelle Obama found herself at the center of an unlikely breast-feeding debate this week when three prominent conservative women criticized her for encouraging the creation of a “nanny state.”

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Mother’s milk stirs political debate

The billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch have moved to the center of the Republican establishment, donating to and guiding members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Koch Industries was the largest oil and gas donor to members of the…

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Beware the Power of the Koch Bros.

Audiences will surely find something wonderful in each of the five performances at the center of Jon Robin Baitz’s new play, “Other Desert Cities,” at Lincoln Center.

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Theater Review | ‘Other Desert Cities’: Drowning in Domestic Denial in the Sands of Palm Springs

U.S. District Judge John Roll was killed in the shooting in Tucson, Arizona, Saturday that put Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition and injured 18 in total. Roll, a federal judge in Arizona, was at the center of the contentious…

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Slain Judge was Immigration Lightning Rod

The $85 billion plan and the long commitment to upgrade nuclear weapons is at the center of the standoff.

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Cost and Goals at Center of Arms Treaty Debate

A suburban Washington county official at the center of an FBI investigation into years of kickbacks says he is innocent and that the facts will prove it.

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FBI: Md. official’s wife hid $80K in bra

The man suspected to be at the center of the plot to send bombs from Yemen to the United States is a Saudi national who authorities believe has been living in Yemen.

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One of Saudi Arabia’s most wanted suspect in bomb plot