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(CNN) — For 34 years, she has obsessed about food, relationships, work, and her mother — but now Cathy the comic-strip character is about to say goodbye. (more)

Newt Gingrich’s ex-wife is speaking out for the first time, telling Esquire that there is “no way” the man she stood by during his tenure as Speaker of the House will be president. (more)

In the summer of 2008, my friend Anne Rice stopped talking to me. She had sent me an early galley of her spiritual memoir “Called out of Darkness,” and I had noticed something in the book that I thought was interesting. In the book, as in many of her writings at the times, Anne expressed sadness at the way the Roman Catholic Church treated homosexuality. In 1998 Anne had gone through a very public conversion to Catholicism, but she remained a political liberal. In her “Called out of Darkness” she wrote this: (more)

Catalonia’s parliament in Barcelona voted to ban bullfighting today in the first such prohibition in mainland Spain. (more)

Safe deposit boxes believed to contain manuscripts and drawings by the late author Franz Kafka are due to be opened at a bank in Zurich. (more)

Wannabe flappers and dapper Dans, rejoice: The fictional world of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s twenties classic, The Great Gatsby, is now a video game. The decidedly non-violent twenties classic is unlikely fodder for a choose-your-own adventure style game, says Josh Harrison at Ology, but “the possibilities are endless” for this “hidden object” game: “Dance the Charleston! Drink bootleg gin! Stare longingly at the greenish light across the water!” (more)

Ernest Hemingway always was a realist. The novelist romanticized the bull run in Spain, but a British man got the worst of the Pamplona event.  (more)

PORTLAND — Police explained Thursday why they reopened a sexual-assault investigation into Al Gore, saying an extra review was needed because detectives looking into the matter last year failed to notify high-ranking officials of their decision to drop the case. (more)

A French prison inmate called the “cannibal of Rouen” by the media and “completely crazy” by his own lawyer has been convicted of killing his cell mate and then dining on the man’s lung. (more)

The station, called Dostoyevskaya, is decorated with brooding grey and black mosaics which depict violent scenes from the nineteenth century writer’s best-known novels. (more)

DENVER (AP) — An American on a solo mission to hunt down Osama bin Laden is headed back to the United States, ten days after authorities found him in the woods of northern Pakistan with a pistol, a sword and night-vision equipment. (more)

They come at first light with shovels and sacks, hunched shadows praying for glimmers across a stingy land. These men with torn clothes and sandaled feet don’t ask for much, just enough gold to head home feeling blessed beneath the blazing sky of northern Sudan. (more)

GLEN ROCK, N.J. — In a class full of aspiring engineers, the big bad wolf had to do more than just huff and puff to blow down the three little pigs’ house. (more)

Immigrant workers reduce job opportunities for native-born workers in the short run, but improve the economy after several years, thus making it easier for everybody to be hired, according to a study released Monday. (more)

Tina Fey can dust off another place on her trophy shelf. The Kennedy Center is announcing Tuesday that the comedian will receive this year’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. (more)

For once, the rumors about Mark Twain are true. (more)

Amy Schmalbach doesn’t answer her door when she’s home alone with her toddler son. But she opened it for a U.S. Census Bureau worker on May 4.
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DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. – A woman was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison Friday for serving her husband, a Jefferson County Sheriff’s deputy, a meal laced with poison. (more)

Beset by questions about Jerusalem’s future in talks with the Palestinians, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reached for the Bible on Wednesday to stake out the Jewish state’s contested claim on the city. (more)

STOCKHOLM – A Swedish artist who angered Muslims by depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a dog was assaulted Tuesday while giving a university lecture about the limits of artistic freedom. (more)