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Authorities diverted today a Bogota, Colombia-bound Continental Airlines flight to Florida because of a “potential person of interest.”
The Continental Airlines Flight 881, which departed from New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport, landed at Florida’s Jacksonville International Airport where the FBI cleared him after they had found that he was not the person [...]

by Charley Keyes, CNN
The United States will work with the Haitian government and with international and private aid groups to protect Haitian children who might be at risk because they were orphaned or separated from their parents by the earthquake, the State Department said Thursday.

By Cristy Lenz, CNN
(CNN) — Noted author and social activist Howard Zinn died of a heart attack Wednesday while traveling, his daughter, Myla Kabat-Zinn, said.
Zinn, author of “A People’s History of the United States,” was 89. Kabat-Zinn said her father, who lived in Auburndale, Massachusetts,” died while traveling in Santa Monica, California.

By Carla Rivera
California State University is embarking on an ambitious initiative to raise its graduation rates and help more low-income and minority students earn degrees, even as it faces perhaps the grimmest budget outlook in its history.
The university is setting a goal of boosting its six-year graduation rate by 8% by 2016, bringing it to [...]

I have been keeping my eye on this guy since he started coming out on the news two years ago. For those who do not know who Joe Arpaio is, he is a Maricopa County Sheriff who is against Immigration. His office faces racial profiling allegations over crime and immigration sweeps in [...]