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  • Busy weekend for Enda Kenny in United States Busy weekend for Enda Kenny in United States

    Taoiseach Enda Kenny has spent the weekend in Boston, Massachusetts furthering the strength of U.S. -Ireland relations. The head of Ireland's government attended a function on Saturday at the JFK Library to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of President Kennedy's 1963 visit to Ireland At the ceremony Kenny addressed an audience of U.S. lawmakers and representatives of the business ...

  • Chinese Taipei win mens doubles TT title

    Chinese Taipei's Chen Chien-An and Chuang Chih-Yuan upset Hao Shuai and Ma Lin from China to win the men's doubles title at the World Table Tennis Championships here. Chen and Chuang fought back from one game down to win three in a row but Ma, former Olympic Champion, and Hao Shuai took the fifth before the Chinese Taipei tandem sealed the victory Sunday by taking the sixth 11-8, reports ...

  • Braintree police seeking man who allegedly kidnapped his two children from foster home

    Braintree police were searching for two children who were allegedly abducted by their father after a struggle with the youths’ foster mother, authorities ...

  • Court orders prison to hand over files in Boston bomb case

    Judge Marianne Bowler presides over the case of Robel Phillipos, the teenager accused of lying to FBI agents in the Boston Marathon bombing investigation, in court in Boston, Massachusetts in this May 6, 2013 court ...

  • Boston bombing victims receive BC degrees

    NEWTON, Mass. (AP) - The bandage around Liza Cherney’s left ankle was the only visible sign of injuries from a bomb at the Boston Marathon that sprayed shrapnel into her leg. Nearby, her friend Brittany Loring shed a crutch and showed no sign of a limp as she walked past applauding classmates at Boston College on ...


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The Scarlet Empress [DVD]

The Scarlet Empress [DVD]

Josef von Sternberg's sixth of eight collaborations with screen siren Marlene Dietrich, The Scarlet Empress, is a dense, visually astounding portrait a woman evolving from an innocent, inexperienced, and idealistic girl to a shrewd, calculating empress who uses all the tools at her disposal, including her immense sexuality, to gain absolute power. ...

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  • Judge lawyers can get Tsarnaev prison records

    Also Monday, the defense and prosecution filed a joint motion to delay a May 30 probable cause hearing in the case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR’ tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) at least until July ...

  • Dempster returns to Chicago as visiting player

    Ryan Dempster picked his son up at school, and then he got to play with him on the field at the ballpark.It was just like the old days. Just at a different ballpark and wearing a different uniform.Dempster was back in Chicago on Monday when ...

  • Vermont is 4th state to legalize assisted suicide

    MONTPELIER, Vt. -; After years of debate, Vermont became the fourth state in the country Monday to allow doctors to prescribe lethal doses of medicine to terminally ill patients seeking to end their ...

  • Lawyers to get Boston bombing suspect prison files

    U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler said prison officials should give attorneys daily activity logs, suicide watch logs, psychology data files, photographs, commissary files and other ...

  • Bail set at $25K for Celtics F Terrence Williams

    KENT, Wash. -; A judge has set bail at $25,000 for Boston Celtics basketball player Terrence Williams after he was arrested and accused of brandishing a gun around the mother of his 10-year-old son during a visitation ...

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