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April 17, 2007 04:01 PM EDT --
Today, fans of fantasy writer JRR Tolkien will have cause to rejoice...or fear.
A new saga, "The Children of Hurin," hits the store shelves. A prequel of sorts to "The Lord of the Rings" . . . more
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April 11, 2007 11:14 AM EDT --
On Point is looking today at the firestorm over Don Imus' comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team.
Are you outraged at his comments? Do you think the hype and frenzy surrounding . . . more
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April 23, 2007 09:32 AM EDT --
In light of last week's decision by the court to uphold a ban on an abortion procedure, On Point is looking today at the new High Court headed by Chief Justice John Roberts. The court is lined up to . . . more
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April 10, 2007 03:20 PM EDT --
States are jamming their primaries forward. Today, On Point looked at the whole-new campaign dynamic and the light-speed presidential election calendar.
On Point spoke to Ron Brownstein, columnist, . . . more
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June 21, 2007 02:11 PM EDT --
Texas Congressman and maverick GOP presidential contender Ron Paul is the debate stage wild card in the Republican push for the presidency. In debate after debate, after McCain and Giuliani and Romney . . . more
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April 13, 2007 09:17 AM EDT --
Imagine a swath of land stretching from Boston to Portland, Maine with homes on both sides of the road in ruins.
In Louisiana people don't have to imagine. That's the destruction they still see . . . more
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May 29, 2007 10:44 AM EDT --
In the heart of Baghdad's Green Zone, US and Iranian diplomats posed for the cameras yesterday. It was the biggest break in nearly three decades in the deep freeze between Washington and Tehran. But . . . more
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April 12, 2007 10:00 AM EDT --
On Point is looking today at the campaign of John McCain and how it's unfolding with McCain's decreasing popularity due to his staunch support of the war in Iraq. The guests on the show were Allen . . . more
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April 19, 2007 12:41 PM EDT --
Virginia Tech had been working on a system to get emergency alerts to students by cell phone text messages. But the University of Washington has a safety team in place charged with herding people into . . . more
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April 23, 2007 09:36 AM EDT --
In the wake of the Virginia Tech tragedy last week, On Point is taking a closer look today at how schools should balance privacy, public safety, and the rights of students and parents.
Here . . . more
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April 19, 2007 12:44 PM EDT --
A new ABC News Washington Post poll shows 51 percent of Americans thought that Don Imus should have lost his job over his racially insensitive remarks.
But there is a racial divide within that divide. . . . more
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April 24, 2007 08:41 AM EDT --
President Bush has promised to tighten economic sanctions and impose new ones on Sudan if that nation's president does not move quickly to stop the bloodshed in Darfur. Bush says Sudan must allow deployment . . . more
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June 07, 2007 09:51 AM EDT --
In the new fireworks between the US and Russia, the rhetoric is straight out of the Cold War. The US wants to put a missile defense system on Russia's doorstep. Moscow is howling.
Vladimir Putin is . . . more
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June 14, 2007 11:00 AM EDT --
The bombing and shooting and dying isn't over. And political leaders are still talking about the necessity of success. But in high-level strategic circles, there is plenty of talk that America has . . . more
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June 15, 2007 10:04 AM EDT --
There were shocking scenes this week, in a world that is hard to shock. Palestinians were tearing Gaza from the West Bank in an overnight civil war between Hamas and Fatah, as the US looks on in dismay. . . . more
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June 18, 2007 10:02 AM EDT --
"Nobody saw it coming," said Condoleeza Rice last week, after Hamas militiamen stormed through the Gaza Strip, threw out US-backed Fatah security, and ripped the map of the Palestinian world . . . more
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May 02, 2007 11:53 AM EDT --
Photographer Mark Edward Harris has made two visits to North Korea and has been to the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. His stunning photographs from the Hermit Kingdom are featured in . . . more
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April 30, 2008 10:45 AM EDT --
Australian press baron Rupert Murdoch has been a busy man on the American media landscape, launching Fox News and the Weekly Standard, and scooping up the New York Post, the Wall Street Journal, TV stations, . . . more
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July 23, 2007 12:24 PM EDT --
The network evening news broadcast is about half a century old. And going back at least to the early days of cable news in the 1980s, media watchers have said those stately old news anchors and their . . . more
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April 05, 2007 12:08 PM EDT --
On Point host Tom Ashbrook says China buys Sudan's oil. That money props up the government that controls Darfur. He says activists want to shame China into reining in Sudan. Their leverage: the . . . more
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