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Oprah Winfrey's Big Family Secret: Twitter Speculates
By David Knowles - AOL NewsThis time, it's personal. Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey teased viewers this week that she's going to hit them with a major surprise during Monday's episode. No, that doesn't mean that EVERYONE GETS A NEW CAR! Instead, Winfrey promised her audience that the announcement has to do with a secret involving her own family, possibly a reunion of some sort. "I thought I'd seen it all. But this, my friends, is the miracle of all miracles," Winfrey said in a promotional bit for the program. Could it be that Winfrey will announce that Michelle Obama is her long-lost sister? After all, the first lady ...
WikiLeaks: We've Got Secret Cables on Murdoch, News Corp.
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON -- Not content with riling the U.S. government and military, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange warns that he has a stash of potentially damaging secret documents on the world's most powerful media mogul: Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch. In an interview in this week's issue of Britain's left-leaning New Statesman magazine -- carried out by veteran war journalist and outspoken Assange supporter, John Pilger -- the anti-secrecy campaigner said he had "504 U.S. embassy cables on one broadcasting organization" and "cables on Murdoch and News Corp.," his multinational media company. Jim ...
Secret Scientists Claim to Create Rain in Arab Desert
By Matthew Hall - AOL NewsA secret scientific program to control the weather has seen artificially created storms rain down on the Middle Eastern desert. Recent reports say Swiss scientists working for the ruler of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi last year successfully created 52 rainstorms in a usually arid region of the United Arab Emirates, using secret technology. Most of the storms were created in Al Ain, near Abu Dhabi, during July and August -- the height of summer when conditions are usually parched. Arnd Hemmersbach, Getty Images Two teams navigate through the Rub Al Kali Desert during the Abu Dhabi ...
Rumsfeld Memoir Highlights VIP Access to Government Files
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsTwo days after WikiLeaks began publishing classified diplomatic cables, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld stepped forward to condemn the massive leak, declaring on his Twitter feed, "I was a co-sponsor of [the Freedom of Information Act] in 1966. There is an appropriate, lawful process for declassifying material. It's not #Wikileaks." To emphasize that "lawful process," Rumsfeld then added that his soon-to-be released book, "Known and Unknown," would be accompanied by hundreds of supporting documents -- some once secret -- and that all of them would be cleared by the U.S. ...
Navy Intelligence Specialist Jailed in FBI Sting
By Deborah Hastings - AOL News
(Dec. 7) -- A Navy petty officer is behind bars after selling secret documents to an undercover agent in an FBI sting, federal authorities say. US Navy / AP Navy Petty Officer Bryan Minkyu Martin is being held at Fort Bragg, N.C. Bryan Minkyu Martin, a Navy Reserve intelligence specialist with the Joint Special Operations Command, was arrested last week by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and is being held at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, The Washington Post reported today. Martin, 22, met three times with an FBI agent posing as an officer of an unnamed foreign country, CNN ...
While 'Opt-Out Day' Fizzles, Detained Passenger Mystery Goes Unnoticed
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Nov. 24) -- Forget "National Opt-Out Day." It turns out that while those touchy pat-downs and scandalous body scans continued to make headlines Tuesday, the Transportation Security Administration was involved in hotter pursuits. After unknown authorities removed two mystery men from a US Airways flight in Denver on Tuesday, the agency confirmed to AOL News Surge Desk that the TSA was tipped off about a passenger "acting suspiciously" and met the plane on the ground in Denver along with "law enforcement." Surge Desk reported Tuesday that two passengers had been removed by agents who had ...
Is This a Photo of a Secret Iranian Nuclear Bomb Facility?
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Sept. 10) -- The Iranian government consistently defends its nuclear program as peaceful, denying any intelligence reports to the contrary -- particularly those that suggest the country has a secret weapons program in the works. But now a coalition of Iranian opposition groups and a U.S. advocacy organization claim to have obtained irrefutable evidence, in the form of satellite imagery, of what they say is a covert nuclear weapons site located underground some 75 miles northwest of Tehran, the country's capital. Here's the photo they have been presenting to promote their ...
WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Speaks 'Treason' — Fluently
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailySome 70 years ago, actor Errol Flynn as Robin Hood responded to the accusation "You speak treason!" with the now-classic retort, "Fluently." We all loved that kind of treason, and maybe you'll learn to love this kind too. You gotta admit Mr. Assange is hot. (Yes, I'm shallow. All you deep people out there, move along.) Julian Assange, whose website WikiLeaks just released 92,000 classified documents on the war in Afghanistan, hails from Errol Flynn's country of Australia. As does the charismatic Hugh Jackman. Jackman alone makes up for Australia giving us pop crooner Peter Allen (whom ...
WikiLeaks: Just Put Your Lips Together and Whistleblow
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Pope Says Church Must Accept Blame, 'Purification' in Sex Scandal
By David Gibson - Politics DailyPope Benedict XVI on Tuesday said the clergy sexual abuse crisis rocking Catholicism stems from "the sin that exists inside the church" -- his most direct statements on the scandal since new revelations of abuse cases surfaced in recent months, raising questions about his own role in the crisis. The pontiff's comments, in remarks to reporters on the papal plane bound for Portugal where Benedict is to spend four days, also appear to reflect a significant change of course by the Vatican. ...
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