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Steve Pendlebury

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Steve covers general news and writes The Point, a daily column about hot topics on the Web. He has been at AOL since 2000 and previously worked for Reuters and the Associated Press.

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Plane Terror Suspect Wasn't Seen as Threat

posted: 19 hours 57 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (Dec. 27) - The alleged Christmas Day terrorist had been in one of the U.S. government's many terror databases since November, which is when his father brought him to the attention of emba ...

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Photos of the Year

posted: 1 day 11 hours ago

The news comes to us every day, all day long, in a torrent of words. Countless words on computer screens. More words on printed pages. Words heard on radio and TV. So many words that they all start t ...

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Medal of Honor Recipient Robert Howard Dies

posted: 4 days 4 hours ago

(Dec. 23) -- Retired Army Col. Robert L. Howard, one of America's most decorated soldiers, died in Waco, Texas, Wednesday. The Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, who was 70, had pancreatic cance ...

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Was This the Worst Decade Ever?

posted: 6 days 18 hours ago

(Dec. 21) -- Maybe there was something to that whole Y2K panic after all. There were warnings our wired world would crash the moment we flipped from 1999 to 2000. "It didn't happen at the stroke of m ...

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The 'War on Christmas' Comes Under Attack

posted: 9 days 17 hours ago

(Dec. 18) -- Only 7 culture-war-fighting days left until Dec. 25. The annual conflict over the season of peace is raging again -- but lately, with an added twist. As predictably as Santa appearing at ...

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Should Democrats Be Grateful to Joe Lieberman?

posted: 10 days 17 hours ago

(Dec. 17) -- Sen. Joe Lieberman might be the most hated man in Washington right now, but he's not without his defenders. Some even say he's done President Obama a favor by insisting that the Senate h ...

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Critics Call 'Gitmo North' Dangerous

posted: 11 days 17 hours ago

(Dec. 16) -- The men locked up at Guantanamo Bay don't have superpowers. They can't melt prison bars or neutralize guards with Jedi mind tricks. But opponents of the White House's decision to move ab ...

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Without a Public Option, Is It Really Reform?

posted: 12 days 12 hours ago

(Dec. 15) -- The holiday season rush is on in Washington. President Barack Obama is pushing the Senate to pass a health care reform bill by Christmas. Now it looks like the legislation won't include ...

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Berlusconi Attack Shows Anger, Security Lapse

posted: 13 days 17 hours ago

(Dec. 14) -- A nation's colorful, controversial leader is bloodied by an attacker while working a crowd at a campaign rally. He's hospitalized with a broken nose, two broken teeth and a split lip. Th ...

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A Perfect Storm: When Politics and Weather Collide

posted: 16 days 8 hours ago

(Dec. 11) -- It's as predictable as the lines of people stocking up on milk, bread and toilet paper when there's snow in the forecast. Whenever we run a weather story, an argument about global warmin ...

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