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The FBI has a new addition to its “Wanted” list: the so-called “Ponytail Bandit,” a 20-something blonde woman with her hair tied back who is suspected of robbing at least three banks in three states. The unidentified woman — who is now on “America’s Most Wanted” — is described as …

Steroids were among the prescription medications found by investigators going through pro-wrestler Chris Benoit‘s house, where he strangled his wife and young son last weekend before hanging himself. Key to their probe is determining whether drugs played a role in the double murder-suicide, and whether so-called “roid rage” was at …

PETERBOROUGH, N.H. – Republican presidential frontrunner Rudy Giuliani took a swing at Sen. Hillary Clinton Sunday, saying talk of her plan to send emissaries to other countries immediately upon her White House election is presumptuous and interferes with current foreign policy. “I think it’s important that we conduct this debate …

Here are some of your GRRRs from Mike’s last column… Griffin N. writes: You think Danny Bonaduce, or anybody else, should allow some guy to jump on top of them, wrap their legs around them and thrust their hips into them in a clearly sexual move?!! Are you insane? Fairplay …

Nothing heals like healing words… unless they’re not entirely healing. I call them condolences with a catch. They are the ones that express sincere regret over what happened at Virginia Tech, but proceed to become a lecture, if not a hypocritical one. Like this cover on The Economist: Pity for …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: No Divorce Cites Koran A female judge in Germany cited the Koran in her refusal to allow a Muslim woman permission to file for an immediate divorce over abuse by her husband, saying that the Koran allows a man to beat his …

Americans hear conflicting messages about how to think and talk about terrorism. As a result, the message of freedom and justice is often muted or muddled. Americans can do better. There are core ideas that should serve as a taproot for a consensus on how to understand and describe our …

First of all, my new book “Kids Are Americans Too” will be number three on The New York Times list next Sunday. And I thank all of you who are supporting this very important book. “Kids Too” bluntly tells teenagers what their rights are and what they cannot do. For …

No question I made too much of the O’Donnell story. If you look at it from a behavioral point of view, I mean, who really cares what this woman thinks? Not many. But the bigger story is the growing anti-American wave that’s being driven by the Internet and aided and …

Michael Jackson | Chris Albrecht | Odds ‘n’ Ends Jacko Burns Final Bridge in Music Biz Bruce Swedien, the man who recorded all of Michael Jackson’s adult hits including “Thriller,” “Bad,” “Dangerous” and “Off the Wall,” is out. Swedien, a lovely, soft-spoken man, said Jackson has cheated him out of …