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U.S. Government Wins Access to Twitter Accounts of WikiLeaks Supporters

A federal judge today granted the U.S. government access to the Twitter accounts of three of WikiLeaks’s strongest supporters.  read more »

Michelle Obama shakes it up in India with dance moves, big push for girls' education

NEW DELHI - When President Obama and his wife, Michelle, get into an argument, she makes her husband apologize first, the first lady told a group of low-income Indian schoolgirls, causing them to chee  read more »

India students suspended for rude Facebook messages

A leading school in India has suspended 16 students for posting rude remarks about a woman teacher on the popular social networking site, Facebook.  read more »

Facebook Working Hard To Avoid Google's Fate

Brick-and-motor biggie Target will start selling Facebook Credits gift cards in-stores nationwide September 5, the retail chain announced today.  read more »

Report Says Many Youths Are ‘Too Fat to Fight’

A panel of retired military leaders has joined the fight against childhood obesity, saying that unhealthy school lunches are making America's youth unfit for military service and therefore pose a thre  read more »

Teen Sues Mom for Hacking Facebook Account

An Arkansas boy is suing his mom because she allegedly hacked into his Facebook account and posted slanderous remarks.  read more »

Young job-seekers hiding their Facebook pages

(CNN) -- Justin Gawel says there's nothing too incriminating on his Facebook page.

"There's nothing naked or anything -- at least I don't think so," he said jokingly.  read more »

Injunction by Twitter: Stopping a Web Impostor

British members of Parliament and their prospective challengers are thronging onto social-networking sites with all the enthusiasm and grace of dads getting down on the dance floor.  read more »

Twitter race between Ashton Kutcher and CNN narrows

The online popularity contest between celebrity Ashton Kutcher and CNN narrowed Thursday, with Kutcher's Twitter following growing considerably overnight.  read more »

High school holds 'Pull up your Pants' day

"Pull up your pants." That's what school administrators and teachers are telling the young men of a South Florida high school.  read more »

Transcript of SEEdebate Discussion During Presidential debate 9/26/2008

9/26/08 09:02 PM Newsbyte Here we go!
9/26/08 09:02 PM traip-gagnon how many times will we see candidates tie in foreign policy to the economic crisis :)  read more »

Barack Obama Makes An 'American Promise' During Acceptance Speech:First black major-party candidate gives historical speech to 7

With the burden of history on his shoulders and the expectations of more than 70,000 filling the air, Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama turned a page in American politics Thursday  read more »

School drug tests coming: Finney High School receives federal grant for random screenings of some students.

Finney High School in Detroit received a federal grant Wednesday to start randomly testing some of its students for drug use as early as this fall.  read more »

Stonehenge revelers celebrate summer solstice (From June 22, 2007)

Druids, drummers, pagans and partygoers gathered at Stonehenge today to cheer the dawn of the longest day of the year - the summer solstice.  read more »

YouTube law fight 'threatens net'

A one billion dollar lawsuit against YouTube threatens internet freedom, according to its owner Google.  read more »

Visceral canvasses (Artist in Dubai)

Jeffar Khaldi, at his studio in Al Quoz Industrial Area. Jeffrey E. Biteng / The National  read more »

The Great American Movie Theater

“So – is movie going dead?” asks North Texas theaterman Jeremy Devine, surveying a packed house one recent weekday afternoon at the Ridgmar outpost of his company, Rave Motion Pictures, in west  read more »

44 students disciplined for T-shirts

Like the phrase emblazoned across the front of their controversial T-shirts says, 44 Livonia high-school seniors were "Puschin' It To The Limit."
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Meridian Middle School Considers Tougher Dress Code

By next year, kids attending Meridian Middle School could be wearing what amounts to school uniforms.  read more »

Teens In Taped Beating Could Be Charged As Adults

LAKELAND -- The Polk County Sheriff says he wants everyone connected to a taped beating of a 16-year-old, which showed up on MySpace.com, tried as adults.  read more »

Mambo Pioneer “Cachao” Dies at 89

Israel “Cachao” Lopez, the Cuban bassist and composer who has invented the mambo music style, died Saturday at the age of 89.  read more »

Teen Screen Time Sometimes Hits 40 Hours

Some teens spend as much time using a computer or watching TV and videos as it takes to work a full-time job.

That news comes from a Canadian study of nearly 1,300 teens in Montreal.  read more »

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