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There’s news bits floating around the internet that suggest Eminem is suing Universal over royalties to the digital downloads of his music. Not so, says his representatives, stating that he is not party to any lawsuit involving Universal.Em was reportedly suing head honchos at Universal via his production company in 2007, challenging how much [...]

Zenit.org ).- The U.S. bishops' conference is offering resources on their Web site to help people live the Lenten season that begins today.The site focuses on themes from the United States Catholic Ca...

The grandmother of a 16-year-old Arizona girl accused of prostitution -- and recruiting and pimping other teen girls -- said Wednesday she hopes to fight the charges in court. 'I really want to take it to trial,' Linda Tye, grandmother of Tatiana Tye told CNN Radio. 'She needs to meet her accusers.'

Paul Harvey, who entertained generations of radio listeners with his "News & Comment" program, died Saturday in Phoenix,...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States could raise nearly $52 billion in revenue over the next decade by lifting a three-year-old ban on Internet gambling and taxing the activity instead, according to a study.

An anonymous reader writes 'The Australian Government's plan to introduce mandatory internet censorship has been scuttled, following an independent senator's decision to join the Greens and Opposition in blocking any legislation needed to start the scheme. Anti-Gambling Senator Nick Xenophon previously supported the filter because it could also block gambling web sites, but today withdrew support saying 'the more evidence that's come out, the more questions there are on this'. This week surveys found only less than 10% of Australians supported the censorship. Censorship Senator Stephen Conroy has consistently ignored advice from technical experts saying the filters would slow the internet, block legitimate sites, be easily bypassed and fall short of capturing all of the nasty content available online. Conroy expanded the list to block Adult R18+ and X18+ web sites, and this week said it would also block sites depicting drug use, crime, sex, cruelty, violence or 'revolting and abhorrent

Mindless Republicans are heeding the iron discipline of conservative talk radio hosts Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, Chairman of the House financial services Committee Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) told reporters after President Barack Obama's address to the nation on Tuesday.

gubm writes 'Google said it wants to help the European commission prove its antitrust charges against Microsoft regarding the bundling of the Internet Explorer browser with Windows.' of this story at Slashdot.

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Nintendo, in its annual report to the USPTO, has requested help in dealing with piracy overseas, both from the US government and from several other countries in particular. China, Korea, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, and Paraguay are listed as the greatest contributing nations to piracy of the company's products. Nintendo suggests, for example, that 'Chinese customs officials must stop shipments of game copiers and other infringing products out of China, and China should work in the coming year to eliminate barriers to its enforcement laws,' and that 'the Spanish government implement laws protecting the creative copyright industry and enact laws against Internet piracy.' of this story at Slashdot.