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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Social-networking site Twitter plans to end a service that links prominent message posters with new users, a service that was criticized in California because of perceived unfairness toward GOP gubernatorial candidates. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said Monday the San Francisco-based company will overhaul its “suggested users” list, …

ATHENS, Greece – A small bomb exploded Friday outside a building where a governing party lawmaker lives in Athens, causing minor damage but no injuries, police said. A police statement said the device exploded around 2 p.m. at the entrance to Mimis Androulakis’ apartment building in the eastern Kareas suburb. …

This is a RUSH transcript from “The O’Reilly Factor,” August 31, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. Watch “The O’Reilly Factor” weeknights at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET! LAURA INGRAHAM, GUEST HOST: In the “personal story” segment tonight, are Democrats politicizing …

PHILADELPHIA – If Bryant Simon owned a coffee shop, it would not have conversation-killing Wi-Fi. It probably wouldn’t offer to-go cups. But it would have a big, round table strewn with newspapers to stimulate discussion. That sense of community is what’s missing from Starbucks, a conclusion Simon reached after visiting …

The near-term political consequences of the passage of health care reform are likely to be quite severe for the Democratic Party. Only those who believe in the Tooth Fairy think that a bill adding millions to the health insurance rolls will end up curbing the exploding cost of health care …

At Thursday’s health care summit, Rep. Louise Slaughter issued a dramatic call for health care reform, telling us of a woman who was so poor that she wore her late sister’s dentures: (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) REP. LOUISE SLAUGHTER, D-N.Y.: I have a constituent that you won’t believe and I know …

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station took an extra spacewalk on Tuesday to wrap up some unfinished business outside the orbiting laboratory. Space station commander Michael Fincke of NASA and Russian cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov donned their Orlan spacesuits and stepped outside the space station to install a stubborn European-Russian experiment …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Empire Strikes Back Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had some choice words in response to Newsweek magazine’s prediction that he would be ousted in a military coup in 2010. Chavez called the publication “the empire’s magazine,” saying in a televised address that: “They …

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As we reported Monday night, the Obama administration signaled last weekend that it might take the so-called public option on health care off the table. That means the government would abandon a federal insurance program funded by billions of tax dollars. Well as soon as the far left heard that, …