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• Oct 28, 2011

  Samsung Ousts Apple for Top Spot as Android Takes Over Smartphone Market

  The newest estimate from Strategy Analytics, a 40-year-old consulting firm, finds that Samsung has officially overtaken Apple for the most smartphones shipped last quarter.

• Oct 27, 2011

  Experimental MIT Technology Uses Microwaves to Create X-Ray Vision

  Experimental equipment developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers uses a microwave radar system to see movement through walls.

• Oct 27, 2011

  Lower Income Families Willing to Pay More Bank Fees, Survey Says

  A new poll by the Research Intelligence Group found that lower income families are one-and-a-half times more likely to pay new banking fees than richer Americans.

• Oct 27, 2011

  Palestine Pressures Israel to Release More Prisoners for Shalit

  Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas is pressuring Israeli officials to release more prisoners for the return of Gilad Shalit, who had been imprisoned for five years.

• Oct 27, 2011

  ACLJ Lawyer Testifies to Congress on Religious Freedom

  The Senior Counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, Colby May has testified to Congress Tuesday on the recent threats to American religious liberty.

• Oct 27, 2011

  Animals Loose in Ohio: Exotic Animals to be Returned to Widow; PETA Protests

  Marian Thompson, the widow of Ohio exotic animal owner Terry Thompson, is set to reclaim six of the original 56 animals her husband set free before his suicide last week.

• Oct 27, 2011

  Defense of Marriage Act: Gay Soldiers Sue Congress; Conservatives Strangely Quiet

  Today, eight married military staff put a lawsuit into action challenging the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as an act exclusively between a man and a woman.

• Oct 27, 2011

  Herman Cain Snubs Potential Donors, Campaign May Be in Trouble

  Herman Cain has been criticized recently for making a host of political mistakes, including snubbing potential donors, focusing on the wrong states for votes, and although the public may be enamored with him, his staffers are fed up.

• Oct 27, 2011

  Gaddafi Dead: Dictator's $200 Billion May Never be Fully Recovered

  Muammar Gaddafi, the infamous Libyan dictator, had managed to accrue an estimated $200 billion in assets during his lifetime. However, now that he’s gone, it will prove difficult to recover and distribute that money because a large part of it was in legitimate investments.

• Oct 26, 2011

  Gaddafi’s Son and Brother-In-Law May Surrender

  Saif al-Islam Muammar al-Gaddafi, the second son of deceased dictator Muammar Gaddafi, has proposed surrendering to the International Criminal Court for war crimes against humanity.