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WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday called on federal prosecutors to convene a grand jury to weigh contempt of Congress charges against White House chief of staff Josh Bolten and former counsel Harriet Miers. Pelosi wants U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeffrey Taylor to work “with …

VILLIERS-LE-BEL, France – More than 1,000 police raided housing projects outside Paris in an early morning sweep Monday, detaining 33 people in a bid to find rioters who led an outburst of violence here last year, a prosecutor said. Police were mobilized for raids in Villiers-le-Bel and in the neighboring …

A teenager from the U.K. discovered her organs were failing by chance, after playing with her grandmother’s blood pressure machine, the Daily Mail reports. Amea O’Nion went to the doctor after the machine showed she had high blood pressure. Shortly after, doctors found she was suffering from kidney failure. “Amea …