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WASHINGTON – The government announced Thursday an 11-nation crackdown on Internet piracy (search) organizations responsible for stealing copies of the latest “Star Wars” film and other movies, games and software programs worth at least $50 million. FBI agents and investigators in the other nations conducted 90 searches, starting Wednesday, arresting …

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Sen. Robert C. Byrd’s new memoir reveals both his encyclopedic knowledge of political history and the unlikely inspiration that helped launch his own political career: A Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan (search). It was a Klan leader who motivated the young Byrd during his short-lived …

JUNEAU, Alaska – Steve Earle’s (search) appearance at the Southeast Alaska State Fair (search) in Haines is drawing protest. Earle has been the subject of angry letters and paid newspaper commentary in the Chilkat Valley News since early May. Letter writers have complained that Earle’s music has un-American or Marxist …