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Arias jury deadlocks but must keep deliberating
Judge Sherry Stephens urges the jury to continue deliberating after the jury delivered a message that they are deadlocked on a penalty for Jodi Arias on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. Arias was convicted of first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting to death of Travis Alexander. (AP Photo/The Arizona ...
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45 students hurt in chain-reaction Ind. bus crash
NORTH WEBSTER, Ind. -; Northern Indiana authorities say more than 45 middle and high school students were injured and a bus driver was seriously hurt in a chain-reaction crash involving four school ...
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Bill allows Newtown families to release records
HARTFORD, Conn. -; A bill crafted privately by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's office, Connecticut's top prosecutor and legislative leaders would require the written consent of family members of the Sandy Hook Elementary School victims before certain records concerning the shooting may be publicly ...
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Officials All accounted for after Okla. tornado
MOORE, Okla. -; Authorities have now accounted for the last six people - all of them adults - who were believed to still be missing after the massive tornado in an Oklahoma City ...
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America Whats more harmful pot use or incarceration
A Seattle resident takes marijuana from a plastic bag shortly after a law legalizing the recreational use of marijuana took effect on Dec. 6, 2012 in Seattle. (Stephen Brashear/Getty ...
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Obama to visit tornado-ravaged Moore Oklahoma on Sunday
People walk through a damaged area near the Moore Warren Theater after a powerful tornado ripped through the area on May 20, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. (Brett Deering/AFP/Getty ...
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Obama admits that drone strike killed Americans
Militant leader Tareq al-Dahab -- a brother-in-law of US-born jihadist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki who was killed in a US drone strike in September 2011. The Obama administration has disclosed that it deliberately attacked Awlaki. (-/AFP/Getty ...
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Freedomworks Stop Obama In SC Schools
Do you want to live in a society where children as young as four and five are being indoctrinated by the Obama agenda? If not, then we must stop the "Republican" education budget in South Carolina before it's too ...
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House approves Keystone pipeline bill
WASHINGTON – House Republicans pushed through a bill Wednesday to bypass the president to speed approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Texas. Democrats criticized the legislation as a blatant attempt to allow a foreign company to avoid environmental review. The bill was approved, 241-175, largely along party lines. Republicans said the measure was needed to ensure that ...
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Obama Administration Admits Drone Attacks Killed 4 US Citizens
Jeremy Scahill: "Perhaps most disturbing about Holder's letter is that it leaves totally unexplained why the US has killed so many innocent non-American citizens in its strikes in Pakistan and ...
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Boy Scouts of America Denies Vote Tampering Allegations
The Boy Scouts of America will vote on whether to lift its 103-year-old bay on homosexuality on Thursday May 23, 2013. The high stakes showdown over whether or not Boy Scouts of America will lift its ban on gay youth began in Grapevine, Texas, on Wednesday as the organization dismissed recent allegations that the fix is in.Deron Smith, national spokesman for the BSA, called allegations of vote ...
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Garcetti ‘Los Angeless success is critical for Americas success’
Los Angeles voters, in a record low turnout, have picked a new mayor. Democrat Eric Garcetti, a former city councilman, won the race for mayor of the nation's second most populous city. NBC's Miguel Almaguer spoke with the ...
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RCMP has toxic work environment Ex Mountie
RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson made an announcement concerning the RCMP at a press conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, June 20, 2012. (Chris Roussakis/QMI ...
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Thief stole purse from dead woman Cops
Toronto Police released this image of a suspect wanted in connection with the theft of a purse from a dead woman at a subway station. TORONTO -- Toronto Police believe they know the identity of a female who stole a dead woman's purse at a subway station during Wednesday morning's rush-hour. Police investigating the theft at College Station have a suspect "identified but not ...
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The Audacity of Eric Holders Letter Admitting Team Obama Killed 4 Americans
letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee. In it, he acknowledges that the U.S. has killed four of its own citizens in drone strikes. Casual news consumers may find that confusing. Hasn't there already been an extremely public debate about the killing of American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki ...
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Artemis Crew Wants Safety Changes In America’s Cup Following Death
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS/KPIX 5) - An America's Cup racing boat crew member died and another was hurt when their catamaran overturned on San Francisco Bay Thursday afternoon during a practice run. A KPIX 5/KCBS reporter on the scene at the St. Francis Yacht Club said he saw the deceased sailor placed into a body bag after cardiopulmonary resuscitation efforts by paramedics ...
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Little Canada man was intrusive in videotaping medical call city argues
A 29-year-old man was "extremely intrusive" when he videotaped a medical call outside his apartment, an attorney for the city of Little Canada argued in court Wednesday. Andrew Joseph Henderson recorded the actions of a sheriff's deputy and an ambulance crew as they prepared to take a highly intoxicated man to the hospital the night of Oct. 30, 2012. "This was a medical ...
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New fleet of foot plant-eating dinosaur fossil found in Canada
Paleontologists say a fossil discovery of a small, speedy plant-eating dinosaur in Canada extends our knowledge of dinosaur ecosystems of millions of years ago. While dinosaurs are often thought of as large, fierce but slow-moving animals, the new specimen, the smallest plant-eating dinosaur species known from Canada, was a speedy runner, a team of Canadian and U.S. researchers report in the ...
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Take that Canada Immigration reform may be on its way
Canada's Minister ofCitizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Jason Kenny visited San Francisco last week on a tour promoting the country as a place for entrepreneurs. Here, he poses with the country's newCIC Start-Up Visa billboard. C anada may be lining Silicon Valley highways with billboards recruiting high-tech workers north, a move to promote its new Start-up Visa, take ...
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Obama nominee vows to work with Congress to fund transportation
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama explains that Charlotte, N.C., Mayor Anthony Foxx (L) will be his nominee to replace Ray LaHood as U.S. Transportation Secretary in the East Room of the White ...
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Mont. man gets 3 years for guns in Calif. airport
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -; A federal judge has sentenced a Montana man to three years in prison for trying to board a flight in Sacramento, Calif., with four loaded ...
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Carney Criticism of IRS response legitimate
White House press secretary Jay Carney gestures as he speaks during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. At the briefing Carney announced that President Obama will travel to Oklahoma to visit tornado affected communities. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn ...
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Pocket-dialing 911 leads to Fla. murder charge
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -; Authorities in South Florida say a man is charged with murder because he was overheard discussing the killing when his cellphone pocket-dialed ...
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Pentagon New record plan wont help vet backlog
WASHINGTON -; The Pentagon has decided to buy a new computerized health records system to be able to better share and merge its data with the Department of Veterans Affairs, but officials cautioned that it was part of a "long-term modernization" effort and would not help ease the backlog in VA disability ...
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LA mayor-elect says hell focus on economy
LOS ANGELES -; Los Angeles Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti says he's going to focus like a "laser beam" on the economy when he takes office July ...
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North America's unknown potential disaster
North America is facing a potential ecological disaster that most people are not even aware of, according to scientists who have been studying the little brown bat (or myotis bat), the most common species of bat in the United States and the wider North American continent.
This is because the bat is under attack by a killer fungus that grows on the bats’ wings during hibernation and causes them to lose body fat and wake early from their sleep, which causes them to eventually die. The fungal infection is said by researchers to be capable of killing off the bat within the next 16 years when their current population, which numbers up to several million, may fall to just 0.01% of present levels. Read more
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