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Car hits parade injuring up to 60
View Photo Associated Press/Bristol Herald Courier, Earl Neikirk - Emergency personnel respond to one of the people hit by a car, at right, during the beginning of the Hikers Parade at the Trail Days festival in ...
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FBI searches Spokane apartment in ricin letter case
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- Authorities in hazardous materials suits are searching an apartment in downtown Spokane as they investigate the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin.FBI agents, Spokane police officers and U.S. Postal Inspection Service officials descended on the apartment Saturday morning.No arrests have been made. An FBI spokeswoman has not said ...
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Paul McCartney kicks off Out There tour in U.S.
View Photo Associated Press/Andre Penner, File - FILE - In this Sunday, Nov. 21, 2010 file photo, British musician Paul McCartney performs during his "Up And Coming Tour" at the Morumbi Stadium in Sao Paulo. ...
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Texas joins flood of states suing BP over 2010 Gulf spill
BP America in its suit - of violating Texas' environmental regulations. Texas is seeking money from "lost" tourism revenues due to the spill, as well as monies that would have been generated from state park entrance and concession fees by visitors to the coastal communities. In addition, the state is seeking civil penalties for each day the oil spilled into the Gulf, and each ...
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First lady to high school grads live your dreams
(AP Photo/Mark Humphrey). First lady Michelle Obama, right, applauds as students enter the arena for the commencement ceremony of Martin Luther King, ...
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Powerball jackpot could go higher than $600M
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - People wait in line to purchase Powerball lottery tickets at the Port Authority bus station in New York May 17, 2013. REUTERS/Brendan ...
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Cops investigate after NY college student killed
View Photo Associated Press/ Louis Lanzano - Hofstra University students gather near the house where another student and an armed intruder were killed during an overnight house break-in next to the campus, Friday, ...
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Rome protest turns up heat on new leader Enrico Letta
ROME--Thousands of people protested in Rome on Saturday against austerity policies and high unemployment, urging new Prime Minister Enrico Letta to focus on creating jobs to help pull the country out of ...
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North Korea Fires Three Short-Range Missiles Says The South
After a relatively calm few weeks, North Korea fired three short-range missiles Saturday, a South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman said. NPR's Louisa Lim reports that North Korea fired the missiles in defiance of international sanctions. She filed this report for our Newscast ...
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Chicago commuter headache as L train line shut for five months
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago will shut down part of its "L" elevated rail system's busiest line for five months starting on Sunday, forcing thousands of commuters to seek other routes and creating the biggest such U.S. transit disruption in two ...
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Ex-Pa. officer once hailed as hero faces charges
PHILADELPHIA -- A former Philadelphia police officer once hailed as a hero and given a seat next to the first lady at a speech by President Obama has been arrested and charged with rape and other crimes.Authorities allege that former officer Richard DeCoatsworth left a party with two females early Thursday and took them to another location, where they allege that he produced a handgun and ...
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Fruitvale Station Storms Cannes
CANNES, FRANCE--Shot on a low budget of less than a million dollars, Sundance Film Festival winner "Fruitvale Station" is taking the Cannes Film Festival by storm. It's competing in the "Un Certain Regard" category in the festival, and the notoriously critical Cannes audience gave the film rapt applause when the screening concluded. The film, directed by 26-year old Ryan ...
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European Union to ban refillable olive oil jugs
Restaurants must use pre-packaged oil in a tamper-proof bottle from now on, while opponents claim the move will largely harm small-time ...
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Investigators seek cause of commuter train crash
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Passengers wait to be picked-up after two commuter trains collided in Bridgeport, Connecticut causing one to derail injuring numerous passengers, May 17, 2013. Some 20 to 25 people were ...
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Plane makes emergency belly landing
View Photo Associated Press/WABC TV News - In this image taken from video and provided to WABC TV News by an airport source, emergency personnel spray foam on the fuselage of a US Airways Express commuter plane ...
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Mystery of moons magnetic field deepens
magnetic field until at least 3.56 billion years ago, 160 million years longer than previously thought, a new study reports. These findings could shed light not just on the magnetic field ...
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Majority of number combos picked for Powerball pot
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Powerball is a game of numbers, and lottery officials say the majority of possible combinations have already been purchased ahead of Saturday night's near-historic $600 million ...
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Sea turtle comeback in a corner of the Caribbean
Flourishing turtle tourism is providing good livelihoods for people in formerly dead-end farming towns, with the Trinidad-based group Turtle Village Trust saying it brings in some $8.2 million annually. The inflow of visitors, both domestic and foreign, to Trinidad's northeast coast jumped from 6,500 in 2000 to over 60,000 in 2012. Officials with the U.S.-based Sea Turtle Conservancy say ...
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Despite controversies Obama agenda marches on
President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks at Ellicott Dredges in Baltimore, Friday, May 17, 2013, during his second "Middle Class Jobs and Opportunity Tour". (AP Photo/Jacquelyn ...
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Merkel and Pope talk about a strong Europe
Pope Francis meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a private audience at the Vatican, Saturday, May 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, ...
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Victims Marines failed to safeguard water supply
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. -; A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch's brew of cancer-causing ...
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The Euro Sell-Off Market Forecasting
The key to staying on the right side of the market is in knowing how to collate the different tradable patterns in that market. Contrary to what many educators teach it is not "top-down analysis" which counts, but identifying those times when the majority of patterns are aligned. It is widely ...
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Afghan lawmakers block law on womens rights
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Conservative religious lawmakers in Afghanistan blocked legislation on Saturday aimed at strengthening provisions for women's freedoms, arguing that parts of it violate Islamic principles and encourage ...
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Dollar index near 10-month high ECB deposit rate cut talk hits euro
LONDON: The dollar rose against a basket of currencies on Friday, trading near a 10-month high as debate over whether the Federal Reserve would wind down its asset buying program later this year gathered pace. The dollar's strength, along with expectations that the European Central Bank could ...
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Activists Rebel groups clash in northern Syria
from what rebels say is a helicopter that was shot down at Abu Dhour military airbase which is besieged by the rebels, in the northern province city of Idlib, Syria, Friday May 17, 2013. Rights activists have found torture devices and other evidence of abuse in government prisons in the first Syrian city to fall to the rebels, Human Rights Watch said in a report Friday. (AP Photo/Edlib News ...
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Switzerland world's most competitive country
Switzerland is frequently pointed to as a model of good governance, prosperity, innovation and stability and is one of the happiest countries in the world. The recent competitive survey by the WEF underscored this, but came with a warning.
Switzerland truly is an impressive country, landlocked and small with no natural resources; it has developed into one of the richest countries in the world and was recently named the most competitive economy in the world. This is due in large part to its banking sector, which is one of the most advanced and its government structure, which is efficient in comparison to many other developed countries. Read more
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