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Judge: Ariz. sheriff's office profiles Latinos 
Friday, May 24, 2013 08:06 PM PDT
 Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio watches as actor Steven Seagal addresses the media about a simulated school shooting in Fountain HillsJoe Arpaio is to stop using race as a factor in law enforcement decisions.
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‘Heavy but grateful heart’ on Memorial Day 
Friday, May 24, 2013 11:55 AM PDT
 Remembering Our Fallen Soldiers This Memorial DayFriends and family remember those who gave all to serve their nation.
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Report: Fallen bridge had earlier gouges, impact damage 
Friday, May 24, 2013 05:59 PM PDT
 Workers walk past the collapsed portion of the Interstate 5 bridge at the Skagit River Friday, May 24, 2013, in Mount Vernon, Wash. A truck carrying an oversize load struck the four-lane bridge on the major thoroughfare between Seattle and Canada, sending a section of the span and two vehicles into the Skagit River below Thursday evening. All three occupants suffered only minor injuries. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)Officials in Washington state performed a special inspection six months ago on the Interstate 5 bridge that collapsed because there were indications it had been struck by a different vehicle.
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Paula Broadwell regrets affair with ex-CIA director Patraeus 
Friday, May 24, 2013 03:45 PM PDT
 Petraeus' former mistress breaks silence"If you've made mistakes you can pick up, dust off and move on," she said.
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Cleveland women can adopt alleged captor's dogs 
Friday, May 24, 2013 12:05 PM PDT
 Cleveland Women Can Decide If They Want Alleged Captor's DogsAriel Castro's Three Dogs Are in Foster Care Until the Women Make a Decision
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Search scaled back for abducted Iowa teenage girl 
Friday, May 24, 2013 04:42 PM PDT
 FILE - This file photo provided by The Iowa Department of Public Safety shows Kathlynn Shepard, 15. Michael J. Klunder, who police believe abducted 15-year-old Kathlynn Shepard and her 12-year-old friend Monday, May 20, 2013, as they walked home from school, committed suicide after the younger girl escaped, but Kathlynn is still missing. (AP Photo/Iowa Department of Public Safety)Kathlynn Shepard was taken from a rural school bus stop this week.
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Country moves against restaurants holding wild bears 
Friday, May 24, 2013 04:25 PM PDT
 Police officers and experts from Four Paws carry brown bear Arina away from zoo in PrizrenKosovo's campaign is a response to concerns over dwindling numbers of the species.
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Ohio kidnap rescuer won't endorse free burgers 
Friday, May 24, 2013 06:27 PM PDT
 FILE - This May 6, 2013 file photo shows neighbor Charles Ramsey speaking to media near the home where missing women Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight were rescued in Cleveland. Ramsey, the man who famously put down his Big Mac to help rescue three women held captive for a decade in an Ohio house will never have to pay for another burger in his hometown. Ramsey has been promised free burgers for life at more than a dozen Cleveland-area restaurants. (AP Photo/The Plain Dealer, Scott Shaw, File)The restaurant created a special burger to honor Charles Ramsey.
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Four girls killed in a civil rights-era church bombing honored 
Friday, May 24, 2013 12:52 PM PDT
 Obama signs a bill designating the Congressional Gold Medal commemorating lives of four young girls killed in 1963 bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church bombing of Birmingham, Alabama, in WashingtonThe president signs a law giving the highest civilian honor to the victims of the 1963 attack.
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Illinois judge charged with heroin, gun possession 
Friday, May 24, 2013 01:09 PM PDT
 This October 2010 photo shows St. Clair County Circuit Judge Michael Cook during his swearing in ceremony in Belleville, Ill. Cook is under federal investigation after a former prosecutor and colleague, Joe Christ, who was found dead at Cook's cabin in rural Pike County, Ill. in March 2013 succumbed to a cocaine overdose. Cook as booted from his docket of hundreds of cases Thursday, May 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Belleville News-Democrat, Derik Holtmann)Michael Cook, wearing cutoffs and a "Bad is my middle name" T-shirt, pleads not guilty.
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Obama to visit Oklahoma, tour Jersey Shore 
Friday, May 24, 2013 01:34 PM PDT
 A battered sign stands outside the wreckage of Plaza Towers Elementary School, where seven children were killed earlier in the week when a tornado hit Moore, Okla., Thursday, May 23, 2013. Cleanup continues three days after a huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb, flattening a wide swath of homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)The president will visit the tornado-ravaged area this weekend; then head to N.J. on Tuesday.
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Ky. uranium plant closes; 1,000 jobs lost 
Friday, May 24, 2013 04:11 PM PDT
 The operator of a Cold War-era plant in western Kentucky that supplies enriched uranium to nuclear power plants said Friday it planned to cease production after federal energy officials decided to end ...
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Lawsuit alleging ex-QB Favre sent racy texts settled 
Friday, May 24, 2013 03:27 PM PDT
 NYC lawsuit alleging Favre sent racy texts settledA lawsuit filed by two massage therapists who sued retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre over claims he sent racy text messages has been settled, a lawyer for the women said Friday.
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Toronto mayor denies crack cocaine allegations 
Friday, May 24, 2013 04:44 PM PDT
 FILE - In this Thursday, May 23, 2013 file photo, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford leaves city hall in Toronto. Ford denies that he smokes crack cocaine and says he is not an addict after a video purported to show him using the drug. Ford did not say whether he has ever used the drug. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Chris Young, File)Rob Ford said he is not an addict after a video purported to show him using the drug.
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Jersey shore opens for summer fun 
Friday, May 24, 2013 08:20 AM PDT
 New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, right, talks to Carla Pilla, of Seaside Heights, N.J., while Robert Hilton, left, executive director of the Jersey Shore Convention and Visitor's Bureau, holds a sign, Friday, May 24, 2013, in Seaside Heights, N.J. Christie cut a ribbon to symbolically reopen the state's shore for the summer season, seven months after being devastated by Superstorm Sandy. Several beach communities have annual beach ribbon cuttings, announcing they are back in business. But this year's ceremonies are more poignant seven months after a storm that did an estimated $37 billion of damage in the state. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)Gov. Chris Christie and the cast of MTV's "Jersey Shore" welcome tourists back.
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Train engineer noted 'unusual condition' before Connecticut wreck 
Friday, May 24, 2013 06:40 PM PDT
 New Video From Commuter Train DerailmentA joint bar, used to hold two sections of rail together, was repaired last month.
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Sexual assaults threaten military, Obama says 
Friday, May 24, 2013 08:16 AM PDT
 A member of the 2013 graduating class of the United States Naval Academy peeks over the shoulder of a fellow graduates to listen to President Barack Obama during the commencement ceremony at the Academy in Annapolis, Md., Friday, May 24, 2013. The president urged new graduates to exhibit honor and courage in tackling incidents of sexual assault as they assume leadership positions in the military. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)President Barack Obama on Friday warned that sexual assault in the military amounts to a national security threat as he enlisted graduating Navy ensigns and Marine second lieutenants at the U.S. Naval Academy in a campaign to stamp it out. "Those who commit sexual assault are not only committing a crime, they threaten the trust [...]
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UK-bound Pakistan plane diverted, two men arrested 
Friday, May 24, 2013 12:28 PM PDT
 Passengers disembark from Pakistan International Airlines flight PK709 bound for Manchester from Lahore, Pakistan, after it was diverted to Stansted Airport, north of London, England, Friday May 24, 2013. The passenger plane was diverted following an incident on board, and two men were arrested on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft after an RAF Typhoon jet was scrambled to escort the passenger plane traveling from Pakistan to the UK, police said. (AP Photo / Chris Radburn, PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT - NO SALES - NO ARCHIVESBritain scrambled fighter jets, but the incident does not appear to be terror-related.
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After 'catastrophic misfire,' police issue warning on plastic gun 
Friday, May 24, 2013 08:48 AM PDT
 3-D printed gun test fired: Did it work?The DIY 3-D gun isn't ready for prime time, according to Australian authorities.
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Stockholm police call for help as riots worsen 
Friday, May 24, 2013 08:04 AM PDT
 A bystander checks the debris around a row of burnt cars in the suburb of Rinkeby after youths rioted in several different suburbs around StockholmYouths set cars and a school ablaze in Sweden's worst riots in years.
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Western IQs drop 14 points over last century, researchers say 
Friday, May 24, 2013 11:06 AM PDT
 A new study from researchers in Europe claims that the average IQ in Western nations dropped by a staggering 14.1 points over the past century. "We tested the hypothesis that the Victorians were cleverer than modern populations using high-quality instruments, namely measures of simple visual reaction time in a meta-analytic study," the researchers wrote in [...]
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Storm chasers catch Okla. twister as it forms 
Friday, May 24, 2013 10:30 AM PDT
 Tornado footageViewers can see what the EF5 tornado looked like from the ground as it gains strength.
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Oversized load caused I-5 bridge collapse in Washington 
Friday, May 24, 2013 08:15 AM PDT
 In this photo provided by Francisco Rodriguez, a man is seen sitting atop a car that fell into the Skagit River after the collapse of the Interstate 5 bridge there minutes earlier Thursday, May 23, 2013, in Mount Vernon, Wash. (AP Photo/Francisco Rodriguez)A tractor-trailer hit an upper part of the span across the Skagit River.
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Taliban attack U.N. compound in Kabul 
Friday, May 24, 2013 10:49 AM PDT
 Children run away after an explosion in KabulThere were at least four blasts interspersed by heavy shooting.
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