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North Korea issues unusually specific threat
Mon,23 Apr 2012 08:27 AM PDT
The Envoy - North Korea's military vowed a new and unusually specific threat to its neighbors, saying it would reduce South Korea "to ashes" in less than four minutes. The statement, released Monday when programming was interrupted on North Korea's state TV by a special report, comes amid rising tensions on the Korean peninsula. Earlier this month, North [...] Full Story
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1 in 2 new graduates are jobless or underemployed
Mon,23 Apr 2012 11:19 AM PDT
Associated Press -

In this photo taken Thursday, April 19, 2012, barista Michael Bledsoe smiles as he chats with a visitor in the coffee shop where he works in Seattle. The college class of 2012 is in for a rude welcome to the world of work. A weak labor market already has left half of young college grads either jobless or underemployed in positions that don't fully use their skills and knowledge. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)The college class of 2012 is in for a rude welcome to the world of work.


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Virginia Woman Wins $1 Million Lottery Twice in the Same Day
Mon,23 Apr 2012 09:07 AM PDT
Good Morning America -

Virginia Woman Wins $1 Million Lottery Twice in the Same DayVirginia Fike Bought Two Powerball Tickets and Won $1 Million for Each


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George Zimmerman Released From Florida Jail on $150,000 Bond
Sun,22 Apr 2012 09:45 PM PDT
Good Morning America -

George Zimmerman Tells Trayvon Martin's Parents 'I Am Sorry'Gunman Released as he Awaits Trial for the Death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin


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Super Secret Hypersonic Aircraft Flew Out of Its Skin
Mon,23 Apr 2012 08:23 AM PDT
ABC News -

Super Secret Hypersonic Aircraft Flew Out of Its SkinIt turns out that tearing through the atmosphere at 20 times the speed of sound is bad for the skin, even if you're a super high-tech aircraft developed by the government's best engineers at its far-out research agency. DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency,...


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Romney on spending: Guns triumph over butter
Sun,22 Apr 2012 07:01 AM PDT
Associated Press -

FILE - In this April 17, 2012, file photo Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney,listens to Pittsburgh area residents in Bethel Park, Pa., during a campaign stop. Government spending differences are among the starkest between Romney and President Obama. Romney's campaign proposes few specifics: a 10 percent cut of the federal workforce through attrition, the end of federal family planning money, the privatization of Amtrak, and cuts in foreign aid. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)Reducing government deficits Mitt Romney's way would mean less money for health care for the poor and disabled and big cuts to nuts-and-bolts functions such as food inspection, border security and education.


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Md. neighborhood watch trial set against Fla. fury
Sun,22 Apr 2012 11:52 AM PDT
Associated Press -

In this undated photo provided by the Baltimore Police, Eliyahu Werdesheim is shown in Baltimore. Werdesheim is charged with second-degree assault, carrying a dangerous weapon with intent to injure and false imprisonment in an attack on a teen while patrolling for a Jewish neighborhood watch group in Baltimore in November 2010. (AP Photo/Baltimore Police Department)Two brothers accused of beating a black teenager while patrolling an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood are set to go on trial Monday in a case with similarities to the Trayvon Martin shooting.


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Obama says 'seeds of hate' must not take root
Mon,23 Apr 2012 07:25 AM PDT
Associated Press -

FILE - In this April 13, 2012, file photo President Barack Obama in Tampa, Fla., speaks about trade before heading to the Summit of the Americas. Obama will clinch the Democratic nomination for president Tuesday, April 24, ending a low-key primary race that many Americans probably didn't realize was happening. He's certain to reach the 2,778 delegates needed to secure his party's nod when five states vote on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)President Barack Obama says atrocities against peoples across the globe begin with daily ignorance and intolerance and that the world must not allow such "seeds of hate" to take root again.


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Cause of Brain Freeze Revealed
Sun,22 Apr 2012 02:02 PM PDT
LiveScience.com - Most people have likely experienced brain freeze — the debilitating, instantaneous pain in the temples after eating something frozen — but researchers didn't really understand what causes it, until now. Full Story
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Media Favored Romney Over Obama
Sun,22 Apr 2012 09:01 PM PDT
The Daily Beast -

Media Favored Romney Over ObamaA report shows the press covered Romney twice as favorably as Obama during the primaries. By Howard Kurtz.


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Sanford commissioners reject police chief's resignation
Mon,23 Apr 2012 11:06 AM PDT
The Lookout - UPDATE 5:42 p.m. ET: Sanford, Fla., city commissioners voted 3-2 to reject the resignation of Police Chief Bill Lee on Monday. According to the Associated Press, the "majority blamed the uproar surrounding Martin's death on outsiders." Lee, who last month left his post temporarily amid criticism of his handling of the Trayvon Martin case, had [...] Full Story
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An EXCLUSIVE inside look at the Republicans' anti-Obama war room
Mon,23 Apr 2012 03:21 AM PDT
Power Players - Political Punch While Republican candidates battled it out in their primaries and caucuses, the Republican National Committee (RNC) was preparing for the general election battle against President Obama. Political Punch got an exclusive look inside the committee's anti-Obama attack machine, and the space they call "the war room." "We said from the very beginning ... [...] Full Story
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North Korea Vows 'Special Actions' to Turn Seoul to 'Ashes'
Mon,23 Apr 2012 07:29 AM PDT
ABC News - SEOUL, South Korea  – North Korea vowed today in an alarming announcement to"soon" reduce parts of South Korea's capital to "ashes" for insulting North Korea's leadership. Regular programming was interrupted on North Korea's state TV today by a special report declaring that "special actions" will... Full Story
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Virginia teacher arrested for allegedly firing blanks at students
Mon,23 Apr 2012 09:47 AM PDT
The Sideshow - A Virginia teacher has been charged with 12 felony counts after allegedly pulling a blank firing gun on his students and firing several times. "One for each student who was in there. And basically the charges result of inciting fear into the students," Washington County Sheriff Fred Newman told KSDK.com. The incident occurred just days [...] Full Story
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N. Korean army vows to turn Seoul to ashes
Sun,22 Apr 2012 10:51 PM PDT
AFP -

North Korea's military has threatened North Korea's military Monday threatened "special actions" soon to turn parts of the South Korean capital to ashes, accusing Seoul's conservative government of defaming its leadership.


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AP Newsbreak: AZ sheriff played probe for laughs
Sun,22 Apr 2012 05:19 PM PDT
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FILE - In this April 3, 2012, file photo, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, right, answers questions as one of his attorney John Masterson, middle, and the Sheriff's Deputy Director Jack MacIntyre, left, listen during a news conference in Phoenix. An audio recording of Arpaio making dismissive comments surfaced as the U.S. Justice Department had already launched a civil rights probe of his trademark immigration patrols and the FBI was already examining abuse-of-power allegations for the sheriff's investigations of political foes. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)An audio recording has surfaced of an Arizona sheriff playing his refusal to cooperate in a racial profiling investigation for laughs at a fundraiser for an anti-illegal immigration group in Texas. He ridicules politicians who sought the probe and displayed contempt toward federal authorities who were — and are still — investigating him on two fronts.


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Iowa paper devotes front page to fighting bullying
Sun,22 Apr 2012 02:05 PM PDT
Associated Press -

This image shows the top half of the front page of The Sioux City Journal's Sunday, April 22, 2012, edition, featuring a full-page piece to an anti-bullying editorial after a gay teen committed suicide. The Sioux City Journal's front-page opinion piece calls on the community to be pro-active in stopping bullying and urges members to learn more about the problem by seeing the acclaimed new film, In a rare and forceful act of advocacy, an Iowa newspaper devoted the entire front page of its Sunday edition to an anti-bullying editorial after a gay teen committed suicide.


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Valedictorian Facing Deportation Cool to Rubio's DREAM Act Redo
Mon,23 Apr 2012 08:58 AM PDT
ABC OTUS News -

Valedictorian Facing Deportation Cool to Rubio's DREAM Act RedoAs he starts to preview what his alternative to the DREAM Act will look like, Sen. Marco Rubio often mentions the story of Daniela Pelaez, an 18-year-old valedictorian and aspiring molecular biologist who faces deportation because she is undocumented, as an example for why such...


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Armored catfish wreaking havoc in South Florida lakes
Mon,23 Apr 2012 11:28 AM PDT
The Sideshow - A species of "armored catfish" are damaging South Florida's lakes, causing coastal erosion and even burrowing holes that trip up humans walking along the water's edge. Catfish are usually one of the more popular breeds of aquatic life, with their smooth skin and flavorful meat. There's even a highly unconventional form of fishing known as [...] Full Story
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Wal-Mart shaken by bribery probe, shares plunge
Mon,23 Apr 2012 04:02 PM PDT
Reuters -

People walk past a Wal-Mart store in Mexico CityCHICAGO/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc lost $10 billion of its market value on Monday on concerns that a bribery investigation in Mexico could be very costly and hinder its plans to grow. In a sign that the problem was widening for the world's largest retailer, two U.S. lawmakers said they were launching their own investigation into allegations in a New York Times article that Wal-Mart de Mexico had engaged in a multi-year campaign of bribery to build its business. ...


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'Think Like a Man' muscles in at No. 1 with $33M
Sun,22 Apr 2012 01:20 PM PDT
Associated Press -

In this film image released by Sony Pictures - Screen Gems, Meagan Good is shown in a scene from The date-night movies "Think Like a Man" and "The Lucky One" finally have knocked "The Hunger Games" off its No. 1 box-office perch.


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Iran says is building copy of captured US drone
Sun,22 Apr 2012 10:56 AM PDT
Associated Press -

FILE - This file photo released on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, claims to show the chief of the aerospace division of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, left, listening to an unidentified colonel as he points to US RQ-170 Sentinel drone which Tehran says its forces downed earlier this week. (AP Photo/Sepahnews, File) EDS NOTE: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAS NO WAY OF INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING THE CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS IMAGE.Iran claimed Sunday that it had recovered data from an American spy drone that went down in Iran last year including that it was used to spy on Osama bin Laden's house weeks before he was killed by U.S. forces. Iran also said it was building a copy of the surveillance aircraft.


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Texas prom queen arrested for allegedly faking cancer, raising $17,000
Mon,23 Apr 2012 08:56 AM PDT
The Sideshow - A Texas prom queen whose fellow students donated more than $17,000 to her charity has been arrested and accused of faking cancer. ABC affiliate KVIA reports that 19-year-old Angie Gomez faces a felony charge and is being held on a $50,000 bond after being arrested on Friday. She is charged with starting a fake charity [...] Full Story
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George Zimmerman released from Fla. jail
Sun,22 Apr 2012 10:26 PM PDT
Associated Press -

George Zimmerman, left, walks out of the intake building at the John E. Polk Correctional Facility with an unidentified man on Sunday, April 22, 2012, in Sanford, Fla. Zimmerman posted bail on a $150,000 bond on a second degree murder charge in the February shooting death of 17 year-old Trayvon Martin In Sanford, Fla. (AP Photo/Brian Blanco)In an unusually low-key turn to a high-profile case, George Zimmerman was released without incident around midnight Sunday from a Florida county jail on $150,000 bail as he awaits his second-degree murder trial for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin.


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FBI dogs search missing child's Tucson home
Mon,23 Apr 2012 01:50 AM PDT
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A flyer for missing 6-year-old Isabel Celis is placed on a volunteer's car in Tucson, Ariz., Sunday, April 22, 2012. Police cordoned off a neighborhood block where the girl went missing from her home during the night, as authorities fanned out Sunday over a wide area looking for clues to the possible kidnapping. (AP Photo/Terry Tang)Investigators early Monday sent FBI dogs trained for urban searches into the Tucson home where a 6-year-old girl disappeared as teams of law officers worked to determine if she was abducted.


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Aging workforce strains Social Security, Medicare
Mon,23 Apr 2012 02:29 PM PDT
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FILE - In this April 3, 2012 file photo, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner speaks at the Treasury Department in Washington. An aging population and an economy that has been slow to rebound are straining the long-term finances of Social Security and Medicare, the government's two largest benefit programs. Those problems are getting new attention Monday as the trustees who oversee the massive programs release their annual financial reports. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)An aging population and an economy that has been slow to rebound are straining the long-term finances of Social Security and Medicare, the government's two largest benefit programs.


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Boy glad football lost in tsunami found in Alaska
Mon,23 Apr 2012 01:56 AM PDT
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In this April 22, 2012 photo, Misaki Murakami stands where his home, which was washed away by the March 11, 2011 tsunami, once stood, while talking on a mobile phone with David Baxter in Alaska, U.S., in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, northern Japan. Baxter found Murakami's soccer ball, which was lost in last year's tsunami, on a remote Alaskan island. (AP Photos/Sankei Shimbun, Yoko Watanabe) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO SALESA teenager who lost his home in Japan's devastating tsunami now knows that one prized possession survived: a football that drifted all the way to Alaska.


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US to defend Afghanistan for decade after drawdown
Mon,23 Apr 2012 06:15 AM PDT
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FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009 file photo, a member of U.S. special operations forces and an Afghan National Army soldier search for roadside bombs during a joint patrol in Shewan, a former Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan's Farah province. . President Hamid Karzai's office said Sunday, April 22, 2012 that Afghan and U.S. officials have finalized a long-awaited strategic partnership deal. The statement from the presidency says officials from both sides have initialed the document and it is now ready to be signed by the two presidents. The document was initialed Sunday by Afghan National Security Adviser Rangin Dadfar Spanta and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)Washington has pledged in a newly agreed strategic pact to help defend Afghanistan militarily for at least a decade after the country formally takes control of its own security, an Afghan official said Monday.


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Amazing Time-Lapse Video Shows Girl Grow From Baby to Pre-Teen
Mon,23 Apr 2012 09:32 AM PDT
Trending Now - A time-lapse video of a girl growing from an infant into a 12-year-old has people talking all over the Web. Frans Hofmeester shot weekly videos of his daughter, Lotte, and combined them to show how she changes over the years in a video called 'Portrait of Lotte.' The video was voted up on the social [...] Full Story
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Shooting of 17-year-old Alabama girl compared to Trayvon Martin case
Sun,22 Apr 2012 09:52 PM PDT
The Daily Caller - The Trayvon Martin case has gripped Americans since February 26, but Florida isn't the only state reeling from the shooting of a 17-year-old at the hands of a man who claims he acted in self-defense. Full Story
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Email accident leads an entire company to think it's being fired
Mon,23 Apr 2012 09:55 AM PDT
Technology News Blog - We've all made the occasional snafu with our email accounts from time to time. But while including the wrong person on an email can be embarrassing for the sender and surprising to the recipient, it's seldom as surprising as this: Financial … Continue reading Full Story
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Daytime meteor shower wows many across the Bay Area
Mon,23 Apr 2012 07:29 AM PDT
The San Francisco Local - BERKELEY, Calif. — A dramatic fireball and sonic boom were seen and heard from the Bay Area to Nevada's Great Basin Sunday. View a video report. A dramatic daytime meteor, visible for hundreds of miles across California and Nevada swept … Continue reading Full Story
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Millionaire Romney says his grandfather wasn't one
Sun,22 Apr 2012 07:48 PM PDT
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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, center, gestures as he asks supporters to take a seat at the Franklin County Lincoln Day Dinner in Greencastle, Pa., Sunday, April 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)Mitt Romney is known as a man with millions of dollars, but he wants Americans to know that his grandfather wasn't one.


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Arizona's illegal-immigration law heads to Supreme Court. Will justices strike it down?
Mon,23 Apr 2012 01:30 PM PDT
The Lookout - Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed the country's toughest illegal-immigration bill into law two years ago, setting off a long legal battle with the Obama administration and inspiring half a dozen states to emulate Arizona and pass similar laws. On Wednesday, the federal government and Arizona will face off at the Supreme Court, where Justice Department [...] Full Story
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New species of purple crab discovered in the Philippines
Mon,23 Apr 2012 03:37 PM PDT
The Sideshow - Four new species of crab have been discovered in the Philippine island of Palawan. And one of the crabs truly stands out with its unusually bright purple shell. National Geographic reports that the Insulamon palawanese may use its uniquely colored shell to help identify its own kind. "It is known that crabs can discriminate colours. [...] Full Story
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April nor'easter dumps rain, snow on East Coast
Mon,23 Apr 2012 01:39 PM PDT
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Birds perch on a branch during a spring snowstorm in Pembroke, N.Y., Monday, April 23, 2012. A spring nor'easter packing soaking rain and high winds churned up the Northeast Monday morning, unleashing a burst of winter and up to a foot of snow in higher elevations inland, closing some schools and sparking concerns of power outages. (AP Photo/David Duprey)A spring nor'easter packing soaking rain and high winds churned up the Northeast Monday morning, unleashing a burst of winter and up to a foot of snow in higher elevations inland, closing some schools and sparking concerns of power outages.


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Romney, Rubio mum on vice presidential prospects
Mon,23 Apr 2012 11:45 AM PDT
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Republican Senator Marco Rubio is pictured in MarchRepublican White House hopeful Mitt Romney dodged mounting speculation Monday about a potential running mate, even with Senator Marco Rubio, the man now in the VP spotlight, standing right beside him.


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NKorean military warns of 'special actions' soon
Mon,23 Apr 2012 06:21 AM PDT
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A North Korean military officer talks the history at a museum hall at Demilitarized Zone that separates the two Koreas in Panmunjom, North Korea Monday, April 23, 2012. North Korea promised Monday to reduce South Korea's conservative government North Korea promised Monday to reduce South Korea's conservative government "to ashes" in less than four minutes, in an unusually specific escalation of recent threats aimed at its southern rival.


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'Pregnant man' Thomas Beatie splits from wife
Sat,21 Apr 2012 03:22 PM PDT
The Upshot - Thomas Beatie, who made headlines in 2008 as the only legally recognized man known to have given birth, has separated from his wife of nine years, according to People magazine. Beatie, who has had three children with wife Nancy, announced the split during a taping of the CBS syndicated show "The Doctors." "Like all marriages, [...] Full Story
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Police: 4 kids die in La. home fire, mom charged
Sun,22 Apr 2012 03:42 PM PDT
Associated Press - Four unattended children died in a mobile home fire in Louisiana and their mother was charged Sunday with four counts of negligent homicide for allegedly leaving them alone, authorities said. Full Story
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