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Wal-Mart scandal lifts lid on culture of bribery in Mexico
Sun,22 Apr 2012 06:45 PM PDT
Reuters -

A van covered by a mural sits parked outside a Walt-Mart Super Center in Mexico City, Saturday, April 21, 2012. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. hushed up a vast bribery campaign that top executives of its Mexican subsidiary carried out to build stores across Mexico, according to a published report by the New York Times. Wal-Mart is Mexico's largest private employer. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)Whether you are the world's No. 1 retailer or a humble street vendor, paying public officials a bribe may be the quickest way to get your business growing in Mexico. The New York Times reported this weekend that Wal-Mart Stores Inc investigators probing its Mexican operations found a paper trail of hundreds of suspect payments worth more than $24 million made to grow its business there, and that the company then quashed the investigation. ...


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Lawmakers call for wider probe, more female agents
Sun,22 Apr 2012 05:12 PM PDT
The Ticket -

People walk past Hotel El Caribe in Cartagena, Colombia, late Thursday, April 19, 2012. Eleven Secret Service employees are accused of misconduct in connection with a prostitution scandal at the hotel last week before President Barack Obama's arrival for the Summit of the Americas. The identities of two Secret Service supervisors who have been pushed out of the agency in the wake of the scandal have been revealed. (AP Photo/Pedro Mendoza)As you would expect, the Secret Service sex scandal was a big topic of discussion on the Sunday morning talk shows, where several members of Congress called for a broader probe in the wake of prostitution allegations that have rocked the agency. Rep. Peter King, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, told "Meet The Press" [...]


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No new clues in search for missing 6-year-old Tucson girl
Sun,22 Apr 2012 05:05 PM PDT
Associated Press -

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)The parents of a missing 6-year-old Arizona girl asked their parish priest for prayers Sunday as volunteers passed out fliers across Tucson and more than 150 law enforcement officers tried to figure out whether she had been abducted.


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Newspaper delivers powerful anti-bullying message
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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French presidential election headed for runoff
Sun,22 Apr 2012 12:23 PM PDT
The Envoy -

French President and UMP candidate Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy leave after casting their votes in the first round of French presidential elections in Paris, France, Sunday, April 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)The French presidential election appears to be headed to a runoff. Exit polls cited by French television in Sunday's first round of voting show President Nicolas Sarkozy losing by a thin margin to Socialist challenger Francois Hollande. According to CNN, Sarkozy captured 25.5 percent of the vote, while Hollande took 28.4 percent. Marine Le Pen, [...]


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Dowd: Secret Service, GSA gaffes erode faith
Sun,22 Apr 2012 11:24 AM PDT
ABC OTUS News -

Secret Service Scandal: More Firings Likely, Former Director SaysABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd said the recent scandals involving the Secret Service and GSA reflect a declining trust in American institutions at all levels. "The American public has lost faith in every single institution in this country," Dowd said this morning on the...


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All eyes on Fla. jail as Zimmerman awaits release
Sun,22 Apr 2012 03:03 PM PDT
Associated Press -

FILE - In this April 20, 2012 file photo, George Zimmerman appears before Circuit Judge Kenneth R. Lester Jr. during a bond hearing in Sanford, Fla. Zimmerman's attorney was still working Sunday to secure the money for bail and a safe place for the 28-year-old neighborhood watch volunteer to stay. But residents in Sanford, where Martin was killed, don't expect a ruckus once Zimmerman is released. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Gary W. Green, Pool, File)All eyes remain on the Florida jail where the man charged with murdering 17-year-old Trayvon Martin is awaiting release on bail, and it could be several days before he leaves.


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Search for long missing New York boy fails to find remains
Sun,22 Apr 2012 05:21 PM PDT
Reuters -

FBI agents and New York City police officers remove concrete from a New York City apartment building where they were searching a basement for clues in the 1979 disappearance of Etan PatzInvestigators searching a New York basement for clues about the 1979 disappearance of a 6-year-old boy have ended their digging at the scene after "nothing conclusive was found" from a four-day excavation, a law enforcement source said on Sunday. Etan Patz was one of the first missing children in the United States to have his photograph printed on milk cartons after he disappeared, and his case helped fuel an intense national campaign in search of missing children in the 1980s. ...


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Ariz. sheriff played federal investigation for laughs
Sun,22 Apr 2012 05:19 PM PDT
Associated Press -

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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'One Day on Earth:' Film with footage from every country debuts
Sun,22 Apr 2012 10:31 AM PDT
The Sideshow -

Earth DayOn Oct. 10, 2010, a pair of aspiring American filmmakers--who had never made a film before--asked people in every country in the world to document something they saw that day and submit footage for inclusion in an ambitious film project. "It was a big idea," Kyle Ruddick, the first-time director, told Yahoo News in a [...]


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Fla. woman going on trial in 2009 Novack killings
Sun,22 Apr 2012 03:38 PM PDT
Associated Press -

FILE - This 2010 file photo provided by the Broward Sheriff's Office shows Narcy Novack of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., who is charged with orchestrating the 2009 killings of her husband, Ben Novack Jr., and her mother-in-law, Bernice Novack. Her trial opens Monday in White Plains, N.Y. (AP Photo/Broward Sheriff's Office, File)Sneaky breast implants. Naked amputees. The Batmobile.


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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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American author Doris Betts dies at 79 of lung cancer
Sun,22 Apr 2012 05:22 PM PDT
Associated Press - Doris Betts, who wrote novels set in her native South and taught creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has died, her son said Sunday. She was 79. Full Story
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Hollande victory could impact U.S. markets this week
Sun,22 Apr 2012 04:34 PM PDT
Associated Press -

Hollande Socialist Party Candidate for the 2012 French presidential election arrives at his campaign headquarters in ParisA strong showing by Socialist candidate Francois Hollande in the first round of France's presidential election Sunday may rattle U.S. and global financial markets in the coming weeks.


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Soccer ball swept up by Japanese tsunami found in Alaska
Sun,22 Apr 2012 06:39 PM PDT
Reuters - A soccer ball that bobbed onto the shore of a remote Alaska island is likely the first salvageable debris from last year's Japanese tsunami that could be returned to its owner, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The ball, found on Alaska's Middleton Island, bears writing that identifies its place of origin, said Doug Helton, operations coordinator for NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration, which is tracking debris from the tsunami. ... Full Story
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Afghanistan, U.S. agree on strategic pact text
Sun,22 Apr 2012 03:21 PM PDT
Reuters -

U.S. soldiers from 3rd platoon Bronco troop 5-20 infantry Regiment attached to 82nd Airborne patrol with Afghan national Army soldiers in Zharay districtAfghanistan and the United States on Sunday agreed on a draft of a long-awaited deal that will define the scope and nature of a U.S. presence in the country for up to a decade after the pullout of most NATO combat troops in 2014. The U.S. Ambassador to Kabul, Ryan Crocker, and Afghan national security adviser, Rangin Spanta, initialed copies of the agreement, paving the way for President Barack Obama and his Afghan counterpart, Hamid Karzai, to review it. ...


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Police hope grainy photos catch banker's shooter
Sun,22 Apr 2012 04:36 PM PDT
Reuters -

Handout image shows suspected gunman in the shooting of former Russian banker German Gorbuntsov in LondonThe police released grainy photos on Monday of a man suspected of shooting a former Russian banker near London's Canary Wharf financial district in a case that has raised fears that Russian gangland violence could be spreading to Britain. Financier German Gorbuntsov, 45, was shot five times as he entered a block of flats where he lives near the River Thames in the east of the capital on March 20. He survived the attack, but was critically injured and is recovering in hospital where his condition was described as stable. ...


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What causes 'brain freeze' headaches? New answers
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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More firings likely coming in Secret Service scandal
Sun,22 Apr 2012 11:59 AM PDT
Associated Press -

Secret Service Scandal: More Firings Likely, Former Director SaysThe chairman of a House committee investigating an alleged Secret Service prostitution scandal predicted more firings as key lawmakers and a top adviser to President Barack Obama expressed confidence Sunday that the agency will effectively deal with the incident.


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Iran says it recovered data from captured U.S. drone
Sun,22 Apr 2012 11:20 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 information that the aircraft was used to spy on Osama bin Laden weeks before he was killed. Iran also said it was building a copy of the drone.


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Photos: World celebrates Earth Day
Sun,22 Apr 2012 02:20 PM PDT
Photos: World celebrates Earth DayIndonesian environmental activists parade during a protest to mark Earth Day in Malang. "One Day on Earth" -- touted as the first film with footage from every country taken on the same day -- was to be screened for the first time Sunday around the world, including at the UN. (AFP Photo/Aman Rochman)
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Millions of books to be donated Monday night
Sun,22 Apr 2012 11:51 AM PDT
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De La Torre and Schwabe load books at the Los Angeles Times Festival of BooksYou won't need to visit a store or library Monday night to see a book change hands or receive a free copy yourself.


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