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Upset at the Kentucky Derby
Sat,5 May 2012 04:25 PM PDT
Associated Press -

Jockey Mario Gutierrez rides I'll Have Another to victory in the 138th Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs Saturday, May 5, 2012, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)I'll Have Another ran down Bodemeister in the final furlong Saturday to win the Kentucky Derby, entering the winner's circle despite a rookie jockey, a more famous stable pony, and a price tag of just $11,000 as a yearling.


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9/11 defendants ignore judge at hearing
Sat,5 May 2012 05:31 PM PDT
Associated Press -

In this photo of a sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin and reviewed by the U.S. Department of Defense, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed reads a document during his military hearing at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, Saturday, May 5, 2012. The self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed repeatedly declined to respond to a judge's questions Saturday and his co-defendant Walid bin Attash was briefly restrained at a military hearing as five men charged with the worst terror attack in U.S. history appeared in public for the first time in more than three years. (AP Photo/Janet Hamlin, Pool)They knelt in prayer, ignored the judge and wouldn't listen to Arabic translations as they confronted nearly 3,000 counts of murder. The self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and four co-defendants defiantly disrupted an arraignment that dragged into Saturday night in the opening act of the long-stalled effort to prosecute them in a military court.


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Warren Buffett plays down health concern
Sat,5 May 2012 02:19 PM PDT
Reuters -

Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway sings with University of Nebraska cheerleaders prior to the annual shareholders meeting in Omaha, Neb., Saturday, May 5, 2012. Berkshire Hathaway is holding it's annual shareholders meeting this weekend. (AP Photo/Dave Weaver)OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters) - Warren Buffett tried to allay fears of Berkshire Hathaway Inc shareholders about the company's future after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, and revealed that he recently tried to make one of the biggest acquisitions of his storied career. The question of who will succeed Buffett, 81, as chief executive became more of an imperative after Buffett disclosed the diagnosis on April 17. ...


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Obama: 'I'm asking you to keep believing in me'
Sat,5 May 2012 12:22 PM PDT
The Ticket -

U.S. President Barack Obama receives a hug as he and first lady Michelle Obama greet supporters during a campaign rally at the Ohio State University in ColumbusFighting to recapture the magic of his history-making 2008 campaign, President Barack Obama on Saturday laid out his fullest-yet case for reelection, pleading with struggling Americans to "keep believing in me" and hitting out at presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney. "If people ask you what this campaign is about, you tell them 'it's still about [...]


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France on verge of first Socialist leader in 20 years
Sat,5 May 2012 02:18 PM PDT
Reuters -

Francois Hollande, Socialist Party candidate for the 2012 French presidential election, attends a meeting at his campaign headquarters in ParisCampaigning ended on Saturday in France for a decisive second-round presidential vote expected to crown Francois Hollande the country's first Socialist leader in two decades despite polls showing President Nicolas Sarkozy clawing back some ground. Sunday's election, which coincides with parliamentary polls in Greece, may prove decisive for the direction of Europe as Hollande has promised he will try to temper a German-led austerity drive across Europe and reorientate the recession-struck euro zone towards growth. ...


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Former GOP candidate Gary Johnson wins Libertarian nod
Sat,5 May 2012 01:20 PM PDT
Associated Press -

Republican presidential candidate Gary Johnson addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla., Friday, Sept. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Joe Burbank, Pool)Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson is campaigning to win the White House as a Libertarian after receiving scant attention in the Republican presidential race.


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2 bodies found in Miss. during search for mom, girls
Sat,5 May 2012 05:57 PM PDT
Associated Press -

This undated photo provided by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety shows Jo Ann Bain. Bain and her three daughters may be in Two bodies have been found in Mississippi during the search for a missing Tennessee woman and her three children, but the identities are not known, authorities said Saturday.


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Five killed in Syria's increasingly restive Aleppo
Sat,5 May 2012 01:33 PM PDT
Associated Press -

In this picture taken with a mobile phone, anti-Syrian regime mourners shout slogans against their president Bashar Assad as they carry the body of Malek Shouraba, who was killed by Syrian security forces along with four protesters on Friday, while they were attending the funeral of activist, Odai Junblat, during his funeral procession, in Kfar Suseh area in Damascus, Syria, on Saturday May 5, 2012. (AP Photo)A bomb struck a car wash Saturday in Aleppo, killing at least five people, a day after government troops opened fire to break up large protests against a violent university raid in Syria's largest city.


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FBI had been investigating Arizona neo-Nazi before shooting
Sat,5 May 2012 05:05 PM PDT
Reuters -

File photo of JT Ready along US/Mexico border in ArizonaThe neo-Nazi founder of an anti-immigrant border militia was already the subject of an FBI domestic terrorism probe before he went on a shooting rampage and killed four people, officials and news reports said on Saturday. The Arizona Republic newspaper said federal agents seized numerous computers and munitions from the Phoenix valley home where white supremacist Jason Todd "J.T." Ready is believed to have killed his girlfriend and three others on Wednesday following a domestic dispute, before shooting himself. ...


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Slideshow: The wildest hats at the Kentucky Derby
Sat,5 May 2012 12:24 PM PDT
Slideshow: The wildest hats at the Kentucky DerbyA woman wears a fancy hat at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky before the 138th running of the Kentucky Derby, May 5, 2012. REUTERS/Jeff Haynes (UNITED STATES - Tags: SPORT HORSE RACING)
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Egypt military detains hundreds following violence
Sat,5 May 2012 01:44 PM PDT
Associated Press -

An Egyptian Army soldier sits atop an armored vehicle as workers clear away plywood and debris used by protesters during clashes outside the Ministry of Defense in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, May 5, 2012. Lawyers say authorities have detained over 300 Egyptian protesters including 18 women following clashes outside the country's Defense Ministry, accused of attacking troops and disrupting public order.(AP Photo/Mahmoud Abd Al-Aziz)Egypt's military officials moved swiftly Saturday to prosecute protesters they blamed for an attack on the Defense Ministry, in an attempt to put down increasingly violent protests against their authority just weeks before the country's presidential election.


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Murdoch scandal follows classic media baron script
Sat,5 May 2012 12:03 PM PDT
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FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2011 file photo, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch delivers a keynote address at the National Summit on Education Reform in San Francisco. If the phone hacking scandal gripping Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. empire has a familiar ring, it might be because you've heard the story before. Scrappy outsider turns modest newspaper business into international media conglomerate. Ambition turns to hubris. Mogul dramatically falls from grace. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)If the phone hacking scandal gripping Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. empire has a familiar ring, it might be because you've heard the story before. Scrappy outsider turns modest newspaper business into international media conglomerate. Ambition turns to hubris. Mogul dramatically falls from grace.


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Peru says stay off beaches after mass pelican deaths
Sat,5 May 2012 04:30 PM PDT
Reuters -

Dead pelicans are displayed by conservationists at Reventazon beach, close to the Illescas peninsula in PiuraPeru's government declared a health alert along its northern coastline on Saturday and urged residents and tourists alike to stay away from long stretches of beach, as it investigates the unexplained deaths of hundreds of dolphins and pelicans. At least 1,200 birds, mostly pelicans, washed up dead along a stretch of Peru's northern Pacific coastline in recent weeks, health officials said, after an estimated 800 dolphins died in the same area in recent months. ...


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News agency: Putin ready to 'go far' in U.S. relations
Sat,5 May 2012 10:53 AM PDT
Reuters -

Russia's Prime Minister and President-elect Putin talks to the media at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside MoscowRussia's President-elect Vladimir Putin is ready to go far in developing ties between Russia and the United States provided the relationship is equal, Interfax news agency quoted Putin's foreign policy aide as saying on Saturday. Putin discussed bilateral relations at a closed-door meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama's top security aide Tom Donilon at his Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow on Friday, three days before his inauguration ceremony at the Kremlin. ...


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Afghan child bride's in-laws sentenced for torture
Sat,5 May 2012 09:38 AM PDT
Associated Press -

FILE- In this Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012 file photo, Afghan doctors, unseen, dress the tortured ear of Sahar Gul, 15-year-old at a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. The in-laws of a child bride who became the bruised and bloodied face of women's rights in Afghanistan have been sentenced to 10 years in prison for torture, abuse and human rights violations, a judge said Saturday, May 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq, File)The in-laws of a child bride who became the bruised and bloodied face of women's rights in Afghanistan have been sentenced to 10 years in prison for torture, abuse and human rights violations, a judge said Saturday.


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AT&T to pay Muslim woman $5M in harassment case
Sat,5 May 2012 03:02 PM PDT
Associated Press - A former Kansas City woman who converted to Islam in 2005 said she was harassed for years at AT&T, and that the abuse boiled over in 2008 when her boss snatched her head scarf and exposed her hair. Full Story
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American hikers imprisoned in Iran set to marry
Sat,5 May 2012 11:01 AM PDT
AFP -

Shane Bauer (R) addresses a press conference while his fiancee and former fellow detainee Sarah Shourd looksTwo of the US hikers imprisoned in Iran on spying charges after straying across the border in July 2009 are set to marry over the weekend, a lawyer and friend of the couple said Friday.


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Facebook 'Like' not protected by First Amendment
Sat,5 May 2012 12:30 PM PDT
The Atlantic Wire - It should go without saying that you should be careful of what you "like" on Facebook. You should try not to "like" anything embarrassing or incriminating, lest it come back to bite you. A judge has ruled that "liking" something on Facebook doesn't protect you under the First Amendment, which is bad news for at least one man in Virginia.  Full Story
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Concordia cruise company unveils new vessel
Sat,5 May 2012 10:19 AM PDT
AFP -

The 114,500 tonne Costa Fascinosa was unveiled in VeniceA tragedy like the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise liner "will not happen again," the shipping line's boss said Saturday as he unveiled a new luxury vessel to the public.


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