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  • A building at the Summer Bay Resort in Clermont, Fla, shows damage from collapsing into a sinkhole early Monday, Aug. 12, 2013.
  • A sinkhole caused a section of a central Florida resort villa to partially collapse early Monday, authorities said.
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  •  The southern California girl who was abducted last week and rescued Saturday by FBI agents has returned home with her father.
  • A close family friend suspected of abducting a 16-year old girl after killing her mother and younger brother fired at least one shot at FBI rescuers before agents killed him deep in the Idaho wilderness, authorities said Monday.
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amber alert, idaho, san diego, missing person, national/world
  • James Whitey Bulger
  • Former Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger has been convicted in a string of 11 killings and other underworld crimes.
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  • This combination of undated file photos provided by the San Diego Sheriffs Department shows James Lee DiMaggio, 40, left, and Hannah Anderson, 16. (AP Photo/San Diego Sheriffs Department, File)
  • Almost from the moment he laid eyes on 16-year-old Hannah Anderson and her abductor, James Lee DiMaggio, former Idaho county sheriff Mark John was swept with the feeling that something just didn't seem right about the pair.
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  • Security forces and civilians inspect the scene of a car bomb attack near a mosque in Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2013.
  • A wave of car bombings targeting those celebrating the end of Ramadan across Iraq killed 69 people Saturday.
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  • Caught between domestic gridlock and foreign policy crises, the president held a news conference Friday before going on vacation.
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  • Three winning tickets in two states matched all the numbers for a $448.4 million Powerball jackpot, including one sold in a supermarket in a New Jersey coastal community hit hard by Superstorm Sandy last year.
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  • With several swipes from the arm of an excavator and a smattering of applause from spectators, demolition began Wednesday.
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  • An Egyptian girl has a face painting with the colors of the national flag and attends a protest outside Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque
  • Egypt's military-backed interim leadership proclaimed Wednesday that a crackdown against two protest sites is inevitable
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  • FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Bell County Sheriffs Department shows Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage that left 13 dead.
  • The Army psychiatrist accused in the deadliest mass shooting ever on a U.S. military installation told jurors Tuesday that evidence would "clearly show" he was the gunman during the attack on Fort Hood, but he insisted it wouldn't tell the whole story.
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  • Emergency crews respond to a reported shooting at the Ross Township building that left two people dead, Monday, Aug. 5, 2013 in Saylorsburg, Pa.
  • A shooting during a meeting at a northeastern Pennsylvania municipal building left three people dead on Monday.
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  • One designer has created an urban invention to get people across the world to slow down on their daily commutes.
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  • A U.S. military helicopter crashed Monday at an American base on the southern island of Okinawa, and all four crew members are believed to have survived, Japanese and U.S. officials said.
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  • No one matched all six numbers for the $300 million jackpot, but someone bought a ticket in the Bay Area with five of the matching numbers.
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  • A Yemeni soldier inspects a car at a checkpoint on a street leading to the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, Yemen
  • U.S. diplomatic posts in 19 cities in the Muslim world will be closed at least through the end of this week, the State Department said Sunday, citing "an abundance of caution."
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  • Top U.S. officials met Saturday to review the threat of a terrorist attack that led to the weekend closure of 21 U.S. embassies and consulates in the Muslim world and a global travel warning to Americans. President Barack Obama was briefed following the session, the White House said.
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  • International Olympic officials should use "all the avenues possible" with the Russian government to ensure that athletes competing at next year's Winter Games in Sochi aren't affected by a new anti-gay law, IOC presidential candidate Richard Carrion said Friday.
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  • The Food and Drug Administration says an outbreak of stomach illnesses in Iowa and Nebraska is linked to salad mix served at Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants in those states and supplied by a Mexican farm.
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  • The United States has issued a global travel alert because of an al-Qaida terrorist threat.
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  • Castro, who was convicted of holding 3 women captive in his house, was sentenced to life in prison plus 1,000 years.
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  • Fire in Lake County, Florida
  • A series of explosions rocked a central Florida propane gas plant and sent "boom after boom after boom" through the neighborhood around it. Eight people were injured, with at least four in critical condition.
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  • The Ohio man convicted of holding three women captive in his Cleveland house over a decade and raping them repeatedly was sentenced Thursday to life in prison plus 1,000 years.
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  • Michelle Knight sits in the courtroom during a break in the sentencing phase for Ariel Castro Thursday
  • Michelle Knight, who was kidnapped and repeatedly raped for a decade, told Castro that her life is just beginning while his is over
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  • Edward Snowden
  • National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden left the transit zone of a Moscow airport and entered Russia after authorities granted him asylum for one year, his lawyer said Thursday.
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  • The Capitol Dome in Washington D.C.
  • The U.S. House of Representatives gave final congressional approval to legislation lowering the cost of borrowing for college.
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  • O.J. Simpson testifies during an evidentiary hearing in Clark County District Court, Wednesday, May 15, 2013 in Las Vegas.
  • O.J. Simpson was granted parole on some of his 2008 convictions, but that won't mean he'll leave prison anytime soon.
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  • Supporters of Egypts ousted President Mohammed Morsi pray outside Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque in Cairo, Egypt, late Tuesday, July 30, 2013.
  • Egypt's military government ordered police on Wednesday to clear Cairo of protest camps that support Mohammed Morsi.
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  • A surveillance camera captured a deadly train wreck in Spain on July 24, 2013.
  • Surveillance video shows the moment a train flipped off the rails in Spain, killing dozens of people.
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  • Bradley Manning
  • But Manning was convicted of espionage, theft and other charges, more than three years after he spilled secrets to WikiLeaks.
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  • A 15-year-old girl was removed from sex trafficking as part of the same sweep in the Fresno area.
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  • Demonstrators supporting fast food workers protest outside a McDonalds as they demand higher wages and the right to form a union without retaliation Monday, July 29, 2013, in New Yorks Union Square.
  • Workers at McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's restaurants across New York walked out Monday in a one-day strike to demand better pay and the right to unionize, calling for minimum wage to more than double from $7.25 to $15 an hour and the end to what activists called "abusive labor practices."
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  • Declaring child prostitution a "persistent threat" in America, the FBI said Monday that authorities had rescued 105 young people and arrested 150 alleged pimps in a three-day sweep in 76 cities.
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  • A view of the Carlton hotel, in Cannes, southern France, the scene of a daylight raid, Sunday, July 28, 2013.
  • Wearing a scarf to mask his face, the gunman held up at least three security guards and then fled the luxury Cannes hotel roughly a minute later with $136 million in diamond jewelry, more than twice the initial estimated worth of the loot.
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france, national/world
  • Pope Francis' historic trip to his home continent ended Sunday after a marathon weeklong visit to Brazil that drew millions of people onto the sands of Rio de Janeiro's iconic Copacabana beach and appeared to reinvigorate the clergy and faithful alike in the world's largest Catholic country.
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  • A tour bus filled with Italians returning home after an excursion plunged off a highway into a ravine in southern Italy on Sunday night after it had smashed into several cars that were slowed by heavy traffic, killing at least 37 people, said police and rescuers.
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  • This image from the video provided by Hennes Paynter Communications shows from left: Amanda Berry in the YouTube video posted late Monday night July 8, 2013.
  • One of three women held captive in a Cleveland home for a decade has appeared at a public event for the first time.
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  • A deadly nighttime speedboat crash on the Hudson River hurled a bride-to-be and her fiance's best man into the water and left the groom and three others injured, including a friend charged with vehicular manslaughter on Saturday, just two weeks before the couple was to exchange their vows.
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  • A man set fire to his South Florida apartment, killed six people, and held another two hostage at gunpoint before a SWAT team stormed the complex and fatally shot him Saturday, according to police and witness accounts.
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  • President Barack Obama speaks on the 60th anniversary of the end of the Korean War, during remarks at a commemorative ceremony near the Korean War Veterans Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, on Saturday, July 27, 2013.
  • Six decades after the Korean War ended, President Barack Obama said that American veterans deserved a better homecoming.
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  • Pope Francis wears an indigenous headdress given to him by Ubirai Matos from the Pataxo tribe in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, July 27, 2013.
  • Pope Francis issued blunt criticism of the Brazilian church's failure to stem the "exodus" of Catholics.
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  • Supporters of Egypts ousted President Mohammed Morsi carry an injured man to a field hospital following clashes with security forces at Nasr City, where pro-Morsi protesters have held a weeks-long sit-in, in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, July 27, 2013.
  • Security forces clashed with supporters of Egypt's ousted president, killing at least 65 protesters, the Health Ministry said.
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  • Three people were killed when a bus carrying teens from a church camp crashed on a busy thoroughfare near Interstate 465.
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  • Ariel Castro appears in a Cleveland courtroom on Wednesday, July 17, 2013.
  • The Cleveland man who imprisoned three women in his home, subjecting them to a decade of rapes and beatings, pleaded guilty Friday in a deal to avoid the death penalty.
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  • Adrian Albrecht, left, and Milan Poparovic
  • Swiss police say a member of the notorious 'Pink Panther' jewel thief gang has escaped from prison.
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  • Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday raised the death toll in Syria's civil war to more than 100,000, up from nearly 93,000 just over a month ago.
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  • Emergency personnel respond to the scene of a train derailment in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on Wednesday, July 24, 2013.
  • A Spanish train that hurtled off the rails and smashed into a security wall as it rounded a bend was going so fast that carriages tumbled off the tracks like dominos
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  • Emergency personnel respond to the scene of a train derailment in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on Wednesday, July 24, 2013.
  • A train derailed in northwestern Spain on Wednesday night, toppling passenger cars on their sides. See photos from the scene.
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  • Britains Prince William, right, and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge hold the Prince of Cambridge, Tuesday July 23, 2013, as they pose for photographers outside St. Marys Hospital
  • The baby will be known as His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge.
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  • Edward Snowden.
  • Edward Snowden may be settling in for a long stay in Russia, his lawyer indicated Wednesday, saying the National Security Agency leaker plans to start studying the Russian language and culture and that, for the time being, Russia is his final destination.
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  • royal family leaves hospital
  • Prince William and Duchess Kate spoke to reporters before departing the hospital with their new baby.
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