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  • A federal judge in Georgia has thrown out race discrimination claims by a former Savannah restaurant manager whose lawsuit against Paula Deen ended up causing the celebrity cook to lose a big slice of her culinary empire.
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  • breaking news
  • Former Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger has been convicted in a string of 11 killings and other underworld crimes.
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  • isaiah perez
  • Police are pursuing the link between two Rhode Island men and the two women found slain in a home from which the toddler son of one victim was kidnapped.
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  • california wildfire
  • Firefighters continued to make progress overnight battling Southern California's latest destructive wildfire, which burned 26 homes and threatened more than 500 others in the San Jacinto Mountains.
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  • eric holder
  • With the U.S. facing massive overcrowding in its prisons, Attorney General Eric Holder is calling for major changes to the nation's criminal justice system that would scale back the use of harsh sentences for certain drug-related crimes.
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  • protesters in egypt expected to be besieged by police
  • Supporters of Egypt's ousted president have dug in at their two Cairo sit-ins after security officials said police would besiege the entrenched protest camps within 24 hours - perhaps as early as Monday morning.
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  • 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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missing children, missing person, abduction, california, u.s. & world news
  • edward snowden
  • National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden's father has secured documents to visit his son in Russia and plans to discuss how he could fight espionage charges.
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  • The office of the South African president says Nelson Mandela remains in critical condition although his health is gradually improving.
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  • netanyahu
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is undergoing emergency surgery Saturday night at a hospital in Jerusalem.
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  • Terror warnings expand to Pakistan
  • The State Department says that 18 of the 19 U.S. embassies and consulates in the Middle East and Africa will reopen.
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  • breastfeeding
  • A battle over a woman's right to breastfeed in public was caught on camera in a video that's gone viral.
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  • facebook
  • The South Florida man who authorities say killed his 26-year-old wife and apparently posted a photo of her corpse on Facebook told residents of his townhouse complex that he possessed a concealed weapon permit and belonged to a neighborhood watch patrol.
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  • Nidal Hassan
  • Also on Thursday, a military judge ruled the soldier on trial for the 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage can continue to represent himself.
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  • missouri flash floods
  • Torrential rains continued across the nation's midsection on Thursday, causing flash flooding that killed a woman and a child, damaged homes and forced multiple water rescues.
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  • boston marathon bombings
  • Two college friends of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were indicted Thursday for allegedly trying to thwart investigators by throwing away fireworks and other items they found in Tsarnaev's dorm room the day before his capture.
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  • california police chase and crash
  • Police say a carjacking suspect took a stolen Kia minivan off-road, crashing into a fence and flipping down an embankment.
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  • facebook
  • Authorities say a South Florida man fatally shot his wife and apparently then posted a photo of her body on Facebook.
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  • dallas-area shooting spree
  • A former teacher who moonlighted as a hip-hop dancer entertaining NBA crowds has been arrested in the fatal shooting of four people in two Dallas-area homes, and police were investigating Thursday if he used a grenade or other explosive in one of the attacks.
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  • The mother of two small boys strangled by a 100-pound (45-kilogram) python in their sleep earlier this week in Canada had posted photos on Facebook last year of the boys playing in and cleaning her neighbor's snake enclosure.
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  • Autopsies will be performed Tuesday on two young boys who were strangled in their sleep by a python that escaped from a pet store in Canada and slithered through a ventilation system into an upstairs apartment.
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  • china bus crash caught on camera
  • At least 23 people were hurt in the frightening crash, but none of the injuries were life threatening.
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  • brazil bus plunge
  • Brazilian authorities say a passenger bus has plunged 40 meters (130 feet) off a bridge in a city near Rio de Janeiro.
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  • Jurors in the racketeering trial of James "Whitey" Bulger will be back for a third day of deliberations after a day of questions and mystery.
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  • john mccain egypt
  • Egypt's military-backed interim leadership proclaimed Wednesday that a crackdown against two protest sites is inevitable, saying that nearly two weeks of foreign diplomatic efforts to peacefully resolve its standoff with the Muslim Brotherhood have failed.
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  • More than 100 goats are taking over Washington's Historic Congressional Cemetery to help clean up the landmark.
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  • castro sentencing
  • The house where three women were held captive and raped over a decade was demolished Wednesday morning in Cleveland.
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  • kenya airport fire
  • A small fire that an under-resourced fire brigade reacted slowly to swelled into a raging inferno that engulfed the arrival hall at Kenya's main international airport Wednesday, an official said, shutting down East Africa's largest airport and forcing the cancellation of dozens of flights.
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  • yemen terror fight drone attacks
  • Authorities foiled plots by al-Qaida to take over key cities in southern Yemen and attack strategic ports and gas facilities, a government spokesman said Wednesday.
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  • Former President George W. Bush has been discharged from a Dallas hospital a day after having a heart procedure to ease a blocked artery.
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  • A Wisconsin daredevil freed himself from shackles and a locked casket while plummeting to the earth at 130 miles per hour on Tuesday, eventually parachuting gently into a northern Illinois field.
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  • rockne newell
  • The witness described a chaotic scene that ended with him and another man wrestling the suspected gunman to the ground as others hid behind a barrier of overturned tables and chairs.
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  • boston cardboard cop
  • The burly officer watching over the bike racks at a Boston-area transportation hub is a real stiff.
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  • bird flu
  • Chinese scientists have found the strongest evidence yet that a new bird flu strain is sometimes able to spread from person to person, but they are emphasizing that the virus still does not transmit easily.
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  • ABC News White House correspondant Ann Compton says former President President George W. Bush underwent a heart procedure Tuesday morning.
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  • Benghazi embassy
  • The Justice Department has filed the first criminal charges in the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, two U.S. officials said Tuesday.
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  • yemen evacuations
  • The U.S. right now is frantically looking for elusive explosives in Yemen, as personnel at the U.S. embassy fled the country.
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al qaida, terror threat, terrorism, u.s. & world news, josh einiger
  • swiss balloon crash
  • Police say a hot air balloon carrying a vacationing American family has crashed in Switzerland, killing the father and seriously injuring his wife, two daughters and the pilot.
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  • rockne newell
  • Rockne Newell had reportedly been fighting with the town for more than 18 years about his ramshackle, trash-filled property.
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  • logan stevenson
  • The terminally-ill 2-year-old western Pennsylvania boy who served as his parents' best man at their wedding has died.
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  • Several airlines are experiencing flight delays nationwide because of a problem with a computer system they use for services such as reservations, check-ins and online booking.
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  • Nidal Hassan
  • After years of delays, the trial of the man who carried out the Fort Hood shooting seems likely to unfold as a faceoff between the gunman and his victims.
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  • Federal officials are taking action to stop a rise in pedestrian deaths around the country.
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  • boston tractor trailer crash
  • A tractor-trailer flew off a section of elevated highway on an interstate in Boston after police say it was sideswiped by another driver, and the entire horrific incident was caught on video.
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  • kendra mckenzie gill
  • A woman who recently was crowned Miss Riverton after wowing the judges on the piano is accused of exercising a more sinister talent - cooking up homemade bombs and throwing them from a car.
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  • A shooting during a meeting at a northeastern Pennsylvania municipal building has left three people dead.
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  • louisiana train derailment
  • About 100 homes remained evacuated Monday as officials worked to clean up the site of a 26-car train derailment near the small community of Lawtell, about 60 miles west of Baton Rouge.
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  • bart strike san francisco
  • Hundreds of thousands of San Francisco Bay area commuters got at least a temporary reprieve from a massive transit strike when Gov. Jerry Brown ordered an inquiry into a labor contract dispute.
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  • After two weeks of pulling royal baby duty, it's back to work Monday for Prince William.
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  • The sentencing hearing of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is resuming with more evidence that the classified information he disclosed through WikiLeaks damaged U.S. foreign relations.
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