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  • daycare drugs tammy eppley
  • A central Ohio day care worker sprinkled drugs on snacks to get children in her day care to sleep during the day, according to police charges filed Monday that the woman adamantly denies as a misunderstood joke.
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  • jimmy hoffa search
  • FBI agents plan a third day of digging Wednesday in suburban Detroit for the remains of former Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared 38 years ago.
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  • george zimmerman trial
  • Prosecutors and defense attorneys in the George Zimmerman murder trial are about to move into the next phase of jury selection.
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  • The Afghan president on Wednesday suspended talks with the United States on a new security deal to protest the way his government was being left out of initial peace negotiations with the Taliban meant to find a way to end the nearly 12-year war.
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  • Italy's high court on Tuesday harshly faulted the appeals court that acquitted American student Amanda Knox.
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  • nsa director gen. keith alexander
  • The U.S. foiled a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange because of the sweeping surveillance programs at the heart of a debate over national security and personal privacy, officials said Tuesday.
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  • fbi most wanted walter williams
  • Mexican authorities have arrested a former university professor who was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in the resort city of Playa del Carmen.
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  • A mentally disabled woman charged with shoplifting asked to be jailed because three people "had been mean to her".
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  • g-8 summit
  • World leaders including the U.S. and Russia declared Tuesday they are united in wanting a negotiated and peaceful end to the Syrian civil war that will produce a government "under a top leadership that inspires public confidence."
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  • NASA
  • NASA has eight new astronauts - its first new batch in four years.
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  • gun control debate
  • The White House is reporting progress on President Barack Obama's initiatives to reduce gun violence, but says the most important step would be getting a reluctant Congress to pass new firearms laws.
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  • women in combat
  • Military leaders are ready to begin tearing down the remaining walls that have prevented women from holding thousands of combat and special operations jobs near the front lines.
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  • brazil protests
  • Demonstrations have spread across this continent-sized country and united people from all walks of life behind frustrations over poor transportation, health services, education and security despite a heavy tax burden.
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  • Russian President Vladimir Putin is denying insinuations that he stole New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft's Super Bowl ring that's on display in the Kremlin, but says he's ready to buy him another ring as a gift.
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  • Gay wedding bands
  • Around the time the U.S. Supreme Court was considering the same-sex marriage issue, news reports had more comments from supporters than opponents, a study released Monday concluded.
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  • Britain's Prince Philip was discharged from a London hospital on Monday, 10 days after undergoing exploratory surgery on his abdomen.
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  • colorado wildfire
  • With evacuees anxious to return, firefighters worked to dig up and extinguish hot spots to protect homes spared by the most destructive wildfire in Colorado's history.
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  • plane diverted
  • A plane from Cairo bound for JFK was diverted by fighter jets to an emergency landing in the U.K. after a passenger discovered a letter threatening the aircraft.
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  • Turkish riot police on Sunday sprayed tear gas and water cannons at demonstrators who remained defiant after authorities evicted activists from an Istanbul park.
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  • plane diverted
  • A plane from Cairo bound for JFK was diverted by fighter jets to an emergency landing in the U.K. after a passenger discovered a letter threatening the aircraft.
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  • queens birthday
  • Queen Elizabeth II is celebrating her birthday with traditional pomp and circumstance - but without her husband by her side.
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  • denver bomb scare
  • Officials say one person was taken into custody following a "possible security threat" on a Denver-bound flight.
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  • Investigators began examining a twisted pile of concrete, metal and wood on to determine why a waterfront deck at collapsed.
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  • wildfires
  • Authorities lifted evacuations in a wide swath of terrain outside Colorado Springs as they said a surprise rain shower helped.
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  • nazi
  • A top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit accused of burning villages filled with women and children lied to American officials.
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  • boston marathon bombings
  • The primary compensation fund for victims of the Boston Marathon bombings got a flurry of applications Friday.
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  • syria rebels
  • The Obama administration hopes its decision to give lethal aid to Syrian rebels will prompt other nations to beef up assistance.
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  • edward snowden
  • The British government has warned airlines around the world not to allow Edward Snowden, who leaked information on top-secret U.S. government surveillance programs, to fly to the United Kingdom.
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  • An argument inside a St. Louis home health care business escalated when a man shot three people before killing himself.
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  • louisiana plant explosion
  • A ground-rattling explosion at a chemical plant in Louisiana ignited a blaze that killed one person and injured dozens of others.
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  • News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch has filed for divorce from Wendi Deng Murdoch, his wife since 1999, citing a breakdown in the relationship. The matter doesn't alter the succession plan for the media company, which the 82-year-old founder controls through a family trust.
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  • george zimmerman trial
  • The jury in the George Zimmerman trial will be sequestered.
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  • President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday reported that Mandela was responding better to treatment for a recurring lung infection.
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  • kate ship
  • The former Kate Middleton, wearing a black and white print coat and a black hat, boarded the Royal Princess for the naming ceremony, which included a blessing and the traditional smashing of a bottle across the hull.
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  • lung transplant
  • A 10-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis was recovering from a transplant of adult lungs after a judge's ruling expanded her options for lifesaving surgery.
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  • Turkey's prime minister ordered Thursday that "troublemakers" be removed from Istanbul's Taksim Square within 24 hours, while lashing out at the European Parliament over their planned resolution that condemns the excessive use of force by the police.
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  • edward snowden
  • The former CIA employee who leaked top-secret information about U.S. surveillance programs remains in Hong Kong, where activists rallied in his support Thursday outside the American consulate.
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  • edward snowden
  • The director of the National Security Agency vigorously defended once-secret surveillance programs as an effective tool.
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  • research vehicle
  • Using voice commands to send text messages and emails from behind the wheel is actually more distracting and dangerous than simply talking on a cellphone, a new AAA study found.
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  • ariel castro mugshot
  • A man accused of holding three women captive in his Cleveland home for about a decade pleaded not guilty Wednesday to hundreds of charges, including rape and kidnapping.
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  • george zimmerman trial
  • Attorneys trying to seat a jury in George Zimmerman's trial for shooting an unarmed teen stopped questioning a man in his 20s Wednesday after he gave answers that indicated he wouldn't be impartial.
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  • new mexico wildfire
  • A new wildfire burning in the Pecos Wilderness north of Santa Fe more than quadrupled in size Tuesday, burning into an area of down timber that helped to fuel the flames.
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  • immigration announcement
  • Backers of far-reaching immigration legislation are turning their attention to courting support and counting votes after the Senate pushed the contentious bill over early procedural hurdles.
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  • razor blade in burger king burger
  • A woman in northern California says she found a razor blade in her burger, but police say the restaurant isn't at fault.
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  • california school explosion
  • An explosion Tuesday in the boiler room of a Southern California high school gymnasium briefly lifted up the building's roof.
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  • turkey protest
  • Protesters and Turkey's prime minister both refused to back down in a final battle for Istanbul's Taksim Square.
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  • mikhail gorbachev
  • A spokesman for Mikhail Gorbachev says the 82-year-old former Soviet president is in the Kremlin's hospital for tests.
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  • lung transplant
  • The national organization that manages organ transplants has rejected emergency rule changes on lungs for children.
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  • The mother of a gunman who fatally shot five people during a rampage on a Southern California college campus said her husband became abusive five years into their marriage.
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  • edward snowden
  • The Obama administration considered whether to charge a government contractor with leaking classified surveillance secrets while it defended the broad U.S. spy program that it says keeps America safe from terrorists.
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