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  • The U.S. Air Force launched an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile from a California base on Wednesday, a month after the test flight was postponed because of tensions with North Korea.
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  • In a brutal daylight attack which raised fears that terrorism had returned to London, two men with butcher knives hacked another man to death near a military barracks Wednesday before police wounded them in a shootout.
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  • Anthony Weiner
  • In running for mayor, Anthony Weiner is seeking to get past the tawdry-tweeter punch line that has dogged him since his congressional career imploded two years ago.
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  • U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder appears in an undated file photo.
  • Attorney General Eric Holder says four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009.
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  • This photo provided by The Iowa Department of Public Safety shows Kathlynn Shepard, 15.
  • A 15-year-old central Iowa girl who was abducted after getting off her school bus was still missing Tuesday, and authorities said a massive search was underway. Meanwhile, the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation said the man who is suspected of taking her and another girl committed suicide.
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  • This is an undated photo of Osama bin Laden, in Afghanistan.
  • A federal appeals court Tuesday backed the U.S. government's decision not to release photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden during and after a raid in which the terrorist leader was killed by U.S. commandos.
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  • Miguel Schiappapietra is seen in court.
  • An LAPD officer accused of luring two young girls into his Castaic, Calif., home then sexually assaulting them was formally charged Tuesday.
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  • The most recent Oklahoma tornado killed at least 24 people, destroyed countless homes and reduced one elementary school almost entirely to rubble, killing seven children inside.
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  • This file photo shows Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant reacting after a dunk in the third quarter of Game 4 of a first-round NBA basketball playoff series against the Los Angeles Lakers in Oklahoma City.
  • Oklahoma City isn't just a place where Thunder star Kevin Durant lives these days. It's home.
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  • The search for survivors and the dead is nearly complete in the Oklahoma City suburb that was smashed by a mammoth EF5 tornado. The storm killed at least 24 people, including nine children, and injured over 200, according to the state medical examiner.
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  • Legislation that grants a chance at citizenship to millions of immigrants living illegally in the United States cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a solid bipartisan vote.
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  • This is an undated photo of Osama bin Laden, in Afghanistan.
  • A Bin Laden photos ruling from a federal appeals court decided the U.S. government does not have to release pictures taken during and after the raid where the al-Qaida leader was killed.
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  • Jodi Arias
  • Jodi Arias begged jurors Tuesday to give her life in prison, saying she "lacked perspective" when she said she preferred execution.
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  • Caroline Kennedy appears on ABC7s Windy City Live in this file image.
  • The New York jury on which Caroline Kennedy served has acquitted a man of dealing crack cocaine.
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  • forklift accident in east rutherford, new jersey
  • Officials are trying to determine what caused the floor of a northern New Jersey warehouse to open up, swallowing a forklift and the man who was running it.
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  • A second day of tornadoes in Oklahoma. One touched down in Moore, causing extensive damage on Monday. On Sunday, two people were killed in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
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  • Race horse trainer Mahmood al-Zarooni leaves after a disciplinary hearing at the British Horseracing Authority, in London.
  • The Godolphin doping scandal deepened Monday, with British racing authorities announcing that seven more horses have tested positive for steroids, including the winner of the world's oldest classic.
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  • An Israeli woman is taken out of a bank in the town of Beersheba.
  • A gunman stormed into a bank in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba Monday, killing four people in a gunfight and taking a hostage before killing himself, police said.
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  • Yahoo wants to be cool again while catering to the capitalistic demands of its shareholders, which led CEO Marissa Mayer to make a $1.1 billion bet on online blogging forum Tumblr.
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  • The parents and guardians stood in the muddy grass outside a suburban Oklahoma City church, listening as someone with a bullhorn called out the names of children who were being dropped off - survivors of a deadly tornado that barreled through their community.
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  • A massive Oklahoma tornado killed at least 51, with the death toll expected to rise, according to the state medical examiner.
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  • According to the state medical examiner's office, 51 were killed in a massive Oklahoma tornado and the death toll expected to rise in Moore, Okla.
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  • A large tornado sent Oklahoma City residents scrambling Monday, the day after several tornadoes touched down in the Midwest killing two people in Shawnee.
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  • Track storms across the Houston area, including lightning strikes, down to street level
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  • Senate supporters of far-reaching immigration legislation accepted minor changes in public while negotiating over more sweeping alterations in private Monday as they drove toward expected Judiciary Committee approval by mid-week.
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  • Cardinal Sean O'Malley skipped Boston College's commencement Monday because of the involvement of Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, who supports a bill in his country that would allow abortion.
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  • Commuters navigated a patchwork of cars, trains and buses along Connecticut's shoreline Monday, encountering lengthy delays as authorities probed the cause of a train collision that disrupted one of the nation's oldest and most heavily traveled railways.
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  • Race horse trainer Mahmood al-Zarooni leaves after a disciplinary hearing at the British Horseracing Authority, in London.
  • An additional seven horses test positive for steroids, widening the Godolphin doping scandal in Britain horse racing.
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  • Iran's state radio says authorities have executed two men convicted of spying for Israel's Mossad and the American CIA intelligence agency.
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  • An Israeli woman is taken out of a bank in the town of Beersheba.
  • A gunman stormed into a bank in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba Monday, killing four people in a gunfight and taking a hostage before killing himself, police said.
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