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  • A rare whale that has a dolphin-shaped head and saber-like teeth has been found dead on Los Angeles' Venice Beach, even though it prefers frigid subarctic waters.
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  • medical marijuana
  • Washington adopted rules Wednesday for the recreational sale of marijuana, creating what advocates hope will be a template for the drug's legalization around the world.
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  • A northwest Missouri prosecutor said Wednesday that he's asking for a special prosecutor to look at the case of a 14-year-old girl who says she was plied with alcohol and raped by a 17-year-old acquaintance.
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  • This is the first time the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety put moderately priced cars to through its rigid, frontal impact tests.
  • To make the world safer for pets, Lindsey Wolko had to design an indestructible dog.
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  • Congress passed a deal to avert a threatened default and reopen the government, clearing the measure for the President's signature.
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  • Congress passed a deal to avert a threatened default and reopen the government, clearing the measure for the President's signature.
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  • A baggage handler arrested after dry ice bombs exploded at Los Angeles International Airport planted the devices as a prank, police said Wednesday.
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  • Mark Cuban won a years-long fight with the federal government Wednesday as jurors decided that the billionaire basketball team owner did not commit insider-trading when he sold his stake in an Internet company in 2004.
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  • Senate announces tentaive debt-ceiling deal
  • Any deal struck Wednesday night is a temporary one, buying lawmakers just a few more months.
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  • Papua New Guinea
  • A powerful earthquake measuring magnitude 6.8 rocked parts of the South Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea on Wednesday, officials said. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
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  • Four people died and another was hospitalized after a boat with more than a dozen people aboard - including Haitian and Jamaican nationals - capsized early Wednesday in the waters off South Florida.
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  • Court documents indicate Six Flags denies any liability in the death of a rider on one of its roller coasters in part because it was not the manufacturer or designer.
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  • A woman fell to her death from the Texas Giant roller coaster at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington July 19, 2013.
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  • The girls allegedly "terrorized" 12-year-old Rebecca Sedgewick, who committed suicide last month.
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  • President Barack Obama awards the Medal of Honor to former Army Capt. William D. Swenson of Seattle, Wash., during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013.
  • Four years after risking his life in Afghanistan, William D. Swenson solemnly received the Medal of Honor on Tuesday in a case of battlefield bravery with some odd twists.
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  • Time growing desperately short, House Republican efforts to pass legislation averting a Treasury default and ending a partial government shutdown collapsed Tuesday night, and one of the country's top ratings firms warned of a possible downgrade in the nation's creditworthiness.
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  • The bomb killed Gov. Arsallah Jamal of eastern Logar province as he delivered a speech at the main mosque in the provincial capital of Puli Alam to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.
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  • nazi funeral italy, erich priebke
  • Shouting "murderer" and "executioner," hundreds of people jeered as the coffin of Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke arrived.
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  • IRS sign
  • Tuesday is the deadline to pay your taxes if you requested a six-month extension back in April.
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  • Former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner appears at an arraignment hearing on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013.
  • Former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, driven from office by sexual harassment allegations, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a felony and two misdemeanors for unwanted physical contact with three women at public events.
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  • Walmart food stamps
  • A computer glitch at the vendor that services EBT that had caused people in 16 states to postpone their grocery shopping has been fixed.
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  • A Philippines earthquake claimed the lives of at least 93 people, but the death toll could continue to climb.
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  • Philippines earthquake death toll continues to climb after the 7.2-magnitude quake leveled buildings in the central Philippine island of Bohol.
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  • Daisy Coleman said her family was forced to leave a small town of Maryville, Missouri, after she was raped by a popular high school athlete from a prominent family.
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  • TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau released from jail
  • Television pitchman Kevin Trudeau was due to return to federal court in Chicago's Loop Tuesday.
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  • Caroline Manzo, or The Real Housewives of New Jersey, is leaving the show after five seasons.
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  • Sandra Bullock and George Clooney's newest movie, ''Gravity'', blasted into the top spot at the box office and stayed there a second weekend.
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  • baby hope headstone
  • Baby Hope's sister says she wishes she had a chance to know Anjelica Castillo, whose body was found in a cooler in 1991.
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  • BART officials make last, best, final contract offer
  • BART strikes are still on the table, but for now the San Francisco Bay-area transit system is running on a normal schedule.
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  • Airbnb signs new lease in SF; Lee fights tax hiccup
  • New York apartment rentals: Do they keep tourists from using hotels or are they providing a service to those who can't afford other options.
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  • Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst has caused an uproar with the 31-million-euro ($42 million) construction of a new bishop's residence complex and related renovations.
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  • Abu Anas al-Libi was grabbed in a military raid in Libya on Oct. 5.
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  • Investigators will make another appeal to the public Monday as they tried to find out what happened to Madeleine McCann.
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  • Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., center, pauses during a news conference with, from left, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Reid, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Was., and Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013 in Washington.
  • The Senate's Democratic and Republican leaders closed in on a deal Monday night to avoid an economy-menacing Treasury default.
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  • A Cincinnati mother and son graduated from college together over the weekend.
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  • Railroad officials say Amtrak carried a record number of passengers in the year ending Sept. 30 despite Northeast service that was temporarily knocked out by Superstorm Sandy.
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  • India stampede
  • Uma Devi was halfway across the bridge when people started shouting that it was collapsing.
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  • Another year, another small Social Security increase for millions of people who rely on the payment, veterans' benefits and federal pensions.
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  • baby hope headstone
  • The announcement of an arrest in one of New York City's most notorious cold cases was especially relieving for two hardened investigators, who for 22 years had been working to identify the girl they nicknamed Baby Hope after discovering her body stuffed in a picnic cooler along a highway.
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  • Protesters cheer as large trucks arrive at a rally at the World War II Memorial on the National Mall in Washington Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013.
  • A crowd converged on the World War II Memorial on the National Mall, pushing through barriers to protest the memorial's closing under the government shutdown.
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