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  • The federal government is challenging the proposed merger of American Airlines and US Airways, saying it would cause "substantial harm" to consumers by leading to higher fares and fees.
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washington, d.c., air fare, air travel, american airlines, us airways, national/world
  • It sounded like a thunderstorm as windows broke and the ground shook, but vacationers who were awakened at a resort villa near Orlando, Fla., soon realized the building was starting to collapse - parts of it swallowed by a 100-foot sinkhole that also endangered two neighboring buildings.
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  • A fuel pipeline beneath a western Illinois cornfield has exploded, sending flames 300 feet into the sky and prompting dozens of evacuations, fire officials said.
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  • Asiana Airlines Inc. has offered $10,000 to each of the 288 surviving passengers of the flight that crash landed in San Francisco last month.
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  • The mother of a Georgia man who died after falling from the upper deck of Turner Field in Atlanta says her son was a lifelong Braves fan.
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  • Authorities say an Atlanta area man has been arrested after he was accused of beheading two puppies.
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  • A 16-year-old girl who was rescued during an FBI shootout with her captor in the Idaho wilderness is resting at home with family and friends to begin what her father says will be a slow recovery.
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  • James "Whitey" Bulger was convicted Monday in a string of 11 killings and other gangland crimes.
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  • More rain for Colo. town hit by mudslides
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  • florida summer bay resort swallowed by sinkhole
  • A sinkhole caused a section of a central Florida resort villa to partially collapse early Monday.
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  • Mudslide in Colorado
  • More heavy rain is drenching the Colorado town of Manitou Springs three days after a deadly mudslide.
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  • In a gaffe that has attracted plenty of media attention in the heat of Australia's election campaign, opposition leader Tony Abbott told a gathering of conservative party faithful on Monday that no one is "the suppository of all wisdom."
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australia, national/world
  • US orders diplomats out of Pakistan
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  • Vigil for brothers killed by python
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  • 12 year old finds 5.16-carat diamond in park
  • A 12-year-old North Carolina boy made a "gem" of a find, while traveling with his family in Arkansas.
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  • Judge changes infants name from Messiah
  • A judge in Tennessee changed a 7-month-old boy's name to Martin from Messiah, saying the religious name was earned by one person and "that one person is Jesus Christ."
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  • Judge changes infants name from Messiah
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  • florida summer bay resort swallowed by sinkhole
  • See images of the villa at the Summer Bay Resort that was swallowed up by a sinkhole.
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  • The average U.S. price of a gallon of gasoline has fallen about 8 cents over the past two weeks.
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gas prices, national/world
  • Police say a 2-year-old boy kidnapped from a Rhode Island home has been found in Providence and is "in good health."
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rhode island, massachusetts, kidnapping, homicide, national/world
  • Plane crash in Connecticut
  • The plane accident that killed four people in a Connecticut neighborhood was not the first crash for the pilot, a former Microsoft executive who was taking his teenage son on a tour of East Coast colleges.
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connecticut, fire, missing children, missing person, plane crash, national/world
  • A harrowing weeklong search for a missing California teenager ended Saturday when FBI agents rescued the girl and shot her apparent kidnapper.
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  • A 33-year-old New York City man has been arrested after he allegedly mowed down a family with his car, killing a 4-year-old boy.
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  • The plane accident that killed four people in a Connecticut neighborhood was not the first crash for the pilot.
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  • Grammy-winner Chris Brown has suffered a seizure brought on by intense fatigue and extreme emotional stress.
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  • The post to his Facebook friends was as chilling as the photograph that followed it.
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homicide, facebook, florida, national/world
  • Authorities say a car belonging to the suspect in the disappearance of a teenage girl in California has been found in Idaho.
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california, kidnapping, teens, national/world
  • President Barack Obama says he's encouraging Russian President Vladimir Putin to "think forward instead of backwards" in strained relations with the United States.
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washington, d.c., president barack obama, terrorism, egypt, national/world
  • U.S. Postal Service
  • The Postal Service says it lost $740 million over the last three months and that without help from Congress its financial woes will only worsen.
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u.s. postal service, national/world
  • The U.S. has warned Americans not to travel to Pakistan and evacuated most government personnel from the country.
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pakistan, terrorism, al-qaida, national/world
  • 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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midwest, flooding, national/world
  • Susana Medrano stood in her front yard, mesmerized by the orange and red flames creeping along the wind-swept mountain ridge behind her home, and struggled to leave.
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california, wild fire, national/world
  • Students heading back to college this fall will save thousands in interest charges on their loans after they graduate once President Barack Obama signs into law a rare bipartisan compromise.
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college, president barack obama, national/world