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  • Tammy Eppley was charged Monday in Columbus with six counts of child endangering after police in nearby Westerville said they obtained text messages in which she admitted giving children the allergy medicine Benadryl.
  • A central Ohio day care worker has been accused of sprinkling drugs on snacks to get children to go to sleep.
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  • India's prime minister said Wednesday that the death toll from flooding this week in the northern state of Uttrakhand had surpassed 100 and could rise substantially.
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  • President Barack Obama gives a speech at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany on Wednesday, June 19, 2013.
  • Summoning the harsh history of this once-divided city, President Barack Obama on Wednesday cautioned the U.S. and Europe against "complacency" brought on by peace.
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  • New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez (81) stands on the field with head coach Bill Belichick, left, during NFL football practice at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012.
  • State police returned to the home of Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, two days after a body was found about a mile away.
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  • Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke holds a news conference after a Federal Open Market Committee meeting at the Federal Reserve in Washington, Wednesday, June 22, 2011.
  • The Federal Reserve signaled it's moving closer to slowing its bond-buying program, which is intended to keep long-term interest rates low.
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  • Helicopters take off from Bagram military base 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Kabul, Afghanistan
  • The Taliban claimed responsibility Wednesday for an attack in Afghanistan that killed four American troops just hours after the insurgent group announced it would hold talks with the U.S. on finding a political solution to ending the nearly 12-year war in the country.
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  • The excavation of a rural field in suburban Detroit has failed to turn up the remains of former Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa, the FBI announced Wednesday, adding another unsuccessful chapter to a nearly 40-year-old mystery.
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  • The families of several British soldiers killed or injured in Iraq can sue the government for failing to protect them, the country's highest court ruled Wednesday.
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  • Bob and Barbara Schmidt dashed to their home on a dirt road in a heavily wooded area northeast of Colorado Springs as smoke from what would become the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history filled the air.
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  • An adviser to the Palestinian president says Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement wants him to stick to long-standing demands for resuming talks with Israel.
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  • Soldiers in Afghanistan are seen in this undated file photo.
  • The Taliban and the U.S. said Tuesday they will hold talks on finding a political solution to ending nearly 12 years of war in Afghanistan.
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  • Storm clouds are seen over Denver International Airport on Tuesday, June 18, 2013, where a tornado touched down and forced passengers and employees into shelters. No one was injured and there was no apparent damage. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
  • A tornado briefly touched down Tuesday over the east runways of Denver International Airport, officials said.
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  • United Airlines says a Boeing 787 flying from Denver to Tokyo had to make the emergency landing due to an oil filter problem.
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  • A Spokane, Washington-area woman resigned from her job as a hair salon supervisor after she says her boss told her to cover her shaved head while at work.
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  • Protestors gather in front of the Metropolitan Cathedral in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Some of the biggest demonstrations since the end of Brazils 1964-85 dictatorship have broke out across this continent-sized country.
  • Protest leaders called for another huge demonstration in Brazil's largest city Tuesday, building on historic turnouts spawned by widespread frustration over decades of government red tape, high prices and shoddy services.
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  • Two suicide bombers targeted a Shiite mosque in Baghdad on Tuesday, one blowing himself up at a nearby checkpoint while the other slipped inside during prayers. The blasts killed 34 people, Iraqi officials said.
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  • A suspect is in custody in the shooting of a woman outside a restaurant in Monmouth County, N.J., that led to a standoff in Ocean County.
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  • The FBI saw enough merit in a reputed Mafia captain's tip to once again break out the digging equipment to search for the remains of former Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa, last seen alive before a lunch meeting with two mobsters nearly 40 years ago.
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  • Miss Utah Marissa Powell is the latest beauty queen to trip on national television, not over her gown, but during the interview segment.
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  • A black bear mauled a man at a campground in Alaska, but the animal won't likely threaten other people, the state Department of Fish and Game said.
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  • A 15-year-old boy was airlifted to a hospital after he fought off a shark at Surfside beach. The teen was bitten on both the hand and leg.
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  • It was a quiet part of the Father's Day Mass as about 300 people stood up in preparation for communion. A parishioner, known by many at the church as Ricky Jennings, entered through the glass doors in back, holding his wife Cheryl's hand. Seconds later, police say Jennings fired a single shot at the back of Cheryl's father's head, nearly killing him.
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  • Entertainer Barbra Streisand waded into one of Israel's touchiest issues Monday on the first major stop of her tour of the country - Jewish religious practices that separate men and women.
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  • First Lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha went to the library at Trinity College to see birth records from President Obamas great- great- great grandfather who is from Moneygall, Ireland.
  • First Lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha went to the library at Trinity College to see birth records from President Obama's great- great- great grandfather who is from Moneygall, Ireland.
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  • Habibo Ibrahim
  • A baby is dead after her mother allegedly treated the child's severe burns with cocoa butter and painkillers
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  • Federal agents revived the hunt for the remains of Jimmy Hoffa on Monday, bringing excavation equipment to a field in suburban Detroit where a reputed Mafia captain says the Teamsters boss' body was buried.
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  • colorado wildfire
  • Investigators are getting closer to pinpointing where Colorado's most destructive wildfire started.
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  • A rare copy of the comic book featuring Superman's first appearance that went undiscovered for over 70 years in the insulation of a Minnesota house has sold for $175,000.
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  • Miss Connecticut USA 2013, Erin Brady of East Hampton, is announced as Miss USA 2013, and congratulated Miss Universe 2012, at the conclusion of the 2013 MISS USA Competition at PH Live in Las Vegas, Nevada
  • The country's newest Miss USA is leaving a white collar job behind for the glamour and excitement that goes with her new role - and she can't wait.
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  • Miss Connecticut USA 2013, Erin Brady of East Hampton, is announced as Miss USA 2013, and congratulated Miss Universe 2012, at the conclusion of the 2013 MISS USA Competition at PH Live in Las Vegas, Nevada on Sunday June 16, 2013.
  • The country's newest Miss USA is leaving a white collar job behind for the glamour and excitement that goes with her new role - and she can't wait.
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  • The FBI says it is searching a field in suburban Detroit based on information involving the disappearance of former Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa.
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  • Supreme Court justices
  • The Supreme Court says states cannot require would-be voters to prove they are U.S. citizens before using a federal registration system designed to make signing up easier.
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  • Columbus, Ohio, police are seeking any video that may have been taken of a shooting at a weekend festival that wounded an 11-year-old boy.
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  • Federal authorities say they've raided 7-Eleven stores in New York and Virginia as part of an investigation into human smuggling, identity theft and money laundering.
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  • George Zimmerman arrives in Seminole circuit court, in Sanford, Fla., for a pre-trial hearing)
  • Prosecutors and George Zimmerman's defense attorneys are returning for a second week of jury selection in Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial.
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  • A 35-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of walking into a Catholic church in Ogden, Utah, and shooting his father-in-law in the back of the head during Sunday Mass.
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  • Miss Connecticut Erin Brady, from Glastonbury, Conn., walks the runway during the introductions of the Miss USA 2013 pageant
  • A 25-year-old contestant from Connecticut won the title of Miss USA in Las Vegas on Sunday night.
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  • Supreme Court justices
  • As the Supreme Court heads into the final weeks of its term, the justices could make a decision on gay marriage as soon as Monday.
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  • President Obama
  • President Barack Obama is taking a security, foreign policy and economic agenda to Northern Ireland for a meeting with heads of the leading industrial nations.
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  • Sherri Kaderka looks in her bag at the American Red Cross shelter in Monument, Colorado
  • With evacuees anxious to return, firefighters worked Sunday to dig up and extinguish hot spots to protect homes spared by the most destructive wildfire in Colorado's history.
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  • Riot police cordoned off streets, set up roadblocks and fired tear gas and water cannon to prevent anti-government protesters from converging on Istanbul's central Taksim Square on Sunday, unbowed even as Turkey's prime minister addressed hundreds of thousands of supporters a few kilometers away.
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  • Solar Impulse plane
  • A solar-powered plane nearing the close of a cross-continental journey landed at Dulles International Airport outside the nation's capital early Sunday, only one short leg to New York remaining on a voyage that opened in May.
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  • Former President George W. Bush is seen in this undated file photo.
  • A private jet that had former President George W. Bush on board made an emergency landing after the smell of smoke was reported in the cockpit.
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  • Biker culture came to the Vatican on Sunday as Pope Francis blessed thousands of Harley-Davidsons and their riders celebrating the manufacturer's 110th anniversary with a loud parade and plenty of leather.
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  • In this image taken from video, the ailing anti-apartheid icon Nelson Madela is filmed Monday April 29, 2013.
  • Former South African President Nelson Mandela is engaging with his family and seeing improvement from the recurring lung infection that forced him to spend a ninth day in the hospital Sunday, the president said.
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  • A blistering string of apparently coordinated bombings and a shooting across Iraq killed at least 40 and wounded dozens Sunday, spreading fear throughout the county in a wave of violence that is raising the prospect of a return to widespread sectarian killing a decade after a U.S.-led invasion.
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  • A sign stands outside the National Security Administration (NSA) campus on Thursday, June 6, 2013, in Fort Meade, Md.
  • Current and former top U.S. officials on Sunday defended the government's collection of phone and Internet data following new revelations about the secret surveillance programs, saying the operations were essential in disrupting terrorist plots and did not infringe on Americans' civil liberties.
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  • Authorities say a man accused of shooting his girlfriend and her three teenage daughters in a neighborhood near Nashville has surrendered to officials in Memphis.
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  • Federal authorities have recovered about 400 handwritten pages from the wartime diary of a key Nazi adviser to Adolf Hitler after a 17-year search for the documents, officials said.
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  • Police say one person was injured in an early-morning shooting Sunday at a Milwaukee casino.
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