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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told the Marine Corps on Friday to re-investigate and take appropriate action against Marine snipers who posed with a logo resembling a Nazi symbol.
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There's a new twist in the child sex abuse scandal in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, with prosecutors asking a coroner to examine the body of Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua.
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The National Park Service announced plans Friday to remove an inscription from the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and replace it with a full quotation from the civil rights leader — ...
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A man from Uzbekistan who pleaded guilty Friday to plotting to kill President Barack Obama with an automatic rifle claimed he was acting at the direction of an Islamic terror group ...
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The judge overseeing Jerry Sandusky's child sex abuse trial set a tentative trial date of May 14 on Friday during a hearing in which he also heard about complaints from neighbors ...
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Facing pressure to bring in more students as North Dakota's booming oil industry made it tougher to coax new high school graduates into college, Dickinson State University began looking overseas to ...
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Despite economic hardship, wars and natural disasters, the world is happier than it was four years ago, and Indonesians and Mexicans seem the most contented, according to one survey.
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Al-Qaida leader Anwar al-Awlaki personally directed and approved the attempted bombing of a U.S. airliner that a Nigerian man tried to carry out on Christmas 2009, according to new details released ...
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The father of an admitted terrorist was sentenced to 4½ years in prison Friday after his conviction on charges that he destroyed evidence and lied to investigators to cover up his ...
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An attorney calls for an independent investigation into the Miramonte sex abuse scandal, claiming the Sheriff’s Department has failed to interview at least one potential victim.
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The hacker group Anonymous claimed it had launched an ambitious set of attacks Friday, saying it had taken down the CIA's website and had harvested the personal information of 46,000 people ...
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The Navy names its newest combat ship after the former congresswoman, who attended the Pentagon event with the mother of a 9-year-old girl slain in the Tucson shooting rampage.
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This incredible weather phenomenon only occurs in very specific conditions and pilot JR Hott captured it all with his camera in five minutes!
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A plea bargain by a woman who snatched a baby from a New York City hospital in 1987 then raised the child as her own daughter angers the birth mother who ...
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Troy Schoeller admits he could have chosen his words more carefully when he talked to a reporter about bodies he worked on as an embalmer at a funeral home.
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Nearly two decades after Chicago serial killer John Wayne Gacy was executed for torturing, raping and murdering 33 men and boys in the 1970s, two lawyers say they’ve unearthed evidence that ...
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A Virginia school district is considering a ban on cross-dressing by students to minimize what administrators say are “safety risks, disruptions and distractions."
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For 14 years, Jon-Adrian "JJ" Velazquez has lived behind bars, convicted and sentenced to 25 years to life for murder. Through it all, one thing has remained constant: JJ has always ...
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Westboro Baptist Church, the virulently anti-gay group known for protesting at military funerals, cancels plans to protest at the funeral of two boys killed by their father, Josh Powell.
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The county attorney said no one else is in danger at the elementary school in New Hampshire.
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A second American is in the same security limbo in Tripoli — also a Libyan-born businessman and naturalized citizen who lives in Portland, Oregon.
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MIAMI -- The Vero Beach living facility that plans to evict a 97-year-old woman for not complying with their no smoking policy released a statement Thursday that said she cannot continue ...
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When a South Bend, Ind. mother returned home Monday night with her son, she discovered Keith Davis, 46, had neatly folded her clothes, swept the floor and cooked dinner.
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President Barack Obama announced Friday that the administration will not require religious-affiliated institutions to cover birth control for their employees.
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Los Angeles Unified School District paid the teacher at the center of the Miramonte child sexual abuse scandal $40,000 as part of a settlement in the wake of accusations of classroom ...
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - A crane collapsed Friday morning at the Kent County Correctional Facility in Grand Rapids, Mich., WOOD TV8 reported. Officials told the station the crane fell into an ...
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An Islamic extremist was convicted Friday of killing two U.S. airmen at Frankfurt airport last year.
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Five people were killed early Friday when a driver going the wrong way crashed into another vehicle on Interstate 10 outside New Orleans, authorities said.
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A Los Angeles teacher accused of committing lewd acts on a child was freed on $300,000 bond early Friday, authorities said.
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With so much talk about airline fees lately, you might overlook perhaps the largest source of ancillary revenue for the industry — and a big headache for you — that lets ...
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A gunman and two other people died during a hostage standoff in Deerfield Beach, Fla., NBC Miami reported early Friday.
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Spreading drug violence, kidnappings and carjackings in Mexico have led the U.S. State Department to increase the number of places it says Americans should avoid for safety reasons for the second ...
