A medical examiner says something went wrong with professional wrestler “Macho Man” Randy Savage’s heart before he crashed his car and declared the cause of death as heart disease.
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A medical examiner says something went wrong with professional wrestler “Macho Man” Randy Savage’s heart before he crashed his car and declared the cause of death as heart disease.
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One dead politician in a tiny Arab country and now, six years on, the quest for justice in his assassination divides a people and could add to regional instability.
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Lebanon charges may ripple elsewhere
The assault case is on verge of collapse after the accuser’s credibility comes into question, sources say.
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Strauss-Kahn case in jeopardy
The Obama administration is open to dialogue with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said that doctors in Cuba had removed a cancerous tumor from his body. His speech was broadcast on state-run VTV.
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The head of the independent commission assigned by King Hamad bin Is al-Khalifa with investigating charges of human rights abuses during recent government crackdowns on pro-reform protesters in Bahrain vowed Thursday to carry out a fair, methodical and transparent investigation.
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Prosecutors have discovered troubling credibility issues with the hotel maid who accuses ex-IMF chief Dominque Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her, an official familiar with the case tells CNN.
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Japan’s economy has been deeply shaken by a string of disasters, according to fresh numbers from the Bank of Japan released Friday, but there might be some early glimmers of hope.
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Disasters sour Japan economic picture
The Los Angeles Dodgers got approval Tuesday to enter into a $150 million bankruptcy financing arrangement in order to keep the afloat, but it turns out that the paychecks of some Dodgers workers bounced, a Dodgers spokesman confirmed Thursday.
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Some Dodgers employees’ paychecks bounced
A jury found the University of Central Florida Athletics Association was negligent in the death of Ereck Plancher and awarded award the late football player’s family $10 million, the Orlando Sentinel reported Thursday.
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Report: UCF found negligent in Plancher death
Workers in North Dakota’s booming oil industry had taken up any empty space in Minot before the swollen Souris River raced into the city, filling thousands of homes with water.
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Flood turns housing shortage into crisis
The Senate will forego its scheduled recess for the week of July 4th.
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No July 4th recess for the Senate
A nuclear power plant in Scotland was forced to close after jellyfish inundated its water filters, clogging the cooling system.
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Jellyfish shut UK nuclear plant
Derek Jeter is set to rejoin the Yankees on Monday in his return from a calf injury.
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Plan set for Jeter to rejoin Yankees Monday
Texas Rangers president and CEO Nolan Ryan said he would be in favor of realignment, including any plans that involve moving the Houston Astros into the American League with the Texas Rangers.
Joined by a handful of owners and players, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and NFLPA head DeMaurice Smith resumed talks Thursday aimed at ending the lockout with a new collective bargaining agreement.
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Petra Kvitova rode her big serve to the Wimbledon final, defeating Victoria Azarenka 6-1, 3-6, 6-2 Thursday.
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Kvitova tops Azarenka, reaches Wimbledon final
President tweaks lawmakers, but will it help get a debt deal? Vote: Does it matter if the US defaults?
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Obama picks fight with Congress
A Nigerian man boarded a Virgin America airplane last week with an invalid boarding pass — making it through a federal security checkpoint where travelers must show identification and their boarding passes.
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Man sneaks on plane with invalid pass
France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy was grabbed by the arm and nearly pulled to the ground by an unknown assailant, television footage shows, as he visited the town of Brax in south-west France Thursday.
An operation to burn off vegetation just outside Los Alamos National Laboratory to prevent it from fueling a raging wildfire near the nuclear facility was declared successful by firefighters late Wednesday.
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Relieved Los Alamos fire chief sees progress
An Egyptian criminal court Thursday postponed issuing a verdict in the case of two policemen accused of killing an activist, whose death led to the first demonstrations that eventually ousted Hosni Mubarak, state-run MENA reported.
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Survey: McDonald’s, Burger King, KFC and Taco Bell are the biggest U.S. fast-food chains, but they lag smaller rivals like In-N-Out Burger and Chick-fil-A when it comes to taste.
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Big fast-food chains get low marks on taste
White House plan says land invasions feed narrative that US wants to occupy the Muslim world.
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‘Surgical’ strikes will defeat al-Qaida, Brennan says
Rescuers were to resume searching on Thursday for a doctor and his daughter, who have been missing in the Colorado mountains for more than a week, a sheriff told msnbc.com.
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Doctor, daughter missing in Colo. mountains
Mayor 15th Term The Mayor of Grosse Pointe Park, A Detroit suburb of around 11,500 people, is running for his 15th term. He is unopposed and 89 years old! He was first elected in 1983 and since then has only faced opposition one …
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Hollywood Bridezillas The term ‘bridezilla’ is something only recently introduced to the masses by Hollywood. We’re all familiar with the stereotypical wedding scene, with a hysterical bride who’s unhappy because she isn’t having the perfect wedding. Of course it’s not …
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Hollywood Bridezillas
How to Dress Your Body Type You must first learn what your body type is before you can begin to understand how to dress it. There are six major body types to consider. Below I’ll discuss each body type to …
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How to Dress Your Body Type
Get a Smaller Home and Downsize Getting a smaller home and downsizing is probably advice you have heard before when looking for ideas to save money but of course it can save you other things too. However like all decisions …
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Smaller Home and Downsize
An organizer of the Gaza flotilla said Thursday that one of its ships was been sabotaged whiled anchored in Turkey’s territorial waters.
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Gaza flotilla sabotaged, organizer says
The death of Osama bin Laden “is not the death of terrorism, unfortunately,” U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told CNN at an international security conference on Thursday.
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US: Bin Laden death not end of terror
China opened the world’s longest bridge over water on Thursday. The Jiaozhou Bay bridge is 26.4 miles long, according to the Guinness Book of Records.
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A marathon span: World’s longest sea bridge opens
Hundreds of thousands of British teachers, air traffic controllers, customs officers and other public sector workers went on strike Thursday, causing potential chaos for schoolchildren and travellers.
Eight hundred and seventy people were hurt earlier this week when a planned memorial for people killed in Egypt’s revolution turned into an angry demonstration against the country’s interim military government, the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights said Thursday.
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Report: 870 hurt in Egypt protests
Embattled Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is calling for fresh volunteers in a months-long war with rebels attempting to bring about an end to his 42-year rule — and women of all ages are answering, CNN has learned.
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Gadhafi training women for Libya war
A special tribunal for Lebanon has issued indictments in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, a Lebanese official with knowledge of the investigation said Thursday.
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Lebanon court issues Hariri indictments
British teachers and civil servants went on strike on Thursday over plans to reform public-sector pensions.
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Teachers among 750,000 on strike in UK
Celebrity May December Romances May December Romances nothing to do with the month they were married or when they got together, who cares about that! Nope it’s referring to couples that are older and younger. A lot of years apart! …
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+June Celebrity wedding anniversaries A lot of celebrity anniversaries happen in June. June is a huge month for weddings, the temperature is nice, the weather is reliable enough not to ruin the day, and it really is a great time …
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Bahrain’s king has set up an independent commission to investigate possible human rights violations during recent government crackdowns on pro-reform protesters, according to the state-run Bahrain News Agency.
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Bahrain king announces rights probe
More than 800 Somali children are arriving at crowded refugee camps in Kenya daily after walking for days to escape a prolonged drought, an aid group said this week.
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Children fleeing Horn of Africa drought
A Haqqani network leader suspected of supporting the attack at a Kabul hotel was killed in an airstrike in Afghanistan, the International Security Assistance Force said.
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ISAF: Haqqani network leader killed
Two French journalists, Herve Ghesquiere and Stephane Taponier, who were held hostage in Afghanistan for 547 days, arrive in Paris.
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Freed French hostages arrive home
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Feds: Mine owners cooked books on safety
A rocket attack on a U.S. base near Iraq’s border with Iran killed three American soldiers, an official said Thursday, blaming the strike on a Shiite militia linked to Tehran.
Tropical Storm Arlene, the first of the Atlantic hurricane season, threatened to bring floods and mudslides to Mexico’s central Gulf coast as it headed for a landfall early Thursday.
A key vote is due in Greece’s parliament Thursday on how to implement a five-year austerity package that lawmakers approved a day earlier.
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Greek lawmakers to cast 2nd key vote
A.J. Burnett pitched neatly into the eighth inning, Russell Martin hit a three-run homer and the Yankees kept rolling right along with a 5-2 victory over the Brewers on Wednesday night.
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Yankees continue to roll with win over Brewers
A key vote is due in Greece’s parliament Thursday on how to implement a five-year austerity package that lawmakers approved a day earlier.
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Greek lawmakers to cast 2nd key vote
An official says the US has been asked to remove infrastructure from the air base, a paper reports.
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Pakistan ends use of drone base
Hong Kong tycoon Carson Yeung, the owner of relegated English Premier League football club Birmingham City, was arrested and charged with money laundering Thursday.
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Birmingham City owner arrested in HK
The first named storm of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season is getting stronger as it moves toward Mexico.
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Tropical storm advances on Mexico
Rhode Island state lawmakers approved a bill that permits civil unions between same-sex couples. Gov. Lincoln Chafee, above, is expected to sign it into law.
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U.S. state lawmakers OK civil unions
Ways To Wear Sarong - It seems that sarongs are coming back to fashion in full force, and girls everywhere are getting their hands on them, but how exactly do you wear them? Ways To Wear Sarong There are many different …
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Home Staging Trends 2011 - Home Staging seems to be building up all over the country, and people everywhere are sometimes even looking to professionals to help 'stage' their homes in hopes of listing and selling it in the market. "Why would …
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Home Staging Trends 2011
Pakistan’s defense minister called Wednesday for the United States to leave the airbase used to launch drone attacks against Taliban and al Qaeda targets on the border with Afghanistan, the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan reported.
Looks like all that lobbying worked out well for banks.
President Barack Obama scheduled a news conference for late Wednesday morning, his first formal question-and-answer session since high-stakes debt and budget negotiations began.
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Although prominent Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has been charged with tax evasion, his lawyer Pu Zhiqiang says that the tax authorities have yet to provide evidence for the charge.
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China: Dissident artist owes back taxes
Nearly half of all U.S. high school students currently smoke, drink or use other drugs, and a third of users meets the medical criteria for addiction, according to a new report.
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Alarming data on teen drinking, drug-taking
Iran has been carrying out covert tests of missiles capable of delivering a nuclear payload, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague said Wednesday, in contravention of a U.N. resolution.
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Iran secretly testing missiles
Weight Loss Foods Foods that help you in your quest to lose weight are in high demand . Anyone who is interested in a bit of weight loss know the importance of your diet. After all they say you are …
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Weight Loss Foods
June Deaths 2011 Sadly, June 2011 has seen a lot of deaths. We’ve said goodbye to a lot of amazing people this past month and it’s time to take a moment to honor their lives and accomplishments. Maria Gomes Valentim …
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An unmanned U.S. Predator drone flew over the Hotel Inter-Continental in Kabul Afghanistan during an insurgent attack, providing critical video of the attackers as the situation unfolded, two coalition military officials said Wednesday.
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U.S. drone, snipers helped Afghans
Tiger Woods has been hired as a pitchman for a Japanese heat rub used to relieve muscle and joint pain.
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Tiger hired as pitchman for heat rub in Japan
Fraudsters range from full-time, professional ID thieves, to applicants simply trying to evade creditors’ background checks, to citizens trying to trick government agencies into giving them benefits they’re not entitled to.
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1 in 15 lie about SSNs, DOBs on credit forms
Suspended Notre Dame wide receiver Michael Floyd has been sentenced to a year of probation and can’t drive for 90 days after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor drunken driving charge.
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Irish WR Floyd gets 1 year of probation for DUI
A Pakistani court has indicted six soldiers and one civilian on murder and terrorism charges in the death of an unarmed man whose fatal shooting was caught on video.
States Best Housing Market 2011 2011 has been a tough year so far for the housing market and a lot of factors have resulted in a really mixed up market regarding stocks, houses and anything financially related. Mortgage rates are …
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Bus Sized Asteroid A bus sized asteroid narrowly missed the earth on Monday at around 1pm EST. What astronomers initially thought was ‘space junk’ turned out to be a 15 foot wide rock took a tight turn around earth, missing …
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Bus Sized Asteroid
Independent forensic experts are disputing much of the forensic evidence collected against Amanda Knox, saying that some of the DNA traces used to convict the student may have been contaminated.
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Knox DNA evidence unreliable?
Authorities were “throwing absolutely everything” at a wildfire in a bid to halt its advance on the desert birthplace of the atomic bomb, a New Mexico senator said Wednesday.
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Officials throw ‘everything’ at Los Alamos wildfire
A rare inter-Korean meeting ended prematurely Wednesday with no progress.
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Rare inter-Korean meeting fails
Bank of America Corp will pay $8.5 billion to settle claims from investors that lost money on mortgage-backed securities, the bank said on Wednesday.
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BofA to pay $8.5B housing crash settlement
An American tourist on a snorkeling trip to see Australia’s Great Barrier Reef was left behind by his tour boat while about 30 miles offshore, according to reports.
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Dive boat leaves US tourist 30 miles offshore
Libyan rebels near Nafusah Mountain stormed a base in an ambush that raised morale but provided little in captured weaponry.
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NYT: ‘We will go to Tripoli’: Rebels storm Libya base
Police fired tear gas, rubber bullets and pellets early Wednesday to break up a demonstration by relatives of those killed in Egypt’s revolution.
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Egyptians clash with police in Cairo
Guests jump from second and third floors to escape, witnesses say; Taliban claims responsibility.
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Ten die in Kabul hotel attack
Greek deputies are to vote Wednesday on a deeply unpopular austerity bill that has provoked days of rioting in the streets of Athens, with the result of the vote determining whether the country can avoid a potentially disastrous default in the coming weeks.
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‘Suicide’ or austerity? Greece to vote on key bill
Four people charged with kidnapping a man, tattooing “RAPEST” on his forehead and shocking his genitals with a stun gun pleaded guilty to kidnapping and maiming charges.
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4 jailed after ‘RAPEST’ tattooed on teen’s forehead
The total cost of wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan to the U.S. Treasury could reach as high as $4.4 trillion, according to a study released Wednesday.
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Cost of US wars since 9/11? At least $3.7 trillion
Fourteen out of 27 countries in the European Union had public debt exceeding 60% of their gross domestic product at the end of 2010, according to official statistics.
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European public debt at a glance
Eight suicide bombers attack Kabul’s Hotel Inter-Continental in a brazen, carefully orchestrated operation that ends with their deaths and those of 10 other people, officials said.
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Taliban bombers target luxury hotel, 18 dead
First named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season formed Wednesday in the southern Gulf of Mexico, in Bay of Campeche, the National Hurricane Center said.
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Tropical Storm Arlene forms in Gulf
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Tug-of-war over breast cancer drug
New Mexico fire managers scrambled Tuesday to reinforce crews battling a third day against an out-of-control blaze at the edge of one of the top U.S. nuclear weapons production centers.
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Firefighters aim to protect nuke site
The sentencing of Bernard L. Madoff required balancing the law against the public anger his fraud had inspired. Judge Denny Chin explains his reasoning.
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NYT: Judge explains Madoff’s 150-year sentence
Greek unions plan to rally again Wednesday, a day after riot police fired tear gas to disperse thousands of stone-throwing demonstrators who protested austerity measures.
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Greece set for austerity package vote
A health clinic run by the presidential hopeful’s spouse has been collecting payments since 2005, NBC News reports.
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Bachmann husband’s clinic got Medicaid funds
The SEC recently submitted recommendations to the NCAA in an effort to modernize and streamline football recruiting nationally.
Amid mounting labor gloom NBA commissioner David Stern tried Tuesday to muster a hopeful tone heading into the last scheduled negotiation with the players union before the expiration of the current collective bargaining agreement.
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Players, owners set to meet Thursday in New York
The United Nations says it is concerned about the fate of 7,000 Sudanese civilians, more than a week after they were forced to leave a U.N. compound.
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UN worry: Where are 7,000 missing Sudanese?
A Chinese court has sentenced a mother to a “lenient” five years in prison for murdering her paralyzed twin sons who needed full-time care, state media reported Wednesday.
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Mom gets 5 years for killing disabled sons
NATO helicopters end hours-long militant siege in Afghanistan.
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Kabul hotel searched for victims
The Pittsburgh Penguins have offered Jaromir Jagr a one-year deal and the 39-year-old winger has until Wednesday to decide if he wants to take it, general manager Ray Shero told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Tuesday.
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Pens offer Jagr deal, expect answer Wednesday
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Tuesday she has not made up her mind yet about whether to run for president in 2012 despite her daughter’s claim that she has.
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Palin still thinking about 2012 run
Michael Roth pitched 7 2/3 innings on three days’ rest, and South Carolina won its second straight national championship with a 5-2 victory Tuesday night that completed a two-game sweep over Florida in the College World Series finals.
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S. Carolina sweeps up second straight CWS title
With fiery slogans on their lips and sturdy shoes on their feet, some 30 Spartans last week began marching to Athens to join the anti-austerity demonstrators occupying a square opposite Greece’s parliament.
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Greece: Despair turns to protest
Larisa Antypa was ready for her cruise in the Caribbean when news of the economic crisis in Greece, her home country, began to worsen.
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Greek-Americans to economic rescue?
Cliff Lee tossed a two-hitter for his third consecutive shutout and the Philadelphia Phillies beat Josh Beckett and the Boston Red Sox 5-0 Tuesday night.
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Phils’ Lee 2-hits Red Sox for 3rd straight shutout
First named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season formed Wednesday in the southern Gulf of Mexico, in Bay of Campeche, the National Hurricane Center said.
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Tropical Storm Arlene forms
July 8 will mark the start of the final space shuttle mission and the end of an era, NASA announced Tuesday.
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Final space shuttle mission July 8
Georgia’s athletic department has contacted the NCAA and the Southeastern Conference regarding the eligibility of football player Jarvis Jones and incoming basketball player Kentavious Caldwell-Pope.
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Georgia notifies NCAA about eligibility concerns
A tattoo parlor owner whose purchase of Ohio State football memorabilia triggered an NCAA investigation of the school pleaded guilty Tuesday to drug trafficking and money laundering charges.
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Tattoo parlor owner in Ohio State scandal guilty
Wild card Sabine Lisicki reached her first Grand Slam semifinal, defeating 2007 finalist Marion Bartoli 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-1 under the Centre Court roof on another wet day at Wimbledon.
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Wild card Lisicki reaches Wimbledon semifinals
The longest-running breast cancer screening study ever conducted has shown that regular mammograms prevent deaths from breast cancer, and the number of lives saved increases over time, an international research team said on Tuesday.
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Mammograms can cut deaths by a third
A central Ohio woman accused of spraying sheriff’s deputies with breast milk is facing charges including disorderly conduct.
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Ohio cops sprayed with breast milk
Russia has lifted a ban on some fresh vegetable imports from the European Union as of Tuesday, a senior official has said.
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Russia lifts ban on some EU vegetables
TweetLos Angeles Dodgers Bankruptcy – Bankruptcy is the route for the Dodgers of Los Angeles. In a move that doesn’t seem to shock many following the team, the Dodgers officially filed for bankruptcy protection to protect the teams assets and …
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Los Angeles Dodgers File for Bankruptcy Protection
TweetWorld’s Most Eligible Bachelors The breakup of Elisabetta Canalis and George Clooney has made headlines recently. While no-one is celebrating the heartache, many fans are secretly excited that one of the world’s most notorious bachelors is eligible again. George Clooney, …
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World's Most Eligible Bachelors
NASA ordered the six crew members at the International Space Station to “shelter in place” Monday when space debris came tumbling toward the station’s orbit.
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Space Stattion astronauts take ‘shelter’
A Massachusetts man facing a criminal complaint for failing to appear for jury duty apparently had a good excuse.
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State to dead man: No need for jury duty
Behind the Wall: China’s oil interests in Sudan are affecting Beijing’s foreign policy.
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China welcomes alleged war criminal
The website for Mastercard.com was down on Tuesday amid talk on the Internet that so-called “hacktivists” had taken down the credit card processor’s site in retaliation for blocking payments to WikiLeaks last September.
The International Criminal Court is still trying to link Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, his son and his brother-in-law to rapes but it does not yet have enough evidence to do so, prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Tuesday.
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ICC: Gadhafi could face rape charges
An MRI exam on Rafael Nadal’s left foot does not show any injuries and the two-time Wimbledon champion expects to play in Wednesday’s quarterfinals.
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Nadal not seriously injured, is expecting to play
TweetWhat to Look for in a Summer Suit A suit is a suit right? Well, no suits are something you should really think about when buying. If you spend anytime outside you don’t want to be sweating and roasting away …
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What to Look for in a Summer Suit