Army orders court-martial in WikiLeaks case
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04.02.2012 6:03 0 views 0 comments
AP - An Army officer ordered a court-martial Friday for a low-ranking intelligence analyst charged in the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history.
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Prosecutors won't charge cyclist Lance Armstrong
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04.02.2012 5:58 0 views 0 comments
AP - The case against Lance Armstrong is closed. His legacy as a seven-time Tour de France champion endures.
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Prosecutor links accused California killer to 2 more murders
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04.02.2012 5:56 0 views 0 comments
Reuters - An Iraq war veteran already charged in the "thrill" killings of four Orange County homeless men has been linked by DNA evidence to the murders of the mother and brother of a high school friend, prosecutors said on Friday. Read more »
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Alabama police shoot dead fugitive cop killer
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04.02.2012 5:34 0 views 0 comments
Reuters - Authorities shot and killed an escaped inmate Friday who stabbed one Mobile police officer to death and wounded a second after fleeing in a stolen police car. Read more »
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Charges dropped against soldier in Afghan deaths
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04.02.2012 5:32 0 views 0 comments
AP - The Army on Friday dropped all charges against the fifth soldier it had accused of killing Afghan civilians for sport during a 2010 deployment.
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More charges ahead for man held in homeless deaths
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04.02.2012 5:05 0 views 0 comments
AP - Prosecutors said Friday they plan to file two more murder charges against an ex-Marine accused of killing four homeless men in Southern California, this time in the stabbings deaths of a mother and son who lived near him.
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Surprises about Planned Parenthood cancer testing
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04.02.2012 5:02 0 views 0 comments
AP - To many people, breast cancer screening means a mammogram. But for millions of poor, mostly young women who visit Planned Parenthood, it is usually just a physical exam by the only health professional they may ever see.
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Heavy snowstorm hits Colorado on its way east
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04.02.2012 4:36 0 views 0 comments
AP - The most powerful storm of the winter season pounded Colorado and parts of neighboring states on Friday, creating whiteout conditions on the eastern plains, cancelling more than 600 flights in Denver and closing hundreds of miles of highway between major Colorado cities and the Kansas border.
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Killer of Fla. girl found in landfill gets life
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04.02.2012 4:12 0 views 0 comments
AP - Minutes after a man pleaded guilty to kidnapping, raping and murdering 7-year-old Somer Thompson, who was dumped in a trash bin and later found in a landfill, the little girl's twin brother addressed his sister's killer.
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Obama pushes for veterans jobs programs
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04.02.2012 3:19 0 views 0 comments
AP - In an effort to cut the unemployment rate among veterans, President Barack Obama is calling for a new conservation program that would put veterans to work rebuilding trails, roads and levees on public lands. Read more »
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2nd teacher from LA school arrested on sex claim
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04.02.2012 3:04 0 views 0 comments
AP - A second teacher at an inner-city elementary school where a teacher is accused of committing lewd acts on 23 children was arrested Friday on suspicion of fondling two girls in his classroom.
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Occupy activists to protest right-to-work at Super Bowl
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04.02.2012 2:55 0 views 0 comments
Reuters - Anti-Wall Street activists said on Friday they will march to protest Indiana's new anti-union "right-to-work" law in downtown Indianapolis this weekend, where the New England Patriots and New York Giants will face off in the Super Bowl on Sunday. Read more »
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Deported Texas teen maintains alias in jail calls
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04.02.2012 2:29 0 views 0 comments
AP - A Dallas teenager who was deported to South America under a false name never expressed concern during jailhouse phone calls that she was being misidentified as an illegal immigrant from Colombia.
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INFLUENCE GAME: Big donors and what they want
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04.02.2012 2:13 0 views 0 comments
AP - The millionaires, billionaires and companies giving big sums to political committees supporting Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Barack Obama have important business with the next president. Some are already in trouble with the government. Some are pressing for new laws or regulations that would benefit their interests in energy, mining and high finance.
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Congressmen question pace of probe at Arlington
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04.02.2012 1:34 0 views 0 comments
AP - Members of Congress on Friday questioned why nobody has been prosecuted as part of a criminal investigation of mismanagement at Arlington National Cemetery, nearly three years after reports of problems that included misidentified graves first surfaced in the press.
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Law enforcement websites under attack by hackers
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04.02.2012 1:30 0 views 0 comments
AP - Saboteurs stole passwords and sensitive information on tipsters while hacking into the websites of several law enforcement agencies worldwide in attacks attributed to the collective known as Anonymous.
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Komen drops plans to cut Planned Parenthood grants
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03.02.2012 22:28 0 views 0 comments
AP - For leaders of the nation's pre-eminent breast-cancer charity, it was a firestorm they didn't see coming — and couldn't withstand.
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Komen reverses move to cut Planned Parenthood funding
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03.02.2012 21:47 0 views 0 comments
Reuters - The Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation backed down from its decision to cut funding for Planned Parenthood, which provides abortion and birth control services, following a massive outcry by supporters of the world's largest breast cancer charity. Read more »
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Inside Facebook's IPO: How the Social Web Will Reshape the Economy
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03.02.2012 17:05 0 views 0 comments
Time.com - Facebook's IPO -- the largest in Internet history -- is a once-in-a-generation milestone in the evolution of the web Read more »
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Class War 2012: Why Both Parties Are Flying the Anti-Wall Street Banner
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03.02.2012 17:05 0 views 0 comments
Time.com - Gingrich ended his campaign against Romney in Florida with the same message strategy that Romney's senior advisers had used in another Republican primary two years earlier: Attack Goldman Sachs. There was a good reason Read more »
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