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‘I survived the deadliest train crash in Amtrak’s history’
Brian Logan, The Guardian It was the midnight train to Georgia. I was 20 years old, a student travelling after a working holiday. Now I was leaving New Orleans, on board the sleeper bound for Savannah....
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Two deaths reported as tornadoes wreak havoc across Midwest
Dominic Rushe, theguardian.com Ferocious weather pounded the midwest on Sunday with tornadoes, intense thunderstorms and giant hail threatening 53 million people across 10 states and leaving tens of...
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Teacher awarded $362,653 in defamation suit against former students for...
False accusations of misconduct fuel the nightmares of grade school teachers, given the litigiousness and bureaucracy of the schoolhouse. But one former Catholic school teacher in California has...
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Google targets 100,000 search terms linked with online child sexual abuse
Juliette Garside, The Guardian Google is targeting 100,000 terms associated with online child sexual abuse in a move hailed by David Cameron, who will announce a series of measures to tackle the...
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French hostage in Nigeria escapes while abductors pray
French hostage Francis Collomp, 63, escaped his captors in Nigeria, the office of President François Hollande said in a statement on Sunday. Collomp had been held since being abducted by the Ansaru...
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Violent tornadoes kill 6 and injure dozens in the midwest
Residents in several US midwestern cities sifted through piles of rubble Monday as they recovered from violent tornadoes that ripped through the region, killing at least six and injuring scores....
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27-year-old man in critical condition after shooting at French left-wing...
A 27-year-old man was left fighting for his life Monday after being shot by an intruder at the Paris offices of left-wing French daily Liberation. The victim, a photographer’s assistant, was shot in...
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Bill Clinton says the next American president should be a woman
Former US president Bill Clinton hopes there will be a woman in the White House in his lifetime and will support his wife Hillary in whatever she decides to do, he told a Chinese audience on Monday....
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Germany’s top political parties agree to binding boardroom quota to fix...
Germany’s top parties, in talks on forming a government, agreed on Monday to a binding boardroom quota for women intended to fix a big gender imbalance in business. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s...
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Police say teen used social media to intimidate witnesses to Philadelphia crimes
Police have arrested a 17-year-old accused of maintaining a social media account intended to intimidate witnesses to violent crimes in Philadelphia. Officers said the teen named witnesses to four...
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Archaeologists discover five 4,000 year-old heads of royal statues from the...
A team of Egyptian and French archaeologists have found five heads of royal statues from the pharaonic era, officials from the antiquities ministry said on Saturday. “The heads, which had crowns of...
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Cops in some Ohio communities could ticket drivers less sober than themselves
Law enforcement officers in some Ohio communities are allowed to show up for work after drinking alcohol, arm themselves and drive around in their patrol cars, according to a newspaper analysis. The...
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Fox News’ Hasselbeck: Obamacare is hurting ‘many’ elderly pregnant women
Fox News host Elisabeth Hasselbeck suggested on Monday that pregnant women 65-years-old and older were losing their doctors because of President Barack Obama health care reform law. In a segment titled...
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Russia’s Olympic drug-testing lab suspended by global anti-doping agency over...
The global anti-doping agency has provisionally suspended the accreditation of Moscow’s laboratory of the right to test athletes just months before the Sochi Winter Olympics. WADA had opened...
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Israel has been ‘holding suspected Al-Qaeda activist since 2010′ without trial
Israel has been secretly holding a suspected Al-Qaeda activist without trial for more than three years, legal documents showed on Monday after the suspect petitioned a court for his release. According...
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Russia will keep Greenpeace activist in pre-trial jail until February 24, 2014
A court in Russia’s second city of Saint Petersburg extended the pre-trial detention of one of the 30 Greenpeace activists arrested for an Arctic protest for three months until February 24. Colin...
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Muslim woman alleges co-workers at New York City’s The New School used racist...
A Clifton Muslim woman filed a lawsuit on Friday alleging her co-workers at The New School in Manhattan routinely used racist slurs towards her forcing her to quit her job. Jamilah Moudiab, who quit...
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NASA Mars spacecraft to search for clues about why the Red Planet lost much...
NASA is preparing to launch its latest orbiter to Mars Monday on the hunt for clues about why the Red Planet lost much of its atmosphere. The launch of Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN),...
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German prosecutor seeks murder charges against Minnesota man who led Nazi unit
A German prosecutor is recommending murder charges against a Minnesota carpenter for his role in the 1944 massacre of dozens of women and children during a Nazi-led attack on a Polish village. Thomas...
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‘The Walking Dead’: ‘Live Bait’ through the eyes of a child
Welcome to the fourth of what I’m now officially calling “Raw Story’s don’t-call-it-a-recap of popular television shows.” Recaps you can find anywhere, but only here will you be able to find the...
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