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Steubenville residents reflect on town’s demise: Football was city’s one...
In Steubenville, a small, struggling former steel town on the bank of the Ohio River, the last five days of an excruciating rape trial and the months leading up to it have been racked with angst and...
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Chinese solar panel company defaults on $541 million worth of bonds
Chinese solar panel giant Suntech Power announced Monday that it was in default on its debt after failing to make a payment on $541 million worth of bonds. One of the world’s top two solar cell and...
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Economists warn Cyprus will face a recession ‘for decades’
Russians are preparing to withdraw billions of euros from Cyprus and the island will plunge into a recession lasting for decades due to the onerous terms of a EU bailout, economists warned on Monday....
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Federal judge overturns Missouri law blocking Obamacare contraception mandate
A federal judge has struck down a Missouri law that was intended to allow employers to ignore a federal government mandate that required all businesses to provide contraception coverage in health...
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Al-Jazeera plans British and French television networks
Qatar’s Al-Jazeera television network said Monday it was preparing to launch a news channel in Britain while studies are at an advanced stage for a French-language channel. “We are currently working to...
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Study: Birds evolve shorter wings to survive highway traffic
Cliff swallows that nest in highway overpasses have evolved shorter wingspans over the last 30 years to help them survive close encounters with highway traffic, according to a new study in scientific...
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Google Maps adds view from Mt. Everest
Google on Monday added views from some of the world’s tallest mountains to scenes woven into its popular online map service. Arm chair explorers were invited to take virtual adventures with members of...
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American wine maker whose chardonnay defeated France dies at 86
Jim Barrett, the American vintner whose chardonnay famously defeated the might of France in 1976 and helped put California’s Napa Valley on the map, has died at the age of 86. Barrett’s 1973 Chateau...
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Pat Robertson says bankrupt families should give him ‘just $20 a month’
Televangelist Pat Robertson on Monday encouraged families who could not pay their bills to become “partners” of his ministry because “it’s just $20 a month.” At the end of Monday’s 700 Club broadcast,...
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Police: Women paid to make sex claims against Sen. Menendez
Police in the Dominican Republic said Monday that three women who claimed they had sex with Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) were actually paid by a third party to make false claims, according to The...
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Latino advocates: Republican outreach needs to be backed up by ‘real votes’...
Monday’s “autopsy report” exhorting Republicans to invest more heavily in communities of color was greeted with cautious optimism by Latino advocates from both sides of the political fence in...
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New film retells story of Soviet hikers meeting mysterious death
A new film by a Hollywood director has revived a mystery of how a group of Soviet hikers met their grisly deaths on a Russian mountainside in unexplained circumstances more than 50 years ago. The film,...
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Audio: Police union colluded with NYPD brass on arrest and ticketing quotas
Audio published Tuesday by The Nation purports to show a New York police union representative confessing that he worked out a set of quotas for tickets and arrests that officers would have to meet on a...
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Philippine Supreme Court suspends law requiring free condoms and sex ed
The Philippines’ highest court suspended on Tuesday a controversial birth control law that had met fierce opposition from the powerful Catholic Church. Voting 10-5, the Supreme Court issued a...
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U.S. will slash its presence in Iraq by two-thirds this year
The US mission in Iraq — the biggest in the world — will slash its numbers by two-thirds by the end of this year from its peak figure of over 16,000, the American ambassador to Baghdad said. Overall...
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Feinstein ‘frustrated’ after assault weapons ban is dropped from gun safety bill
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) came away from a Monday meeting with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) “frustrated” that her proposed assault weapons ban left out of her party’s gun safety bill....
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Arizona man guilty of shooting girlfriend in the head with assault rifle
An Arizona man with a history of domestic violence on Monday was found guilty of killing his girlfriend by shooting her in the head with a military-style assault rifle. After less than three days of...
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NASA slams spending cuts that put Earth at risk of undetected killer asteroids
A trio of experts testified before the House Science Committee of the U.S. Congress on Tuesday and warned that the detection and early warning of approaching Near Earth Objects (NEOs) and other threats...
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Bipartisan bill would require a warrant for police to search emails
A bill introduced Tuesday by Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Mike Lee (R-UT) would require police obtain a warrant before scouring a suspect’s email accounts. “No one could have imagined just how the...
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Cyprus overwhelmingly reject tax on deposits to fund bailout
Cyprus MPs on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a tax on bank deposits demanded by international lenders as a condition for a bailout deal, with a vote of 36 against, 19 abstentions and none in favour....
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