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Lindsey Graham blames FBI for Boston bombing: ‘The ball was dropped’
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Sunday declared that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was at fault for failing to prevent last week’s bombing in Boston. In an interview on CNN’s State of the...
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Elvis impersonator triggers 30-hour police standoff in Iowa
A 53-year-old career Elvis impersonator from Iowa engaged police in a 30-hour standoff on Sunday after a property dispute led to the man discharging a shotgun at officers and threatening to kill...
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Ralph Lauren pays $1.6 million for bribing Argentinian officials
Clothing retailer Ralph Lauren will pay $1.6 million to avoid prosecution on civil and criminal accusations that the company bribed Argentinian customs officials to gain access into the country....
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Boston bombing suspects’ origins expose Russia’s historical mass expulsion of...
Their grandparents were deported by Stalin’s police in the mass expulsion of Chechens in World War II. Their parents went to the United States from Dagestan in search of a better life. And they became...
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Grassley flips out: ‘I didn’t say that!’ about using bombing to delay...
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on Monday became irate and yelled at Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) during a Senate hearing at the suggestion that he had used last week’s Boston Marathon bombing to try and delay...
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Mysterious intruder shoots at Tennessee nuclear plant security guard
An as-yet-unknown intruder who turned up at a Tennessee nuclear plant opened fire on private security guards before fleeing the scene, authorities said Monday. The incident was serious enough that the...
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Roadside manicure services boom in Nigeria
A comfortable salon may be the ideal place to have a manicure-pedicure, but in Nigeria’s sprawling economic capital, the curb above a open sewer works just fine. The roadside ‘mani-pedi’ is something...
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Boston bombing suspects’ father to visit U.S. to ‘clear up many things’
Anzor Tsarnaev to fly to US in effort to ‘clear up many things’ as Boston investigators seek to question American wife of son Tamerlan The father of the two Boston bombing suspects has said he will fly...
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Fox News host proposes putting ‘listening devices’ in mosques after Boston...
After falsely painting the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing as frequent visitors to a local mosque, Fox News host Brian Kilmeade called for authorities to spy on mosques, despite evidence such...
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NBC station fires anchor whose first words on air were ‘f*cking sh*t’
A North Dakota NBC affiliate has fired its newest anchor after he started his new job by uttering the words “fucking shit” as the weekend news broadcast began. As anchor Van Tieu was introducing A.J....
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Boston bombing suspect will be tried as a murderer
The Boston bombing suspect will be tried as a murderer and not an enemy combatant, Obama administration officials told The Associated Press on Monday. Word from the White House came moments after CBS...
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Boston bombing raises concerns about communication failures
Communication failures between US intelligence agencies may have prevented the detection of the suspected Boston bombers, according to senators briefed in secret by the FBI on Tuesday. The bureau’s...
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Sen. Ron Wyden slams Internet sales tax as ‘a recipe for stagnation’
Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon blasted a proposed Internet sales tax Tuesday on the Senate floor, claiming it was a “bailout” for large brick-and-mortar retailers. The Marketplace Fairness Act...
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Self-proclaimed LulzSec leader arrested in Australia
A self-proclaimed leader of the LulzSec international hacker group has been arrested in Australia, police said on Wednesday, after charging him with attacking and defacing a government website. The...
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Former Romney intern arrested for using nude pics to blackmail 15 women
A former intern for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was arrested Tuesday over an alleged sexual extortion scheme. In a press release, the FBI said 21-year-old Adam Savader allegedly...
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Jon Stewart castigates Congress for loosening insider trading law
On his show Tuesday night, The Daily Shot host Jon Stewart ripped Congress for weakening a recently approved law that subjected lawmakers to the same insider trading laws as every other American....
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More people arrested in Yosemite for pot possession than any other activity
You might expect to find drug users on Bay Area streets or satisfying their munchies in the Haight’s coffee shops. Yosemite, though, seems like an unlikely place to find prolific drug use. However,...
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Indian man held for selling baby grandson on Facebook
Police in northern India said Wednesday they had arrested a 47-year-old man for selling his newborn grandson to a local businessman in a deal that was struck on Facebook. Feroz Khan, a resident of...
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Experts warn cheetahs could disappear from the wild by 2030
The cheetah, the world’s fastest land animal, survived mass extinction during the last ice age 10,000 years ago. But it has taken just the last few decades for man to place the hunter on the endangered...
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Mother and daughter hurt in Christopher Dorner manhunt awarded $4.2 million
Two women hurt during a manhunt for a gunman who staged a deadly revenge plot against Los Angeles police have reached a $4.2 million settlement, authorities said. On February 7, as the hunt was on for...
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