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ISLAMABAD (AP) â€" At least 17 children were burned to death in eastern Pakistan on Saturday when a faulty gas cylinder exploded on the bus taking them to school, police said.
MIAMI (AP) â€" LeBron James blamed one person after the Miami Heat let home-court advantage in the Eastern Conference finals slip from their hands.
EPHRATAH, N.Y. --Â A small airplane operating as a volunteer Angel Flight crashed into a pond in upstate New York on Friday evening, killing at least two people, authorities said.Fulton County Sheriff Thomas Lorey said the flight's two passengers were found dead and investigators are searching for the pilot, who is missing. Officials did not immediately identify the passengers or pilot.The Pipe...
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MIAMI (AP) â€" David West punched two passes from LeBron James away in the final minute, then punched the air.
EPHRATAH, N.Y. (AP) â€" A small airplane operating as a volunteer Angel Flight crashed in upstate New York on Friday evening, killing at least two people, authorities said.
Today is Saturday, May 25, the 145th day of 2013. There are 220 days left in the year.
Don Thompson may be CEO, director and president of McDonald's Corp., but he still has to answer to a nine-year old girl who accuses the fast food giant of trying to "trick kids into eating food that isn't good for them."
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This month, Audra McDonald is releasing her fourth album, "Go Back Home," her first solo disc in seven years, and starring in a televised concert, featuring selections from the album, on PBS' Live from Lincoln Center.
Some women say that it was the attack on an American woman on a van in Rio that galvanized law enforcement officials to solve a wave of such crimes.
The Army has launched an investigation into possible sexual misconduct or sexual assault at the Space and Missile Defense Command at Fort Greely, Alaska, military and defense officials tell NBC News.The sources report there are allegations that an Army commander or commanders had sexual relations with female soldiers under their command.It's not clear whether the alleged contact was forced or cons...
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Judge finds Ariz. sheriff's office racially profiles Latinos in immigration patrols
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Social Media Examiner has just released its annual Social Media Marketing report. It reveals some interesting data about this year's social media marketing trends. The entire report is available for download here, but I'd like to highlight some of the report's most surprising and significant points. In a survey of 3,025 marketers, the study determined the following:
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Just a few months after escaping an antitrust case on its search ads, Google is now the subject of a Federal Trade Commission probe of its display-ad business.
When I was young, the majority opinion - at least among the kids at my school - was that the devil played the fiddle better than Johnny did in the song "The Devil Went Down to Georgia." Obviously, that would have messed up the general narrative of that song, but it was a good lesson in subjectivity. It's all a matter of opinion. There isn't a best ever. Not really. Not even in a song.But it leads ...
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By Becky Bratu, Kate Snow, Tim Uehlinger and Jay Kernis, NBC NewsAs she tours the husk of Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla. -- the little that was left behind after a powerful tornado shredded everything in its 17-mile path -- Principal Amy Simpson thinks back to Monday morning, when her biggest task was helping the sixth-graders get ready for their graduation ceremony.Pre-K teacher L...
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Stone Temple Pilots sue ex-frontman Scott Weiland, accuse him of interfering with band
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In the immortal words of Ron Burgandy, "That escalated quickly."
"Four little girls" received in death Friday one of the country's highest civilian awards, as the nation's first African American president honored some of the youngest victims in the historic fight for equal rights.
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A British zoo worker who was injured in a tiger attack at an animal park near Dalton-in-Furness has died, police said Friday.Sarah McClay, 24, from the Barrow area, was attacked by a tiger within its enclosure Friday afternoon, Cumbria police said. The woman was taken by air ambulance to Royal Preston Hospital following the attack at the South Lakes Wild Animal Park, but she did not survive.McClay...
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Elite NYC prep school apologizes for past sexual abuse in letter posted on its website
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UK braces for unrest after soldier's slaying while also reviewing whether it missed warnings
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The son of a disgraced former White House aide used a hatchet to kill a friend inside his parents' garage in Gaithersburg, Montgomery County authorities said Friday.
Claude Alexander Allen III, 20, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Michael Phillip Harvey, 25, in a case that stunned friends and neighbors of a family that had already seen its share of calamity. Allen's father, Claude A. Allen II, ended a promising political career in 2006 when he pleaded guilty to theft after resigning as then-President George W. Bush's senior domestic policy adviser.
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Taking America off "perpetual war footing," as the president proposes to do, will not be a simple task.
At the beginning of his first term, President Obama, surrounded by former generals and admirals, announced his intention to close the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay with all the fanfare and sense of possibility accorded a new, determined occupant of the Oval Office.
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The Boy Scouts' vote to allow openly gay boys prompted some supporters and critics of the new policy to swing into action Friday.
A network of Scouting families who wanted the ban to remain said it will host a meeting next month to start the process of creating "a new character development organization for boys." At the same time, gay equality advocates vowed to help the Scouts grow their membership and assist troops in crafting guidelines for handling Scouts who come out as gay.
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The latest problems with the IRS witch hunt, the seizure of phone records from The Associated Press, the conflicting Benghazi stories and disastrous attempts to enforce Obamacare may all seem unrelated, but they are not.
The first of 350 additional Marine guards at high-risk embassies and consulates around the world later this year will cost about $1.6 million each.
The attackers set off a large explosion followed by numerous smaller blasts, sending United Nations and international agency workers into bomb shelters.
The Nissos Rodos, a 630-foot ferry, used to cruise the Greek islands, moving tourists from one sunny paradise to the next. Business dried up when the Greek economic crisis hit three years ago. But then came the war in Syria, creating new opportunity.
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Adding to what's becoming a lengthy list of run-ins with the law, New York police arrested actress Amanda Bynes on Thursday night after she allegedly tossed drug paraphernalia out the window of her 36th floor Manhattan apartment.
LONDON (AP) -- Both of the suspects accused of butchering a British soldier during broad daylight on a London street had long been on the radar of Britain's domestic spy agency, though investigators say it would have been nearly impossible to predict that the men were on the verge of a brutal killing....
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) -- The trucker was hauling drilling equipment when his load bumped against the steel framework over an Interstate 5 bridge. He looked in his rearview mirror and watched in horror as the span collapsed into the water behind him. Two vehicles fell into the icy Skagit River....
British fighter jets were scrambled after the pilot of the Pakistani flight reported the threat. The two men were arrested after the plane landed.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama left plenty of ambiguity in new policy guidelines that he says will restrict how and when the U.S. can launch targeted drone strikes, leaving himself significant power over how and when the weapons can be deployed....
LONDON (AP) -- Britain scrambled fighter jets Friday to intercept a commercial airliner carrying more than 300 people from Pakistan, diverting it to an isolated runway at an airport on the outskirts of London and arresting two British passengers who allegedly threatened to destroy the plane....
PHOENIX (AP) -- A federal judge ruled Friday that the office of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark immigration patrols, marking the first finding by a court that the agency racially profiles people....
Angelina Jolie, when writing about her preventive double mastectomy, did not discuss how much her surgeries cost, but she did mention that many women would not be able to afford the $3,000 to $4,000 test that led her to make the decision. What she failed to say was why the test costs so much.
Pepper Schwartz says with constant drumbeat of scandals in armed forces, the military must require education programs to teach men self control, address culture of sexual entitlement
School apologizes for abuse by former teachers and administrators between 1962 and 1996.
Arpaio's department was accused of targeting Latino drivers based on their race.
Jurors felt like they failed by not reaching a verdict on death penalty, he says.
Logan Stark's experiences in Afghanistan compelled him to make a film for a class project.
The Oklahoma tornado left its mark on the teachers and students who lived through it
A 15-year-old Utah boy was arrested in connection with the slayings of his two younger brothers, ages 4 and 10, who were apparently stabbed to death in their home, authorities said Thursday.
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