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Passengers From Nightmare Cruise Head Home
Passengers From Nightmare Cruise Head Home
The disabled Carnival cruise ship Triumph is being moved from the Alabama dock where it discharged its weary passengers and crew after five days at sea paralyzed by an engine-room fire. (Feb. 15)

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News Summary: US jobless claims fall, outlook up
News Summary: US jobless claims fall, outlook up
FEWER SEEK BENEFITS: The outlook for the U.S. job market brightened after a government report showed a sharp drop in the number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits. Weekly applications fell 27,000 to 341,000. GOOD SIGN: Economists were encouraged by the decline but want to see the progre

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NYC Mother Killed in Turkey Is Laid to Rest
NYC Mother Killed in Turkey Is Laid to Rest
Family and friends of Sarai Sierra said farewell to the 33-year-old New York City woman killed while on a solo vacation in Turkey. (Feb. 15)

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Column: Don't jump to conclusions on Pistorius
Column: Don't jump to conclusions on Pistorius
In sport, Oscar Pistorius demonstrated how easy it is to be wrong about people. An athlete with prosthetic limbs competing at the Olympic Games? No way! That lesson — don't leap to hasty, ill-informed conclusions — is worth remembering now as the double-amputee Olympian stands charged with murde

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US, Cuba wrestling pan Olympic move to drop sport
US, Cuba wrestling pan Olympic move to drop sport
The U.S. and Cuba have seen eye-to-eye on precious little for the last half century, but their wrestling federations have found common ground on at least one thing: Dropping the sport from the 2020 Olympics is a bad idea. At a tournament in Havana on Friday, coaches and athletes from both nations t

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Contract for US debut of The Clash up for auction
Contract for US debut of The Clash up for auction
The legal contract for the American debut of the English punk rock band The Clash is being offered by a New Hampshire auction house, among other band items. The Clash documents dated Jan. 23, 1979, were drafted for a performance at New York's Palladium the following month. They include a diagram of

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3 GOP senators press Obama for answers on Libya
3 GOP senators press Obama for answers on Libya
Three Republican senators are asking President Barack Obama whether he spoke to any Libyan government official during the deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last September. In a letter Tuesday, John McCain, Kelly Ayotte and Lindsey Graham pressed Obama on whether he s

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Toyota pays $29M to states to settle safety suit
Toyota pays $29M to states to settle safety suit
Toyota said Thursday it will pay $29 million to 29 states and American Samoa as part of a settlement related to its safety recalls. State attorneys general sued Toyota in 2010 after it recalled 14 million vehicles globally for accelerating without warning. The lawsuit accused Toyota of failing to n

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Police: Wife kills member of '79 Final Four team
Police: Wife kills member of '79 Final Four team
A member of the University of Pennsylvania's 1979 Final Four team was fatally stabbed by his wife, who told police she had caught him looking at child pornography, according to court documents. Matthew White was found stabbed in the neck around 12:45 p.m. Monday in bed at his home, police said, and

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UN: Syria death toll probably approaching 70,000
UN: Syria death toll probably approaching 70,000
Syria's intensifying civil war has probably killed over 9,000 people since the beginning of the year, bringing the likely death toll of the two-year-old conflict near 70,000, the U.N. human rights chief said Tuesday. At the beginning of January, less than six weeks ago, Navi Pillay said the death t

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Fidel Castro describes aches and pains of aging
Fidel Castro describes aches and pains of aging
Retired Cuban President Fidel Castro complained of a bad knee, weak eyesight and difficulty adjusting to changes in light during a lengthy interview session with state-run media published Tuesday. The 86-year-old revolutionary icon also praised Cuban election officials for building a new entrance t

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Blacklisted screenwriter Richard Collins dies
Blacklisted screenwriter Richard Collins dies
A blacklisted screenwriter who later named names to Communist hunters during the McCarthy era has died in California. Richard Collins was 98. His son, Michael Collins, tells the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/Z1nT8s ) that Collins died Thursday of pneumonia in Ventura. Collins was one of 19 write

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Death toll from Iraq suicide blast rises to 7
Death toll from Iraq suicide blast rises to 7
The death toll from a late night suicide attack that struck a northern Iraqi city rose on Tuesday to seven, according to officials. A 7-year-old boy was among those killed in the bombing. The suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden truck late Monday night at the gate of a military base inside

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US officials: NKorea blast was several kilotons
US officials: NKorea blast was several kilotons
U.S. intelligence officials say North Korea's nuclear test yielded an explosion of "approximately several kilotons." In a statement Tuesday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said North Korea "probably conducted an underground nuclear explosion in the vicinity of P'unggye." It sai

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Libya focuses on border, integrating ex-fighters
Libya focuses on border, integrating ex-fighters
Libya's government is struggling to control its borders and retrieve the arms and explosives that were looted after longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi's downfall, according to the conclusions of an international meeting on Libyan security on Tuesday. Countries that backed the 2011 revolution offered

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Vatican spokesman says pope will have no role in selection of successor
Vatican spokesman says pope will have no role in selection of successor
Vatican spokesman says pope will have no role in selection of successor.

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Ex-Stanford execs get 20 years for $7B swindle
Ex-Stanford execs get 20 years for $7B swindle
The last two defendants convicted for helping disgraced financier R. Allen Stanford bilk investors out of more than $7 billion in one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history were each sentenced to 20 year prison terms by a federal judge on Thursday. Lawyers for Gilbert Lopez Jr., the ex-chief

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China calls in NKorean ambassador over nuke test
China calls in NKorean ambassador over nuke test
China's foreign minister called North Korea's ambassador in for a dressing-down and demanded his country cease making further threats, in a show of Beijing's displeasure over its ally's latest nuclear test. Yang Jiechi delivered a "stern representation" to Ji Jae Ryong on Tuesday and expressed Chin

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Official: Courthouse shooter was ex-father-in-law
Official: Courthouse shooter was ex-father-in-law
The gunman in a Delaware courthouse shooting that left three dead was the ex-father-in-law of one of the victims, a law enforcement official said Tuesday. The official, who had been briefed on the situation, spoke on the condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to release the

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BP names 4th staff member killed in Algeria siege
BP names 4th staff member killed in Algeria siege
BP has named Stephen Green as the fourth member of its staff who was killed during a terrorist assault on an Algerian gas plant last month. The company said Tuesday that 47-year-old Green was killed when terrorists took control of the Ain Amenas plant. Officials said his name could not be released

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