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2 Men Arrested After Pakistani Jet Is Diverted Over U.K.

3 hours 8 min ago

Something happened aboard the flight from Lahore, Pakistan, to Manchester, England. Royal Air Force fighters were scrambled and the plane was ordered to land at an airport in Essex.

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James Joyce Coin-troversy Reportedly Could Have Been Averted

3 hours 8 min ago

Irish banking officials should have known there were problems with the controversial 10-euro coin commemorating James Joyce, according to Ireland's RTE News. The coin misquotes the author's Ulysses, and bears an image of Joyce that his estate did not approve.

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British Soldier Hacked To Death Was 'Our Hero,' Family Says

4 hours 9 min ago

As Lee Rigby's family struggles with grief, they're speaking about the young man's love of life. He was killed Wednesday. Witnesses heard — and recorded — the attackers saying that they were angry about the deaths of Muslims during the wars in Iran and Afghanistan.

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Explosion, Gunfire Reverberate In Kabul

4 hours 51 min ago

Witnesses say the blast happened in the late afternoon. The sound of shots followed. There's no word yet on casualties.

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Assad Regime Agrees To Attend Peace Conference, Russia Says

5 hours 11 min ago

Russia and the U.S. have been trying to set up talks aimed at ending more than two years of brutal fighting in Syria. What's still unclear, however, is who would speak for the opponents of President Bashar Assad's regime.

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Tornado In Moore, Okla.: Friday's Developments

5 hours 45 min ago

Residents can now get into their devastated neighborhoods without passing through police checkpoints. Meanwhile, there's word that insurance policies may cover less of the cost of damages than in past disasters.

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Book News: Judge's Comments Bruising To Apple's Price-Fixing Case

5 hours 49 min ago

Also: Mary Karr on addiction and David Foster Wallace; Maria Semple calls Jonathan Franzen her "big daddy."

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'White Flash And Cold Water' After Bridge Collapse In Wash.

6 hours 22 min ago

After a truck carrying a heavy load struck the side of a bridge that carries Interstate 5 over the Skagit River north of Seattle, the roadway collapsed. No one was killed. Dan Sligh and his wife were in a pickup. "You just hold on as tight as you can," he says of the fall they took.

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China's Air Pollution: Is The Government Willing To Act?

9 hours 16 min ago

There is some political willingness, but because China is highly decentralized politically, the Communist Party has only limited influence over provincial governments and how they regulate their dirty factories. The powerful state-owned oil companies have also resisted pressure to produce cleaner-burning fuel.

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Tornado's Survival Rate 'Not Just Luck,' Meteorologist Says

9 hours 18 min ago

The National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., just a few miles from where the tornado hit Monday, had warned that bad weather was coming. But experts there say they're surprised the monster storm didn't cause more deaths, and they want to know why.

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Can This Man Bring Silicon Valley To Yangon?

10 hours 25 min ago

A Stanford MBA who used to work for Google returned to Myanmar to be an Internet entrepreneur. But it's tough to start an Internet company in a country where the power goes out every day.

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Can This Man Bring Silicon Valley To Yangon?

10 hours 25 min ago

A Stanford MBA who used to work for Google returned to Myanmar to be an Internet entrepreneur. But it's tough to start an Internet company in a country where the power goes out every day.

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Military Moms: A Bond Born From Shared Loss

10 hours 32 min ago

Two mothers whose sons were killed during the first Gulf War talk about how they became friends after their sons died. The past 22 years would have been tough without the friendship, because, as one tells the other, "what's in our hearts we share."

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Bridge Collapses In Wash. State; People, Cars In Water

May 23, 2013 - 7:31pm

TAn unknown number of people and vehicles are in the Skagit River, and rescue crews are looking for them. The bridge collapsed at 7 p.m., but the reason is unclear.

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Jury Deadlocks On Jodi Arias Sentencing

May 23, 2013 - 4:19pm

The jury that convicted her of first-degree murder earlier this month in the brutal killing of her ex-boyfriend were unable to decide whether to give the death penalty.

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Evolution Saves Cockroaches From Taking The Bait

May 23, 2013 - 4:01pm

A new study unravels the mystery of a peculiar transformation: sometime in the 1990s, the insects developed a sudden aversion to sweet-tasting poisons.

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Srinivasan's Confirmation First For D.C. Circuit In 7 Years

May 23, 2013 - 2:40pm

The partisan war over judicial nominees has accelerated in recent years. It took nearly a year to win Senate confirmation for Sri Srinivasan to the important federal appeals court for the District of Columbia, though he had no formal opposition.

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Boy Scouts Vote To Admit Openly Gay Members

May 23, 2013 - 2:28pm

The National Council of the Boy Scouts of America has voted to allow gay Scout members, but to continue a ban on openly gay adult Scout leaders. The policy change would take effect Jan. 1, 2014.

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Head Of IRS Tax-Exempt Division Reportedly Placed On Leave

May 23, 2013 - 2:12pm

Lois Lerner has been at the center of a scandal over the tax agency's targeting of conservative groups.

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Alabama Republican Jo Bonner Says He's Leaving Congress

May 23, 2013 - 2:09pm

The congressman says he will step down in August to take a senior position at the University of Alabama.

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