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FBI Director Surveillance has been instrumental in stopping terror threats
Addressing the role of NSA surveillance programs in stopping terror threats, FBI Director Robert Mueller said, for most of the cases, it "has been a contributing factor - one dot amongst a number of dots - but there are those cases where it has been ...
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FBI director acknowledges domestic drone use
FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged that the bureau uses unmanned drones for surveillance on U.S. soil during testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, adding that such drone use is done in a "very, very minimal way, and very ...
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Natura Pet Products recalls dry foods over salmonella
press release on the Food and Drug Administrations website stated the products in question include all lot codes of: Innova Dry dog and cat food and biscuits/bars/treats; EVO dry dog, cat and ferret food and biscuits/bars/treats; California Natural dry dog and cat foods and biscuits/bars/treats; Healthwise dry dog and cat foods; Karma dry dog foods; and Mother Nature biscuits/bars/treats. They ...
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18 mayors want ban on using food stamps to buy soda
A social worker with the Cooperative Feeding Program displays a Federal food stamps card that is used to purchase food, Feb. 10, 2011 in Fort Lauderdale, ...
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Obesitys disease risk no secret despite new classification
More than 35 percent of U.S. adults and 17 percent of children and teens now have a disease, after the American Medical Association formally voted Tuesday to classify "obesity as a disease requiring a range of medical interventions." The shift is aimed in part to get doctors to tackle obesity as if they were treating a disease instead of a lifestyle condition in need of modification. ...
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Celebration and devotion in India
A Kashmiri Hindu migrant prays at the Kheer Bhawani temple during an annual Hindu festival in Jammu, India, June. 17, 2013. The Kheer Bhawani temple was originally in Srinagar and was re-built in Jammu by exiled Kashmiri Hindus. Devotees offer milk and "Kheer" pudding to to the Goddess Rajnya Devi, popularly known as Kheer Bhawani, to whom the temple is dedicated. They believe the ...
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Bulgers attorneys grill admitted killer John Martorano
CBS News (AP) BOSTON - A former enforcer for James "Whitey" Bulger has been grilled by Bulger's attorney about varying stories he told over the years about killings he says were orchestrated by Bulger and his ...
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How to stop human slavery
>Editor's note: Yury Fedotov is the executive director of the U. N. Office on Drugs and Crime.(CNN) -- Thirteen-year-old Anjali didn't just pack her bags and run away to the circus, she signed a 10-year contract with a circus master after fleeing from long hours of domestic servitude in Nepal. Taken to India, she then endured years of appalling and dangerous working conditions for no ...
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Why is it so hard to vote
>Editor's note: Wendy Weiser directs the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law.(CNN) -- Now that the Supreme Court has invalidated part of Arizona's voter registration law, states should be thinking twice before introducing laws to make it harder to cast a ballot. Monday's decision is indeed a big victory for voters ...
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Italian fashion duo convicted of tax evasion
Italian fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have been handed a suspended prison sentence of one year and eight months for hiding hundreds of millions of euros from the tax authorities. A Milan court found the pair guilty on Wednesday of failing to declare $1.3bn (euros 1 billion) in income to authorities. The designers, whose label Dolce&Gabbana is a Milan fashion ...
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Study Finds Sharp Drop in HPV Infections in Girls
The prevalence of dangerous strains of the human papillomavirus ...
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More and more elephants slaughtered
>Editor's note: Mark Quarterman is the research director of the Enough Project, a project of the Center for American Progress to end genocide and crimes against humanity.(CNN) -- The accelerating pace of the slaughter of elephants for their tusks has put African elephants at catastrophic risk in the coming decades. To make matters worse, some of the region's most notorious armed groups are ...
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Obama Preparing Big Effort to Curb Climate Change
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Gomez Strong in Final Massachusetts Senate Debate
News reports from the final debate between Democrat Ed Markey and Republican Gabriel Gomez conclude that Gomez, a first-time candidate and self-styled "new kind of ...
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Fatah warns US against exerting pressure on PA to resume talks unconditionally
As Kerry set to return to region next week, West Bank leadership calls on US secretary of state to exert pressure on Israel to "fulfill its obligations"; Erekat: Israeli gov't strategy based on "destroying the 2-state ...
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Hamas Syria conflict impacting Iran relations financial aid
Hamas's deteriorating relations with Iran and Syria have impacted financial aid to the Islamist movement, Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas official in the Gaza Strip, was quoted Wednesday as saying.Noting that Syria had supported Hamas financially and politically, Hamad said that his movement's support for the Syrian "revolution" has resulted in the loss of financial aid from both ...
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Arab lynch mob attacks two Jews in e. Jlem
Two Jewish men were assaulted Wednesday in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Orot, narrowly escaping with their lives, when a lynch mob of Arab-Israelis shattered their vehicle's windows with rocks, surrounded the car and attempted to pummel them.According to Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld the attack took place in the morning, while the men, both in their 20s and residents of the ...
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Egypts Muslim Brotherhood braces for future trouble
CAIRO - For the Muslim Brotherhood, running Egypt has been like crossing a minefield. As President Mohamed Morsi ends his first year in office, fortifications being erected at his group's headquarters suggest a looming war.Behind a reinforced wall and a five-inch thick iron gate, the Brotherhood's Cairo compound bears scars of a divisive year that has triggered frequent protests and ...
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No easy nuke arms cuts Russia
ST PETERSBURG, Russia - Russia voiced concern on Wednesday about US missile defences and high-precision conventional weapons, signalling that nuclear arms cuts proposed by President Barack Obama are likely to face ...
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Budapest parly evacuated over WWII bomb
Budapest - Part of Hungary's parliament was evacuated Wednesday after an unexploded World War II bomb was discovered during excavation work for a nearby underground ...
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Iceland weighs Snowden asylum
Stockholm - Iceland said Wednesday it has held informal talks with an intermediary of US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden who reportedly may want to seek political asylum ...
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Boston suspect gets Russia burial
Grozny, Russia - The father of a Russian man killed while being questioned about ties to the Boston Marathon bombing suspects says he has brought the body to Russia for ...
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Aldi sees off Waitrose to win best supermarket award for the second time in two weeks as judges declare its prices dont compromise on quality
It is another accolade for the discount chain, which just last week also beat the major chains and upmarket rivals like Waitrose, to be named the best supermarket in The Grocer ...
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Is this Britains fattest dog Mizzy the 11.4 STONE bullmastiff whose collar fits around her vets waist checks into animal fit club
Mizzy is one of 21 overweight animals - including a two-stone Norwegian Forest cat and an 11lb rotund rabbit - taking part in PDSA's six-month diet and exercise ...
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Mother whose eyes were gouged out by abusive boyfriend is attacked again as man is arrested for assault
A man has been charged with an alleged assault on Tina Nash, who had her eyes gouged by her ex-boyfriend in 2011. A file picture of Miss Nash outside Truro Crown ...
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