U.S. soldier referred for court martial for 2009 Iraq shooting
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier accused of shooting dead five fellow servicemen at a military clinic in Baghdad in 2009 has been referred to stand trial by military court martial, Joint Base Lewis-McChord said o
MF Global customer deemed "frivolous" in fee fight
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By Nick Brown NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former MF Global Holdings Ltd customer was rebuked on Friday by a judge for filing "frivolous" court papers attacking the mounting fees of Louis Freeh, the trustee unwind
El Paso applies for LNG export license from Elba Island
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Natural gas producer and pipeline operator El Paso Corp has joined the growing ranks of companies hoping to export the abundant fuel overseas, after filing an export license for its import term
Small fire breaks out at ADM plant in Illinois
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - A small fire broke out at one of agribusiness giant Archer Daniel Midland Co's plants in Decatur, Illinois, on Friday morning. The fire department was called but the fire, which started i
Today in History
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Today is Saturday, May 19, the 140th day of 2012. There are 226 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On May 19, 1962, actress Marilyn Monroe sang a sultry rendition of "Happy Birthday to You" to...
Senate Banking Committee to ask Dimon to testify
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co Chief Executive Jamie Dimon will be invited to testify before Congress over the recent trading losses announced by the bank, U.S. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim
Greek poll shows pro-bailout conservatives leading
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's conservative New Democracy party, which backs the country's international bailout, has retaken the lead from the anti-bailout radical leftist SYRIZA, a poll showed on Thursday, the first
Kraft cuts Maxwell House coffee prices in U.S
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(Reuters) - Kraft Foods said on Friday it is has reduced prices on many of its coffees in the United States, including its flagship brand Maxwell House, by approximately 6 percent, effective immediately. "Th
Corrected: Storied battleship making final port call in Los Angeles
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By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The USS Iowa, which ferried the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt across the perilous Atlantic waters to a historic meeting with Winston Churchill and Josef Sta
All baby boomers should get hepatitis C test: CDC
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(Reuters) - All baby boomers should be tested at least once for the liver-destroying hepatitis C virus, according to proposed guidelines from U.S. health officials released on Friday. The often undiagnosed v
After stinging report, Pope softens tone for U.S. nuns
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By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Friday held out an olive branch to American Roman Catholic nuns, who are reeling from a stinging Vatican report that criticized them as being femi
AP: Ex-Pa. House Democratic leader out on bail
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Former longtime Pennsylvania House Democratic leader Bill DeWeese is out on bail days after he began serving a 2 1/2 -to-five-year prison term for corruption. A spokesman for the State Correction Institution in Camp...
Kansas City Southern says coal shipments weaker
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By Nick Zieminski NEW YORK (Reuters) - Railroad operating company Kansas City Southern said on Friday shipments of coal, farm products and chemicals were weaker than expected a month ago, but kept its full-y
Police arrest suspect in Mississippi highway shootings
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TUPELO, Mississippi (Reuters) - Mississippi police have arrested a man they believe is responsible for two highway killings this month, the Department of Public Safety said on Friday. The suspect, James Will
Analysis: U.S. cities wrestle with universities for cash
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By Hilary Russ NEW YORK (Reuters) - In 1978, after New York City had barely escaped bankruptcy, Mayor Ed Koch went looking for cash from an unlikely source: the city's colleges and other nonprofits, which do
Iran attack decision nears, Israeli elite locks down
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By Michael Stott JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A private door opens from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office in central Jerusalem directly into a long, modestly furnished, half-paneled room decorated
Protests after Houston cop cleared of beating black teen
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By Deborah Quinn Hensel HOUSTON (Reuters) - The day after an all-white jury acquitted a former Houston police officer for his role in the beating of a 15-year-old African American burglary suspect, community
Storied battleship making final port call in Los Angeles
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By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The USS Iowa, which ferried the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt across the perilous Atlantic waters to a historic meeting with Winston Churchill and Josef Sta
Stabbed Ohio woman hits child with car, both dead
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A woman allegedly stabbed by her best friend during an argument while sitting behind the wheel of a car tried to drive away and struck her attacker's 2-year-old daughter, authorities said Friday. The woman and the...
Chemical sends 5 from Fla airport to hospital
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A terminal at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport was closed for a time after an unknown chemical sent five people to the hospital with respiratory complaints. Terminal 2 was evacuated for about two hours...
Parents of slain Chinese students sue California university
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By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The parents of two Chinese graduate students slain near the University of Southern California last month have filed a wrongful death lawsuit accusing the school of
New York state says jobless rate steady at 8.5 pct
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(Reuters) - New York state's unemployment rate was unchanged in April from March at 8.5 percent but the state has won back all the private sector jobs lost during the recession, the state's Department of Labor said
Jobless claims steady, labor worries persist
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By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New claims for unemployment benefits were unchanged last week, according to government data on Thursday that will do little to ease concerns about a recent slowdown in j
Mississippi high court declines to rehear pardon case
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By Emily Le Coz TUPELO, Miss (Reuters) - Mississippi's high court on Thursday rejected a motion by its state attorney general to reconsider its approval of 10 pardons issued in January by then Governor Haley
Kansas governor apologizes for century of segregation
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By Kevin Murphy KANSAS CITY, Kansas (Reuters) - Kansas Governor Sam Brownback apologized on Thursday to blacks for segregation in his state in the last century as he marked the anniversary of a ruling that s
Diplomats: UN experts say NKorea violates sanction
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An expert panel's report says North Korea continues to violate U.N. sanctions, citing possible attempts to ship arms to Syria and Myanmar and illegally import luxury goods, U.N. diplomats said Friday. Two Security...
Horrors of Srebrenica set out at Mladic trial
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By Ivana Sekularac THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Prosecutors in the genocide trial of Serb general Ratko Mladic on Thursday described five days of terror in the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica in July 1995, when troop
Feds say pilot tried to bring gun on plane in NY
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An airline pilot is accused of trying to board a flight at Buffalo for New York City with a loaded revolver in his bag, and authorities believe he'd been flying with it for two days. The U.S. Attorney's Office charged...
Driver who was hero in '76 Calif. bus kidnap dies
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The nation called Ed Ray a hero when he led a terrified group of children to safety after they were kidnapped aboard their school bus and held underground for ransom in the summer of 1976. But the unassuming bus driver...
Family values ex-Nevada lawmaker appears in bikini for Maxim
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By Timothy Pratt LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - A former Nevada state Senator who ran on a Christian family values platform has posed in a bikini as a write-in candidate for the men's magazine Maxim's "Hot 100" conte
Mississippi officials: April incident may be linked to murders
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By Emily Le Coz TUPELO, Mississippi (Reuters) - Authorities in Mississippi are checking an April incident they say may be related to two highway murders this month that have raised alarms about a killer poss
UN imposes sanctions on Guinea-Bissau coup leaders
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The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Friday to impose sanctions on the leaders of last month's military coup in Guinea-Bissau and key supporters, demanding they reinstate the legitimate democratic government...
Berkshire Hathaway to buy Media General newspapers for $142 million
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(Reuters) - Berkshire Hathaway Inc will buy all newspapers owned by Media General Inc, with the exception of Tampa group, for $142 million in cash, the companies said. Media General said it is in discussions
More minority babies than whites in U.S.: Census Bureau
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By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For the first time, there are more black, Hispanic and other minority babies being born in the United States than white babies, according to government data released on
Ex-U.S. Army Corps manager and son plead guilty to bribery scheme
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By Lily Kuo WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former program manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and his son pleaded guilty on Thursday to participating in a plot involving possibly more than $30 million in
Soldier faces murder charges in Iraq base deaths
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Murder charges have been filed against a sergeant accused of killing four other soldiers and a Navy officer in May 2009 at a mental health clinic in Iraq, the Army said Friday. The charges against Sgt. John Russell...
Wal-Mart posts strong profit as U.S. sales jump
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(Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit on Thursday as its Walmart U.S. division showed a 2.6 percent rise in sales at stores open at least a year, as warm weather and an earl
"No indication" of terror threat to Chicago NATO summit: FBI
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By Andrew Stern CHICAGO (Reuters) - The FBI said on Thursday there was "absolutely no indication" of a terror attack threat in Chicago, although the city was considered a potential target even before Preside
Georgia woman learns toll of flesh-eating bacteria
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Faced with the prospect of losing both hands and her one remaining foot, a young Georgia woman battling to survive a case of flesh-eating bacteria that has already claimed one leg mouthed the words "Let's do this." ...
Trayvon Martin had traces of marijuana in his system
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(Reuters) - Florida teenage shooting victim Trayvon Martin had traces of marijuana in his system when he was killed by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, according to case documents released on Thursday
Prosecution rests in Philadelphia Archdiocese child sex abuse trial
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By Dave Warner PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The prosecution rested its case on Thursday against Philadelphia Archdiocese Monsignor William Lynn, the most senior U.S. clergyman to go to trial in the Roman Catholi
New York judge with cancer makes case for marijuana
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By Jessica Dye NEW YORK (Reuters) - A cancer-stricken judge in New York has become an unlikely voice in support of legalizing the use of medical marijuana with the admission that he smokes pot to ease the si
U.S. lawmakers want to halt aid to nations hosting Sudan's Bashir
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By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A House of Representatives committee voted on Thursday to cut off economic aid to any country that hosts Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by the Inter
Anti-war protest at Obama's Chicago campaign headquarters
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By Mary Wisniewski and Eric Johnson CHICAGO (Reuters) - A small group of anti-war demonstrators staged a peaceful "die in" on Thursday at President !a class="tagLink" href="http://townhall.com/tags/barack-ob
HSBC turnaround on target, sees revenue boost
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By Lawrence White and Kelvin Soh HONG KONG (Reuters) - HSBC doubled the annual revenue boost expected from its turnaround plan to $2 billion, as Europe's biggest bank targets emerging markets and cost cuts t
Spain beset by bank crisis, recession, bond pressure
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By Sonya Dowsett and Paul Day MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's borrowing costs shot up at a bond auction on Thursday, after economic data confirmed the country is back in recession and reports that nationalized Ba
AP PHOTOS: Hero driver in Calif bus kidnap dies
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In 1976, three kidnappers hijacked a school bus full of children in the farm town of Chowchilla, Calif. The kidnappers forced the 26 students and the bus driver, Frank Edward "Ed" Ray, into a truck that was buried...
Mississippi officials: April incident may be linked to murders
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By Emily Le Coz TUPELO, Mississippi (Reuters) - Authorities in Mississippi are checking an April incident they say may be related to two highway murders this month that have raised alarms about a killer poss
U.S. Air Force keeping close watch on Boeing tanker
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By Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Boeing Co's program to develop a new refueling tanker is proceeding well, but an aggressive test schedule and Boeing's plan to close the Wichita, Kansas, plant sti
Appeals court dismisses Illinois wage hike suit
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - An appeals court potentially saved cash-strapped Illinois money on Thursday by upholding a lower court's dismissal of a public labor union's lawsuit challenging Governor Pat Quinn's elimination