Texas death prompts call for better protecting firefighters
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By Jim Forsyth SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Hot shot federal firefighters called in to battle the toughest U.S. wildfires often avoid reporting symptoms of heatstroke because they fear damaging their professional
Amid evidence cache in Martin case, questions nag
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Prosecutors in the Trayvon Martin case dumped a mountain of evidence on the public this week. In many criminal cases, that would bring clarity, start answering the basic questions. But no one _ not pundits, attorneys...
Jurors in Edwards trial will resume talks Monday
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A jury deliberated for about five hours Friday in John Edwards' campaign corruption trial involving money from wealthy donors that was used to hide his pregnant mistress during his 2008 White House bid. Talks will...
Syria's Assad: Nations that sow chaos will suffer
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By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Wednesday that countries trying to "sow chaos" in Syria could be infected with it themselves, an apparent warning to Arab Gul
One person sent hundreds of powder-filled envelopes: FBI
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By Jim Forsyth SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - Authorities believe one person is responsible for mailing 20 powder-filled envelopes to schools and a business in the Dallas-Fort Worth area last week and hundre
Bully victim's poem prompts healing after 25 years
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A woman's poem about being bullied in a California school 25 years ago has brought her former classmates to tears. Now, they're creating a scholarship fund in her name and have raised $800 to fly her back to California...
Exclusive: Syria remains top destination for Iran arms transfers
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Syria remains the top destination for Iranian arms shipments in violation of a U.N. Security Council ban on weapons exports by the Islamic Republic, according to a confidential draft repo
Hedge fund managers reveal "best ideas" at event
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Larry Robbins, founder of Glenview Capital Management, is bullish on Tenet Healthcare Corp. Meanwhile, Jonathan Kolatch, founder of Redwood Capital Management, is recommending buying Argentine
Poll: Opposition to Iran going nuclear widespread
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Opposition to Iran obtaining nuclear weapons is widespread around the world, including in neighboring countries Egypt, Jordan and Turkey, and support for tough economic sanctions is high, according to poll released...
Top Pa. judge charged with campaign corruption
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State Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin was charged Friday with illegally using her taxpayer-funded staff in her campaigns for a seat on the state's highest court in a scheme that ensnared her sister, a senator...
Fed keeps bond-buying door open: minutes
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(Reuters) - Federal Reserve policymakers kept the door open to a fresh round of monetary stimulus, citing downside risks to a moderately expanding economy, according to minutes for the central bank's April meeting.
Cache of evidence in shooting, still huge gaps
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Prosecutors in the Trayvon Martin case dumped a mountain of evidence on the public this week. In many criminal cases, that would bring clarity, start answering the basic questions. But no one _ not pundits, attorneys...
G-8 activists prepare peaceful Maryland protests
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About a dozen activists prepared banners for roadside demonstrations Friday in Thurmont, Md., under the eyes of authorities determined to keep them miles away from the Camp David presidential retreat where world leaders...
Woman whose fetus died after suicide try gets bail
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An Indiana judge set bail Friday for a Chinese immigrant who has spent more than a year in jail on charges that she murdered her 33-week-old fetus by eating rat poison, in a closely watched case that has potentially...
State employee pensions to cost California $3.7 billion
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California will pay about $3.7 billion for state employees' pension in its next fiscal year, more than it now pays but less than the state set aside for retirement-related expenses in the
Mother shocked twice with Taser at Mississippi school
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By Emily Le Coz GUNTOWN, Mississippi (Reuters) - A woman who became increasingly irate about her child being disciplined at middle school was shocked twice with a Taser outside the principal's office and arr
Pioneer graves found at site of new Arizona sheriff's office
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By Tim Gaynor PHOENIX (Reuters) - Workers digging the foundations for a new office of an Arizona sheriff accused of discriminating against Latinos have unearthed the graves of early city founders, some of wh
NJ town's monument upsetting Japanese officials
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Japanese officials are asking a small northern New Jersey town with a large Korean immigrant population to remove a public monument dedicated to women who were forced into sexual slavery by Japanese soldiers during...
Experts: Insanity defense doesn't fit in stabbings
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Mental health experts who interviewed a Michigan serial stabbings suspect testified Friday that he revealed a pattern of planning, control and lack of empathy for his alleged victims _ key factors that would make him...
In Alaska, militia members accused of murder plot
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Schaeffer Cox carries himself with youthful swagger as he spreads a message to his many admirers of an out-of-control federal government bulldozing individual freedoms. Federal prosecutors portray him quite...
U.S. may send women to elite Ranger school: top Army chief
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By Lily Kuo WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army is considering putting female soldiers through Ranger School, an intense weeks-long combat boot camp that would put them on equal footing with male counterpar
Police receive hundreds of tips on Mississippi killings
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By Emily Le Coz OLIVE BRANCH, Mississippi (Reuters) - Mississippi authorities are sifting through hundreds of tips concerning two recent highway slayings that may be the work of a killer posing as a police o
Father of Washington's Josh Powell guilty of voyeurism
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By Elaine Porterfield SEATTLE (Reuters) - The father of Josh Powell, who killed himself and his two young sons in a fiery blast at his Washington state home in February, was found guilty on Wednesday of 14 c
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Ventura County fire spokesman say military-contracted civilian trainer jet crashes in Calif. ...
United Arab Emirates gives $5M to Joplin hospital
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Joplin is getting another big boost from the Middle East as the Missouri city rebuilds and prepares for the anniversary of a devastating tornado that killed 161 people. United Arab Emirates Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba...
Oklahoma welfare applicants to face drug screening
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By Steve Olafson OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Oklahoma will require welfare applicants to submit to screening for illegal drug use under a bill signed into law on Wednesday by Republican Governor Mary Fallin.
Obama gives Medal of Honor to soldier who died 42 years ago
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By Samson Reiny WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President !a class="tagLink" href="http://townhall.com/tags/barack-obama">Barack Obama!/a> on Wednesday hailed a fallen Vietnam War soldier who saved his members of his
Exclusive: ECB stops operations with some Greek banks: sources
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By Annika Breidthardt and Andreas Framke BERLIN/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank has stopped providing liquidity to some Greek banks as they have not been successfully recapitalized, euro zone
Judge blocks indefinite military detention provision
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By Basil Katz NEW YORK (Reuters) - A judge on Wednesday blocked enforcement of a recently enacted law's provision that authorizes indefinite military detention for those deemed to have "substantially support
Police crack theft ring that sold luxury cars in Africa
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Authorities on Wednesday broke up an international car theft ring that used the streets of New York "as one giant showroom" to stalk more than $1 million in luxury cars and steal them for sale
Guantanamo lawyers want ex-CIA official to testify
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By Jane Sutton MIAMI (Reuters) - Defense lawyers want to force a former CIA official who supervised what they called torture of al Qaeda captives to testify in the war crimes tribunal for five Guantanamo pri
Fla. mom who killed self, 4 kids endured violence
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A child welfare investigator who spoke with Tonya Thomas in the weeks before she fatally shot herself and her four children said there were no signs that the children were in distress or felt unsafe. But hundreds of...
WTO rules against U.S. "dolphin safe" tuna
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By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - A World Trade Organization appellate panel on Wednesday said U.S. "dolphin safe" tuna labeling rules unfairly discriminate against Mexico, raising the possibility of sanctions
US judge blocks indefinite military detention provision
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A judge on Wednesday blocked enforcement of a recently enacted law's provision that authorizes indefinite military detention for those deemed to have "substantially supported" al Qaeda, the Tal
AIG to sell AIA shares after lock-up ends in September
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(Reuters) - Bailed-out insurer American International Group Inc will sell its shares in Asian insurer AIA Group Ltd after a lock-up period expires in early September, Chief Executive Bob Benmosche said on Wednesday
U.S. Navy ships collide off California, no injuries reported
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two U.S. Navy ships collided off the coast of California on Wednesday due to a steering malfunction during a refuelling operation, damaging both vessels but causing no injuries, the Navy sai
Texas high court orders state to pay ex-inmate $2M
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The Texas Supreme Court ordered the state Friday to pay about $2 million to an ex-inmate who spent 26 years in prison for murder before his conviction was overturned, a decision legal experts said could set a new...
Mother of homeless man killed by police settles with city
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By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The mother of a schizophrenic homeless man who died after he was beaten and repeatedly shocked with a stun gun by police in California last year has reached a $1 milli
Protesters in Chicago target evictions, foreclosures
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By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - About 150 protesters in Chicago marched to banks and government offices on Wednesday to demand a one-year moratorium on local home evictions and foreclosures, the lates
Syria's television confessions fail to convince many
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By Oliver Holmes BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's state media is fighting hard to cast the country's unrest as an Islamist terrorist conspiracy rather than a popular uprising against the dynastic rule of President
Organic Valley dishes up "grassmilk" to consumers in US West
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By Carey Gillam (Reuters) - George Siemon has milk on his mind. "Grassmilk" to be specific. As the co-founder and chief executive for Organic Valley, a La Farge, Wisconsin-based cooperative that is th
With state weak, Libyans look to God for help
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By Hadeel Al Shalchi ZLITAN, Libya (Reuters) - Mohamed Salem believes it was divine intervention that saved the Muslim holy site where he works from being destroyed. In early March, word reached the k
Housing starts, industrial output rise
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By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Groundbreaking for homes rebounded in April and factory activity gained steam, suggesting the economy remains on a steady, if unspectacular recovery course. Th
School pulls boy from class for black face costume
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A white Colorado second-grade student who wore black face paint as part of a Martin Luther King costume has drawn criticism from school officials. Sean King was pulled out of class Wednesday after donning the makeup...
Virginia, Florida have most well-read cities in U.S.: poll
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York and Boston may strike many as more intellectual but Alexandria, a small urban area in Virginia just outside Washington, D.C., is the most well-read city in the United States. Al
Father of Washington's Josh Powell guilty of voyeurism
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - The father of Josh Powell, who killed himself and his two young sons in a fiery blast at his Washington state home in February, was found guilty of 14 counts of voyeurism on Wednesday, a prosecu
Teacher fired over pregnancy can sue religious school
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By Terry Baynes (Reuters) - An appeals court on Wednesday revived a Florida teacher's lawsuit against a Christian school that fired her after she admitted to conceiving a child before her marriage. Ov
A "gold rush" for Maine's baby eel fishermen
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By Jason McLure PORTLAND, Maine (Reuters) - George Forni will spend most of next week holed up in his home in Sullivan, Maine, guarded by a new surveillance system and armed with a stun gun and pepper spray
Analysis: Germany's Merkel losing green battle to cheap coal
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By Henning Gloystein and Vera Eckert LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - To reach its strict climate targets and fulfill Chancellor Angela Merkel's nuclear exit plans, Germany needs to avoid coal and build a stack
200-year-old shipwreck found in Gulf of Mexico
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An oil company exploration crew's chance discovery of a 200-year-old shipwreck in a little-charted stretch of the Gulf of Mexico is yielding a trove of new information to scientists who say it's one of the most...