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By John Whitesides and David Lawder. WASHINGTON | Wed Apr 17, 2013 6:31pm EDT. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Wednesday rejected a bipartisan plan to expand background checks for gun buyers, dealing a crippling blow to President ... |
| See realtime coverage | | Washington Post | - 22 hours ago | | |
BOSTON - Carlos Arredondo ran across Boylston Street, jumped the security fence and landed on a sidewalk smeared in blood. In front of him, two women lay motionless. |
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Share. 0. Ricin-laced letters like the ones sent to President Obama and a U.S. senator can be fatal, but they are such inefficient weapons they were more likely intended to disrupt than to deliver a lethal blow, experts said today. |
| See realtime coverage | Researchers sequenced the genome of the coelacanth: a deep-sea fish that closely resembles its ancestors, which lived at least 300 million years ago. |
| See realtime coverage | | Los Angeles Times | - 2 hours ago | | |
Rasheed Wallace has been bothered by a left foot injury most of the season. New York Knicks Coach Mike Woodson told reporters Wednesday morning the veteran player was still struggling with soreness and might not be available for the playoff opener ... |
| See realtime coverage | | National Geographic | - 5 hours ago | | |
An illustration of a starburst galaxy, similar to one—dubbed HFLS3—recently found by researchers. Illustration courtesy C. Carreau, ESA. |
| See realtime coverage | | ABC Online | - 29 minutes ago | | |
The US is planning to deploy 200 troops in Jordan because of "the deteriorating situation" in neighbouring Syria, Jordan's information minister says. |
| See realtime coverage | Houston Chronicle 1 hour ago | | | | |
PORT STANLEY, Falkland Islands (AP) - Falkland Islanders have honored Margaret Thatcher with a memorial service, while in Buenos Aires, Argentine military veterans burned her picture along with a Union Jack. |
| See realtime coverage | | Jerusalem Post | - 22 minutes ago | | |
Islamic Militant group in Sinai claims responsibility; one rocket falls at building site, second falls in open area. Landing site of rocket in Eilat, April 17, 2013. |
| See realtime coverage | Los Angeles Times 1 hour ago | | | | |
BOSTON - An hour after the federal courthouse here was evacuated, a man in a blue uniform emerged from it and waved a large green flag. |
| See realtime coverage | | Wall Street Journal | - 35 minutes ago | | |
The flood forecast for Fargo, N.D., on the northward-flowing Red River of the North, has darkened in recent weeks after a big snowstorm last weekend and lingering cold temperatures that have brought the slowest spring melt on record. |
| See realtime coverage | | Wall Street Journal | - 35 minutes ago | | |
The Supreme Court ruling on the Alien Tort Statute threatened a corruption lawsuit filed in the U.S. by a Turkish telecom company against its South African rival. |
| See realtime coverage | | Daily Beast | - 32 minutes ago | | |
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, speaking today to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, explained why he's going about his Israeli-Palestinian shuttle diplomacy with such a sense of urgency. |
| See realtime coverage | Shares in Apple have fallen to their lowest level in more than a year on fears of slowing sales at the computer and mobile phone giant. |
| See realtime coverage | | Bloomberg | - 41 minutes ago | | |
The Federal Reserve (TREFQE2) said the U.S. economic expansion remained “moderate” amid gains in manufacturing, housing and autos that offset weakness in defense-related industries in some regions. |
| See realtime coverage | When a country's debt levels are very high, it's typically associated with slower economic growth compared to periods when a country's debt is lower. |
| See realtime coverage | The mayor of Provo, Utah, reveals that Google Fiber will be coming to his city. Seth Rosenblatt. by Seth Rosenblatt. April 17, 2013 1:00 PM PDT Follow @b1g1nj4p4n. |
| See realtime coverage | The cloud is the future of music, but the cloud -- or parts of it -- doesn't work properly from time to time. The service disruptions of many Google applications Wednesday morning was a reminder that cloud-based services inevitably experience service problems ... |
| See realtime coverage | Get ready to get excited, Zelda fans. Nintendo is gearing up to release an all-new Legend of Zelda game for the Nintendo 3DS, the game maker announced during a Wednesday morning online presentation. |
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Neckbeards will finally be getting the Superman movie they deserve this summer. Even months before its release, Man of Steel's quality really shouldn't be questioned, what with sterling early reviews and trailers like this. |
| See realtime coverage | | New York Daily News | - 1 hour ago | | |
It's a celebrity's job to make sure they're at their best when stepping into the limelight, so it's no wonder why Hollywood's hottest have taken up unconventional beauty routines. |
| See realtime coverage | | The Associated Press | - 36 minutes ago | | |
Walt Disney Co. chairman Alan Horn announced Wednesday that the studio would release films set in a galaxy far, far away every year starting in 2015. |
| See realtime coverage | | E! Online | - 21 minutes ago | | |
Maybe Justin Bieber wasn't too far off in expressing hope that Anne Frank would have been a Belieber. That's what the iconic diarist's half-sister thinks, anyway, saying in an interview with The Telegraph in London that the fuss over the teen star's comment is ... |
| See realtime coverage | Los Angeles Times 1 hour ago | | | | |
Losing to the Houston Rockets and missing the playoffs isn't the worst thing that could happen to the Lakers. Not even close. There are far more disconcerting scenarios that could unfold in the coming months. |
| See realtime coverage | Terms of the extension weren't disclosed by the team, but a source confirmed to ESPN that the extension is for five years and worth about $65 million in new money, including $31 million guaranteed. |
| See realtime coverage | | Kansas City Star | - 53 minutes ago | | |
With Wednesday's news, Oklahoma State not only becomes the Big 12 favorite but a Final Four favorite as well. Order Reprints. Travis Heying Oklahoma State's Marcus Smart. |
| See realtime coverage | | USA TODAY | - 2 hours ago | | |
ATLANTA (AP) - Jeff Francoeur always enjoys beating his first team. This one was especially sweet. Francoeur had an RBI single and Wade Davis made it stand up with five-hit ball over seven innings, leading the Kansas City Royals past the Braves 1-0 on ... |
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Not a Gambler? Lt. Commander Data plays a game of poker with holographic representations of Sir Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Stephen Hawking in the 1993 Star Trek: TNG episode “Descent. |
| See realtime coverage | Hospitals may make more money causing surgical errors than preventing them. A report published on April 17 in JAMA showed that surgical errors mean longer stays, additional care -- and 330 percent higher profit margin compared to a privately insured ... |
| See realtime coverage | Wed Apr 17, 2013 11:49am EDT. MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - Five French executives went on trial on Wednesday to jeers from victims for supplying women with hundreds of thousands of substandard breast implants and triggering a global health scare. |
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