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Part of 9/11 plane's landing gear found in NYC alley near Ground Zero

Fox News - ‎18 minutes ago‎
A piece of landing gear from one of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center towers on 9/11 has been discovered in a small alley near Ground Zero more than 11 years after the terror attacks.
'Part of 9/11 plane landing gear' found in New York
NY Police: Landing gear part found, tied to 9/11 - WTVW
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For Boston bombing survivor, a life-changing decision

CBS News - ‎2 hours ago‎
(CBS News) BOSTON - As of Friday, there are 29 Boston Marathon bombing victims still being treated in the hospital and one is in critical condition.
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His Life Was a Country Song

New York Times - ‎2 hours ago‎
George Jones, the definitive country singer of the last half-century, whose songs about heartbreak and hard drinking echoed his own turbulent life, died on Friday in Nashville.
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Economic growth rises to 2.5% pace but falls below expectations

Los Angeles Times - ‎16 minutes ago‎
WASHINGTON - The nation's sluggish recovery can't seem to catch a break. Persistent federal spending cuts and a slowdown in business investments thwarted hopes for stronger economic growth in the first quarter, setting up more modest gains in jobs and ...
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Lawyer: Jailed Pair Shocked by Boston...

ABC News - ‎12 minutes ago‎
A lawyer for two jailed college friends of a Boston Marathon bombing suspect say they had nothing to do with the deadly attack and had seen no hints he harbored any violent or terrorist sympathies.
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38 Die in Mental Hospital Fire Outside Moscow

ABC News - ‎7 hours ago‎
The patients of the small psychiatric hospital in a Russian village were asleep or under sedation as the clock neared 2 a.m. The windows were barred and the nearest firefighters were miles away, with some impeded by rough roads and others not able to ...
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S. Korea to pull workers from joint industrial complex following blockade by ...

Washington Post
4 hours ago
Written by
Chico Harlan
SEOUL - After North Korea on Friday rejected formal talks to resolve a standoff at a jointly operated border industrial complex, South Korea said it would call home its remaining workers from the facility, formally severing the last major connection between the ...
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FIA prepares questionnaire for Musharraf - The Nation

The Nation - ‎16 minutes ago‎
The Joint Investigation team (JIT) of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) investigating the Benazir Bhutto assassination case has prepared a questionnaire for the former President Pervez Musharraf to include him in the investigation process.
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Afghan bus crash 'kills 30' in Kandahar

BBC News - ‎4 hours ago‎
At least 30 people have been killed as a bus collided with an oil tanker and burst into flames in Afghanistan's Kandahar province, officials say.
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Wikileaks Suspect Named SF Pride Parade...

ABC News - ‎29 minutes ago‎
The U.S. Army private charged in a massive leak of U.S. secrets to the WikiLeaks website has been named as a grand marshal of San Francisco's annual gay rights parade, a choice that was immediately condemned by several groups representing gay and ...
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Washington state bill would allow businesses to deny gays - USA Today

USA TODAY - ‎7 hours ago‎
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Several Republican lawmakers filed a bill Thursday seeking an exemption to the state's anti-discrimination laws just weeks after legal action was taken against a Richland florist who denied service to a gay couple for their upcoming ...
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Mich. man charged after living with woman's corpse - USA Today

USA TODAY - ‎17 minutes ago‎
Police said they believe the man lived with the decomposing body for several months. Dennis McCauley. Picture of Dennis McCauley received from the Redford Twp.
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A Racial Divide Closes as Students Step Up

New York Times - ‎2 hours ago‎
ABBEVILLE, Ga. - Mareshia Rucker watched in frustration last weekend as several dozen classmates in tuxedos and gowns walked into an Art Deco theater for her high school's “white prom.
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Suspect indicted in Las Vegas Strip carnage

Fox News - ‎48 minutes ago‎
LAS VEGAS - A self-described pimp was indicted Friday in Nevada state court on charges that could bring the death penalty if he is convicted in a fatal shooting and fiery crash that killed three people on the Las Vegas Strip in February.
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Facebook exec Sheryl Sandberg: $845 million a year - USA Today

USA TODAY - ‎1 hour ago‎
Facebook COO and author Sheryl Sandberg scores mega-sized gain from restricted shares that vested last year. Sandberg. "The blunt truth is that men still run the world," says Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook.
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More Good Labor News: Jobless Claims Fall 16K

Fox Business - ‎Apr 25, 2013‎
The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell last week, offering reassurance that the bottom is not falling out of the labor market despite signs of slower growth.
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Dutch Man Said to Be Held in Powerful Internet Attack

New York Times
3 hours ago
Written by
Nicole Perlroth
Dutch authorities say police officials in Spain have arrested a man believed to be connected to an online attack on a spam-fighting site that snarled the Internet last month.
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How much is an Elon Musk tweet worth? $2.2 million per character

Silicon Valley Business Journal - ‎6 minutes ago‎
Elon Musk sent Wall Street (and reporters) into a speculative frenzy Thursday with a cryptic, 80-character tweet. The actual announcement was far less interesting: Tesla is rolling out a refurbished battery warranty program.
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Google boss sees autocrats' pushback against Internet

AFP - ‎25 minutes ago‎
WASHINGTON - Life in authoritarian states is likely to get tougher before it gets better as their citizens gain more access to the Internet, Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt said.
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NBC renews five dramas - USA Today

USA TODAY - ‎7 hours ago‎
NBC on Friday renewed five dramas for new seasons. Parenthood, Law & Order: SVU and Grimm will be back, along with freshman series Chicago Fire and Revolution.
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Rams Select TJ McDonald With the 71st pick in 3rd Round

StLouisrams.com - ‎44 minutes ago‎
McDonald has spent his football life trying to live up to the name his father made for himself as an All-American safety at USC in the mid-1980s and 13-year NFL veteran who won a Super Bowl as a member of the San Francisco 49ers in 1994.
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Packers sign Rodgers to a record-setting, five-year, $110 million extension

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - ‎40 minutes ago‎
Packers QB Aaron Rodgers answers questions from the media inside the locker room at Lambeau Field on Friday after the announcement of his contract extension.
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Texas A&M's Damontre Moore slide stops at No. 81 as he's selected by the New ...

Dallas Morning News - ‎23 minutes ago‎
22 LOCAL COLLEGE PLAYERS WHO COULD BE NFL DRAFT PICKS: Every year, a handful of supremely talented college football players get a chance to show their stuff for talent evaluators at the NFL Combine.
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Sources: Jets acquire Chris Ivory

ESPN - ‎21 minutes ago‎
Ivory, who signed his restricted tender offer with the Saints last Friday, visited with the Jets earlier this month. The 6-foot, 222-pound Ivory joined the Saints as an undrafted free agent out of Tiffin (Ohio) in 2010 and has run the ball 256 times for 1,307 yards and ...
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Sea temperatures off U.S. Northeast and Canada highest in 150 years

UPI.com - ‎1 hour ago‎
WASHINGTON, April 26 (UPI) -- Sea surface temperatures on the continental shelf off the U.S. Northeast and Canada have reached their highest levels in 150 years, researchers say.
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Monkeys imitate local food norms, study finds

Christian Science Monitor
2 hours ago
Written by
Mai Ngọc Châu
The tendency to adapt to cultural behaviors in a new place is not unique to us, a new study suggests. Skip to next paragraph. In Pictures: Monkeying around!
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Pulsar-dwarf star system shows Einstein more than relatively right

Los Angeles Times - ‎6 hours ago‎
Albert Einstein has been dead for nearly 60 years, relatively speaking, and he's still being tested. Theoretically, at least. General relativity, the theory for which the German-born theoretical physicist is best known, holds up even in the more outlying phenomena ...
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HIV vaccine trial shut down

Los Angeles Times - ‎21 hours ago‎
In another major setback for efforts to develop an HIV vaccine, federal researchers have shut down a key clinical trial after an independent panel of safety experts determined that volunteers who got an experimental vaccine appeared to be slightly more likely ...
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Doctors Denounce Cancer Drug Prices of $100000 a Year

New York Times - ‎4 hours ago‎
With the cost of some lifesaving cancer drugs exceeding $100,000 a year, more than 100 influential cancer specialists from around the world have taken the unusual step of banding together in hopes of persuading some leading pharmaceutical companies to ...
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