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Salon suspect's ex-wife claimed instability

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Police officers stand with a man who was being held in a patrol car at the scene of the arrest of a suspect near the Salon Meritage in Seal Beach, Calif.
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US official says multiform sources fortify case against Iran

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According to CNN, it reported that "Multiple sources have corroborated the report about an alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States, a scheme the administration is alleging is tied to Iran's military,” a US ...

Soros: not a funder of Wall Street protests

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - George Soros isn't a financial backer of the Wall Street protests, despite speculation by critics including radio host Rush Limbaugh that the billionaire investor has helped fuel the ...

Justin Verlander, gutsy Tigers avoid elimination

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By Harry How,, Getty Images Tigers reliever Phil Coke celebrates after recording the final out vs. the Rangers on Thursday. Coke got the final five outs for Detroit.

Apple's iCloud launch woes evoke MobileMe's '08 debacle

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Computerworld - The launch of Apple's new iCloud service has been reminiscent of the fiasco three years ago when the company debuted MobileMe, according to users' complaints that describe a sweeping range of problems.

Second Defendant Convicted in Cheshire Triple Murder

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By AP NEW HAVEN (AP) - The second defendant in the gruesome Cheshire, Conn., home invasion in which a woman and her two daughters were tied up, doused in gas and left to die in a fire was convicted on Thursday of murder.

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Kenya hunts aid workers' captors

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Police in Kenya say they are hunting for the gunmen responsible for abducting two Spanish woman aid workers near the Kenya-Somalia border.

Drone Attack Kills a Senior Militant Leader in Pakistan

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WASHINGTON - A CIA drone strike on Thursday killed a high-level commander in the Haqqani network, the militant group that has been the largest killer of American troops in Afghanistan, American officials said.

Syria clashes kill dozens, activists say

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REPORTING FROM BEIRUT -- Activists seeking the ouster of Syrian President Bashar Assad said Thursday that several dozen people had been killed during a "military campaign" in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib in the latest wave of violence to ...

Saudi Arabia Vows 'Measured Response' to Alleged Assassination Plot

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AP Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud gestures before signing the agreement for the establishment of the King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue, KAICID, ...

Herman Cain draws packed crowd to Christian school in Ohio

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Republican presidential candidate businessman Herman Cain speaks during a presidential debate at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011.

Man charged in death of Maryland woman; son missing

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By the CNN Wire Staff An Amber Alert has been issued for William McQuain, 11, whose mother was found dead in their Maryland home. (CNN) -- The stepfather of a missing Maryland boy was charged Thursday with first-degree murder after the boy's mother was ...

Grapevine: Sen. Brown's Lesson in Plagiarism?

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Massachusetts Republican Senator Scott Brown is being criticized for a posting on his official website that was apparently lifted verbatim -- from the website of former North Carolina Republican Senator Elizabeth Dole.

Google Posts Strong Earnings and Exceeds Expectations

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Employees outside Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. The company said it hired 2585 people in the third quarter. By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER SAN FRANCISCO - Google showed on Thursday that it was making money from people searching online with ...

Hedge fund exec gets 11 years for insider trading

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AP NEW YORK - Raj Rajaratnam, the hedge fund billionaire at the center of the biggest insider-trading case in US history, was sentenced Thursday to 11 years behind bars - the stiffest punishment ever handed out for the crime.

* iPhone 4S sales a tribute to late Steve Jobs, say fans

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SYDNEY/TOKYO, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Apple Inc's latest iPhone went on sale in stores across the globe on Friday, with fans snapping up the final gadget unveiled during Steve Jobs' lifetime, many buying the phone as a ...

RPT-BlackBerry outages irk India, threaten key RIM market

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NEW DELHI/MUMBAI, Oct 13 (Reuters) - A four-day service outage has cast a shadow over BlackBerry's reputation in India, one of the smartphone maker's few growing markets, where the frustration of hundreds of ...

Dennis Ritchie, Programming Trailblazer, Dies at 70

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Dennis M. Ritchie, who helped shape the modern digital era by creating software tools that power things as diverse as search engines like Google and smartphones, was found dead on Wednesday at his home in Berkeley Heights, NJ He was 70.

Apple Gains Australia Win

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Asia Today: An Australian court upheld a temporary injunction blocking sales of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the country, giving Apple another victory in its global patent fight with Samsung.

Lindsay Lohan The Women's Center People Were Mean Girls

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Lindsay Lohan is telling friends ... she was unfairly booted from the Downtown Women's Center ... insisting the staff was REALLY mean to her from the second she arrived.

Drake Releases Nicki Minaj Featured 'Make Me Proud'

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Drake loves Nicki Minaj and has even said he'd marry her. Maybe they will get married, maybe they won't, but one thing's for sure: Drizzy is proud of his Young Money labelmate.

The Thing (2011) Review

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Even if you've never seen John Carpenter's original, you know how the new version of The Thing is going to end. Movies featuring a lot of people trapped in a remote location with a destructive force tend to all end the same way, and what makes them fun ...

More Games in Danger, Stern Says

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NBA Commissioner David Stern upped the ante in the league's contentious labor talks with the players union. He said regular-season games may be canceled through Christmas if the two sides do not reach an agreement by Tuesday, ...

Wideman nets OT winner as Caps top Penguins

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PITTSBURGH (AP) - Dennis Wideman's power-play goal 2:48 into overtime lifted the Washington Capitals to a 3-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday night.

Sickle Cell Breakthrough as US scientists Cure Adult Mice

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US scientists have discovered that the activation of a certain blood component before birth can correct sickle cell disease in adult mice, potentially paving the way to curing the disease in humans.

In African Cave, Signs of an Ancient Paint Factory

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Digging deeper in a South African cave that had already yielded surprises from the Middle Stone Age, archaeologists have uncovered a 100000-year-old workshop holding the tools and ingredients with which early modern humans ...

Tyrannosaurus Rex Was 30 Percent Bigger, Much Hungrier Than Thought, Study

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Tyrannosaurus rex grew faster and weighed more than previously thought, suggesting the fearsome predator would have been a ravenous teenager, researchers said Wednesday.

Materialism may erode marriage: study

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BEIJING, Oct. 14 (Xinhuanet) -- Materialism could be harmful to marriage, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Couple & Relationship Therapy Thursday.

Death toll from tainted cantaloupes rises

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The listeria outbreak is the deadliest food-borne illness outbreak in the United States since 1998. (CNN) -- The number of deaths linked to cantaloupes contaminated with the Listeria monocytogenes bacteria has risen to 23, ...

Birth Control Pills Lead You to Mr. Wrong

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More proof that birth control pills can be evil: Women who are on the drug tend to choose partners who are less attractive and worse in bed.

FDA Device Panel Gives Nod to New Stent for PAD

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GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- An FDA advisory committee has voted 11-0 to endorse the first-ever drug-eluting stent for treatment of symptomatic peripheral arterial disease, agreeing unanimously that ...

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