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Suspected gunman's wife among 3 dead at Wis. spa

Kansas City Star - ‎36 minutes ago‎
BROOKFIELD, Wis. A Wisconsin woman whose husband is suspected of killing her and two others at the spa where she worked said he threatened to throw acid in her face and jealously terrorized her "every waking moment," according to court documents.
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Marissa Mayer reports Yahoo earnings

USA TODAY - ‎12 minutes ago‎
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer at a tech conference in New York City in September 2012. (Photo: Paul Zimmerman , AP). Story Highlights. CEO Marissa Mayer presided over Yahoo earnings for first time; Mayer has been rebooting the C-suite at Yahoo; Earnings ...
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Syria's civil war spills over into Lebanon

USA TODAY - ‎1 hour ago‎
Fighting raged in Lebanon as Syria sympathizers took on opponents in a sign that Syrian President Bashar Assad's slaughter of Sunnis is triggering violence outside his borders.
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Rumor roundup: What to expect from Apple's 'iPad mini' event

Apple Insider - ‎37 minutes ago‎
Rumor roundup: What to expect from Apple's 'iPad mini' event. By AppleInsider Staff. With only hours to go before Apple's special event kicks off in San Jose, Calif.
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Scientists Convicted of Manslaughter for Failing to Predict Italian Quake

ABC News - ‎25 minutes ago‎
A general view of the landscape and the rubble of collapsed houses in the village of Paganica, two years on from the April 6, 2009 earthquake that struck the Abruzzo region of Italy, April 9, 2011 in L'Aquila, Italy.
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Qatar visit hands Hamas major victory, reflects Muslin Brotherhood's growing ...

Fox News - ‎25 minutes ago‎
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - When the ruler of Qatar arrives in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, he will hand the Palestinian territory's Hamas rulers their biggest diplomatic victory since taking power five years ago.
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The Election's Real Foreign Policy Issue: War with Iran

TIME - ‎1 hour ago‎
While the handling of the September terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, continues to hold the attention of the campaigns and the media, the most important foreign policy issue of the election has remained largely unaddressed: When and how would the U.S.
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Jordanian Soldier Killed as Syrian Conflict Spreads

Voice of America - ‎2 hours ago‎
A Jordanian soldier was killed Monday in clashes with armed militants trying to cross the border into Syria as the Arab League downplayed chances for a truce during this week's Eid al-Adha holiday.
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Release of abuse files: new challenge for Scouts

Huffington Post - ‎19 minutes ago‎
True to their motto, the Boys Scouts tried to be prepared. For months, they braced for the backlash sure to follow the court-ordered release of voluminous confidential files detailing decades of alleged sex abuse by Scout leaders.
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Michigan roadway shootings prompt school lockdowns

Houston Chronicle - ‎2 hours ago‎
WIXOM, Mich. (AP) - Kids were kept off school playgrounds Monday and some commuters changed their routes as police searched for a suspect in more than 20 random shootings that have mostly damaged vehicles on busy roads across four Michigan ...
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Deal Profile: BP, Russian Partners Sell Venture to Rosneft

Wall Street Journal (blog) - ‎42 minutes ago‎
By Stephen Grocer. Russian energy giant Rosneft reached separate agreements to buy the entirety of oil venture TNK-BP from BP and a group of Soviet-born billionaires, an acquisition that promises to reshape the Russian oil industry.
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Stocks Eke Out Gains

Wall Street Journal - ‎28 minutes ago‎
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 2.38 points, or less than 0.1%, to 13345.89. The blue-chip benchmark rebounded from losses of as much as 108 points, following a 205-point drop on Friday.
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Gartner: 80 Percent of Businesses Will Never Adopt Windows 8

DailyTech - ‎41 minutes ago‎
Analysts argue Windows 8 does not bring a compelling set of features for business users, drawing Vista comparisons. Windows 8 lands on Friday, and with it the big question of whether the consumer-friendly operating system is as good a fit as previous ...
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AWS EC2 Issues In North Virginia Affect Heroku, Reddit And Others — Heroku ...

TechCrunch - ‎1 hour ago‎
Originally from France, Romain Dillet is on track to graduate from EMLYON Business School, a leading French business school specialized in entrepreneurship.
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LG confirms they're releasing a Nexus device

SlashGear - ‎52 minutes ago‎
Earlier this morning, a ton of details leaked about Google's upcoming Android event on October 29, including some details about LG's rumored Nexus 4 device.
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Showtime Renews Homeland for Season 3

Seattle Post Intelligencer - ‎55 minutes ago‎
Showtime has ordered a third season of Homeland, the network announced Monday. Sunday's episode of the drama drew 1.75 million viewers and was the highest-rated episode of the series.
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Lindsay Lohan off hook in NYC car incident, on her dad's radar

Los Angeles Times
55 minutes ago
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Christie D'Zurilla
Lindsay Lohan now has a hit-and-run allegation that's gone away, along with a father who just won't go away. Prosecutors won't be pursuing a charge of leaving the scene of an accident after the actress was accused of hitting a man Sept.
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Rapper Gunplay Gets $150000 Bond, House Arrest: Attorney

NBC 6 Miami - ‎3 hours ago‎
Rapper Gunplay was given a $150,000 bond and house arrest on Monday in connection to the robbery of man at Miami tax business, his attorney said.
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Album review: Taylor Swift's 'Red' burns with confidence

Los Angeles Times - ‎4 hours ago‎
A platinum artist many times over, singer Taylor Swift at 22 seems to be on top of the world. She's dating a Kennedy, earning millions, and has touched the lives of generations with her delicate lyrical sensibility and songs of love.
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Lance Armstrong faces legal action over $7.5m Tour de France bonus

The Guardian - ‎57 minutes ago‎
Lance Armstrong faces imminent legal action over a $7.5m bonus paid out by a Texas insurance firm that had accused the disgraced cycling champion of taking performance enhancing drugs.
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Previewing a Magnificent 7

ESPN - ‎12 minutes ago‎
Game Seven. The two best words in sports. The San Francisco Giants host the St. Louis Cardinals Monday night for a spot in the World Series.
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Woodson expected to miss six weeks

FOXSports.com - ‎1 hour ago‎
Alex Marvez is a Senior NFL Writer for FOXSports.com. He has covered the NFL for the past 17 seasons as a beat writer and is the former president of the Pro Football Writers of America.
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Listen: Whale mimics human speech

DVICE - ‎24 minutes ago‎
According to a study published in the October issue of Current Biology entitled "Spontaneous human speech mimicry by a cetacean," whales can talk.
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Climate Silence Is Bad for Our Economy

Huffington Post - ‎54 minutes ago‎
The last presidential debate not only continued the silence on climate change, it also advanced the false narrative that we have to choose between economic growth and action on climate change.
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Monster Energy Drinks Cited in Death Reports, FDA Says

Businessweek - ‎9 minutes ago‎
Monster Beverage Corp. (MNST)'s energy drinks have been cited in the deaths of five people in the past year, according to incident reports that doctors and companies submit to the U.S.
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Cheerleaders Need Safety Rules, AAP Says

MedPage Today - ‎2 hours ago‎
New recommendations about cheerleading from the American Academy of Pediatrics cite the need for proper training of coaches and preseason conditioning for participants, as well as attention to spotting and the surfaces stunts are performed upon.
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Curbing the Enthusiasm on Daily Multivitamins

New York Times (blog) - ‎18 minutes ago‎
Can you reduce your risk of cancer by taking a multivitamin every day? Last week, Boston researchers announced that one of the largest long-term clinical trials of multivitamins in the United States - encompassing 14,000 male physicians 50 and older, and ...
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5 flu vaccine myths dispelled

CBC.ca - ‎24 minutes ago‎
As flu vaccination campaigns get underway this flu season, provincial and territorial health ministers are promoting flu shots. "By getting the flu shot, you are protecting not just yourself but the people around you, the people you love," Ontario Health Minister ...

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