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Rape and other forms of extreme sexual violence in Syria, often committed in front of family members, is a major reason for increasing numbers of people to flee their homeland, the International...
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Chelsea Clinton has been named the honorary chair of inauguration weekend's National Day of Service.
She invoked Dr. King's legacy when explaining how honored she was to champion the day...
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Marie Ngom, a Senegalese immigrant who owns a hair braiding shop on East 83rd Street, works on client Jennifer Kpadeuwa on Fri.
Over the past decade, the 700 block of East 79th Street in Chicago...
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Lance Armstrong has finally come clean. After years of bitter and forceful denials, he offered a simple "I'm sorry" to friends and colleagues and then admitted he used...
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A little over a year ago, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R) proposed rigging the presidential election for Mitt Romney by allocating electoral votes based upon which...
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Red October: Global cyber-spy network uncovered by Russian experts
A sophisticated cyber-espionage network targeting the world's diplomatic, government and research agencies has been...
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Pakistan's Supreme Court has ordered the arrest of Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf and 15 others over corruption allegations.
Mr Ashraf was appointed after Pakistan's last PM was forced out...
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Dubai Islamic Bank PJSC (DIB), the worlds oldest Shariah-compliant lender, may need to boost capital to absorb bad loans stemming from a real estate slump to avert a possible ratings downgrade...
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For refusing to toe the party line over same-sex marriage in Illinois, state GOP Chairman Pat Brady is now facing an intra-party backlash with some Republican officials...
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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday on NBC's "Meet The Press" that the GOP cannot merely represent the "far right wing of the political spectrum" if it wants to remain a viable...
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LAS VEGAS (AP) - A 23-year-old contestant from Brooklyn, N.Y., won the title of Miss America in Las Vegas on Saturday night.
Mallory Hagan won the beauty pageant after tap dancing to James...
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Being regarded as the cradle for the earliest evidence of human life on earth, Tanzania is one of the worlds oldest inhabited areas. Zinjanthropus, the only known oldest remains of human...
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President Obama plans to push Congress to move quickly in the coming months on an ambitious overhaul of the immigration system that would include a path to citizenship for most of the 11 million...
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A new charge has been filed against Senator Rand Paul's 19-year-old son William Paul.
WCNC in Charlotte, North Carolina reports that Mecklenburg County Sheriff's office said Paul has a new...
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Foxconn Technology, the huge contract electronics manufacturer that makes the Apple iPhone and other popular products, said that it was investigating whether its employees had accepted bribes from...
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The organization is joining forces with labor, faith organizations and law enforcement to push for reform
BY DONNA CASSATA, ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON (AP) The president of the U.S. Chamber...
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JERUSALEM Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged Sunday to move ahead with construction of a new Jewish settlement in a strategic part of the West Bank, speaking just hours after...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is putting a symbolic twist on a time-honored tradition, taking the oath of office for his second term with his hand placed not on a single Bible, but two...
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Masked gunmen attacked protesters camped outside the presidential palace, hurling firebombs at their tents and firing birdshot in clashes that left policemen and civilians injured, a security...
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