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  A mother and four children are dead after a SWAT standoff at a home in Port St. John, Brevard County deputies confirmed Tuesday. Deputies said Tanya Thomas, 33, shot her four children, ages 12 to 17, before turning the gun on herself. Lt. Goodyear said Thomas shot her four children, and then killed...
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  A bill that would have allowed same-sex couples equal rights as married couples was killed on Monday night in a special legislative session. Although the bill had been likely to pass the state’s House of Representatives, Republicans rejected it, claiming the Democrats are trying to use it as an issue before the November...
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The father of flesh-eating bacteria victim Aimee Copeland says a “miracle” is behind the progress his 24-year-old daughter is making in recent days. His latest update in a blog post Saturday said that, while the necrotizing fasciitis infection forced on several amputations, Aimee’s life may be spared. Andy Copeland has provided blog updates daily...
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A Indiana man who spent 25 years with the FBI specializing in counterterrorism and bombing investigations has been charged with distributing and possessing child pornography, Fox 59 reports. Authorities say 54-year-old Donald J. Sachtleben openly traded child porn using the e-mail address “pedodave69@yahoo.com.” Fox 59 reports in one instance, Sachtleben allegedly sent someone an...
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Mitt Romney lept ahead of President Obama in a new nationwide poll Monday. The New York Times/CBS poll showed Romney at 46 percent and Obama at 43 percent. Last month the poll had found the two tied at 46 percent. 26 percent of respondents said that they were less likely to vote for Obama...
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Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch’s onetime deputy, as chief of News International, was officially charged on Tuesday with “perverting justice” in the wide-reaching phone-hacking scandal. Also charged was her husband, Charlie Brooks; the two issued a statement calling the charges a “weak and unjust decision.” Brooks, 43, was editor of the now-defunct tabloid News of...
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A cast member of the reality TV show “Swamp People” died Monday, a Louisiana sheriff said. Assumption Parish Sheriff Mike Waguespack said Mitchell Guist was pronounced dead at a hospital. He had fallen while aboard his boat on the Intracoastal Waterway, near Pierre Part. History, which produces the reality show with Original Media, said...
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A Washington Post investigation into Mitt Romney’s years at the Cranbrook School in Michigan, which included a disturbing account of Romney bullying a student who later turned out to be gay, earned an unusual apology from the presumptive GOP presidential nominee Thursday morning. The incident came to light one day after President Barack Obama...
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(AP) A pill to prevent HIV infection is already being given to some healthy people, but without government approval, it remains out of reach and too costly for many who need it. Doctors, patients and advocates say that would change if the Food and Drug Administration takes a landmark step and allows the pill,...
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Iraq, seeking to more than double oil output by 2015, is poised to overtake Iran as OPEC’s second- largest producer by the end of the year as sanctions hobble crude production in its Persian Gulf neighbor. Iraq is pumping at the highest rate since Saddam Hussein seized power in 1979, supported by foreign investors...
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It was a lesson in text-speak for Britain’s most powerful man from one of its most powerful women. “LOL” didn’t mean what Prime Minister David Cameron thought it did, said former newspaper executive Rebekah Brooks, who regularly received text messages from him. “He would sign them off ‘DC’ in the main,” Brooks said, referring...
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Eduardo Saverin, one of four co-founders of Facebook, has renounced his U.S. citizenship. The move may reduce his tax bill following the initial public offering that values the social-network powerhouse at as much as $96 billion, according to Bloomberg. Facebook expects to raise as much as $11.8 billion through the IPO. Saverin’s stake in...
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A man who is suspected to have killed a Tennessee woman and her eldest daughter before kidnapping her two younger daughters apparently believed the younger sisters were his daughters, a relative said on Thursday. Adam Mayes, last seen two weeks ago, and his wife, Teresa, have been charged with first-degree murder in the deaths...
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Twin explosions rocked Damascus on Thursday, killing at least 40 people and injuring 170, according to Syrian state television. The blasts occurred near an intelligence building for the security forces, and they ripped the façade off the building although the structure of the building remained intact. There were reports of bodies strewn in the...
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Vidal Sassoon, hair stylist and fashion world pioneer who created a natural look in the 1960s and built a multimillion-dollar business on his name, died on Wednesday after a long battle with leukemia. He was 84. Sassoon died at his home in Los Angeles surrounded by loved ones and his wife of 20 years,...
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Google is seeking a new trial on copyright claims in Oracle’s intellectual-property lawsuit over the Android mobile OS, according to a filing made late Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Oracle sued Google in August 2010, claiming Android violated patents and copyrights that Oracle holds on the Java programming...
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President Barack Obama is expected to speak about his views on gay marriage in an interview Wednesday afternoon, following days of increasing pressure to clarify his “evolving” position on the issue. Obama is scheduled to sit down with ABC News’s Robin Roberts at the White House for a hastily scheduled interview just a day...
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A roadside bomb struck a Syrian military truck Wednesday, wounding six soldiers just seconds after a convoy carrying the head of the UN observer mission passed by. An Associated Press reporter who was traveling in the UN convoy said the explosion blew out the military truck’s windows and caused a plume of thick, black...
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The demonstration airplane for a new model of Russian passenger jet vanished from radar screens and lost contact with ground controllers Wednesday during a flight in Indonesia for airline representatives and journalists that was meant to promote sales of the aircraft. Russian and Indonesian authorities confirmed the loss of contact with the crew of...
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Delta Airlines said Tuesday that it pulled its advertising from The Daily Show With Jon Stewart in response to an April skit that featured a picture of a manger between a woman’s legs. In the skit, Stewart joked that women should use “vagina mangers” to “protect their reproductive organs from unwanted medical intrusions.” Since...
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