| Don't call Zimmerman a 'wannabe cop' Posted: 06 Jun 2013 09:34 AM PDT  His defense team wants "inflammatory" terms banned from opening remarks.
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| Christie taps N.J. attorney general for Senate seat Posted: 06 Jun 2013 08:42 AM PDT  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced Thursday he is appointing state Attorney General Jeffery Chiesa to replace Sen. Frank Lautenberg, who died Monday. Chiesa, a longtime friend and colleague of Christie's dating back to their early days as lawyers, served as chief counsel to the governor from January 2010 through December 2011, when he was [...]
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| IRS’ ‘Spock’ embarrassed, sorry for parody Posted: 06 Jun 2013 10:07 AM PDT  His name is Faris Fink and, in real life, he's in charge of the Small Business and Self-Employed Division of the Internal Revenue Service. But to most Americans following the recent saga of the IRS, he's just "Mister Spock." Fink played a starring role in a "Star Trek" parody video that was played at the [...]
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| Report: Gov't scooping up Verizon phone records Posted: 05 Jun 2013 10:25 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Security Agency currently is collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top secret court order, Britain's Guardian newspaper said Wednesday.
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| 6 dead, 14 injured in Pa. building collapse Posted: 06 Jun 2013 03:46 AM PDT  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Rescue workers were digging through rubble Thursday for any additional victims who may have been trapped when a building under demolition collapsed onto a neighboring thrift store, killing six people and injuring 14, including one who was pulled from the debris nearly 13 hours later.
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| Turkish officials attempt to reassure protesters Posted: 06 Jun 2013 01:37 AM PDT  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish officials, scrambling to contain tensions, have delivered more conciliatory messages to thousands of protesters denouncing what they say is the government's increasingly authoritarian rule and its meddling in lifestyles.
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| Koreas agree to hold talks on reopening complex Posted: 06 Jun 2013 10:09 AM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North and South Korea on Thursday agreed to hold talks on reopening a jointly run factory complex and other cross-border issues, after months of deteriorating relations and a day before a U.S.-China summit in which the North is expected to be a key topic.
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| Berries blamed for California man's Hepatitis A Posted: 06 Jun 2013 02:26 AM PDT  ENCINITAS, Calif. (AP) — Geoff Soza was celebrating his 30th wedding anniversary in Yellowstone National Park when the 64-year-old man learned the hard way that his seemingly healthy breakfast habit of mixing thawed berries with Greek yogurt had exposed him to a national outbreak of hepatitis A.
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| Judge backs dying Pa. girl who needs new lungs Posted: 06 Jun 2013 02:43 AM PDT  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily allowed a dying 10-year-old girl to move up the adult waiting list for a lung transplant, though an expert has questioned the decision on medical and ethical grounds.
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| Paris Jackson now in all-too-familiar spotlight Posted: 06 Jun 2013 03:00 AM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Until he died in 2009, Michael Jackson was fiercely protective of his children (save for that one balcony-dangling incident). He covered their faces when they went out with him so they might enjoy the kind of normal childhood he missed out on as a member of the Jackson 5.
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| A-Rod's future with Yankees is uncertain Posted: 06 Jun 2013 12:06 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Don't count on Alex Rodriguez giving up his Yankees pinstripes any time soon.
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| China frustration with NKorea offers hope for US Posted: 06 Jun 2013 04:03 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — China's growing frustration with longtime ally North Korea offers the United States a glimmer of hope about a once unthinkable prospect: holding discussions between Washington and Beijing about what to do if the government in Pyongyang collapses.
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| After blast, West fights to keep its residents Posted: 06 Jun 2013 12:13 AM PDT  WEST, Texas (AP) — John Crowder stood on the gray concrete slab where his house once was, pointing out one spot after another. There was the garage where an overflow of guests would eat their Christmas dinner. There was the dining room where he ate meals with his wife and college-bound daughter.
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| Report: US collecting huge number of phone records Posted: 06 Jun 2013 07:33 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The government has been secretly collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top secret court order, according to a document disclosed by a British newspaper. The Obama administration defended the National Security Agency's need to collect telephone records of U.S. citizens, but critics said it was a huge over-reach.
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| Search halted in Pa. building collapse; 6 dead Posted: 06 Jun 2013 05:46 AM PDT PHILADELPHIA (AP) — After a slow but steady overnight search buoyed by the discovery of a woman in the rubble, rescue workers at the scene of a building collapse that killed six people took a temporary break Thursday in what had been a round-the-clock dig for additional victims. |
| Turkish leader slightly mellows his tone Posted: 06 Jun 2013 10:03 AM PDT  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's prime minister used less belligerent language Thursday but said he would go ahead with redevelopment plans that have sparked nationwide protests, in comments that could be decisive in determining whether demonstrations fizzle out or rage on.
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