| Eight dead in gun rampage at Czech restaurant Posted: 24 Feb 2015 10:09 AM PST  An armed man killed burst into a restaurant and opened fire.
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| Metrolink train strikes truck in Southern California Posted: 24 Feb 2015 11:16 AM PST  OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — Dozens of people have been injured in the crash of a Southern California commuter train and a truck northwest of Los Angeles.
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| Axelrod takes on Giuliani Posted:  Axelrod takes on Giuliani
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| VA secretary apologizes for misstating military record Posted: 23 Feb 2015 08:56 PM PST  VA chief Robert McDonald apologizes for mistakenly saying he served in the special forces.
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| CBS News releases video referenced in O'Reilly dispute Posted: 23 Feb 2015 08:24 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — CBS News on Monday released video from four stories it aired about the Falklands War in 1982, all part of a dispute involving Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly and his subsequent statements about covering the war.
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| Alaska stems confusion over legal pot but still has missteps Posted: 24 Feb 2015 10:34 AM PST  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska has cleared up some confusion in the rush to legalize marijuana, but even that process had its missteps Tuesday.
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| Chicago's Mayor Emanuel hopes to avoid run-off in election Posted: 24 Feb 2015 05:03 AM PST  By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel will easily take first place in Tuesday's municipal election, but polls show he may miss the 50 percent mark needed to avoid a run-off in the race to lead the financially challenged, third-largest U.S. city. Emanuel, 55, a former adviser to President Barack Obama seeking a second term as mayor, has already spent millions of dollars in the non-partisan race against four challengers, and a second round will mean six more weeks of expensive campaigning. Emanuel is close to the mark, getting 48.3 percent of the vote in a recent Ogden & Fry poll. His nearest opponent is Cook County Commissioner Jesus "Chuy" Garcia at 26.5 percent, followed by businessman Willie Wilson with 15.2 percent.
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| U.S. conservatives urge Boehner to hold firm on immigration Posted: 24 Feb 2015 09:48 AM PST  By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conservative Republicans urged House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner not to capitulate in a fight with Democrats over President Barack Obama's immigration policy that threatens a partial Homeland Security shutdown later this week. The conservative lawmakers, led by Representative Jeff Duncan, circulated a letter to Boehner and other House leaders telling them to hold the line in opposing Obama's executive actions shielding millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation, a Duncan aide said on Tuesday. The House last month attached provisions to block spending on Obama's immigration orders to a $39.7 billion bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
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| Southern California commuter train, truck collide, 51 hurt Posted: 24 Feb 2015 11:14 AM PST  By Michael Fleeman OXNARD, Calif. (Reuters) - A Los Angeles-bound commuter train slammed into a tractor trailer stopped on the tracks in Oxnard, California during the morning rush hour on Tuesday, injuring 51 people, several critically, authorities said. The truck driver fled on foot following the crash and was taken into custody several miles away, Oxnard City Fire Department spokesman Joe Garces said. The fiery collision just before 6 a.m. PST (1400 GMT) in Ventura County, northwest of Los Angeles, overturned three double-decker Metrolink rail cars. National Transportation Safety Board Member Robert Sumwalt told reporters investigators would examine the train's recorders and seek to determine if crossing arms and bells were functioning properly.
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| What an Iran nuclear deal could look like Posted: 23 Feb 2015 06:23 PM PST  With the clock ticking down to a third, perhaps final deadline for a deal to rein in Iran's nuclear program, top diplomats are ramping up efforts to pin down details. US Secretary of State John Kerry met twice in Geneva with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Sunday and Monday, and could join fresh talks planned next week in Switzerland, US officials said. "We're in the endgame now," Joe Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund, who has long worked on non-proliferation issues, told AFP. To reach a verifiable, comprehensive agreement that limits Iran's ability to harness enough fissile material to build a nuclear bomb.
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| Giuliani clarifies controversial Obama remarks Posted: 23 Feb 2015 07:06 AM PST  Former New York City mayor clarifies controversial comments suggesting the president "doesn't love America."
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| Families to 3 missing UK girls: 'Please come home!' Posted: 23 Feb 2015 10:58 AM PST  Turkish police searched Monday for three missing British schoolgirls believed to be headed to Syria to join the Islamic State extremist group...
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| Historic U.S.-Iran nuclear deal could be taking shape Posted: 23 Feb 2015 12:32 PM PST  GENEVA (AP) — Edging toward a historic compromise, the U.S. and Iran reported progress Monday on a deal that would clamp down on Tehran's nuclear activities for at least 10 years but then slowly ease restrictions on programs that could be used to make atomic arms.
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