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FBI director Robert Mueller admits spy drones being used on American soil
United States The long-standing director of the FBI has admitted the agency is using drones for surveillance on American soil.FBI director Robert Mueller, who took over as the director of the FBI just a week before the September 11 attacks, made the acknowledgment in response to questions from US senators asking about the government's increasing use of unmanned aircraft.During a Senate ...
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Two charged in New York X-ray weapon plot to sicken opponents of Israel
This Wednesday, June 19, 2013 photo shows the home of Glendon Scott Crawford, 49, in Galway, N.Y. Federal authorities accused Crawford and 54-year-old Eric J. Feight, of Hudson, N.Y. of assembling a portable X-ray weapon that they intended to use to secretly sicken opponents of Israel. Investigators said Crawford approached Jewish organizations last year looking for funding and people to help ...
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Mad Max with an American accent Not so fast
video game version is on the way, but some fans are outraged to see an American voice actor cast in the leading role. The upcoming third-person open-world game by Avalanche Studios, due out sometime next year for PCs, ...
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Hollywood man used bribes from government job to furnish home feds say
Miami -Dade County government job to obtain more than $13,000 worth of bribes – including a new stove, refrigerator and air conditioning system for his home, federal authorities said Wednesday.George Brown, 50, was arrested Tuesday and is being held at ...
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Stop force-feeding Guantanamo prisoners Senator
A selection of lunch meals offered to detainees are displayed in a food preparation area at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, March 7, ...
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Video Federal Reserve raises its predictions for growth and jobs
Ben Bernanke said the economy is doing well enough that the Federal Reserve is likely to ease back on a bond-buying program that has kept interest rates at record-low rates. The prospect of higher interest rates sent the Dow down more than 200 points. Anthony Mason ...
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Video Clean-up solution at Hanford Nuclear Plant is billions over budget
The clean-up at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington costs U.S. taxpayers $2 billion every year. The $13 billion plant that is supposed to monitor the cleaning has been plagued with technical challenges since the project began in 2000. Carter Evans ...
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Video American Medical Association declares obesity a disease
The American Medical Association declared obesity a disease, leaving many doctors hoping that this changes the way insurance companies view covering treatment. Weight loss surgery is covered by Medicare and insurance companies when there are complications such as diabetes and high blood pressure, but patients who have not yet developed these problems are denied coverage. Dr. Jon LaPook ...
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Video August 23 2000 NTSB releases findings of TWA Flight 800 probe
The clean-up at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington costs U.S. taxpayers $2 billion every year. The $13 billion plant that is supposed to monitor the cleaning has been plagued with technical challenges since the project began in 2000. Carter Evans ...
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Video FBI director confirms minimal use of drones for surveillance
The FBI's use of drones was a secret until Wednesday, when the agency's director, Robert Mueller, answered a question from Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley during testimony on Capitol Hill. Mueller said the FBI does use drones for minimal surveillance and to get "eyes-on" details at crime scenes. Bob Orr ...
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Watch Joe Torres Daughter Catches Falling Baby
Christina -- -- daughter of former Yankee manager and all star baseball catcher Joseph Torre. Tonight making quite a catch yourself -- heroes catch the 44 year old catching a one year old boy ...
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Watch Former Professor on FBI Most Wanted List Nabbed in Mexico
A fugitive is behind bars today just one day after being put on the FBI's ten most wanted list Walter -- Williams have been on the run for more than two years wanted for sexual exploitation ...
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Senators challenging White House on religious expression in military
Two U.S. senators have pushed forward a second challenge to the Obama administration's opposition to legislative language that offers a ';protection of rights of conscience of members of the Armed Forces and ...
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San Francisco’s ‘Landlords From Hell’ Plead Guilty To Felonies
San Francisco landlords Nicole and Kip Macy pleaded guilty to residential burglary, stalking and attempted grand theft. They were dubbed by prosecutors as the ';landlords from hell.'; (San Francisco Police ...
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MLB Arizona 3 Miami 1
Cody Ross slammed a pinch-hit three-run homer to back reliever Josh Collmenter's six shutout innings Wednesday in the Arizona Diamondbacks' 3-1 win over Miami. The game was scoreless until the eighth inning, when Miami starter Jose Fernandez issued a leadoff walk ...
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MLB San Francisco 4 San Diego 2
Madison Bumgarner struck out eight batters over seven solid innings and San Francisco overcame a late deficit Wednesday in its 4-2 win over San Diego. Bumgarner (7-4) handled the Padres on three hits, allowing a pair of runs while overcoming four walks. The left-hander notched a third win in three starts with the 111-pitch performance. Jake Dunning tossed a scoreless eighth ...
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson on Performing in New York’s Shakespeare in the Park Comedy of Errors Production—Rain or Shine
Summer after summer, New Yorkers and tourists alike spend hours upon hours waiting in line at the Delacorte Theater. For it is there, smack dab in the middle of Central Park, that a little slice of magic known as Shakespeare in the Park takes place. For the past five-plus decades, the stage at ...
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Man convicted in Phoenixs serial shootings dies
Associated Press PHOENIX - An Arizona death row inmate convicted of killing six people in Phoenix's "serial shooter" attacks has died in prison. Prison officials say 40-year-old Dale Hausner was found unresponsive in his cell in Florence around noon Wednesday. He was pronounced dead at a hospital about an hour later. Authorities say the cause of death is under investigation. ...
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Capitol Hills Partisan And Racial Divide Cast In Bronze
Vice President Biden joined congressional leaders at the Capitol Hill dedication ceremony for a statue of abolitionist Frederick ...
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Three Navy football players accused of sexual assault
FILE - This is a May 7, 2007 file photo showing the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. The U.S. Naval Academy is investigating allegations that three members of its football team sexually assaulted a female midshipman at an off-campus house last year, a Pentagon spokesman said Friday, May 31, 2013, and a lawyer for the woman says she was "ostracized" on campus after she ...
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Feds Prison for Ohio woman who buried mom in yard
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Authorities say an Ohio woman who buried her mother in her yard and cashed the dead woman's Social Security checks for 14 years has been sentenced to 30 days in prison.Federal authorities say 66-year-old Marietta resident Patricia Hodges also was sentenced Wednesday in Columbus to six months of home confinement and ordered to repay more than $141,000. Hodges had pleaded ...
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SF landlords from hell plead guilty to felonies
SAN FRANCISCO -- A couple that prosecutors dubbed the "landlords from hell" for going to scary lengths to drive tenants from a San Francisco apartment building have pleaded guilty to several felonies.Prosecutors said Wednesday that 37-year-old Nicole Macy and 38-year-old Kip Macy threatened to shoot tenants, changed locks, cleared apartments of belongings, and sawed holes in floors. ...
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Cops Disabled Pa. man dies after gruesome neglect
A 35-year-old Sarasota man has been charged with abusing his 11-year-old daughter, who died this week, according to the Sarasota County Sheriff's ...
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Obama in Berlin the world’s big problems are global warming American nukes
President Obama couldn’t have been more out-of-touch if he’d delivered his Berlin speech on Mars, instead of to a shriveled German audience only a fraction the size of the one he addressed in 2008. He identified the absolutely non-existent ';climate change'; issue the ';global threat of our time,'; and according ...
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Feds make find at former home of Goodfellas mobster
An FBI excavation has turned up possible human remains at a home once occupied by a famed gangster who inspired Robert De Niro's character in the movie "Goodfellas," authorities said ...
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Memorial Bridge is falling down, falling down
The Memorial Bridge linking New Hampshire and Maine is a historical landmark, its been there for over 80 years, but the bridge is old and in this age of recession, expensive repair work versus more valuable replacement may soon see the structure razed and replaced.
The Memorial Bridge that links Portsmouth in New Hampshire to Kittery in Maine is ageing. The through truss lift bridge is over 80 years old and has begun to feel its age in recent years, on the 16th of October, 2009 state authorities issued an emergency closure of the bridge due to essential repairs that were needed and its weight limit has steadily been reduced over the last year or so. Read more
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