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Jodi Arias Case Heads Back to Court
Jodi Arias returns to court Thursday for the first time since the penalty phase of her case ended in mistrial last month as lawyers discuss plans for a new trial to decide the punishment for the convicted murderer. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder on May 8 in the June 2008 stabbing and shooting death of boyfriend Travis Alexander at his suburban Phoenix home. About two weeks ...
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Mexican-American scholar tells Del Mar College students that fight for equality is not over
Nadia Tamez-Robledo/Caller-Times Jose Angel Gutierrez, a founding member of La Raza Unida Party and political science professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, speaks Wednesday at Del Mar College. Jose Angel Gutierrez was a founding member of La Raza Unida ...
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Americans are giving less money to God
In the world of charitable giving, your alma mater may be faring better than your maker. While Americans are becoming more giving, a new study finds that fewer and fewer of their donations are going to houses of ...
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Senators reach border deal smoothing path to immigration overhaul
A U.S. Border Patrol agent monitors the border structures separating Tijuana, Mexico, from San Diego. Illegal immigration into the United States would decrease by only 25 percent under a far-reaching Senate immigration bill, according to an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office that also finds the measure reduces federal deficits by billions. A bipartisan group of senators are expected to ...
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Critics seek to pump brakes of New York Citys Taxi of Tomorrow
New York City's iconic taxicab could become a thing of yesterday as the controversial "Taxi of Tomorrow" inches closer to reality -- and the rugged streets of Gotham. The Nissan NV200 utility van represents the city's first wholesale redesign of its cab fleet since days of the Checker cab and features a host of amenities, including increased legroom, sliding doors with entry ...
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Man gets 25 years in New York-to-Maine drug case
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - A man described as a major player in a New York-to-Maine drug smuggling operation has been sentenced to 25 years in federal ...
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10 Things to Know for Today
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. TALIBAN OFFERS TO FREE US SOLDIER FOR GITMO DETAINEES The AP's Kathy Gannon reports the Afghan Taliban says U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl of Idaho, taken prisoner in 2009, is "in good condition." 2. MOURNING FOR ICONIC 'SOPRANOS' STAR GANDOLFINI The ...
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White House Climate change isnt partisan
Obama described climate change as one of the top threats to the international community in a wide-ranging speech Wednesday in Berlin. Obama's administration has been criticized by environmental groups for lacking a clear-cut climate policy. The president said Wednesday, however, it was time to act. "Our generation must move toward a global compact to confront a changing climate ...
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Feds take control of elk herd at Chesterfield military facility
The elk roam the grounds of Defense Supply Center Richmond, which was established after the Department of Defense bought the property from the Bellwood family in 1941. The Defense Logistics Agency says in a news release that the Army officer who negotiated the deal told the family the government would care for the 11 elk on the property. Since then, Defense Supply Center employees have supported ...
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EPIC RANT “They Take a Press Release from the Federal Reserve and They Think It Was Written by God”
SHTFPlan.com June 20, 2013 If there's one thing that individual investors can take away from Ben Bernanke's latest Fed update, it's that all confidence in the financial and economic systems of this country has been lost. Within seconds of Ben Bernanke suggesting the Fed would taper monetary expansion and reduce their activity stock markets tumbled. This proves one thing, and ...
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32 Facts That Show How Men Are Being Systematically Emasculated In America Today
Economic Collapse June 20, 2013 What is wrong with men in America? Why isn’t our country producing lots of strong, independent, hard working men of character like it once did? Well, many believe that it starts at a very young age. When compared with girls, boys in the United States get lower grades, they are much more likely to get into trouble at school and they are much more likely to ...
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Brazil RiotCheerfulness and football are no longer enough for Brazilians Latin America News
Brazil’s football players cheer on their semi-finals at the Confederations Cup, but the protesters outside the stadium in Fortaleza can not get impressed.The protests overshadow the long sports festival – and provide the player with a ...
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Name game Obama gets his titles mixed up
US president Barack Obama repeatedly called George Osborne "Jeffrey" at a summit of world leaders, apparently confusing the Chancellor with a soul ...
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Trial of Whitey Bulger to return to 19 murders
THE trial of James "Whitey" Bulger turns back to evidence of the 19 murders the alleged mob boss is accused of committing or ordering while he ran the ruthless Winter Hill crime gang in the 1970s and ...
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Heir 89 Could Be Sent to Prison
An 89-year-old heir could end up in prison after a court date on his 11th-hour bid for a new trial in a case that shook New York society. Anthony Marshall is due in a Manhattan court Thursday. He was convicted in 2009 of plundering his mother's fortune by exploiting her mental decline. She was philanthropist and socialite Brooke Astor. He denies the charges. After Marshall lost ...
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Attorneys meet to discuss Jodi Arias case
Attorneys for Jodi Arias have asked an Arizona judge to delay until next year a retrial of the penalty phase in her case to allow the convicted murderer time to gather witnesses to testify on her ...
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Birth control shots could alter life in poor areas
This April 25,2013 photo provided by SpayFirst shows wild dogs near Valentine, Neb. Veterinarians are going to inject 300 wild female dogs with a birth control vaccine that has worked on white-tailed deer, feral horses, wallabies and ferrets. The two-year study on the vaccine GonaCon will be conducted on two poor, isolated Indian reservations in the Pacific Northwest. The dogs are ...
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Brazilians mock Pele’s appeal to end protests
Brazilian soccer great Pele has called on thousands of protestors demonstrating over poor quality public services and corruption to leave the streets and focus on football, an appeal that was quickly met with derision on social ...
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Delay on Taliban US peace talks
Preliminary Afghan peace talks in Qatar between U.S. and Taliban officials are unlikely to take place on Thursday as originally expected, a source familiar with the matter told ...
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US diocese sued over abuse by Irish priest
A CATHOLIC Church diocese in the United States is being sued by an alleged abuse victim who says an Irish priest sexually assaulted him in the ...
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Two New York men charged in bid to make deadly x-ray weapon
In April 2012, the authorities said, an industrial mechanic walked into a synagogue in Albany, N.Y., and announced his intention to build a weapon that could help Israel kill its enemies while they slept. He wanted to know whether anybody would provide financial backing. Turned away, prosecutors said, he sought money from another source: a leader in the Ku Klux Klan in North ...
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US State Department appreciates Azerbaijan’s anti-trafficking efforts in 2012
The US State Department has released the 13th annual report on a fight against trafficking in human beings including Azerbaijan in the second category (Tier 2) again. This means that Azerbaijan is making significant efforts in this field, but it does not meet the requirements of the Act of the U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection. The document published on a website of the State Department ...
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Bulger trial The hit man of Country Club Lane
A man working on the roof of a Philadelphia apartment building fell through into one of the units, where a girl watching TV was hit by ...
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Ohio man to be sentenced in dying blink murder case
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio – The U.S. secretary of education is traveling to Kentucky and Ohio to promote President Barack Obama’s proposal for a major expansion of early childhood ...
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