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Asiana Will Sue TV Station Over Bogus Flight Crew Names

Monday, July 15, 2013

Claiming the news report has damaged its reputation, Asiana Airlines said it will sue a San Francisco TV station that aired the bogus names of the flight crew piloting Flight 214, a Boeing 777 that crash-landed at San Francisco International Airport earlier this month.

If you haven't kept up ...

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3 Of The World's Best Sprinters Test Positive For Banned Substances

Monday, July 15, 2013

The world of track and field got some bad news over the weekend: Three of its biggest stars tested positive for performance enhancing drugs.

Jamaican Asafa Powell, who once held the men's 100-meter record, American sprinter Tyson Gay, who participated in a U.S. Anti-Doping Agency program, and Jamaican ...

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Snowden Has NSA 'Blueprint,' Says 'Guardian' Journalist

Monday, July 15, 2013

Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who was the first to report on classified documents leaked by Edward Snowden, says the former National Security Agency contractor has what amounts to an "instruction manual for how the NSA is built."

Greenwald made the comments in a Sunday interview with The ...

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Zimmerman Trial: 6 Headlines That Tell The Story

Monday, July 15, 2013

A little more than a day after a jury handed down a not-guilty verdict for George Zimmerman, thousands of people gathered in cities across the country to express their anger and dismay.

As The Associated Press reports, protesters in Chicago, New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles ...

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SEE: The 'New Yorker' Cover That Has People Talking

Friday, June 28, 2013

Bert and Ernie — yes, Sesame Street's Muppets — have been thrust yet again into the gay marriage debate.

This time, for its July 8 and 15 issue, The New Yorker decided to use an illustration of Bert and Ernie for their coverage of the Supreme Court's decisions on ...

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Who Are These 'Bankers' Ecuador Keeps Referencing?

Friday, June 28, 2013

If you've paid attention to the case of Edward Snowden, you might have heard Ecuadorean officials refer to some bankers the U.S. is refusing to hand over.

Ecuador, of course, is considering an asylum request from the NSA leaker. The U.S. is pressuring them to abide by an extradition ...

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U.S. Army Restricts Access To 'The Guardian' Website

Friday, June 28, 2013

The Monterey County (Calif.) Herald has a great scoop:

"The Army admitted Thursday to not only restricting access to The Guardian news website at the Presidio of Monterey, as reported in Thursday's Herald, but Armywide."

In simple terms: If you're accessing the Internet at an Army facility across ...

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NSA Leaker's Father: Snowden Betrayed Government, Not The People

Friday, June 28, 2013

Lonnie Snowden says he doesn't believe his son, Edward, committed treason when he leaked information about top-secret U.S. government surveillance programs.

"He has in fact broken U.S. law, in a sense that he has released classified information," the elder Snowden told NBC News. "And if folks want to ...

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Vatican Official Arrested Over Alleged $26 Million Scheme

Friday, June 28, 2013

A Vatican official already under investigation for money laundering was arrested after police say they caught him and two other men plotting a scheme that would bring in 20 million euros (about $26 million) in cash into Italy from Switzerland on a jet.

Prosecutors say Monsignor Nunzio Scarano said the ...

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With Mandela's Health As Backdrop, Obama Arrives In S. Africa

Friday, June 28, 2013

Update at 4 p.m. ET: President Arrives In South Africa

President Obama and his family landed in South Africa late Friday. It's the second stop on his one-week trip to the African continent.

Our original post continues:

As we've told you, Obama planned his visit to talk about democracy ...

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WATCH: Rep. Tammy Duckworth Dresses Down IRS Contractor

Thursday, June 27, 2013

It is one of those rare Congressional exchanges that's both dramatic and compelling: Yesterday during a House Oversight Committee hearing, Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), who lost her legs and use of her right arm when she served in Iraq, dressed down an IRS contractor who used his military disability status ...

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Boston Bombing Suspect Indicted; Could Face Death Penalty

Thursday, June 27, 2013

A federal grand jury handed down a 30-count indictment against the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing today. Dzohkhar Tsarnaev is scheduled to be arraigned in U.S. District Court in Boston on July 10.

The charges against Tsarnaev, 19, include killing four people and using weapons of mass destruction, ...

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Florida A&M Lifts Suspension Of 'Marching 100' Band

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Florida A&M's interim president announced Thursday that he was lifting the suspension of the school's famed "Marching 100" band.

The band had been suspended since November 2011, following the hazing-related death of one of its drum majors.

In a statement, interim President Larry Robinson said the re-institution of the ...

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Court Overturns Murder Conviction Against Camp Pendleton Marine

Thursday, June 27, 2013

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces has overturned the murder conviction of a Marine sergeant found guilty of killing an Iraqi civilian.

Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins III was found guilty in a case that dates back to 2006, when Hutchins and a group of troops went to a ...

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Obama: NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Has More Documents

Thursday, June 27, 2013

During a news briefing in Senegal, President Obama said NSA leaker Edward Snowden was in possession of more classified documents and that the government did not know "what other documents he may try to dribble out there."

That said, the president added that he will not "be scrambling jets ...

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Mandela's Daughter: 'It Doesn't Look Good'

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Nelson Mandela's condition is "very critical," his daughter Makaziwe Mandela told South African broadcaster SABC.

"I reiterate that Tata is very critical, that anything is imminent," said Makaziwe. "But I want to emphasize again that it's only God who knows when the time to go is. So we will ...

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President Obama Begins Weeklong Africa Trip

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Arriving in Senegal on Wednesday night, President Obama kicked off a weeklong trip to Africa. NPR's Ari Shapiro, who is traveling with the president, tells our Newscast desk that Obama will emphasize democracy and security during his visit.

Ari filed this report from Dakar:

"The streets here in Dakar ...

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WATCH: Reactions To Gay Marriage Rulings

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Thousands of people gathered across the country to await the Supreme Court's decision on two huge cases on gay marriage.

As we told you, the court struck down DOMA and paved the way for gay marriage to resume in California.

The BBC has video of reaction from supporters of ...

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Court Overturns DOMA, Sidesteps Broad Gay Marriage Ruling

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

The Supreme Court issued rulings on two highly-anticipated cases on gay marriage today. By 5-4, it ruled the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman, is unconstitutional.

In a separate ruling, it declined to take on the broader issue ...

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WATCH: Teary Paula Deen Says She's No Racist

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Paula Deen, the Food Network star under fire over a racially charged deposition, says she is no racist.

Deen, who has been dropped by the Food Network and as spokeswoman for Smithfield Foods, gave a teary interview to the Today show this morning.

"I believe that every ...

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