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• Cleveland hero wants no part of hamburger promotion
• Lawyer: London murder suspect was freed in Kenya on British advice
• Bachmann’s rise and fall—and what it says about the GOP
• Teacher fired while pregnant testifies in Ohio
• Abortion doctor's wife: I'm sorry for trusting him
• Facebook wants to improve its hate speech response
• Celebrating graduation from addiction
• Drone strike may have killed Taliban deputy
• Afghan security rescues Red Cross staff
• Are student loans ruining the economy?
• Afghan officials say insurgents attack Red Cross
• Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s calls mom: ‘Be patient. Everything will be fine’
• Drone scientists hope to change public image
• Buddhist mobs attack Muslim homes for second day in Myanmar
• Feds investigate Md. train derailment, explosion
• Officer who killed girl while being followed by reality TV crew goes on trial
• Home of opium, crystal meth takes off in Afghanistan
• Moscow's top court rejects Pussy Riot appeal
• Russia promises Winter Olympics in Sochi will be secure
• Sheheen takes on Nikki Haley without sounding like a Democrat
• Calif teen misses trip, 5 friends die in crash
• Michelle Bachmann won’t seek re-election
• Firefighters gain ground on Calif. blazes
• Mothers now top earners in 4 in 10 US households
• U.S. launches first drone strike in Pakistan since election

Cleveland hero wants no part of hamburger promotion Posted: 29 May 2013 12:40 PM PDT Charles Ramsey says to help the kidnap victims he rescued.

Lawyer: London murder suspect was freed in Kenya on British advice Posted: 29 May 2013 12:08 PM PDT By Joseph Akwiri MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - A Kenyan lawyer who in 2010 represented a man suspected of hacking a British soldier to death in London last week said on Wednesday the suspect was freed from arrest in Kenya three years ago on the recommendation of the British High Commission. Britain's authorities face questions about what they knew about the activities of two Britons of Nigerian descent suspected of butchering Lee Rigby, a 25-year-old veteran of the Afghan war, in broad daylight in a London street. ...

Bachmann’s rise and fall—and what it says about the GOP Posted: 29 May 2013 11:54 AM PDT The tea party favorite has become a polarizing political figure.

Teacher fired while pregnant testifies in Ohio Posted: 29 May 2013 11:38 AM PDT CINCINNATI (AP) — A teacher fired from Catholic schools after becoming pregnant through artificial insemination has told jurors in Ohio she didn't know the procedure violated church doctrine or that she could be fired for it.

Abortion doctor's wife: I'm sorry for trusting him Posted: 29 May 2013 11:22 AM PDT Pearl Gosnell says her husband is a coward for not apologizing at his trial.

Facebook wants to improve its hate speech response Posted: 29 May 2013 11:07 AM PDT The social network responds to reports that advertisers were pulling their brands off the site.

Celebrating graduation from addiction Posted: 29 May 2013 10:06 AM PDT For Elisha Gahagan, it was the day she lost custody of her kids. She'd been using since she was 12 years old — first wine coolers and pot, then cocaine, eventually heroin — but she had always promised herself that she would not turn out like this, just like her own mother, an opiate addict who spent her days chasing pain pills. Gahagan was supposed to be the June Cleaver mom she'd always wanted in her own life, but when the time came she found that she could not pull her head above water. The physical addiction had her in its grasp, and every move she tried to make toward a normal life was thwarted by a need she could not control.

Drone strike may have killed Taliban deputy Posted: 29 May 2013 09:36 AM PDT The militant led several attacks against U.S., NATO, and Pakistani forces.

Afghan security rescues Red Cross staff Posted: 29 May 2013 09:20 AM PDT A security guard was killed after one of the militants detonated a suicide vest.

Are student loans ruining the economy? Posted: 29 May 2013 07:48 AM PDT The total amount of money in student loans has exceeded credit card balances.

Afghan officials say insurgents attack Red Cross Posted: 29 May 2013 07:32 AM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan officials say insurgents have attacked a guest house used by the International Committee of the Red Cross in the eastern city of Jalalabad.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s calls mom: ‘Be patient. Everything will be fine’ Posted: 29 May 2013 07:16 AM PDT Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, the mother of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, says she has spoken with her son for the first time since his arrest. "I couldn't stop myself from crying," Tsarnaeva said in an phone interview with Bloomberg News late Monday from her home in Dagestan, Russia. "He said: 'I am absolutely fine, my [...]

Drone scientists hope to change public image Posted: 29 May 2013 06:45 AM PDT The military tool can help humanity, researchers say.

Buddhist mobs attack Muslim homes for second day in Myanmar Posted: 29 May 2013 05:58 AM PDT By Jared Ferrie LASHIO, Myanmar (Reuters) - Buddhist mobs armed with sticks and machetes burned Muslim homes on Wednesday for a second day in the northern Myanmar city of Lashio, contradicting government assurances that soldiers and police had restored calm. A Reuters reporter saw scores of young men and boys on motorbikes and on foot marauding through the city of 130,000 people in a mountainous region about 700 km (430 miles) from the commercial capital Yangon. ...

Feds investigate Md. train derailment, explosion Posted: 29 May 2013 05:58 AM PDT A chemical-carrying CSX train to collided with a garbage truck.

Officer who killed girl while being followed by reality TV crew goes on trial Posted: 29 May 2013 05:13 AM PDT DETROIT (AP) — Police accompanied by a reality TV crew fired a stun grenade through a window as they raided a Detroit home in search of a murder suspect. A gunshot then went off inside, fatally striking a 7-year-old girl in the head while she slept on a couch.

Home of opium, crystal meth takes off in Afghanistan Posted: 29 May 2013 04:42 AM PDT The number of meth samples taken from seizures tripled in 2012.

Moscow's top court rejects Pussy Riot appeal Posted: 29 May 2013 04:26 AM PDT The punk group is in jail for protesting against Putin in a church.

Russia promises Winter Olympics in Sochi will be secure Posted: 29 May 2013 03:56 AM PDT Critics say the city is perilously close to the volatile Caucasus region.

Sheheen takes on Nikki Haley without sounding like a Democrat Posted: 29 May 2013 03:56 AM PDT COLUMBIA, S.C. -- South Carolina Democratic State Sen. Vincent Sheheen, who is planning to challenge Republican Gov. Nikki Haley in 2014, says he wants nothing to do with Washington -- but not in quite the same way Haley does. "I don't keep up with what's going on nationally," Sheheen told Yahoo News in an interview [...]

Calif teen misses trip, 5 friends die in crash Posted: 29 May 2013 02:54 AM PDT Tamer Mosallam was supposed to join his friends for a Memorial Day trip to the beach.

Michelle Bachmann won’t seek re-election Posted: 29 May 2013 02:10 AM PDT Republican Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann said early Wednesday that she will not run for re-election in 2014.

Firefighters gain ground on Calif. blazes Posted: 29 May 2013 12:52 AM PDT Firefighters made big strides toward getting ahead of a wildfire northwest of Santa Barbara.

Mothers now top earners in 4 in 10 US households Posted: 28 May 2013 11:06 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — A record number of American women are now the sole or primary breadwinners in their families, a sign of the rising influence of working mothers, a new study finds. Mothers now keep finances afloat in 40 percent of households with children, up from just 11 percent in 1960.

U.S. launches first drone strike in Pakistan since election Posted: 28 May 2013 10:21 PM PDT By Jibran Ahmad PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A U.S. drone strike killed seven people in Pakistan's North Waziristan region on Wednesday, security officials said, the first such attack since a May 11 general elections in which the use of the unmanned aircraft was a major issue. U.S. President Barack Obama recently indicated he was scaling back the drone strike programme, winning cautious approval from Pakistan. ...

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