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Thursday, Apr 04, 2013 12:11 PM PDT
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Who can and can't buy guns? 
Thursday, Apr 04, 2013 12:11 PM PDT
Background checksPro-gun activists say background checks won't stop black market sales.
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Report: Famed movie critic Roger Ebert dies 
Thursday, Apr 04, 2013 12:54 PM PDT
FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2011 file photo, Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic Roger Ebert works in his office at the WTTW-TV studios in Chicago. In an essay posted Tuesday, April 2, 2013, Ebert says that he has cancer again and is scaling back his movie reviews while undergoing radiation. The veteran critic has previously battled cancer in his thyroid and salivary glands and lost the ability to speak and eat after surgery. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)CHICAGO (AP) — Roger Ebert, the most famous and most popular film reviewer of his time who became the first journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for movie criticism and, on his long-running TV program, wielded the nation's most influential thumb, died Thursday, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. He was 70.
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FBI Most Wanted Terrorist interviewed via Twitter 
Thursday, Apr 04, 2013 11:34 AM PDT
FBI Most Wanted terroristLast month, the State Department announced it would pay up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest of Omar Shafik Hammami, an American-born jihadist, amateur rapper and the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist accused of providing "material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization known as al-Shabab." On Thursday, Wired published an interview it [...]
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Majority of Americans now support legalizing marijuana 
Thursday, Apr 04, 2013 12:34 PM PDT
Majority Now Support Marijuana Legalization, Poll FindsFor the first time, a poll shows 52 percent of the nation supports legal pot.
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Second lost hiker rescued from Calif. forest 
Thursday, Apr 04, 2013 12:37 PM PDT
Search for Missing Teen Hikers Enters Fourth DayKyndall Jack, 18, went missing on Sunday during a hike with a friend.
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Facebook demos biggest mobile move to date 
Thursday, Apr 04, 2013 11:40 AM PDT
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Thursday, April 4, 2013. Zuckerberg says the company is not building a phone or an operating system. Rather, Facebook is introducing a new experience for Android phones. The idea behind the new Home service is to bring content right to you, rather than require people to check apps on the device. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)There's no app for that: 'Home' service will bring content straight to phones.
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Secret Service chief may be latest victim of high-profile hacks 
Thursday, Apr 04, 2013 10:59 AM PDT
Who Is the First Female Secret Service Director?A website, www.exposed.re, appeared to have data from other top officials.
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Anonymous blogger targets Mexico's cartels 
Thursday, Apr 04, 2013 08:19 AM PDT
Blog Del NarcoThe dangers the creator and her fellow reporters face are very real.
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Authorities fear escaped Texas inmates may be armed 
Thursday, Apr 04, 2013 10:43 AM PDT
Escaped Texas Inmates May be Armed After SUV StolenEscapees Are Feared to Have Stolen a Vehicle With a Pistol Inside
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Clinton returns to the spotlight as 2016 buzz ramps up 
Thursday, Apr 04, 2013 08:27 AM PDT
This undated publicity photo provided by PBS, courtesy of MAKERS, shows Hillary Clinton, first female major party presidential candidate and former U.S. Secretary of State, as well as a pioneering and controversial former First Lady, in the film,"Makers: Women Who Make America." The three-hour PBS documentary about the fight for women's equality, airs Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, and features prominent activists including Gloria Steinem and Marlo Thomas. (AP Photo/PBS, Courtesy of MAKERS)Will she or won't she? Every move she makes is being scrutinized for clues.
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U. of Rhode Island ends lockdown; no gunman on campus 
Thursday, Apr 04, 2013 12:29 PM PDT
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) — The University of Rhode Island ended a lockdown after about 2½ hours Thursday, and said despite reports of an active shooter on its campus in rural South Kingstown, an investigation revealed there was no gun or active shooter at any time.
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Georgia students organize first integrated prom 
Thursday, Apr 04, 2013 10:36 AM PDT
It's that time of year when high school students get ready for prom season. It may shock you to learn just how some students conduct their prom. When integration took effect, the school-sponsored prom at Wilcox County High School ended. Instead, parents began raising money for two separate proms. So students at Wilcox County High [...]
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Deadly new bird flu vindicates 'monster' virus research 
Thursday, Apr 04, 2013 07:27 AM PDT
A patient with fever is accompanied by family member while receiving treatment at hospital where 67-year-old H7N9 patient is being treated, in HangzhouScientists have been creating deadly germs in labs to prep for an incident like this.
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White supremacists sought in prison chief's slaying 
Thursday, Apr 04, 2013 09:53 AM PDT
Colorado Department of Corrections photograph of its Executive Director Tom ClementsThe two men are said to be part of a gang known as the 211 Crew.
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Iran backs Syria's Assad with secret training 
Thursday, Apr 04, 2013 07:52 AM PDT
Forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad get briefed before being deployed from the al-Sabaa Bahrat district to the old souk of AleppoThe government is sending its irregular militias for guerrilla combat training in Iran.
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Stroke victim Sen. Kirk says Obama's brain study offers hope 
Thursday, Apr 04, 2013 08:19 AM PDT
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kirk of Illinois celebrates at election night rally in WheelingThe president's BRAIN initiative would devote $100 million toward research.
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Thousands of Palestinians protest in West Bank 
Thursday, Apr 04, 2013 11:25 AM PDT
Palestinian security forces carry the body of Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh, center, during his funeral in the West Bank city of Hebron, Thursday, April 4, 2013. Demonstrations first erupted across the West Bank on Tuesday over the death of a Palestinian prisoner who died from cancer. The prisoner, 64-year-old Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh, was serving a life sentence for a 2002 foiled bombing of a busy Jerusalem cafe. After Abu Hamdiyeh died, the Palestinians blamed Israel for the death, saying he was not given proper medical care. Israel says the prisoner was treated by specialist doctors in hospital.(AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)The crowed chanted against Israel after two Palestinian protesters killed in clashes.
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From the DMZ: Hoping for peace, ready for war 
Thursday, Apr 04, 2013 03:57 AM PDT
A North Korean soldier and a South Korean soldier keep watch at the truce village of Panmunjom, in the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, in PajuThe top U.S. commander in South Korea says the threats are being taken seriously.
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Ancient site unearthed in Iraqi home of Abraham 
Thursday, Apr 04, 2013 09:33 AM PDT
This photo taken on March 31, 2013 photo provided by Manchester University professor Stuart Campbell shows excavation in progress at Tell Khaiber, Iraq. A British archaeologist says he and his colleagues have unearthed a huge, rare complex near the ancient city of Ur in southern Iraq, home of the biblical Abraham. Stuart Campbell of Manchester University's Archaeology Department says it goes back about 4,000 years, around the time Abraham would have lived there. It's believed to be an administrative center for Ur. (AP Photo/Stuart Campbell)BAGHDAD (AP) — British archaeologists said Thursday they have unearthed a sprawling complex near the ancient city of Ur in southern Iraq, home of the biblical Abraham.
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