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Israel warns Syria against attacks on Golan
Posted on May 21, 2013 at 1:30pm
(AP) — Israeli and Syrian troops exchanged fire across their tense cease-fire line in the Golan Heights on Tuesday, prompting an Israeli threat that Syria's leader will "bear the consequences" of further escalation and raising new concerns that the civil war there could explode into a region-wide conflict.
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Toback, Baldwin eye Cannes movie-making underbelly
Posted on May 21, 2013 at 1:30pm
(AP) — A phrase you will hear often at Cannes is: "Let me run the numbers."
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Man charged in death of missing Maine teenager
Posted on May 21, 2013 at 1:29pm
(AP) — Police charged a 20-year-old Maine man with murder Tuesday in the death of a 15-year-old girl who was last seen more than a week ago, when she went to meet someone she met on Facebook.
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Germany's SAP to recruit tech staff with autism
Posted on May 21, 2013 at 1:27pm
(AP) — German software giant SAP AG said Tuesday it plans to recruit people with autism to take make full use of their talents to process information.
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Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin says she doesn't know how many people are missing following tornado
Posted on May 21, 2013 at 1:25pm
(AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin says she doesn't know how many people are missing following tornado.
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Microsoft reveals Xbox One, next-generation gaming
Posted on May 21, 2013 at 1:25pm
(AP) — Microsoft thinks it has the one.
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Poll: Teens migrating to Twitter
Posted on May 21, 2013 at 1:25pm
(AP) — A new poll finds that teens are sharing more about themselves on social media. They're also moving increasingly to Twitter to avoid their parents and the "oversharing" that they see on Facebook.
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Iranian state TV: ex-President Rafsanjani, Ahmadinejad aide rejected from presidential ballot
Posted on May 21, 2013 at 1:24pm
(AP) — Iranian state TV: ex-President Rafsanjani, Ahmadinejad aide rejected from presidential ballot.
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Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin says 'we will rebuild' after tornado leaves at least 24 dead
Posted on May 21, 2013 at 1:24pm
(AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin says 'we will rebuild' after tornado leaves at least 24 dead.
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Crews race to find survivors of Oklahoma twister
Posted on May 21, 2013 at 1:22pm
(AP) — Emergency crews searched the broken remnants of an Oklahoma City suburb Tuesday for survivors of a massive tornado that flattened homes and demolished an elementary school. At least 24 people were killed, including at least nine children, and those numbers were expected to climb.
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Suicide at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris
Posted on May 21, 2013 at 1:21pm
(AP) — Some 1,500 visitors were cleared out of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris after a man put a letter on the altar of the 850-year-old monument Tuesday, pulled out a gun and shot himself in the head.
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ESPN cutting workforce, 'smartly managing costs'
Posted on May 21, 2013 at 1:21pm
(AP) — ESPN is cutting its workforce, the latest Disney division to reduce staff.
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Former IRS chief: Can't say how targeting happened
Posted on May 21, 2013 at 1:15pm
(AP) — The man who led the Internal Revenue Service when it was giving extra scrutiny to tea party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status told Congress on Tuesday that he knew little about what was happening while he was still commissioner.
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Microsoft reveals Xbox One
Posted on May 21, 2013 at 1:12pm
(AP) — Microsoft thinks it has the one.
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WikiLeaks prosecutors accept GI's plea to 1 count
Posted on May 21, 2013 at 1:10pm
Updated on May 21, 2013 at 1:11pm(AP) — The government will accept an Army private's guilty plea to a lesser version of one of the 22 counts he faces for sending more than 700,000 classified U.S. documents to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, a military prosecutor said during a pretrial hearing Tuesday.
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Warsaw ghetto insurgent Boruch Spiegel dies at 93
Posted on May 21, 2013 at 1:10pm
(AP) — Boruch Spiegel, one of the last remaining survivors of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising by poorly armed Jewish insurgents against the powerful Nazi German force that occupied Poland, has died. He was 93.
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Protesters chant 'Stop the IRS' in Cincinnati
Posted on May 21, 2013 at 1:06pm
Updated on May 21, 2013 at 1:07pm(AP) — Tea party activists have rallied outside the federal building in Cincinnati waving flags and signs, singing patriotic songs and chanting "Stop the IRS!"
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Eminem's publisher sues Facebook over song usage
Posted on May 21, 2013 at 1:04pm
(AP) — Eminem's song publisher is suing Facebook and an ad agency, saying they copied music from one of the rapper's songs.
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Chelsea tops AP poll after winning Euro title
Posted on May 21, 2013 at 1:04pm
(AP) — Chelsea surged to the top of the weekly Associated Press global soccer poll after winning the Europa League and qualifying for the Champions League for the 11th straight season.
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The pope and the devil: Is Francis an exorcist?
Posted on May 21, 2013 at 1:04pm
(AP) — Is Pope Francis an exorcist?









































































































