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NJ official: NYPD Muslim surveillance legal
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:05PM May 24, 2012 CommentTRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New York City police did not violate New Jersey laws when they conducted surveillance of Muslim businesses, mosques and student groups, Gov. Chris Christie's administration said Thursday following a three-month review, a finding that angered Muslim leaders who had sought a clampdown on the cross-border police operations.
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Man arrested in 1979 disappearance of NYC boy Patz
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:52PM May 24, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — A former convenience store worker confessed to luring 6-year-old Etan Patz from his school bus stop in 1979 and choking him to death in a basement, police said Thursday, ending a three-decades long investigation into one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases.
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Beverly Hills subway approved after fiery films
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:59PM May 24, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — Flames, explosions, sophisticated soundtracks, slapstick comedy with harmonizing hillbillies.
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Speculation now switches to Fitzgerald successor
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:10PM May 24, 2012 CommentCHICAGO (AP) — U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald explained his resignation Thursday on the belief that new blood would be healthy for the office — turning the speculation to who might end up replacing one of the longest-serving and most highly regarded prosecutors in the country.
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AWOL Muslim soldier guilty in Fort Hood bomb plot
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:34PM May 24, 2012 CommentWACO, Texas (AP) — A federal jury on Thursday convicted a Muslim soldier on six charges in connection with a failed plot to blow up a Texas restaurant full of Fort Hood troops, his religious mission to get "justice" for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Private supply ship flies by space station in test
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:03PM May 24, 2012 CommentCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The world's first private supply ship flew tantalizingly close to the International Space Station on Thursday, acing a critical test in advance of the actual docking.
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Justice Dept.: Misconduct by 2 in Stevens case
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:03PM May 24, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department's internal ethics watchdog said Thursday that two prosecutors in the bungled corruption case against then-Sen. Ted Stevens engaged in reckless professional misconduct by failing to disclose information favorable to the lawmaker, who eight days after his 2008 conviction lost re-election to the seat he held for 40 years.
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Nuclear sub in Maine awaits fire damage assessment
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:42PM May 24, 2012 CommentKITTERY, Maine (AP) — A fire that swept through a nuclear-powered submarine in dry dock at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard caused extensive damage to its forward compartments, raising questions Thursday about whether it might have to be scrapped.
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Obama taps Yucca Mtn critic to lead nuclear agency
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:41PM May 24, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Moving quickly to stem a controversy, President Barack Obama on Thursday nominated an expert on nuclear waste to lead the federal agency that regulates the nation's nuclear power plants.
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Senate rejects GOP, Dem plans on student loans
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:30PM May 24, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate rejected dueling Democratic and Republican plans on Thursday for averting a July 1 doubling of interest rates on federal college loans for 7.4 million students, pushing back efforts to resolve the election-season showdown until next month.
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Feds: Sex trafficking ring used Backpage.com ads
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:18PM May 24, 2012 CommentIOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A nationwide sex trafficking ring run by a violent pimp and his associates used Backpage.com to solicit customers for prostitutes as young as age 17, advertising the women as "smokin' hot babes," according to a federal indictment recently unsealed in Iowa.
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Amazon.com drops affiliation with political group
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:17PM May 24, 2012 CommentOLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc. is dropping its affiliation with a conservative political group, in part because of some of the positions the American Legislative Exchange Council has taken, a spokeswoman said Thursday.
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Segui throws 'darts' at Clemens perjury defense
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:12PM May 24, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — David Segui remembered "darts" but not dates.
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Senate committee cuts Pakistan aid over conviction
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:00PM May 24, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate panel expressed its outrage Thursday over Pakistan's conviction of a doctor who helped the United States track down Osama bin Laden, voting to cut aid to Islamabad by $33 million — $1 million for every year of the physician's 33-year sentence for high treason.
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Monsignor: I didn't put list of predators in safe
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:43PM May 24, 2012 CommentPHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Roman Catholic church official testified Thursday that he typed a list of suspected pedophile priests on his computer, but couldn't find it 10 years later to show a grand jury.
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Senate acts to extend flood insurance program
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:39PM May 24, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Thursday voted to extend the life of the National Flood Insurance Program for 60 days, giving lawmakers time to work on a long-term extension that would seek to restore fiscal solvency to the debt-ridden plan.
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Ohio hospital settles lawsuit over fetuses in jars
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:37PM May 24, 2012 CommentCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio hospital reached a proposed lawsuit settlement of about $1 million with women who said they were emotionally distressed to learn a former employee had stuffed their miscarried or stillborn fetuses into jars for years — citing her religious beliefs — and kept them in hospital storage, instead of medically disposing of them.
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DNA study seeks origin of Appalachia's Melungeons
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:14PM May 24, 2012 CommentNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — For years, varied and sometimes wild claims have been made about the origins of a group of dark-skinned Appalachian residents once known derisively as the Melungeons. Some speculated they were descended from Portuguese explorers, or perhaps from Turkish slaves or Gypsies.
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Ohio teen to be tried as adult in school shooting
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:08PM May 24, 2012 CommentCHARDON, Ohio (AP) — A 17-year-old will be tried as an adult in the school shooting deaths of three students, a juvenile court judge ruled Thursday after hearing a sheriff's deputy describe how the teen wore a T-shirt with the word "Killer" and admitted shooting people.
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Jury in John Edwards trial wraps 5th day of talks
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:42PM May 24, 2012 CommentGREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — The jury in John Edwards' campaign corruption trial has concluded a fifth day of deliberations without reaching a verdict.
