President Barack Obama on Thursday reaffirmed his 2008 campaign promise to close the military-run prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where terror suspects have been held since 2002, and begin the transfer of some prisoners to other countries.
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is in Switzerland to sign a free trade pact with the Alpine nation — the first comprehensive agreement the country has reached with a major western economy.
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Levels of a stress hormone released by the placenta could predict a woman's risk of developing postpartum depression, new research suggests.
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The British Ministry of Defense paid tribute Thursday to the soldier stabbed to death in the middle of a London street by two Muslim terrorists, describing him as “popular and witty” and a “loving father.”
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When a pregnant teacher in Texas collapsed, her coworkers rushed to help. The woman technically died, gave birth, and then was brought back to life.
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The Boy Scouts of America's National Council has voted to ease a long-standing ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted as Scouts.
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An explosion has sent smoke rising over the heart of Afghanistan's capital. The strong blast was felt several miles away.
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An explosion has sent smoke rising over the heart of Afghanistan's capital.
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Police say a suicide bomber walked up to a vehicle owned by an Afghan religious leader in northwestern Pakistan and set off his explosives, killing three people.
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Two Muslim hardline preachers say that one of the suspects in the killing of a London soldier was interested in their teachings.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is traveling to Myanmar on the first visit to the country by a Japanese leader in 36 years, as Tokyo bids to reassert its position as a top economic partner after decades of frosty relations with the previous military regime....
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The 25,000 people at the soccer stadium and the millions more watching at home waited 90 minutes before the Australian evangelical preacher got to the message he had come to Communist-ruled Vietnam to deliver.
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When President Obama pushed his health care overhaul plan through Congress, he counted labor unions among his strongest supporters.
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Students from a suburban Oklahoma City elementary school destroyed by this week's tornado reunited with their teachers Thursday and collected whatever could be salvaged from the ruins.
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In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. asked a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after...
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A teenager was arrested Thursday in the deaths of his two younger brothers, ages 4 and 10, at the family home in a Utah subdivision of new houses and tidy lawns, police said.
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Below was sent to me by FNC’s Jennifer Griffin. See the red type about former State Department Spokesperson Victoria Nuland: THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary FOR IMMEDIATE [...]
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European Central Bank President Mario Draghi says it's "imperative" to create an agency with powers to restructure busted banks so that Europe can leave its economic and financial crisis behind.
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Sweden has long been a bastion of generous social welfare and an egalitarian political culture. So many people were shocked when scores of youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze during rioting in several largely immigrant areas near Stockholm...
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Officials in the Turks and Caicos Islands have recovered $19.5 million and more than 2,500 acres (1,000 hectares) of real estate as they continue to seize assets improperly obtained by corrupt politicians.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver had very messy, very public breakup, but it seems the Hollywood pair may be getting back together.
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Jessica Chastain, Adrien Brody, and Laura Dern at the premiere party for the re-release of "Cleopatra," on the rooftop of the JW Marriott Hotel....
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Venezuela's president has ordered the creation of a new workers' militia as part of an existing pro-government fighting force.
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On Wednesday, the city of Portland, Ore., overwhelmingly voted down a proposal to add fluoride to the city’s drinking water. The main reason given by anti-fluoride voters? Concern over adding a potentially dangerous chemical to the city’s natural...
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Syria says it targeted an Israeli vehicle that crossed a ceasefire line into its territory earlier this week because it was heading toward a village with a large rebel presence.
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Official silence is surrounding the trial of a Canadian businessman involved in a corruption probe in Cuba as the proceedings enter their second day.
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Anthony Weiner's campaign for New York City mayor got off to an energetic, but bumpy, start this week after his campaign website briefly featured an image of the wrong city's skyline -- instead of showing the Big Apple, the website featured a shot of...
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Nigeria's military says it has rescued women and children taken hostage by Islamic extremists after an attack on a police barracks.
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The biographer whose extramarital affair with then-CIA director David Petraeus triggered his resignation says she regrets the relationship.
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Close allies of Toronto Mayor Rob's Ford say they will release a letter that urges the mayor to address a purported video that apparently shows him smoking crack cocaine.
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NASA on Thursday posted a “For Lease” sign on one of its space shuttle launch pads, as it continues to downsize and revamp the Kennedy Space Center following the program’s retirement....
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Canada's foreign minister says Qatar has abandoned its bid relocate the United Nations civil aviation agency from Montreal to the tiny emirate.
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The Catholic archdiocese in Madrid says it needs more exorcists to help some of its faithful cope with the devil.
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President Obama is tasking someone with intimate knowledge of alleged abuses by Attorney General Eric Holder’s Justice Department to investigate the matter: Holder himself....
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A security official says al-Qaida gunmen attacked a military position in a southern province, touching off fighting that left three militants and two soldiers dead.
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Ecuador's Rafael Correa is starting a third term as president under seemingly ideal conditions: extremely high popularity, a more than two-thirds majority in Congress, a stable economy and a badly splintered opposition.
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The review ordered by President Obama into the Justice Department's policies on pursuing reporters' records could have Attorney General Eric Holder effectively reviewing his own actions. ...
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Britain's Ministry of Defense says a Typhoon jet has been launched to investigate an incident involving a civilian aircraft.
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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging African leaders to implement a plan that the U.N.
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Typhoon fighter jets were launched to investigate an incident involving a passenger jet flying in British airspace.
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Before & After images of Plaza Towers Elementary School and the surrounding neighborhood, which was destroyed by Monday’s tornado in Moore, OK. (h/t OTR’s Justin Wells)
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As part of an effort to increase blood donations both in the United States and in countries where blood shortages are much more severe and often deadly, a group of researchers is encouraging the World Health Organization (WHO) and other blood collection...
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Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is an all-in-one solution for playing games, watching TV and doing everything in between. But does the device work for gamers, who were once its core market? Maybe, maybe not....
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The IRS official who refused to testify this week -- while claiming she had done nothing wrong -- signed letters to Tea Party groups a year ago that asked them to turn over everything from printouts of their Facebook pages to the credentials of speakers...
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The cards feature the Robertson family and are set to be available in select Walmart stores on June 3, Hallmark announced on Thursday.
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The woman at the center of ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi's sex scandal has denied in court ever telling a former roommate that she had sex with the then-premier.
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Check out sunny shots of Hollywood's hottest bods gracing our nation's (okay, mostly just California's) hottest beaches!
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It's bad enough that hackers could compromise multiplayer servers for a number of popular first-person shooters, but it's potentially even worse that they could use the same knowledge to infiltrate the U.S....
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The World Health Organization (WHO) warned countries with possible cases of the SARS-like novel coronavirus on Thursday that they must share information and not allow commercial labs to profit from the virus, which has killed 22 people worldwide....
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