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Group: Obesity is a disease
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Blaze roars near Yosemite
A campfire left untended sparked a blaze near Yosemite National Park that is threatening hundreds of homeowners, but firefighters are starting to get a handle on it.
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Obama calls for reducing U.S., Russian nukes
President Barack Obama will call for up to a one-third cut in nuclear warheads by the United States and Russia during a speech in Berlin on Wednesday, a senior administration official said.
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Jackson kids' testimony shown at pop star's death trial
Paris and Prince Jackson made their first appearances Tuesday in the wrongful death trial against their father's last concert promoter.
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Police: Day-care drugged kids
Getting children to take a nap can be hard. Getting them to eat pancakes is not nearly as difficult.
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What U.S. learned from surveillance
Peter Bergen says Americans will have to decide if the yield of NSA-monitored calls justifies the invasion of privacy
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Was TWA Flight 800 crash accidental?
Skeptics who have long theorized that TWA Flight 800 was brought down by sinister forces will get a fresh surge of energy when a new documentary attempts to disprove that the 1996 crash was accidental.
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Blood, spit: Roadblocks raise eyebrows
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In Alaska, record temps fall, but relief coming
A high-pressure system over the Northwest United States is giving new meaning to the term Baked Alaska. But meteorologists say Alaska's cooling trend will continue on Wednesday after record highs earlier in the week.
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The long, strange search for Hoffa
Like a magician in a blue shirt and white socks, James Riddle Hoffa stood outside the Machus Red Fox in Michigan on July 30, 1975, made a phone call and vanished.
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Agents racing to save girl had one blurred clue
Federal agents watched in horror as an unknown man in an internet photo appealed for stomach-churning advice -- how to rape the child beside him. And as the clock ticked, their only clue to track the pair down is a blurred road sign.
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Tusks fund terror
Mark Quarterman says the slaughter of elephants for their tusks is at its worst in decades. As demand for ivory soars in Asia, Africa's vicious militant groups are killing elephants to pay for their arms and ammunition.
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Hoffa still missing
A second day of digging in a Detroit field yielded no sign of the remains of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa. Undeterred, authorities will resume their hunt Wednesday morning.
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BuzzFeed reporter killed in crash
Journalist Michael Hastings, known for his 2010 profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal that led to the officer's abrupt retirement, died in a car accident in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
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Arrests in suspected slavery case
A mentally disabled woman and child were "locked in rooms, forced to work all the time, threatened, beaten and injured, exploited, used as pawns to get drugs," a prosecutor says.
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Cops should back reform
George Gascon, a former police chief, says immigrants are less likely to report if they are victims of crimes if they fear police. It's in law enforcement's interest to bring them out of shadows
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Police dog dies in hot patrol car
A police dog died of heat stroke after being left in a patrol car in Woodstock, Georgia, authorities said Tuesday.
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Action needed to end trafficking
Yury Fedotov says progress has been made but not fast enough to help millions of trafficking victims
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Women in all combat units by 2016
The Pentagon unveiled plans Tuesday for fully integrating women into front-line and special combat roles, including elite forces such as Army Rangers and Navy SEALs.
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Bring voting into the digital age
Wendy Weiser says the Supreme Court's ruling on Arizona voting restrictions was a win for voters, but why stop there? It's time to modernize the U.S. election system
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