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Oct 08
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Israeli officials have deployed a Patriot surface-to-air anti-missile battery to northern Israel Monday, in an apparent response to the appearance of a mysterious drone in Israeli airspace over the weekend. On Saturday, an Israel Air Force jet shot down an unmanned aerial drone over the Negev desert in southern Israel. Israeli officials said they believed the craft had originated in Lebanon and was controlled by the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah....
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Oct 08
|18:04
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Lady Gaga threw up during a performance in Barcelona. She joins Justin Bieber, Steven Tyler, Scotty McCreery, Marie Osmond and others who have had on-stage mishaps.
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Oct 08
|17:49
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's campaign promised he would outline a "stark contrast" between his foreign policy proposals and President Obama's "failed" efforts to put an American stamp on the evolving face of the Middle East. But a closer look at Romney's remarks reveal a gameplan that has some notable differences from the Obama administration in some areas, but few significant differences in other areas.
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Oct 08
|17:24
A letter where Albert Einstein dismisses the idea of "God" is being sold on eBay. The starting price is $3 million dollars. The letter was handwritten in German to Eric B. Gutkind in 1954, a year before Einstein passed away, in response to Gutkind's book "Choose Life: The Biblical Call to Revolt"....
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Oct 08
|17:16
Phil Ivey's $11.5 million gambling win: Was it Banco--or bunko? That's the question being asked in London, as authorities try to determine if trickery or cheating played any role in the American poker star's fabulous winning streak at a game called Punto Banco.Punto Banco--a variant of baccarat--is similar to Chemin de Fer (James Bond's preferred card game), according to London's Daily Mail, which describes it as a high-stakes game favored by high-rollers. Lance Bradley, editor in chief of poker magazine Bluff, calls Punto Banco a game in which skill plays no role whatsoever: winners win and losers lose, strictly by the luck of the draw....
Read more: Poker Star Phil Ivey May Be Denied $11.5M Casino Payout
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Oct 08
|16:39
A new Pew Research Center poll which covers the days immediately following the first presidential debate (Oct. 4-7), shows Mitt Romney swinging ahead of President Barack Obama among likely voters, 49 percent -45 percent, and tied among registered voters at 46 percent. Polling from......
Reported by ABC News’ Joshua Gardner: When Marie Veloso called the junk collectors to have her late mother’s old hope chest hauled away, she was certain it contained nothing of value. “I just wanted them to take it away. I didn’t have the key, anyway,”...
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Oct 08
|16:23
Mexican authorities have arrested an alleged drug cartel leader known as Commander Squirrel who they say is linked to the 2010 murder of American jet skier David Hartley on a border lake, as well as to more than 200 other deaths in Mexico. After a gunfight on Saturday evening in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Mexican Marines captured Salvador Alfonso Martinez Escobedo, AKA the Squirrel or Commander Squirrel, who earned his odd nickname for his permanent smile and allegedly helped direct operations for the violent Zetas cartel in Coahuila, Tamalapais and Nuevo Leon states. ...
Read more: Narcoboss 'Commander Squirrel' Linked to American's Mystery Death on Lake
The fungal meningitis outbreak has now reached 105 cases and includes 8 deaths nationwide.
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Oct 08
|15:55
The lawyer representing Joran Van Der Sloot shot down reports that the Dutch playboy and imprisoned murderer had impregnated a Peruvian woman during a conjugal visit to avoid extradition to the U.S., where he is wanted on charges of extortion related to the disappearance of Natalee Holloway....
Read more: Van Der Sloot Didn't Get Woman Pregnant, Lawyer Says
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Oct 08
|15:32
Reported By Dina Abou Salem: A regular trek in California’s Sequoia National Park took an unexpected turn with the discovery of a 40-year-old note lodged inside a canister. On Sept. 8, Oakland resident Larry Wright, his son Aaron, and grandson Skyler were part of a......
Read more: Hike Becomes Quest to Find Writer of Decades-Old Letter
Sarah Jones, a former high school English teacher in Kentucky who had sex with a 17-year-old student, will not go to jail or have to register as a sex offender, according to the terms of a plea deal entered today.
Kony 2012 founder Jason Russell addressed his naked public meltdown in a new video he hopes will bring interest and action back to Kony 2012, a campaign that calls for the arrest of alleged Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony.
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Oct 08
|14:51
Jerry Sandusky didn't take the stand during his child sex abuse trial last summer, but he will at his sentencing to declare that he is innocent of the 45 verdicts finding him guilty, his lawyer said today....
Read more: Jerry Sandusky Will Declare Innocence at Sentencing
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Oct 08
|14:51
Jerry Sandusky didn't take the stand during his child sex abuse trial last summer, but he will at his sentencing to declare that he is innocent of the 45 verdicts finding him guilty, his lawyer said today....
Read more: Jerry Sandusky Will Declare Innocence at Sentencing
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