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Doctors: Let us treat hunger-striking detainees at Guantanamo
In an open letter to President Barack Obama published Tuesday, dozens of doctors asked to be allowed to treat hunger-striking prisoners at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Police: Day-care operator drugged pancakes to make children sleep
Getting children to take a nap can be hard. Getting them to eat pancakes is not nearly as difficult.
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3 arrested 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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Michigan dig resumes in latest hunt for Hoffa
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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Heat force decisive game 7 against Spurs
With their backs against the wall, the Miami Heat thrived once again Tuesday night, defeating the San Antonio Spurs and staving off elimination.
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Whistle-blower says he was targeted by IRS
P. Jeffrey Black bumped up against his bosses in the Federal Air Marshal Service, eventually becoming a whistle-blower and testifying to a closed-door congressional hearing before his retirement in 2010.
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Official: Police dog in Georgia found dead of heat stroke in 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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Examiner in hotel death cases resigns
The death of a boy at a North Carolina hotel could have been prevented had police been told that the carbon monoxide that killed him was also to blame for two earlier deaths, a police chief says.
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2 teens saved in dramatic cliff rescue
Two California teens who stranded themselves atop a windy, 8,600-foot-high cliff ended up being rescued in what resembled a movie scene, according to authorities.
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'Credible' info led to Hoffa dig
The FBI -- working on information from an aging reputed mobster -- will continue digging in the waist-high grass of a Detroit-area field in yet another search for the remains of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa.
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NSA, FBI talk thwarted terror plots
Bomb plots targeting the New York Stock Exchange and the city's subway were among more than 50 worldwide thwarted by top-secret surveillance programs since 2011, authorities say.
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Has the U.S. started an Internet war?
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Shark attacks Texas teen in shallow water
A shark attacked a teenager Monday afternoon as he swam in waist-deep water at Surfside Beach, along Texas's Gulf coast, local police said.
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Alternative healing or quackery?
Although non-traditional therapies can be valuable, sometimes a line is crossed. So how can you tell if your alternative healer is a quack?
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50 years after 'Ich bin ein Berliner'
President Obama will speak in Berlin one week before the 50th anniversary of the famous speech by President Kennedy.
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Expert: Promoter deal with Jackson's doctor 'highly inappropriate'
AEG Live's negotiations with a doctor to treat Michael Jackson were "highly inappropriate," a music industry veteran testified Monday.
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Dictionary acknowledges humans can tweet, too
The Oxford English Dictionary has finally gotten around to acknowledging that tweeting isn't just for the birds.
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Witness: 'It broke my heart' to learn Bulger was FBI informant
With defendant James "Whitey" Bulger sitting less than eight feet away and staring straight ahead, a star government witness in the case against Bulger explained Monday why he turned against the man he long counted among "my partners in crime, my best friends."
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