• Oil tycoon's ex-wife cashes $975 million check, wants more

    By Joshua Schneyer NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sue Ann Arnall, the ex-wife of Oklahoma oil magnate Harold Hamm, vowed on Monday to press on with an appeal of her divorce case, even after she cashed a $975 million check from him.  In November, an Oklahoma court ordered the Continental Resources Inc chief…

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  • Boy driven away in stolen car is found after answering phone

    SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say they found a 3-year-old boy who was sitting in a car stolen outside a Utah day care Tuesday after he answered his mother's cellphone and honked the horn to draw their attention.

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  • IS video purports to show boy executing 'Russian spies'

    Beirut (AFP) - The Islamic State jihadist group released a video on Tuesday purporting to show a young boy executing two men accused of working for Russian intelligence services.

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  • 220-Year-Old Time Capsule Buried by Sam Adams & Paul Revere Opened

    In 1795, then-Massachusetts Gov. Samuel Adams, famed patriot Paul Revere and Col. William Scollay buried a time capsule under the Massachusetts State House cornerstone in Boston, and now, after more than 200 years, its contents have been revealed. On Jan. 6, officials from the commonwealth of…

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  • Cadillac unfurls most powerful car in its history

    Cadillac came out all guns blazing at the Detroit auto show Tuesday, unleashing the most powerful car in its storied 112-year history in an aggressive bid to return to preeminence. Once synonymous with American power and prestige, Cadillac has seen its share in the luxury market gradually eaten up…

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  • Little recourse seen for Democrats on Social Security rule change

    By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats appear to have little recourse against a House of Representatives rule change that could prompt a steep cut to Social Security disability benefits next year, congressional aides said on Monday. The new legislative rule, pushed through with little…

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  • The real reason Area 51 is called Area 51

    Area 51 is a top-secret U.S. research facility that gets mentioned all the time in alien movies. While we’re still very far from getting any real proof that alien life is actually being studied at the location, which was confirmed as a U.S. secret facility in 2013 by the CIA. But an answer to a…

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    Jerusalem funerals for four killed in Paris attack

    Thousands of mourners gathered at a Jerusalem cemetery Tuesday for the funeral of four Jews killed by an Islamist gunman in Paris in an attack that shook the Jewish community. The bodies of the victims were flown to Israel for burial following the assault Friday on a kosher supermarket in eastern…

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  • Officer stands trial in 95-year-old's beanbag shooting death

    MARKHAM, Ill. (AP) — Opening statements began Tuesday in the trial of a suburban Chicago police officer accused of acting recklessly by fatally shooting a 95-year-old World War II veteran with a beanbag gun at close range in an effort to subdue him.

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  • Boko Haram suffers setback in border clash amid growing fears of expansion

    Cameroonian soldiers killed at least 143 Boko Haram fighters when the Islamist militant group attacked a military base along the Nigerian border on Monday, amid fears that the insurgency could spiral into a broader regional crisis.

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  • Viagra Is a Miracle Drug, For Premature Babies (Op-Ed)

    Jennifer Tackett was careful to not drink caffeine while she was pregnant, so you can imagine how surprised she was when our team at Nationwide Children's Hospital told her we were going to give the equivalent of a cup of coffee to her premature daughter Autymn. Many people might think caffeine is…

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    One killed in Washington, DC Metro fire

    One woman has died and at least two were critically injured after smoke filled a subway car in downtown Washington on Monday afternoon, the general manager of the city's Metro system said. Richard Sarles told the local NBC affiliate in a televised interview that about 60 people were taken to…

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  • Kremlin: Poland failed to invite Putin to Auschwitz event

    MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin will not travel to a ceremony in Poland marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi Auschwitz death camp, the Kremlin said Tuesday, a decision that reflects a chill in Russian ties with the West.

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  • Families of 2012 Connecticut shooting victims sue school board, town: newspaper

    (Reuters) - The families of two of the 20 students killed in a 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, are suing the town of Newtown, Connecticut and the local school board over alleged lax security, media reported on Monday. The suit, served by the families of slain Noah Pozner and Jesse…

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  • Egypt Muslim authority slams new Charlie Hebdo Mohammed cartoon

    Egypt's state sponsored Islamic authority on Tuesday denounced as a provocation the planned publication of another cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed in the new issue of French magazine Charlie Hebdo. His adviser, Ibrahim Negm, told AFP the institution condemned the bloody attack on the magazine's…

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  • Caught on Camera: Paris Gunman Partner Makes Her Escape

    New video emerged today purportedly showing the romantic partner of one of the Paris attackers slipping into Turkey, days before her boyfriend killed five people as part of a dual terror attack, and before she fled towards terrorist safe havens in Syria.According to Turkish media that published the…

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    Disabled tortoise on the move again thanks to Lego wheelchair

    Meet Blade, the little disabled tortoise who gets to keep on moving thanks to his custom-made Lego wheelchair.

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