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MOSCOW -- Russian officials responded coolly Wednesday to President Obama’s call for further reductions to the U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals.
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Martorano, who has admitted to killing 20 people —11 while in cahoots with Bulger — was on his third day of testimony in the long-awaited trial against the notorious leader of Boston's violent Winter Hill Gang.
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A Missouri man evaded capture for more than 24 hours after lighting his wife and home ablaze Monday afternoon, authorities said. But Willard Hunt of Higbee could not run any longer, and he surrendered when police confronted him walking along railroad tracks about 8:30 p.m. the...(more)
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President Barack Obama is urging Russia to move decisively beyond the cold war paradigm by negotiating a new round of arms reductions that would slash the numbers of nuclear weapons deployed by the US and Russia by one-third. It's a bold proposal that builds on a...(more)
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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — Prosecutors in the Sept. 11 war crimes case at Guantanamo are asking a judge to allow secret pretrial hearings that would exclude even the defendants.
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Fred Thomas Residents of bougie Ottawa neighborhood Westboro are sick of seeing squirrels having gonads and strife all over their manicured lawns. So for years they’ve been rounding up the little bastards and transporting them across the Ottawa River into Quebec, the squirrel toilet of Canada....(more)
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Driver lost control of car as it was rocketing down an avenue in Manhattan's East Village.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - A statement announcing that Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev had dismissed Russian Railways chief Vladimir Yakunin was a hoax, Medvedev's spokeswoman Natalya Timakova said on Wednesday. Timakova said that the statement, which was distributed to media outlets by email, was made to look as...(more)
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Phoenix police detective was fired after she helped organize a holiday slideshow that included photos of dead bodies found at police scenes.
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Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged two Albany-area men with trying to create a mobile death ray machine to use against enemies of Israel.
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By Roberta Rampton and Stephen Brown BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama used a speech in Berlin on Wednesday to call on Russia to revive the push for a world without nuclear arms by agreeing to target further reductions of up to one third of...(more)
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NOAAThe possible dead zone is shown in red. Get ready for a swath of marine sterility the likes of which Gulf fishermen have never seen. NOAA warned Tuesday that a dead zone the size of New Jersey could break records this summer in the Gulf of...(more)
