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$590M-plus Powerball: 1 winning ticket sold in Fla
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Chinese premier heads to India to boost ties
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Report: Iran hangs 2 men convicted of spying
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1 winning ticket sold in Fla. on Powerball
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Authorities: Hofstra student was killed by police
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1 of 2 fires north of LA contained
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Mexico judge orders prison for suspects in killing
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Dissident ex-general released in Venezuela
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Police call fatal NYC shooting a hate crime
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In it, but unlikely to win it. Still, excitement stirs over record Powerball jackpot
Though they know their chances of hitting it big are limited, many in the Triangle say they are buying Powerball tickets just for a chance to dream about limitless luxury.
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Probe into Conn. train crash giving way to cleanup
Investigators will look closely at a broken section of rail to see if it is connected to the commuter train derailment and collision outside New York City that left dozens injured. Meanwhile, the focus begins to shift toward cleanup and rebuilding...
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Hofstra student killed by police during break-in
Officials say a New York college student was accidentally killed by a police officer as she was held in a headlock by an intruder pointing a gun at her head during a break-in at an off-campus home.
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CELEBRITIES
Denmark's de Forest wins Eurovision song contest
Denmark's Emmelie de Forest has won this year's Eurovision Song Contest with her ethno-inspired flute and drum tune "Only Teardrops," despite tough competition from spectacular stage shows by performers from Azerbaijan and Ukraine.
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NATIONAL
Ex-Pa. officer once hailed as hero faces charges
A former Philadelphia police officer once hailed as a hero and given a seat next to the first lady at a speech by President Obama has been arrested and charged with rape and other crimes.
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NATION/WORLD
FBI searches apartment in ricin letter case
Authorities in hazardous materials suits searched a downtown Spokane apartment Saturday, investigating the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin.
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NATION/WORLD
Up to 60 injured after car drives into Va. parade
An elderly driver plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Saturday parade in a small Virginia mountain town and investigators were looking into whether he suffered a medical emergency before the accident.
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NATIONAL
Victims: Marines failed to safeguard water supply
A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch's brew of cancer-causing chemicals.
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WORLD
Reporter remembers fear in Videla's Argentina
It was just about a day after Argentine strongman Jorge Rafael Videla had seized power in March of 1976, and the bloodletting was already beginning.
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WORLD
Pope leads pep rally at Vatican, meets with Merkel
Pope Francis lamented that investment losses by banks trigger more alarm in the economic crisis than the struggle of people to feed their families, as he led a huge rally Saturday to invigorate the church's moral conscience, hours after he held talks at the Vatican about the economic crisis with...








