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'My experience with Mike Wallace: integrity, charm, character'
Sun,8 Apr 2012 01:17 PM PDT
Reuters -

2001 CBS photograph of Mike WallaceVia statements and comments on Twitter, colleagues and friends reacted Sunday to the news that longtime CBS correspondent Mike Wallace, the "60 Minutes" interviewer, died Saturday at age 93: Former First Lady Nancy Reagan: "My heart is broken today over the death of my dear friend Mike Wallace. My parents introduced me to Mike more than 75 years ago and we've been fast friends ever since. ... Mike was an old school journalist and one of the most astute people I've ever met. ...


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Watson wins Masters in dramatic playoff
Sun,8 Apr 2012 09:22 PM PDT
Yahoo! Sports -

Watson of the U.S. celebrates winning the Masters with his mother Mollie during a playoff in the 2012 Masters Golf Tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in AugustaThe Masters tournament involves approximately 100 players taking a total of around 20,000 strokes. But in the end, it came down to just two: Louis Oosthuizen's astonishing albatross on No. 2, and Bubba Watson's ungodly pop-fly wedge shot from the woods on the second hole of a playoff. Both shots are now part of Masters lore, but only one man won a green jacket.


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Facebook clues in deadly Tulsa attacks
Sun,8 Apr 2012 07:00 AM PDT
ABC News -

Two Men Arrested, Facebook Clues in Tulsa Shooting SpreePolice say their investigation of the shooting spree in Tulsa, Okla., will include the racially charged Facebook postings of one of the two men arrested in connection to the attacks.


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North Korea readies longe range rocket for launch
Sun,8 Apr 2012 08:59 PM PDT
Reuters -

A soldier stands guard in front of the Unha-3 (Milky Way 3) rocket sitting on a launch pad at the West Sea Satellite Launch Site, during a guided media tour by North Korean authorities in the northwest of PyongyangNorth Korea has readied a rocket for a launch from a forested valley in its remote northwest this week that will showcase the reclusive state's ability to fire a missile with the capacity to hit the continental U.S.


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Sony to cut global workforce by 10,000: Report
Sun,8 Apr 2012 11:10 PM PDT
Yahoo! Finance -

ASony Corp's logo is pictured at an electronics store in TokyoSony Corp will cut 10,000 jobs, or about 6 percent of its global workforce, by as early as the year-end, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Monday.


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Rick Santorum's closing window for a graceful exit
Sun,8 Apr 2012 05:12 PM PDT
ABC OTUS News -

Rick Santorum's Closing Window for Graceful ExitRick Santorum has more at stake in these next few weeks than any other Republican, up to and including Mitt Romney himself.


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Global markets fall on sluggish U.S. jobs, focus on more data
Sun,8 Apr 2012 08:51 PM PDT
Reuters -

A trader checks screen data at the IG Index trading floor in LondonAsian shares fell on Monday as a sharp slowdown in U.S. jobs growth raised concerns about the strength of the world's largest economy.


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Syria peace plan in jeopardy over regime demands
Sun,8 Apr 2012 07:15 PM PDT
AFP -

Under a peace deal brokered by Kofi Annan, the Syrian army was scheduled to withdraw from protest cities on TuesdayA peace plan for Syria was in jeopardy after a rebel commander rejected fresh conditions from the government for a pullout of regime troops from protest hubs amid a new spike in violence.


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Gingrich says Romney 'most likely' Republican nominee
Sun,8 Apr 2012 03:35 PM PDT
AFP -

Newt GingrichGOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, lagging far behind his rivals and his campaign mired in debt, acknowledged that Mitt Romney was his party's "most likely" nominee.


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Tebowing on Easter: 'It's our Super Bowl'
Sun,8 Apr 2012 05:08 PM PDT
ABC News Blogs -

New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow speaks at the Easter service of Celebration Church in Georgetown, Texas, Sunday, April 8, 2012. (AP Photo/William Philpott)New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow took to the pulpit on the holiest day of the Christian calendar to share his personal story of faith.


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Easter bomb attack near Nigeria church kills at least 20
Sun,8 Apr 2012 02:54 PM PDT
AFP -

Residents watch smouldering wheel barrow and scorched personal effects in northern NigeriaA car bombing near a church in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna on Easter Sunday killed at least 20 people, while another blast later in a separate city caused a number of injuries.


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Suspect in dismembering says he met woman online
Sun,8 Apr 2012 04:04 PM PDT
Associated Press -

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Butler County Sheriff Department shows Matthew Puccio. Puccio, 25, is one of five people arrested after the body of 21-year-old Jessica Rae Sacco was found Friday, March 30, 2012 in her Urbana, Ohio apartment. Puccio, who lived with Sacco, is accused of killing her. Puccio told the Springfield News-Sun that he met Sacco through Facebook while looking for new friends and that he met two of his alleged accomplices at a library just three days before the killing. (AP Photo/Butler County Sheriff Department, File)A man suspected of stabbing, suffocating and dismembering his girlfriend told a newspaper that he met her through Facebook while looking for new friends and that he met two of his alleged accomplices at a library just three days before the killing.


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Suicide rates rising among Canadian girls: study
Sun,8 Apr 2012 06:36 PM PDT
Reuters - Suicide rates for female teens and pre-teens in Canada rose over the past few decades even though the overall number of youths who took their own lives was dropping, according to a Canadian study that covered nearly 30 years. Researchers whose findings were published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal also noted a change in the preferred methods of suicide, from guns or poisons to suffocation by strangulation. ... Full Story
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Queen Elizabeth II grants Camilla new honor
Sun,8 Apr 2012 04:02 PM PDT
Associated Press -

The Royal Family Attend The Easter Mattins Service At Windsor CastleQueen Elizabeth II has appointed the Duchess of Cornwall to the highest female rank in the Royal Victorian Order, Buckingham Palace said Monday.


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Peace Corps leaves Mali, new U.S. travel warning issued
Sun,8 Apr 2012 04:47 PM PDT
Reuters -

Mali's ousted President Toure attends a meeting in which he resigned in BamakoPeace Corps volunteers have been evacuated from Mali and non-essential U.S. diplomatic personnel have been offered flights out due to ongoing political instability following a military coup in March, the State Department said on Sunday. The agency again warned Americans against travel to the West African nation due to a rebellion in the north and continuing threats of attacks and kidnappings of Westerners. It strongly urged U.S. citizens there to consider leaving temporarily. ...


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7-year-old boy tied to Alaska arson fires
Sun,8 Apr 2012 05:54 PM PDT
Associated Press - A 7-year-old Juneau boy has admitted setting five arson fires over a little more than four months, according to fire officials in Alaska's capital. Full Story
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'The Hunger Games' video spoof goes viral
Sun,8 Apr 2012 01:38 PM PDT
The Sideshow - "The Hunger Games," the film that topped the U.S. box office for the third weekend in a row with $33.5 million, has inspired plenty of parodies. But this one--pitting hipsters from Portland, Austin, Brooklyn, Oakland and Silverlake, Calif., in a dystopian fight to the death--may be the best. The three-minute video, directed by Christopher Guerrero [...] Full Story
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'Please get us out of here': trapped Peru miners wait it out
Sun,8 Apr 2012 03:40 PM PDT
AFP -

Rescue workers take part in the rescue of nine miners who have been trapped underground for four daysIt could take two or three more days to rescue nine miners trapped since Thursday in a mine in southern Peru, a top official said Sunday, as one of the miners begged "please, get us out of here."


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Looking on the bright side of inflation (there is one)
Sun,8 Apr 2012 12:03 PM PDT
Reuters -

To match SPECIAL REPORT DOLLAR/Sometimes a little bit of inflation is not such a bad thing. In the United States, prices starting to creep upward shows the deep wounds from the credit crisis are slowly healing and the U.S. economy is ...


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Reports: 1 dead, 2 wounded in Texas beach shooting
Sun,8 Apr 2012 02:59 PM PDT
Associated Press - One person has been killed and two others have been wounded in a shooting during a packed Texas Gulf Coast beach party. Full Story
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Hudson's star power to complicate Chicago murder trial
Sun,8 Apr 2012 03:09 PM PDT
Associated Press -

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2012 file photo, Jennifer Hudson performs Accustomed to wearing Vera Wang gowns on red carpets, singing at the Grammys or autographing her weight-loss memoir, Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson will take on a new role under a very different spotlight — in Chicago's drab criminal courts building at the trial of the man charged with murdering her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew.


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