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Monday, Apr 01, 2013 05:14 PM PDT
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Conn. lawmakers agree on new gun laws 
Monday, Apr 01, 2013 05:14 PM PDT
From the left, Connecticut State Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney, Speaker of the House Brendan Sharkey, Senate President Donald Williams Jr., State Senate minority leader John McKinney, and House minority leader Lawrence Cafero, listen to residents of Newtown testify during a hearing of a legislative task force on gun violence and children's safety at Newtown High School in Newtown, Conn., Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. Connecticut lawmakers are in Newtown for the hearing, where those invited to give testimony include first responders and families with children enrolled at Sandy Hook Elementary. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)Some of the toughest regulations in the U.S, were proposed after Newtown.
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U.S. deploys warship off S. Korea amid tensions on peninsula 
Tuesday, Apr 02, 2013 12:16 AM PDT
U.S. Navy handout photo of the USS John S. McCain at seaThe United States has positioned a warship off the Korean coast as a shield against ballistic missile attack as South Korea's new president vowed swift retaliation against a North Korean strike amid soaring tensions on the peninsula ...
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Suspicion in DA death shifts to white supremacists 
Monday, Apr 01, 2013 07:44 PM PDT
Law enforcement officials walk out of the home of Kaufman District Attorney Mike McLelland Monday, April 1, 2013, near Forney, Texas. McLelland and his wife were both murdered at their home Saturday. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)Suspicion in the slayings of a Texas district attorney and his wife shifted Monday to a violent white supremacist prison gang that was the focus of a December law enforcement bulletin warning that its members might try to attack police or prosecutors.
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North Korea vows to restart nuclear facilities 
Monday, Apr 01, 2013 11:49 PM PDT
In this Sunday, March 31, 2013 photo released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and distributed in Tokyo Monday, April 1, 2013 by the Korea News Service, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gives a speech during a plenary meeting of the central committee of the ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea. After weeks of war-like rhetoric, North Korean leader Kim gathered legislators Monday for an annual spring parliamentary session taking place one day after top party officials adopted a statement declaring building nuclear weapons and the economy the nation's top priorities. (AP Photo/KCNA via KNS) JAPAN OUT UNTIL 14 DAYS AFTER THE DAY OF TRANSMISSIONNorth Korea vowed Tuesday to restart all mothballed facilities at its main Yongbyon nuclear complex, adding to tensions already raised by near daily warlike threats against the United States and South Korea.
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Suspect in Colo. prison chief death got out four years early 
Monday, Apr 01, 2013 08:46 PM PDT
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Colorado Department of Corrections shows paroled inmate Evan Spencer Ebel. A clerical error allowed Ebel, suspected of killing Colorado's prisons chief, to be released from custody about four years early, officials said Monday, April 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Colorado Department of Corrections, File)Because of a paperwork error, the suspect in last month's killing of Colorado's corrections chief was freed from prison in January — four years earlier than authorities intended.
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Miss. governor pulls anti-abortion activist's nomination 
Monday, Apr 01, 2013 07:34 PM PDT
Gun bill signedMississippi Gov. Phil Bryant said Monday he's withdrawing his nomination of anti-abortion activist Terri Herring of Ridgeland to the state Board of Health.
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North Korean leader dials down hostile rhetoric 
Monday, Apr 01, 2013 09:27 PM PDT
In this Sunday, March 31, 2013 photo provided by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and distributed in Tokyo, on Monday, April 1, 2013 by the Korea News Service, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un raises his hand with other officials to adopt a statement during a plenary meeting of the central committee of the ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea. After weeks of war-like rhetoric, the North Korean leader gathered legislators Monday, April 1, 2013 for an annual spring parliamentary session taking place one day after top party officials adopted a statement declaring building nuclear weapons and the economy the nation's top priorities. (AP Photo/KCNA via KNS)North Korea's leader appeared to tamp down hostile rhetoric that had threatened impending war with the United States and South Korea in a key speech published on Tuesday ...
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13 youths die in fire Myanmar police call accident 
Monday, Apr 01, 2013 10:43 PM PDT
Fire fighters walk outside of a mosque that a fire killed 13-children in Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, April 2, 2013. Police in Myanmar said 13 children died when an electrical fire broke out at the mosque in the country's largest city. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)A fire engulfed a mosque housing Muslim schoolchildren in Myanmar's largest city Tuesday, killing at least 13. Authorities, anxious over sectarian violence that has shaken the nation, quickly blamed the blaze on an accidental electrical short.
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After 'Tan Mom,' New Jersey bans children from tanning beds 
Monday, Apr 01, 2013 06:56 PM PDT
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie gives his State of the State address in the assembly chamber in Trenton, New JerseyNew Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed a bill into law on Monday banning children under 17 from using commercial tanning beds ...
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Okla. board pushes for charges against dentist 
Monday, Apr 01, 2013 08:22 PM PDT
FILE - This 1977 license picture provided by the Oklahoma Board of Dentistry shows Tulsa oral surgeon Dr. Scott Harrington. Susan Rogers, the executive director of the Oklahoma Board of Dentistry, said Monday, April, 1, 2013, her office wants prosecutors to pursue criminal charges against Harrington who is at the center of a public health scare involving at least 7,000 of his patients. (AP Photo/Oklahoma Board of Dentistry, File)Citing the scope of a public health scare involving thousands of patients of an Oklahoma oral surgeon, the head of the state's dentistry board said Monday she wants prosecutors to consider pursuing criminal charges.
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Assange appoints WikiLeaks Party campaign director for Australian Senate bid 
Monday, Apr 01, 2013 08:01 PM PDT
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures from the balcony of Ecuador's Embassy as he makes a speech, in central LondonFugitive WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, holed up in London's Ecuadorian embassy for nine months, has appointed a high-profile opponent of Britain's monarchy to run his campaign for a seat in Australia's upper house of parliament ...
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Alaska rescue helicopter crash kills all three onboard 
Monday, Apr 01, 2013 08:53 PM PDT
Handout photo of the Helo-1 helicopter is pictured at Hatcher PassAn Alaska State Troopers helicopter crashed during a rescue mission, killing all three people onboard, including the stranded snowmobiler who had summoned the troopers' help, officials said ...
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Tourists kidnapped, 1 sexually assaulted in Rio 
Monday, Apr 01, 2013 11:16 PM PDT
Map locates Rio de Janeiro where tourists were attacked and one was sexually assaulted aboard a public transport vanTwo foreign tourists were held for hours and brutalized and one, a woman, was sexually assaulted aboard a public transport van they boarded in Rio de Janeiro's showcase Copacabana beach neighborhood, police said in a statement.
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Angelina Jolie to sell jewelry line to fund overseas schools 
Monday, Apr 01, 2013 07:26 PM PDT
UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie meets Syrian refugees in LebanonAngelina Jolie has opened another girls school in Afghanistan and plans to fund more from the proceeds of a jewelry line going on sale this week that she helped to design ...
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Arkansas House votes to override veto of voter ID bill 
Monday, Apr 01, 2013 06:03 PM PDT
Arkansas governor Mike Beebe looks on during a Martin Luther King Jr. service in this January 15, 2013 Governor's office handout photoRepublican lawmakers in Arkansas voted on Monday to override a veto by the state's Democratic governor and approve a bill that requires voters to show photo identification at the polls ...
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Fire at Islamic school kills 13 children in Myanmar 
Tuesday, Apr 02, 2013 12:10 AM PDT
Police stand near a mosque and school dormitory that were damaged by a fire in YangonAn electrical fire at an Islamic school in Myanmar's biggest city killed 13 children early on Tuesday, authorities said ...
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Oily ducks found following Arkansas oil spill 
Monday, Apr 01, 2013 07:45 PM PDT
A worker cleans up oil in Mayflower, Ark., on Monday, April 1, 2013, days after a pipeline ruptured and spewed oil over lawns and roadways. (AP Photo/Jeannie Nuss)The environmental impacts of an oil spill in central Arkansas began to come into focus Monday as officials said a couple of dead ducks and 10 live oily birds were found after an ExxonMobil pipeline ruptured last week.
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Georgia town passes law requiring residents to own guns 
Monday, Apr 01, 2013 07:32 PM PDT
A small Georgia town on Monday passed a law requiring the head of each household to own a gun as a way to keep crime down ...
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Chicago homicides drop dramatically 
Monday, Apr 01, 2013 05:25 PM PDT
Chicago officials say there were 70 homicides in the city during the first three months of 2013 — 50 fewer than the same period last year when the slayings made headlines.
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