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BuzzFeed reporter killed in crash
Journalist Michael Hastings, known for his 2010 profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal that led to the officer's abrupt retirement, died in a car accident in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
Categories: National News
High speed trading: Paying for an edge
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Immigration bill could cut deficits by $175 billion - CBO
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Doctors: Let us treat hunger-strikers at Guantanamo
In an open letter to President Barack Obama published Tuesday, dozens of doctors asked to be allowed to treat hunger-striking prisoners at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Categories: Health
Cops should back reform
George Gascon, a former police chief, says immigrants are less likely to report if they are victims of crimes if they fear police. It's in law enforcement's interest to bring them out of shadows
Categories: National News
Police dog dies in hot patrol car
A police dog died of heat stroke after being left in a patrol car in Woodstock, Georgia, authorities said Tuesday.
Categories: National News
Why Brazilians are fed up
At 11 pm, the tired and the injured gathered in Belo Horizonte for one last expression of discontent.
Categories: International News
Action needed to end trafficking
Yury Fedotov says progress has been made but not fast enough to help millions of trafficking victims
Categories: National News
Netizens decry dolphin's treatment
A dolphin who died in the southern Chinese city of Sanya Monday has sparked nationwide anger after pictures surfaced of tourists near the shore mistreating and posing with the dying animal were spread on Weibo, China's most popular social network site.
Categories: International News
Women in all combat units by 2016
The Pentagon unveiled plans Tuesday for fully integrating women into front-line and special combat roles, including elite forces such as Army Rangers and Navy SEALs.
Categories: National News
Man charged with Nazi war crimes
Prosecutors in Hungary indicted a Nazi war crimes suspect Tuesday with involvement in the brutal treatment and deportation of thousands of Jews during World War II.
Categories: International News
Indonesia fuel prices up 44%
After clashes between police and protesters, Indonesia's parliament Monday night voted to revise the national budget and allow an increase of up to 44% in the prices of subsidized gas and diesel fuel.
Categories: International News
Fires shroud Singapore in haze
Singapore was shrouded in haze on Wednesday as smoke from forest fires in nearby Sumatra drifted across the Malacca Strait in the city's worst pollution crisis in more than a decade.
Categories: International News
The unifying power of 'Arab Idol'
The opening theme's the same and the concept's no different, but "Arab Idol" is much more than just a popular singing competition.
Categories: International News
Bond investors bracing for Bernanke
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Raising the next Bill Gates
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Analysts: North Korea talks follow well-worn path
North Korea's bipolar swings between nuclear provocation and fawning overtures for talks now form part of a familiar pattern.
Categories: International News
