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Starlet takes to Twitter offering reward for its return

Food companies cut 6.4 trillion calories from their products after 2010 pledge     

New Delhi extends retaliatory measures against U.S. embassy staff as possibility of negotiated solution fades

Pygmies are the best ivory poachers due to their knowledge of Congo's forests; many are enslaved by Bantu masters. A poacher who became an eco-guard says turning against gangs is risky.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea's economy will grow at its fastest pace in four years in 2014 as the U.S. expands and Europe's slump eases, the central bank chief said Thursday.     

A 13-year-old California girl who was declared brain dead after suffering complications from sleep apnea surgery has been given the feeding and breathing tubes that her family had been trying to obtain for weeks.

The government in the Indian capital, Delhi, launches a helpline to help people deal with demands for bribes by government workers.

Russia blocks UN Security Council condemnation of Syrian air raids on Aleppo that killed 700     

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Ukranian man admits running hardcore child pornography website, accepts 30-year sentence     

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- An Oregon waitress lifted a credit card receipt from a bill and found an envelope with a question mark. She peeked inside, quietly walked to her manager and asked him to call police.     

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Navy has apologized for mistakenly sending Washington television reporter Scott MacFarlane an internal email plotting ways to dodge the reporter's Freedom of Information Act requests for documents ...

DALLAS (AP) -- The FBI is investigating death threats made against members of the Dallas hunting club that intends to auction off a rare permit to kill an endangered black rhino, an FBI spokeswoman said Wednesday.    ...

Is anybody in Philadelphia itching? That could be because their mattress is infested with bed bugs, which are showing signs of a huge population surge all over the city.     

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- A judge on Wednesday interrupted closing arguments in the trial of two police officers accused of killing a homeless man to angrily threaten jail time for whoever posted a Twitter picture of the...

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Alaska Could Be the Next State With Legal Pot

Caretaker injured while trying to save residents of California group home for disabled     

The Australian PM defends secrecy over asylum policy, amid reports of tow-backs to Indonesia and as Nauru hikes journalist visa rates 40-fold.

Gang targeted in San Diego sex trafficking charges, 17 arrested in 3 states     

Fatal case of H5N1 bird flu reported in Canada, person travelled from China     

Georgetown's nine-game winning streak against Big East rival Providence is officially history.