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  • Of the local Scout leaders voting at their annual meeting in Texas, more than 60 percent supported the proposal
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  • Rick Brown puts on a pair of boots after finding them in his tornado-ravaged home Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Moore, Oklahoma
  • Monday's tornado killed at least 24 people, destroyed homes and reduced one elementary school to rubble.
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  • General Motors Co. is recalling more than 27,000 Cadillac SUVs worldwide.
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  • Federal forecasters are predicting yet another busy hurricane season.
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  • In this Tuesday, May 21, 2013 photo, bicyclist Rudi Saldia and his cat Mary Jane pose for a portrait during an interview with the Associated Press in Philadelphia.
  • Bicyclist Rudi Saldia often buzzes around Philadelphia with his year-old feline Mary Jane perched on his shoulder
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  • Birth control pills are shown in this undated file photo.
  • Contraception coverage by for-profit companies faces a prominent test in Denver.
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  • This image provided by the Kosciusko County Sheriffs Department shows a chain-reaction crash involving four buses in North Webster, Ind., Wednesday, May 22, 2013.
  • School bus slammed into the back of another one, setting off a chain-reaction crash involving four buses Wednesday
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  • The parolee shot and killed along with a Hofstra University student by police won praise from a state parole panel in 2011 before his conditional release from prison.
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  • Charles Ramsey has been promised free burgers for life at more than a dozen Cleveland-area restaurants
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  • Arrest
  • The FBI has arrested a suspect in a case involving the discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin
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  • Jodi Arias appears in court in this undated file photo.
  • Jodi Arias spoke out about her murder trial, her many fights with her legal team and her belief that she "deserves a second chance"
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  • Ibragim Todashev was arrested May 4, 2013, in Kissimmee, Fla. for alleged aggravated battery.
  • A Chechen immigrant was shot to death in central Florida Wednesday after an altercation with an FBI agent
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  • Drone.
  • The Obama administration acknowledged for the first time that four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes.
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  • Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
  • Attempting to interview man in Orlando when they felt threatened and opened fire.
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  • A 17-year-old boy charged with killing two teenage brothers in northwest Ohio has pleaded not guilty.
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  • Boy scouts
  • The Boy Scouts of America will convene a two-day meeting of 1,400 local leaders to consider changing its long-standing ban openly gay boys
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  • The three women rescued after being held captive in a Cleveland house for about a decade say they are doing fine.
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  • Police notes are seen scrawled on the trunk of a police car, in the aftermath of the Tucson shooting rampage that killed six people and wounded former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 12 others in January 2011.
  • In chaotic moments after a gunman wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, investigators quickly turned a patrol car into a makeshift whiteboard
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  • French fries
  • It was the customer service disaster heard around the Internet.
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  • Anthony Weiner
  • Anthony Weiner's run for a renaissance is officially on.
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  • The homes on either side of the Tampa area house where a sinkhole opened under a man's bedroom are being demolished.
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  • Ohio Highway Patrol says 29 people have been injured in a crash between a commercial bus and a car on Interstate 75
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  • Jodi Arias appears in court in this undated file photo.
  • Jodi Arias spoke out about her murder trial, her many fights with her legal team and her belief that she "deserves a second chance"
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  • A woman is pulled out from under tornado debris at the Plaza Towers School in Moore, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013.
  • At least 24 people were killed in Oklahoma by a devastating tornado that flattened homes and businesses.
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  • The rate of credit card payments at least 90 days overdue fell to 0.69 percent in the first quarter
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  • Two FBI agents who died while training off the Virginia Beach coast fell to their deaths when a helicopter had trouble
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  • The acupuncture is intended to reduce stress, increase blood flow and boost the immune system
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  • Not charged with murder or manslaughter, or even drunken driving. Rather, he is charged with vandalism
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  • Caroline Kennedy appears on ABC7s Windy City Live in this file image.
  • The New York jury on which Caroline Kennedy served has acquitted a man of dealing crack cocaine.
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  • The logo of Apple is seen in  this AP file photo taken in Shanghai, China. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko,File)
  • Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook is scheduled to testify Tuesday on Capitol Hill to explain the company's tax strategy.
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  • Ronald Poppo
  • Ronald Poppo spent nearly a month in a hospital after the May 26 attack
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  • Jodi Arias appears in court in this undated file photo.
  • Jodi Arias' final words to the jury will soon bring the trial to an end
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  • Some of the questions on Tuesday will be direct: What did you know, and when did you know it?
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  • The massive tornado touches down and rips through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, May 20, 2013.
  • See raw video of the massive tornado that ripped through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday.
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  • The Ferris wheel at Navy Pier along Chicagos lakefront
  • A manager of Chicago's Navy Pier rode the tourist spot's Ferris wheel for more than 2 days
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  • String of car bombs and shootings in Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq escalating fears of a return to widespread sectarian bloodletting
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  • Yahoo Search Engine
  • Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion as CEO Marissa Mayer tries to rejuvenate the Internet icon
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Emergency workers arrive the scene of a Metro North train collision, May 17, 2013 in Fairfield, Conn.
  • Railroad officials say commute is going as well as can be expected following Friday's train collision that that injured 72 people
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  • Authorities were searching for at least two gunmen who walked up to the door of a Northern California home and opened fire
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