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US military helicopter crashes off northwest Florida; human remains found

CNN - ‎26 minutes ago‎
Army Helicopter Crashes in Florida, and 11 Are Presumed Dead, Military Says
(CNN) Seven Marines and four Army aircrew were presumed dead Wednesday, according to a U.S. Defense official, after their Black Hawk helicopter crashed into waters off the Florida Panhandle during a nighttime training mission.
Army Helicopter Crashes in Florida, and 11 Are Presumed Dead, Military Says
Military Copter Crashes With 11 Aboard in Florida Training
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ISIS Attacks Ramadi as Iraqi Army Takes Ground in Tikrit

New York Times - ‎1 hour ago‎
Iraqi forces closing in on Tikrit in key offensive
BAGHDAD - Militant fighters of the Islamic State mounted one of their fiercest assaults in months on Wednesday, setting off 21 car bombs in the city of Ramadi, even as the group lost ground in an Iraqi government offensive in Tikrit, security officials said.
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Islamic State video purports to show a child shooting an Arab Israeli 'spy'

Washington Post - ‎1 hour ago‎
Child 'shoots dead Israeli spy' in new Isis video
JERUSALEM - The latest video posted by the Islamic State carries yet another chilling twist: It purports to show a young boy in camouflage fatigues taking aim with a handgun and pumping fatal shots into a man the extremist group called “an Israeli spy.
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Why Utah is bringing back the firing squad

Christian Science Monitor - ‎43 minutes ago‎
Wall Street bonus pool edges up 3%
State lawmakers have approved the measure in the event that authorities can't obtain drugs for legal injections, making Utah the latest death penalty state to allow an alternate method of executing death row inmates.
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UPDATE 1-Missing man believed to have fallen overboard during Bahamas cruise

Reuters - ‎1 hour ago‎
Officials: Virginia Tech student went overboard on cruise
(Adds details on search and quote from Carnival). MIAMI, March 11 (Reuters) - A missing 21-year-old man is believed to have fallen overboard during a cruise in the Bahamas, Carnival Cruise Lines said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Boston Marathon jury sees fragments of bombs used in attack

Reuters - ‎57 minutes ago‎
See Evidence From the Boston Bombing Trial
BOSTON (Reuters) - The jury hearing the Boston Marathon bombing trial on Wednesday saw pieces of one of the pressure-cooker bombs that ripped through the crowd at the race's finish line in 2013, killing three people and injuring 264.
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Big Bay Area quake: 72 percent chance in next 30 years, scientists say

San Jose Mercury News - ‎7 minutes ago‎
Odds increasing that huge quake will hit California
The Bay Area has a nearly three-in-four chance of experiencing a potentially deadly earthquake in the next 30 years, scientists reported Tuesday in a long-awaited update of statewide earthquake probabilities that provides the most precise look yet into our ...
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US Stocks Inch Higher in Noon Trading, Day After Sell-Off

ABC News - ‎15 minutes ago‎
US stocks mostly flat in early trading, day after sell-off
U.S. stock indexes are edging higher in noon trading, a day after a sell-off prompted by worries about higher U.S. interest rates and a stronger dollar.
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Wall Street Bonus Pool Jumped by 3% in 2014, DiNapoli Says

Bloomberg - ‎9 minutes ago‎
Wall Street Bonuses Rose Just 2% Last Year
(Bloomberg) -- Wall Street's bonus pool rose 3 percent to $28.5 billion in 2014, according to estimates by New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.
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US Accuses DirecTV of Deceptive Ads

Wall Street Journal - ‎11 minutes ago‎
Feds accuse DirecTV of deceptive advertising, seek customer refunds
The Federal Trade Commission filed a civil lawsuit against DirecTV in California federal court Wednesday, alleging that the satellite-TV giant engaged in deceptive advertising.
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Apple's iTunes Store, App Store experiencing outages

ZDNet - ‎59 minutes ago‎
Apple iTunes, App stores unavailable
(Image: Apple). Apple is said to be experiencing outages across its stores, including iTunes and its App Store. Users on Twitter are reporting outages across multiple countries and regions.
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Bachelor Winner Whitney Bischoff Is Ready to Get Her Hands Dirty for Chris ...

Us Magazine - ‎57 minutes ago‎
Bachelor winner Whitney Bischoff gears up for life on the farm with fiancé Chris ...
Heigh-ho, the derry-o, the farmer takes a wife! As viewers saw on the March 9 season 19 finale of The Bachelor, Iowa native Chris Soules proposed to Chicago resident Whitney Bischoff with a four-carat diamond engagement ring by Neil Lane - and she said ...
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Frei Otto, Architect, Dies at 98; the Soap Bubble was an Inspiration

New York Times - ‎47 minutes ago‎
Pritzker Prize goes to Frei Otto a day after architect's death
Frei Otto, an architect and engineer known for creating dazzling tensile structures that inspired generations of architects to dangle roofs from poles and cables, died on Monday in Germany, weeks before he was to be named the recipient of the Pritzker Prize, ...
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Actor Windell Middlebrooks, Miller High Life delivery man, dead at 36

Los Angeles Times - ‎1 hour ago‎
A 'Suite Life On Deck' Actor Has Passed Away
Actor Windell Middlebrooks, best known as the no-nonsense Miller High Life delivery man in TV commercials, has died, his manager confirmed.
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Bell: Chip Kelly continues with head-scratching moves

USA TODAY - ‎49 minutes ago‎
Eagles can win with Bradford
Maybe Chip Kelly will someday have the last laugh. That day was hardly Tuesday, when the Philadelphia Eagles coach popped the cork on the NFL's new year by springing the biggest stunner of all on a day of surprises.
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How chameleons really change their color

USA TODAY - ‎2 hours ago‎
Scientists Unlock Secret to How Chameleons Change Colors
(NEWSER) - Chameleons may not be the only creatures on the planet capable of shade shifting, but they're probably the best at it—panther chameleons in particular.
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TKM-Ebola-Guinea Enters Phase II Clinical Study in Sierra Leone

MarketWatch - ‎43 minutes ago‎
Trial of Tekmira's TKM-Ebola treatment starts in Sierra Leone
Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corporation TKMR, +1.38% an industry-leading therapeutic solutions company focused on developing a cure for chronic hepatitis B virus infection (HBV), announced today that TKM-Ebola-Guinea will be evaluated for efficacy in ...
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Excessive praise could be turning kids into narcissists, study suggests

Toronto Sun - ‎1 hour ago‎
Study: When kids are narcissists, parents are to blame
Parents who overvalue their kids aren't doing them any favours, a new study suggests. Researchers from Ohio State University and the University of Amsterdam sought to determine the origins of narcissism and found children scored higher on narcissism ...
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