A landlord of a Philadelphian apartment discovered four mentally handicapped people chained in the basement when he went to investigate a short circuit on October 15th. Turgut Gozleveli discovered dogs locked inside of the boiler room and four adults hiding underneath a blanket. They were hunched together in a space not tall enough for an adult to stand, surrounded in human waste with only a jug of orange juice (Hoye). He unchained them while asking questions about their identity, but he didn't receive any answers. Believing them to be illegal immigrants, Gosleveli called in the police who qui...

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... needed medical attention - a fact that prosecutors are calling an attempt at a cover-up (Los Angeles Times). Jackson's security guard, Alberto Alvarez, took the stand against Murray, claiming that when he walked in the room, he saw Jackson's lifeless body on the floor and Murray acting incompetent. Murray made a half-hearted attempt at CPR, according to Alvarez, who reported that Murray was using one hand ... sporadically while Jackson was lying on his mattress, a soft surface. Murray then asked, "Does anybody know CPR?" although he was the doctor on hand. Murray then calmly told Alvarez ...

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The Occupy movement that began months ago in New York and has since grasped hold of the rest of the country turned violent for the first time on November 2nd in Oakland when a small group of protestors smashed the windows of a Wells Fargo bank branch during a protest of wealth inequalities. The Occupy Oakland movement scheduled a noon rally in front of City Hall and then a free lunch afterward. The day's events were planned to wrap up with a "general strike mass convergence, rally, and labor cookout." Each of these were intended to be peaceful protests, but a small faction began passing out fl...

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... Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley, Jr., and Jason Baldwin were released from prison, where they were currently serving out their sentences for the murder of three second-graders in West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993. Steven Branch, Christopher Byers, and Michael Moore were found dead in a ditch with their bodies mutilated and hog-tied by their own shoestrings. Police immediately suspected Echols, Misskelley, and Baldwin, claiming ... that they were driven by satanic ritual, regardless of the extreme lack of evidence that they had to indict the boys. Echols and Baldwin entered an Alford plea ...

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... police officer, and two other unidentified men. The majority of the men all worked at the Brooklyn station house sometime in the past. These eight men accepted thousands of dollars in bribes to drive a caravan of M-16 rifles and handguns, as well as stolen merchandise, across state lines. For these crimes, they face charges of conspiracy to transport firearms across state lines, ... . During this, he developed a relationship with Officer William Masso, who proposed that the two work together to illegally obtain and sell contraband in the form of cigarettes. From there, a yearlong undercov...

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... Secretary Leon E. Panetta announced the official end to the United States' mission in Iraq on December 15th - nine years after US forces stepped foot on the foreign ground. US troops initially staged a war to rid Iraq of the weapons of mass destruction that they were thought to possess, but after almost a decade in the hostile country, no such weapons were found. Instead, the nine-year invasion revamped American ... Americans, the mission of an Iraq that could govern and secure itself has become real," he continued. "To be sure, the cost was high, in blood and treasure for the United Sta...

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Believing himself to be a victim of a smear campaign, presidential candidate Herman Cain suddenly recalled the financial settlement he was a part of years before. In the late 1990's, as the head of the National Restaurant Association, Cain battled two sexual harassment claims involving two different women, although he later remembered the first accusation and denies remembering the second accusation altogether (Oliphant). "My general counsel said this started out where (an accuser) and ... for this, we ended up settling for what would have been a termination settlement," Cain told Fox News (G...

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... saying the Pledge of Allegiance. To the disgust of many of the viewers, NBC edited the words "under God" and "indivisible" in the first version and omitted "one nation" as well in the second version. Within hours, social media outlets were flooded with outraged viewers protesting against NBC's omission. NBC's announcer publicly apologized on-air just three hours after the montage aired, highlighting the large number of protests they received online. The announcer said the "feature ... was edited" and "not done to upset anyone" (Chavez). The host, Dan Hicks, read the following statement ...

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... ; you would think that WWIII is about to begin. The world awaits to see who the United States of America chooses as their President because that person could be the deciding factor. Being a superpower comes with great responsibility; that particular country must be involved in every conflict on earth in one way or another. You don't need a television to realize what is going on in the world. There seems to be ... a new conflict everyday with the United States taking some part in it. When the U.S. was ... ...

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... , survivors, and their descendants moved to block the company from getting contracts in the US if it did not admit its role in the shipping of thousands of Jews to Nazi death camps and make amends. SNCF was looking to lay tracks in Florida and California. Ron Klein, a Florida Democrat in the US House of Representatives, was one of the legislators to oppose SNCF from making business in the US. He introduced a bill seeking to ... of guilt (The Age). Arno Klarsfeld, a Paris lawyer and son of the Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld, sides with SNCF on the issue. "This American pressure on the SNCF h...

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... offender who was convicted of murdering 11 women, faces the death penalty unless his defense team can successfully convince the jury that Sowell was provoked by post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental illnesses. Sowell, who is an ex-Marine, abused the bodies after the women had died, and then stashed their bodies around his house, prompting neighbors to complain of a foul stench, which they believed was ... coming from a neighborhood sausage shop. On July 22nd, he was convicted of 11 counts of aggravated murder and more than 70 other charges, including abusing ... that allows h...

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Following a series of political assassinations of Afghanistan's political leaders, the United States' military officers have seen dramatic improvement in securing the country. Following the assassination of Osama bin Laden, President Obama announced the hasty drawdown of the extra "surge" troops he ordered to finish off the al-Qaeda regime. However, there have been several recent acts of violence that have some officials worried. Following the assassination of Ahmed Wali Karzai, the president's half-brother, a suicide car bomber attacked a police headquarters, killing twelve policemen and a ch...

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Managing director of the aluminum company responsible for a flood of toxic red sludge, Zoltan Bakonyi, is being questioned on the suspicion of public endangerment causing multiple deaths and environmental damage (Yahoo! News). The sludge burst from its reservoir last week, killing eight people. The European Union and environmental groups are worried that the sludge could spread down the Danube River, resulting in long-term consequences for many nations. Emergency workers are currently ... trying to build temporary barriers to slow down the sludge before it reaches the Danube River. They will ...

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... presidential election was unlike any other, in a number of ways. There was the possibility of a female vice-president pitted against the possibility of an African-American president - both potential history-making moments. Voting turnouts broke some records, and with the election of Senator Barack Obama, the United States allowed a new era of American politics to be ushered in. And the way it all happened was revolutionary, too. The Internet has, it seems, forever ... YouTube is such an enormously popular website across a diverse demographic and because the new arrangement allowed for t...

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... to suit every need. Pandora, for example, is a new music application that allows users to essentially create their own radio stations. Surfing the stations for a good song just went out of style. Can't live without Facebook or Flickr? The iPhone caters to all you social butterflies, too. These social media sources and others are available right in the palm of your hand, so you can take your ... you where you want to go. Perhaps the only PC feature that an iPhone can't match (yet) is the ability to cut and paste data from one place to another. Apple acknowledges that the need to be able ...

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... 're about opening up rights and opening up opportunities. This is a contest of values" (MSNBC). Senator John McCain later agreed with Obama, stating on CBS' "Face the Nation," "The fact is we should honor every man and woman who is serving in the military and should in no way treat them with anything but the highest regard." However, he did add that the candidates were most likely caught off guard, which could ... have been the reason none of them acknowledged the audience's response. "I would bet that every Republican on stage ... ...

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... to our next congressman, David Weprin. It was an honor to have been considered. On to a big Democratic victory on Sept. 13" (Koplowitz). The Republican Party has not announced a nominee as of now, but they may not need to. The New York's 9th Congressional District, which Weiner represented for the past 13 years, covers Brooklyn and Queens. However, the New York lawmakers are trying to eliminate ... party has not picked a nominee yet, TV executive Bob Turner is the current frontrunner. He ran against Weiner in 2010. City Councilman Eric Ulrich dropped out of the running earlier this week...

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... . When Eisenhower sent troops to storm the beaches of Normandy, he knew full well that thousands were never coming home. What's more is that the men knew it too. Eisenhower was so unsure of his plan that he wrote two letters, one praising the valiant men who stormed the beaches in the event of success, the other taking full blame in case the offensive was defeated. The men knew what they were heading into, and they ... went anyhow; not for a chain of command, but because of complete trust in an inspired and inspiring ... ...

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... go shopping again, could easily run up a considerable amount of debt, having the opposite effect on the economy than that which is desired. The holiday season may be over, but our collective money troubles are, by all accounts, far from seeing a horizon. Although there are things the government can do to help bolster the economy, each of us in our private lives will just have to find ways to ... ride out the storm. And remember: we need to pinch pennies through the holiday season of 2009, there is more to the ... season than the gifts under the tree. Perhaps these are the best times to...

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... looking for part-time work because he drives a daily 60-mile round trip to work. There's no talk of a summer vacation this year. She's not alone. Whether a household has one or four members, the double-digit rate rise in the cost of groceries this year is eating up discretionary spending, boston.com writer Robert Gavin says. Milk prices averaged a 26 percent increase, he reports ... , and egg prices jumped 40 percent. Even an ordinary red apple costs over $1, and unanticipated low crop yields in the fall harvest will raise commodity prices. Gavin ... spend three times more on food than...

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... generate funds. Visa has also supported the charity, and the charity is also ready to accept donations. "The foundation assists high school physical education departments with the purchase of new equipment, facility improvement, and the sponsorship of sporting events," according to the official website of the foundation, http://www.bryanclay.com/clay/foundation. "It is also dedicated to supporting other organizations that promote the advancement of underprivileged youth." In various online interviews, Bryan Clay says ... still get big sponsorship deals as the new decathlon champion, Cla...

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... Egypt, vowed to temporarily forego their demonstrations in honor of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the Syrian army attacked the city of Hama, killing at least 113 people just one day before the month of fasting and prayer began. The army used primarily tanks to attack the citizens, resulting in one of the deadliest instances of violence since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. Inspired by the recent events in Tunisia and Egypt, Syrian citizens began a campaign ... than the previous ones," he said. "Hardships make us more resilient, conspiracies make us stronger, and pres...

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... profile for those who cause distracted driving fatalities are white, male, and younger than thirty years old. Interestingly, that is the same profile for those who are most likely to be texting (Hanes). To counter the increase in distracted driving fatalities, thirty states and Washington D.C. have now prohibited texting while driving. Eight states plus Washington D.C. have ... Other states ban the use of cell phones by new drivers (Breitbart). Despite these recent gains in the distracted driving, enforcement still tends to be too lax to make much of a difference (Hanes). Furthermore, L...

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... Love, began last week and has largely centered around the incriminating emails Huguely sent to Love before the incident stating, "I should have killed you." Huguely faces first-degree murder and five other charges if he is found guilty of killing Love (FOX News). Huguely entered Love's apartment in May of 2010, where he alleged bashed Love's head against the wall until she passed out and eventually died ... . The defense claims that Love's death resulted from cardiopulmonary failure after taking prescription Adderall and consuming alcohol. According ... ...

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... on Thursday, September 29th, Bank of America has received great backlash from the angered customers. In fact, Bank of America, which is the largest bank in America by deposits, saw its stock plummet 2 percent on Friday morning, adding to the 56 percent decrease the bank's stock has experienced this year. Shares are down 44 percent for the quarter. Additionally, the bank faces multibillion-dollar lawsuits and ... on cable news channels. Gerri Willis from the Fox Business Network personal shredded her own Bank of America debit card on air, claiming, "Right here, right now, I'm going to sho...

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