Two upstate New York men, one of them said to be a member of the Ku Klux Klan, plotted to build a truck-mounted, industrial-strength X-ray weapon to kill “enemies of Israel” by poisoning them with radiation, federal authorities said Wednesday.
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Fashion designers Dolce and Gabbana guilty of tax evasion in Italy
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Fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana were given a suspended jail sentence of one year and 8 months Wednesday after being found guilty of hiding $1.3 billion in income from tax authorities.
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HPV infections in teen girls fall by half
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Drop comes since HPV vaccine was introduced in 2006, despite high-profile controversy and low enrollment, study shows.
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Serena Williams causes stir over Steubenville comments
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Serena Williams says in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine that, while not blaming the victim in the Steubenville rape case, “she shouldn’t have put herself in that position.”
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Obama calls for cuts in US, world nukes
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In speech at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, president proposes reducing the American nuclear arsenal by as much as a third.
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The American Medical Association officially designated obesity as a disease on Tuesday – a disease that requires medical treatment and prevention.
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Disabled Ohio woman, daughter held captive in horrid conditions
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A cognitively disabled woman and her young daughter were held against their will in an Ohio home for more than two years, forced to perform manual labor, threatened by poisonous snakes, and beaten to scare them from ever escaping, authorities announced on Tuesday.
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NSA considers ending collection of data on Americans’ phone calls
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The National Security Agency is reviewing whether to stop collecting a vast stockpile of records of Americans’ telephone calls — the most controversial component of its surveillance programs— by allowing telecommunications companies to retain the data until U.S. intelligence officials have a specific reason to review it for possible connections to terror plots, U.S. officials said Tuesday
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Brazil cleans up after widespread protests overnight
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Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Tuesday sought to defuse a massive protest movement sweeping the country, acknowledging the need for better public services and more responsive governance at all levels.
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98-year-old charged with ‘unlawful execution, torture’ of Jews during World War II
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Prosecutors on Tuesday charged a 98-year-old who features on Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center’s wanted list with war crimes, saying he had helped to deport Jews to Auschwitz in World War II.
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A fortune in severed bear paws found being smuggled into China
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More than 200 bear paws were discovered being smuggled into China in the tires of a van, Chinese officials told local media.
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Women in combat: Could special ops be the next stop?
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The Pentagon has moved beyond merely talking about placing women into combat and is actively mapping how, when and where servicewomen eventually will be assigned to far more dangerous duties — including, perhaps, special forces operations, senior U.S. defense officials tell NBC News.
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Toddler maimed in lawn mower accident walks with new legs
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Wearing a superhero cape and her new prosthetics, dotted with Dora the Explorer stickers, two-year-old Ireland Nugent walks again after she was maimed by a lawnmower at her family’s home in Florida.
Source: TODAY.com
Photographer documents subway construction nine stories below Manhattan
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A project 90 years in the making had better be impressive, and the Metropolitan Transport Authority’s $4.5 billion Second Avenue Subway project does not disappoint.
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Natalie got an earful (of whoopee cushion) today.
Jony Ive redesigns the NBC News logo.
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