• Police: Muslims threw Christians overboard during Med voyage

    ROME (AP) — Italy's migration crisis took on a deadly new twist Thursday as police in Sicily reported that Muslim migrants had thrown 12 Christians overboard during a recent crossing from Libya, and an aid group said another 41 were feared drowned in a separate incident.

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  • Physicians want Dr. Oz gone from Columbia medical faculty

    NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University has not removed TV celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz from his faculty position as a group of top doctors has demanded, citing his "egregious lack of integrity" for promoting what they call "quack treatments."

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  • Third arrest made in videotaped rape on Florida spring break beach

    By Letitia Stein TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - A third man has been arrested in the gang rape of a woman who passed out on a north Florida beach, an incident captured on videotape and witnessed by scores of rowdy spring breakers, police said on Wednesday. The incident occurred in broad daylight last…

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  • The Made-Up Disease That Affects More People in Power Than You Think

    About 56 percent of congressional Republicans, according to the Center for American Progress Action Fund’s analysis of members of Congress who deny or question the science behind climate change. One scene in the video shows a man so oblivious of the drought that he’s canoeing—in an asphalt parking…

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    Holocaust Remembrance Day (29 photos)

    Israelis have come to a mournful, two-minute standstill as sirens pierced the air in remembrance of the 6 million Jews killed in the Nazi Holocaust during World War II. Israel's annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, marked Thursday, is one of the most solemn on the nation's calendar. As the siren…

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  • Polish man confesses to killing girl snatched in front of mother

    A Polish man has confessed to raping and killing a nine-year-old girl after snatching her from a French playground within view of her mother, in a crime that has shocked the country. France was left reeling from the crime in the northern city of Calais, where flags were lowered to half mast as…

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  • Police: 4th person dead in head-on crash on shortcut road

    NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — Police say a fourth person has died after a speeding car veered into oncoming lanes and crashed head-on into another vehicle on a shortcut between two Las Vegas-area freeways.

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  • Ohio Woman Learns She Works at the Same Company as Biological Mom She's Searched For

    A woman in Ohio reunited with her biological mother who has worked at the same company for the past four years, unbeknown to either of them.

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  • Arizona man gets 14 years in prison for abusing adopted daughters

    By David Schwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) - An Arizona man was sentenced on Thursday to 14 years in prison after pleading guilty to child abuse for beating and starving his adopted teen daughters, a court official said. Johann Glenn Jorg, 62, also was sentenced to lifetime probation by Judge Michael Kemp…

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  • Police: 5 adults found dead inside Phoenix home

    PHOENIX (AP) — Five adults were found dead inside a north Phoenix home after a shooting Thursday in a suspected dispute about the family's business, police said.

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  • Apple just publicly acknowledged the mess it made with its Watch release date

    Much has already been said on the fact that Apple’s Watch launch is basically a mess from a simple perspective: the company’s most important new product since the iPad debuted in 2010 will not be available in stores on the day Apple marked as the official release date. Many buyers who preordered…

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    Photos of the day - April 16, 2015 (23 photos)

    A homeless man sleeps outside shops with their shutter down New Delhi, India, a cleaning lady vacuums the red carpet as preparations are underway before Queen Margrethe is received at the City Hall, hosting a lunch reception on the occasion of her 75th birthday in Copenhagen, Denmark and a dancers…

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    Aaron Hernandez: What's Next for Ex-Patriots Star After Being Sentenced to Life in Prison

    After investigators started looking into Lloyd's murder, the probe into a then-unsolved shooting that left two men dead as they were leaving a Boston nightclub, according to police reports. Hernandez was indicted for the double murder in May 2014, ESPN reported. At the time, Suffolk County District…

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  • Indian village gets 'world's cheapest bottled water'

    Charity workers have teamed with an impoverished village in eastern India to develop what they say is the world's cheapest bottle of drinking water -- costing less than one US cent. After years of suffering illnesses from drinking polluted ground water, residents of Madusudankati are now receiving…

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  • Common heartburn drugs linked to kidney failure in the elderly

    By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) - Older patients taking drugs known as proton pump inhibitors, a common remedy for heartburn and acid reflux, are two times more likely to be hospitalized with kidney failure than peers who don't take the pills, a study finds. While the side effect is extremely…

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  • NBC and its networks miss out on Fallon hit

    NEW YORK (AP) — When Jimmy Fallon sought to turn the popular lip sync competition feature from the "Tonight" show into a television series, NBC turned down one of its biggest stars — a decision that at least initially seems like an embarrassing mistake.

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  • Military option on Iran 'intact' despite missiles: US

    The delivery of Russian S-300 air defense missiles to Iran will not affect America's ability to strike at Tehran's nuclear facilities if necessary, top US military officer said Thursday. "We've known about the potential for that system to be sold to Iran for several years and have accounted for it…

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