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Yahoo NewsGun advocates lash out at Tim McGraw over Sandy Hook benefit concert
Country music star Tim McGraw is taking heat from gun advocates after he agreed this week to headline a July 17 concert in Hartford, Conn., to benefit Sandy Hook Promise, a group that seeks to protect children from gun violence.
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Postage stamp to honor Maya Angelou has another writer's words
Maya Angelou may well be one of America’s greatest literary figures. But you’ll find someone else’s words on a postage stamp to be unveiled Tuesday by the U.S. Postal Service that honors the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.
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Video footage shows devastation of Boulder flooding
Residents in Boulder, Colo., share Vines of the flooding.
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String quartet plays Metallica for Romanian protesters
In a world filled with violent protests, a group of musicians who were part of a demonstration in the Romanian capital of Bucharest offered up a peaceful musical moment.
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The Silicon Valley tycoon who’s paying young people to skip college
After two years at Yale, Dan Friedman made the kind of decision that drives parents bonkers. He dropped out. “I loved school; I had a great time,” he says. But the Silicon Valley tycoon Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and now a venture capitalist, made Friedman an offer he couldn’t refuse.
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Demolition crews raze Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro's home
The Cleveland home where three women were held captive and brutally beaten and sexually abused for the past decade met its fate on Wednesday — a wrecking crew.
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Cleveland kidnapper gets life without parole, plus 1,000 years
Ariel Castro was sentenced to life without parole on the charge of aggravated murder Thursday and received multiple years on various other charges related to kidnap and rape that totaled 1,000 years.
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Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro to be sentenced Thursday
Ariel Castro, the man who kidnapped, raped, and beat three Cleveland women will find out his fate during a sentencing hearing Thursday morning, though it’s not much of a mystery where he’ll spend the rest of his life.
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Bradley Manning not guilty of aiding the enemy
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning has been acquitted of aiding the enemy by sharing classified documents with the web site WikiLeaks, but he was found guilty of lesser espionage charges.
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Cleveland kidnapper avoids death penalty with plea deal
In what might be the first act of mercy shown to his victims, the man charged with kidnapping, raping and beating three Cleveland, Ohio, women agreed to a plea deal on Friday that would spare the women the agony of reliving the horrific details of their years in captivity during a jury trial.
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Cleveland kidnapping suspect to appear at hearing; plea deal possible
The man accused of kidnapping three Cleveland women and repeatedly raping them will appear Friday in court and could agree to a plea bargain that would spare him the death penalty.
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Plea deal offered to Cleveland kidnapping suspect Ariel Castro, TV station reports
A plea deal has been offered to the man accused of kidnapping three Cleveland women and raping them repeatedly while he held them in captivity at his home during the past decade, according to a Cleveland TV station.
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A remote-controlled device to stop severe headache pain
A California biotechnology company's new device has been proven in European trials to relieve the severe pain suffered by patients with cluster headaches, also known as "suicide headaches." The same device could be used to help patients suffering with migraine headaches.