Argentine train slams into busy station during morning commute, killing 49 and injuring 100s

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The Academy Awards have their critics, of course, but being nominated for an Oscar is the pinnacle of the acting profession. The added prestige, power and salary a nomination brings make it hard to remember and imagine an actor's early roles. But we all have to start somewhere -- usually at the bottom. Here are some of this year's nominees'

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The fate of accused murderer George Huguely V is in the hands of a Charlottesville, Va. jury that began deliberations this morning. Two female alternate jurors were dismissed by the judge after being chosen at random, leaving a final jury made up of five women and seven men.

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17 wounded as Afghan police fire at anti-US protesters angry over Quran burning.

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Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has corrected misinformation regarding her investigation into the medical mystery in an upstate New York town where a group of teenagers has displayed symptoms similar to Tourette syndrome, saying that her research is still preliminary.

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Meredith Lowell, a Cleveland Heights, Ohio animal activist, is being charged with solicitation to commit murder. Lowell told an undervover FBI agent over Facebook that she would pay for someone wearing fur to be murdered outside of a library.

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An American and a French journalist were killed in the central Syrian city of Homs on Wednesday, the nineteenth day of intense shelling by the forces of President Bashar al-Assad bent on quashing a growing opposition. The deaths of American Marie Colvin and Frechman Remi Ochlik were confirmed by French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe. They come less

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The Arctic cold is over for now, but that does not mean the Balkan weather problems are over. In fact, if the weather gets too warm to fast, the troubles may only be beginning. Already hundreds of boats and barges have been crushed by cascading ice on the Danube and fears are growing that a thaw accompanied by spring rains will cause massive

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When most people think of the Girl Scouts – especially this time of year at cookie time – they think of Thin Mints and Samoas, of campfires and green uniforms, but one Indiana Republican sees something vastly different: a “radicalized” abortion rights group that is...

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