Nation & World

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July 12, 2012

New recordings show Zimmerman’s many police calls

Ex-neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman called police at least six times in the months before he shot Trayvon Martin to death.
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July 12, 2012

Inquiry: Penn St. officials concealed sex abuse

Joe Paterno and other Penn State officials hushed up child sex-abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky for fear of bad publicity, according to a scathing report issued by the former FBI director on Thursday.
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July 12, 2012

Potent form of common illness killing hundreds in Asia

They sometimes suffer high fever, brain swelling, paralysis and respiratory shutdown, even though they may have been infected by people with few or no symptoms.
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July 12, 2012

Biden tells NAACP Obama stands by convictions

The vice president details differences between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney on health care, education, energy, women's rights and research.
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July 12, 2012

Philip L. Fradkin, 77, well-respected environmental writer

Philip L. Fradkin, a native New Yorker whose fascination with the West turned him into an astute chronicler of the region’s history and environmental legacy in books on such topics as the great San Francisco earthquake, nuclear test fallout in Nevada and the survival of the Colorado River, died Saturday at his home in Point […]

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July 12, 2012

Protest targets altered bodies in Teen Vogue

NEW YORK – Days after a campaign led by a 14-year-old Maine girl secured a promise from Seventeen magazine not to alter body shapes in photographs, more teens protested against Teen Vogue on Wednesday with “Keep it Real” signs and a makeshift red carpet. About half a dozen girls high-fived each other as they walked […]
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July 12, 2012

House votes against health care, again

The GOP's 33rd attempt in 18 months in the House faces certain doom in the Democrat-controlled Senate.
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July 12, 2012

Another moon found around Pluto

The smallest of five moons discovered so far, it is estimated to be between 6 and 15 miles across.
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July 12, 2012

Despite great wealth, drugs took over London couple’s lives

Eva Rausing is dead at 48 and her heir-to-a-fortune spouse is hospitalized after their lifestyle took its toll.
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July 12, 2012

Stakes huge in Alzheimer’s drug tests

Results of three promising drugs will be known this year. If all fail, drug firms may give up the search.