| Deportations dropped 10 percent last year Posted: 19 Dec 2013 03:23 PM PST  White House: Agents focused on removing undocumented immigrants with criminal records.
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| Theatergoer: "I started hearing noises, screaming" Posted: 19 Dec 2013 04:24 PM PST  American Scott Daniels was in the audience when London's Apollo Theatre partially collapsed.
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| Pa. man wins $1M Picasso with $138 raffle ticket Posted: 19 Dec 2013 04:01 PM PST  WEXFORD, Pa. (AP) — A man looking for art for his new home has won a $1 million Picasso painting with a $138 raffle ticket.
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| Study: HIV patients' life spans are approaching general population's Posted: 19 Dec 2013 11:25 AM PST  A study published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE found that people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) now have life spans approaching those of the general population.
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| Dozens injured in London theater collapse Posted: 19 Dec 2013 04:33 PM PST  More than 88 people including children among those wounded at packed West End show.
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| Life-sized Lego car runs on air; unfortunately, it's not for sale Posted: 19 Dec 2013 11:36 AM PST |
| New Mexico legalizes gay marriage Posted: 19 Dec 2013 10:35 AM PST  Joins 16 states and the District of Columbia in allowing gay marriage.
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| 40 million Target shoppers' data stolen: What should you do? Posted: 19 Dec 2013 01:16 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — With less than a week until Christmas, a real-life Grinch has stolen the credit and debit card information of about 40 million Target shoppers.
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| Dozens injured in theater collapse Posted: 19 Dec 2013 01:51 PM PST  A central London theater packed with about 700 people partially collapsed Thursday.
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| Skating champ Boitano says he's gay, headed to Sochi Olympics Posted: 19 Dec 2013 03:55 PM PST  Will join two other openly gay athletes in U.S. delegation to Sochi Olympics
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| London theater partially collapses Posted: 19 Dec 2013 01:15 PM PST  Several are injured after the Apollo theater in central London partially collapsed during a performance.
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| 20 to 40 injured in London theater collapse Posted: 19 Dec 2013 01:35 PM PST  Authorities say all trapped during partial collapse have been freed.
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| End of an era for Cuba's vintage autos Posted: 19 Dec 2013 11:50 AM PST  Cuba announced Thursday it will ease restrictions on car imports for the first time in half a century, marking the end of an era that made icons of the island's vintage automobiles. The official newspaper Granma said the decision to allow cars to be imported for sale at market prices on the island was taken Wednesday by Cuba's council of ministers. Granma acknowledged the so-called "letters of authorization" issued by the transport ministry had generated "resentment, dissatisfaction and, in not a few cases ... (were) a source of speculation and enrichment." Opening Cuba's domestic car market to imports is likely to have fateful consequences for the lovingly maintained 1950s Chevys, Fords and Pontiacs that have survived a 50-year-old US embargo.
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| Almost 90 hurt as ceiling collapses at London theatre Posted: 19 Dec 2013 03:35 PM PST  By Belinda Goldsmith LONDON (Reuters) - Emergency services said nearly 90 people were injured on Thursday when part of the ceiling collapsed during a performance at a packed London theatre, bringing the city's West End entertainment district to a standstill. Emergency services said 88 people were injured. They described 81 as "walking wounded", many with head injuries, while seven others were taken to hospital with more serious injuries. Nick Harding from London Fire Brigade said a section of ornate plaster ceiling, measuring about 10 meters (33 feet) by 10 meters, had fallen onto the audience watching the evening show.
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| New bill would slap sanctions on Iran if nuke terms broken Posted: 19 Dec 2013 01:14 PM PST  By Patricia Zengerle and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Despite opposition from the Obama administration, 26 U.S. senators introduced legislation on Thursday to impose new sanctions on Iran if the country breaks an interim deal under which Tehran agreed to curb its nuclear program. It will be weeks at the earliest before the bill comes to a vote in the 100-member Senate, if it gets that far, given staunch opposition by President Barack Obama's administration and many of its supporters in Congress. Democrats Robert Menendez, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Charles Schumer, the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate, and Republican Senator Mark Kirk, along with 23 others, introduced the bill intended to choke off funding to Iran's nuclear program by cutting off its oil sales.
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| 'O Holy' sight at a Boston museum Posted: 19 Dec 2013 08:18 AM PST  Nearly 50 music students surprise an unsuspecting audience.
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| Putin to pardon bitter Kremlin critic Posted: 19 Dec 2013 01:36 PM PST  President Vladimir Putin announced Thursday that he would pardon ex-oil tycoon and bitter Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a move that should see Russia's most famous prisoner freed after more than a decade behind bars. The shock announcement could finally draw the curtain on the most notorious legal case in post-Soviet Russian history and came as Russia comes under even greater international scrutiny in the run-up to the Winter Olympic Games in February. Khodorkovsky's imprisonment on embezzlement and fraud convictions in jails including a Siberian penal colony has dented Russia's investment climate and become a symbol of the erosion of human rights under Putin. Putin revealed after his marathon annual news conference that Khodorkovsky, 50, had for the first time written a request for a pardon, citing humanitarian circumstances as his mother is ill.
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| Man who shot unarmed woman on porch faces murder trial Posted: 19 Dec 2013 12:32 PM PST  DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) — A Detroit-area man who fatally shot a drunk, unarmed woman on his porch will stand trial for second-degree murder, a judge said Thursday, rejecting a self-defense argument for the killer's "bad choice."
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| Report: Fired nuke general misbehaved in Russia Posted: 19 Dec 2013 04:34 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force general who was fired from command of U.S. land-based nuclear missile forces had engaged in "inappropriate behavior" while on official business in Russia last summer, including heavy drinking, rudeness to his hosts and associating with "suspect" women, according to an investigation report released Thursday.
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| After 10 years in jail, Khodorkovsky eyes freedom Posted: 19 Dec 2013 09:29 AM PST  MOSCOW (AP) — It was arguably Russian President Vladimir Putin's biggest political decision of the year — the announcement that imprisoned tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky will be pardoned. Here's a look at Khodorkovsky, the implications of his imprisonment and his impending release:
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| NSA debate shifts in favor of surveillance limits Posted: 19 Dec 2013 03:14 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a sharp and unexpected shift, the national debate over U.S. government surveillance seems to be turning in favor of reining in the National Security Agency's expansive spying powers at home and abroad.
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| A mistreated maid? Or a profound insult? Posted: 19 Dec 2013 08:04 AM PST  NEW DELHI (AP) — In New York, it looked like a straightforward case: an obscure young diplomat at the Indian consulate was accused of lying on visa forms so she could bring her maid to the U.S., paying her less than $3 an hour. The diplomat was arrested, processed through the legal system like anyone else and quickly freed on bail.
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| Vegan leather, faux fur are hot holiday gifts Posted: 19 Dec 2013 04:34 PM PST  ATLANTA (AP) — Finding a knockoff version of the fur you want under the Christmas tree would ordinarily be a disappointment.
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| 'Duck Dynasty' fans react to Robertson's hiatus Posted: 19 Dec 2013 04:55 PM PST  LOS ANGELES (AP) — When the A&E network suspended "Duck Dynasty" patriarch Phil Robertson for disparaging gay people, it may have followed a time-honored TV tradition of quickly silencing a star who, for better or worse, speaks his mind. But in doing so it also ruffled the feathers of possibly millions of fans of its most popular show.
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| Over 80 injured in partial London theater collapse Posted: 19 Dec 2013 03:28 PM PST  LONDON (AP) — The ceiling of a London theater partially collapsed Thursday night, showering a packed audience with heaps of plaster, wood and dust. More than 80 people were injured — at least seven seriously — and several trapped theater-goers had to be rescued, authorities said.
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| Obama commutes sentences for 8 drug convictions Posted: 19 Dec 2013 04:31 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Thursday commuted the sentences of eight people he said were serving unduly harsh drug sentences in the most expansive use yet of his power to free inmates. |
| Pa. pastor defrocked after performing gay wedding Posted: 19 Dec 2013 03:48 PM PST  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The United Methodist church defrocked a pastor from central Pennsylvania on Thursday for violating doctrine by officiating his son's gay marriage, leaving the minister shocked and upset that he could be punished for an "act of love."
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| India: 3 UN peacekeepers dead in South Sudan Posted: 19 Dec 2013 04:51 PM PST  JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Less than three years after its creation, the world's newest country is beginning to fracture along ethnic lines in violence that has killed hundreds of people, including three U.N. peacekeepers. What could come next, some warn, is ethnic cleansing.
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| New Mexico legalizes same-sex marriage Posted: 19 Dec 2013 04:51 PM PST  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico became the latest state to legalize gay marriage Thursday as its highest court declared it is unconstitutional to deny marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples.
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| Target: 40M card accounts may be breached Posted: 19 Dec 2013 12:40 PM PST  Target is grappling with a data security nightmare that threatens to drive off holiday shoppers during the company's busiest time of year.
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| Kate and Harry royally hacked by U.K. newspaper Posted: 19 Dec 2013 03:45 AM PST  Rupert Murdoch's 'News of the World' intercepted Kate and Harry's voicemails, prosecutors alleged in a London court on Thursday.
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