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Aug 20
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Best Buy has appointed a new CEO, Hubert Joly, to lead the beleaguered electronics retailer. Interim CEO Mike Mikan, who has led Best Buy since former chief executive Brian Dunn resigned following an inappropriate relationship with a female employee, will continue to serve on the......
Today in Pictures: Aug. 20, 2012
Obama Crashes First-Ever Kids' State Dinner
Legendary comedian Phyllis Diller has died at the age of 95, her manager confirmed to ABC News. TMZ reported that Diller’s health has been on the decline since a recent fall, in which she injured her wrist and hip. The website said she had been...
Autopsy: Death of man shot in head while hands cuffed in Arkansas patrol car was suicide
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Aug 20
|14:41
The father of a recent high-school graduate who has been denied a diploma because she said 'hell' in her valedictorian speech accused her Oklahoma principal of bullying his daughter.
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Read more: Valedictorian Denied Diploma After Using 'Hell' in Her Speech
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Aug 20
|14:34
The father of a recent high-school graduate who has been denied a diploma because she said 'hell' in her valedictorian speech accused her Oklahoma principal of bullying his daughter.
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Read more: Valedictorian Denied Diploma After 'Hell' of a Speech
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Aug 20
|14:28
Dry conditions have worsened in the key farming states of Kansas and Nebraska as the worst U.S. drought in decades continues, the latest national report....
Read more: Photos: Ranchers, Farmers Suffer in Severe Drought
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Aug 20
|14:15
A team of Marine biologists at Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station led by Professor Barbara Block has deployed a solar-powered, self-propelled robot off the coast of San Francisco that listens and follows White Sharks. You can listen to the sharks it sees via an app for the iPhone and iPad. ...
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Aug 20
|14:05
When you're traveling, the only thing better than finding a nontouristy restaurant that serves amazing local delicacies is having a local chef teach you how to prepare those dishes yourself. These cooking classes come with high ratings from TripAdvisor travelers. ...
Last night as Diana Nyad, 62, continued her attempt to become the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage "all hell broke loose," according to her team's blog.
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Aug 20
|13:53
A team of Marine biologists at Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station led by Professor Barbara Block has deployed a solar-powered, self-propelled robot off the coast of San Francisco that listens and follows White Sharks. You can listen to the sharks it sees via an app for the iPhone and iPad. ...
It’s taken 8 months and 22 days — and 59 guest hosts — but the decision we’ve all been waiting for is finally here. “Live! With Kelly” has announced that the show has hired a permanent co-host to replace television giant Regis Philbin, who retired...
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Aug 20
|13:10
By DR. SHARI BARNETT and DR. SWATI SHROFF “Honey, get me a beer,” might be said more by women than previously thought. A study presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association on Saturday found that married women drink more than previously married......
The Augusta National Golf Club, home of the Masters, admits women for the first time ever. Condoleezza Rice and Darla Moore are the club's first two women members.
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Aug 20
|12:58
The man who shot and killed John Lennon in 1980 has spent more than half his life in prison, growing from an overweight, glasses-wearing suicidal young man to a balding, middle-aged Christian pleading for parole. Mark David Chapman, who was 25 when he killed the......
If you’re on the tall side, the view from the the cheap seats may be blocked by your knees on your next airline flight. In an effort to generate more revenue, some airlines are cutting even further into available leg room to cram more seats...
If you thought that perhaps Taylor Swift and Conor Kennedy were just pals and weren’t actually dating, think again. Photos have now surfaced of the two smooching up a storm. The New York Daily News has the photos, which it says were taken in...More Articles...
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