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Video: Panetta: 'Enhanced interrogation' included water boarding

Posted: 03 May 2011 03:47 PM PDT

May 3: In an interview with NBC's Brian Williams, CIA Director Leon Panetta confirms that the intelligence needed to find Osama bin Laden was gained, in part, by interrogation techniques that included water-boarding. (Nightly News)In an interview with NBC's Brian Williams, CIA Director Leon Panetta confirms that the intelligence needed to find Osama bin Laden was gained, in part, by interrogation techniques that included water-boarding. (Nightly News)




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Experts: Much bigger sea level rise likely

Posted: 03 May 2011 01:32 PM PDT

The Arctic is melting faster than expected and could contribute 2-3 feet more in global sea levels by 2100 than earlier thought, experts state in a new report.

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Southern twisters hit an economy already ailing

Posted: 03 May 2011 04:06 PM PDT

Lineman Derrick Heisz checks power poles in Pratt City, Ala., Tuesday, May 3, 2011. Utility companies are scrambling to restore services to the hard hit area before heavy rains arrive. The financial and economic toll is still being tallied, but officials in Alabama said the damage there alone could rival the $1 billion in insured losses the state suffered in Hurricane Katrina in 2005.




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Residents: Tense Tripoli 'ready to blow'

Posted: 03 May 2011 03:03 PM PDT

A young man sells flags symbolic of leader Moammar Gadhafi's 1969 coup in Tripoli's Green Square. Three months after a popular uprising here, residents say the situation is tense.With the uprising now in its third month, Tripoli remains under Gadhafi's control and he can count on a certain amount of popular support. But tension is simmering beneath the surface.




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PBT: Bulls' Rose, 22, is youngest MVP ever

Posted: 03 May 2011 02:30 PM PDT



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Posted: 03 May 2011 02:30 PM PDT

Sony declines to testify as $1 billion lawsuit filed

Posted: 03 May 2011 12:30 PM PDT

U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee is demanding answers from Sony and a Canadian law firm is filing a class-action lawsuit against the company after private information from some 102 million personal accounts was taken by hackers. U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee is demanding answers from Sony and a Canadian law firm is filing a class-action lawsuit against the company after private information from some 102 million personal accounts was taken by hackers.




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Video: Behind the walls of bin Laden's secretive compound

Posted: 03 May 2011 12:43 PM PDT

May 3: In Pakistan the bin Laden compound has become a focus for local curiosity seekers. He may have lived behind the walls there undetected for as long as six years. ITV's Bill Neely reports from Abbottabad. (Nightly News)In Pakistan the bin Laden compound has become a focus for local curiosity seekers. He may have lived behind the walls there undetected for as long as six years. ITV's Bill Neely reports from Abbottabad. (Nightly News)




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Compound could yield big intelligence harvest

Posted: 03 May 2011 12:58 PM PDT

A policeman stands guard outside the compound where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad on Monday."Thousands of documents" recovered from Osama bin Laden's compound could help the U.S. "destroy al-Qaida," U.S. officials said Tuesday.




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BP to pay $25 million over Alaska spills

Posted: 03 May 2011 03:39 PM PDT

A worker uses a rope mop to clean up oil in tundra grass from a leak from an oil transit line at the Prudhoe Bay oil field on Alaska's North Slope on Aug. 10, 2006. BP has agreed to pay a $25 million civil penalty plus interest to settle a federal investigation into two 2006 pipeline oil spills on Alaska's North Slope, the federal government announced on Tuesday.




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Young mom versus old mom: Which is really better?

Posted: 03 May 2011 09:47 AM PDT

When's the right time to start having kids? When you're young and energetic, or older and more established? One mom with a 14-year-old and a 14-month-old has done it both ways: Which does she think is better?When's the right time to start having kids? When you're young and energetic, or older and more established? One mom with a 14-year-old and a 14-month-old has done it both ways: Which does she think is better?




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TV ownership falls for the first time in 20 years

Posted: 03 May 2011 08:52 AM PDT

The number of households in the United States that own television sets is estimated to have declined for the first time in 20 years, according to forecast figures from the Nielsen Co that were released on Tuesday.

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PFT: Mendenhall deletes one of his tweets

Posted: 03 May 2011 01:13 PM PDT



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Luxury comes back with a vengeance

Posted: 03 May 2011 08:16 AM PDT

The outlook for the luxury goods market has improved significantly in recent months, boosted by a stronger-than-expected rebound in the United States and Europe and surging demand in China, consultancy Bain & Co said.

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Video: Army Corps blows up Mo. levee

Posted: 03 May 2011 10:53 AM PDT

May 3: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers explodes a large section of a Mississippi River levee in an attempt to protect the Illinois town of Cairo from rising floodwaters. Weatherchannel meteorologist Mike Seidel reports from Illinois.  (Other)The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers explodes a large section of a Mississippi River levee in an attempt to protect the Illinois town of Cairo from rising floodwaters. Weatherchannel meteorologist Mike Seidel reports from Illinois. (msnbc tv)




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Posted: 03 May 2011 10:53 AM PDT

Bin Laden death 'a gift' from dad, says 9/11 victim's son

Posted: 03 May 2011 01:07 PM PDT

Jake Meltzer, 13, was only 3 years old when his father, Stuart T. Meltzer, died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. He lives now with his mother, Lisa, 42, and brother, Dylan, 10, in Woodbury, Long Island, N.Y.A 13-year-old New York boy who lost his father in the 9/11 terror attacks still can't help believing that the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden was, in part, a bar mitzvah message from his dad.




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Bin Laden's neighbors noticed unusual things

Posted: 03 May 2011 01:20 PM PDT

Local people and news media gather round the compound and house, right, of Osama bin Laden as authorities eased the security and allowed people to approach the perimeter of the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on Tuesday, May 3. A U.S. military raid early Monday morning local time ended with the death of the al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and others inside the compound. Osama bin Laden and his family kept well hidden behind thick walls in this northwestern hill town they shared with thousands of Pakistani soldiers. But glimpses of their life are emerging.




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The humble pigeon soars into the spotlight

Posted: 03 May 2011 05:55 AM PDT

Pigeons are having their own moment in the sun these days, from helping scientists detect lead contamination to Mike Tyson's Animal Planet series. Fanciers have always known they were special birds though.

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Beauty queen blasts TSA over pat-down

Posted: 03 May 2011 12:04 PM PDT

Former Miss USA Susie Castillo said Tuesday that she recently posted an emotional video about an airport pat-down she received that she equates with being molested because she believes "there has to be a better way."

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