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'Wallendas are still here': Acrobats fly again

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 03:00 PM PDT

High-wire acrobats Delilah Wallenda, right, lowers her head as her son Nik Wallenda, left, crosses over her during their high-wire act where the two simultaneously walked across a 300-foot-long wire suspended 100 feet in the air in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Saturday. Two members of a famed acrobatic family commemorated patriarch Karl Wallenda on Saturday by completing the stunt that killed him, walking between two towers of a seaside hotel on a wire 100 feet (31 meters) above the ground, without a net.




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Analysis: Obama's job security about job creation

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 04:12 PM PDT

President Barack Obama cannot escape one giant vulnerability as he bids to keep his job: There are millions of voters who still don't have one.

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Posted: 04 Jun 2011 04:12 PM PDT

Huntsman says he would likely skip Iowa caucuses

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 10:11 AM PDT

Former Republican Gov. Jon Huntsman, Jr., of Utah, right, talks presidential hopeful former Gov. Gary Johnson of New Mexico on Friday.Potential Republican presidential contender Jon Huntsman says it's unlikely that he'll compete in Iowa's lead-off caucuses because he doesn't support the ethanol subsidies that many Iowa voters see as a way of life and a deal-breaker.




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Rare sight in London: Prince William on horseback

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 10:37 AM PDT

Prince William rides to attend the Colonel's Review in Horse Guards Parade on June 4, 2011 in London, England. The Colonel's Review is the second rehearsal for Trooping the Colour, the annual ceremony which commemorates the Queen's official birthday. People near Buckingham Palace on Saturday might have missed the prince, who took part in rehearsals for next week's Trooping the Colour, because his well-known face was obscured by a traditional tall bearskin hat.




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Video: Kashmiri the terror network's 'operational chief'

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 07:51 AM PDT

June 4: Top al-Qaida operative Ilyas Kashmiri has reportedly been killed in a drone strike. Kashmiri is widely considered to be a possible replacement to Osama bin-Laden as the terrorist group's next commander. (Other)Top al-Qaida operative Ilyas Kashmiri has reportedly been killed in a drone strike. Kashmiri is widely considered to be a possible replacement to Osama bin-Laden as the terrorist group's next commander. (msnbc tv)




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Video: Could helicopters deal 'finishing blow' to Gadhafi?

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 07:18 AM PDT

June 4: NATO is deploying attack helicopters in the assault on Libyan forces for the first time since the military offensive began earlier this year. Ret. Col. Jack Jacobs joins msnbc with a look at the new strategy. (Other)NATO is deploying attack helicopters in the assault on Libyan forces for the first time since the military offensive began earlier this year. Ret. Col. Jack Jacobs joins msnbc with a look at the new strategy. (msnbc tv)




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NJ park reopens day after Ferris wheel death

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 12:05 PM PDT

The Ferris wheel at Morey's Mariner's Landing Pier on the Boardwalk in Wildwood, N.J., where an 11-year-old girl on a school field trip died Friday.A New Jersey amusement park where a girl fell to her death Friday has reopened.




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Palestinians storm shut Egypt crossing: witnesses

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 03:56 AM PDT

Egypt shut its border crossing with Gaza on Saturday for the first time since opening it on a routine basis last month, and angry Palestinians stormed the gates in protest, Hamas officials and witnesses said.

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2012 Republican hopefuls court religious right

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 09:21 AM PDT

Possible 2012 presidential hopeful, former Republican Gov. Jon Huntsman, Jr., of Utah, right, talks presidential hopeful former Gov. Gary Johnson of New Mexico in June 3, 2011 in Laconia, N.H.A gathering of religious conservatives drew nearly all the GOP presidential hopefuls to a single stage, a claim that a South Carolina debate and a well-publicized forum in New Hampshire couldn't make about their recent events.




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Ex-Secretary of State Eagleburger dies

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 08:56 AM PDT

Lawrence Eagleburger, former U.S. Secretary of State.Friends and former colleagues say Lawrence S. Eagleburger, the only career foreign service officer to rise to the position of secretary of state, has died.




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Posted: 04 Jun 2011 08:56 AM PDT

Li's French Open win a first for Chinese players

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 12:51 PM PDT

The runner-up in this year's Australian Open, China's Li Na bettered that finish by earning the women's championship at the French Open with a 6-4, 7-6 (0) victory over Italy's Francesca Schiavone and becoming the first Asian woman to win a Grand Slam singles title.




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NM boy, 9, becomes youngest to fly balloon solo

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 06:45 AM PDT

Bobby Bradley became the youngest trained pilot to fly solo in a hot air balloon early Saturday morning in Tome, N.M.A 9-year-old boy has lifted off from a desolate patch of central New Mexico and floated into history.




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German restaurant a clue in E. coli outbreak?

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 06:37 AM PDT

Vegetables are offered at a greengrocer's shop in Hamburg, June 3, 2011.German scientists are looking for clues about the source of the killer E. coli food bug in a restaurant in the northern German town of Luebeck after 17 people fell ill after eating there, a newspaper reported on Saturday.




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US strike kills top al-Qaida militant in Pakistan

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 02:59 PM PDT

Senior al-Qaida operative Ilyas Kashmiri, regarded as one of the world's most dangerous militants, has been killed by a U.S. drone strike, Pakistani intelligence officials and a militant group confirmed Saturday.

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Yemen president arrives in Saudi Arabia

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 04:20 PM PDT

Yemeni citizens fled the capital Sanaa on Saturday after an attack on the presidential palace that left President Ali Abdullah Saleh, above, slightly injured.Yemen's president arrives in the Saudi capital Sunday for treatment a day after Saudi King Abdullah announced that he had mediated a cease-fire to end deadly street battles.




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Tennis.com: Veterans set for women's final

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 11:13 AM PDT

Italy's Francesca Schiavone (left) and China's Li Na have split their four career meetings leading up to the 2011 French Open championship match.Tennis.com: With 30-year-old defending champion Francesca Schiavone and 29-year-old Australian Open runner-up Li Na battling in the final, don't expect either player to crumble under the pressure of contending for the French Open crown.




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Fury over Malaysia cops cattle-branding women

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 02:01 AM PDT

Malaysian lawyers, politicians and activists lambasted the police Saturday, accusing them of abusing their power in chaining up and marking the bodies of women detained for alleged prostitution.

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Tiananmen anniversary brings new China detentions

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 07:15 AM PDT

Tens of thousands of people attend a candlelight vigil at Hong Kong's Victoria Park Saturday, June 4, 2011, to mark the 22nd anniversary of the June 4th Chinese military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Beijing. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)Chinese security forces rounded up more government critics ahead of Saturday's anniversary of the crushing of the 1989 pro-democracy movement centered on Beijing's Tiananmen Square, adding to an already harsh crackdown on dissent, activists said.




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