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Frustrated Obama: ‘No excuse’ for health care computer problems

President Barack Obama on Monday offered “no excuses” — and little explanation — for the computer bugs still frustrating Americans who are trying to enroll online for insurance plans at the center of his health care law.

Thieves posing as truckers drive off with valuable cargo

To steal huge shipments of valuable cargo, thieves are turning to a deceptively simple tactic: They pose as truckers, load the freight onto their own tractor-trailers and drive away with it.

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Jets fan punches woman in the face, caught on video

New Jersey police say they are looking into a video that appears to show a New York Jets fan punching a female Patriots fan in the face at MetLife Stadium.

Boy Scouts remove 2 men who toppled ancient rock

Two Utah men have been stripped of their positions as Boy Scout leaders after they posted a video of themselves purposely toppling an ancient rock formation in a state park.

Photo released of abduction suspects with blond ‘Gypsy’ girl

Greek police released photographs of a couple charged with abducting a girl and judicial authorities put the pair in pre-trial custody Monday as an international search for the child’s parents intensified.

Kenyan soldiers shown looting mall in security video

Men in fatigues walked out of a store in Nairobi’s Westgate Mall like ordinary shoppers, holding plastic bags heavy with unknown items after Islamic extremists staged an attack. Others looked behind counters as they descended into the shopping center to fight the militants, and lifted items.

Filipino sultan who invaded Malaysian region dies

A Philippine sultan whose armed followers invaded a vast Malaysian region, sparking a security crisis that left dozens of people dead earlier this year, died Sunday of multiple organ failure. He was 75.

 
Argentine commuter train slams into station, 80 hurt

An Argentine commuter train slammed into the end of the line Saturday morning at the same station in Buenos Aires where 52 people were killed in a similar crash last year. This time there was no immediate report of deaths, but at least 80 people were injured.

Neglected old Australian woman suffers brutal fate

By the time the ambulance showed up to the house, the old woman’s screams were, as the paramedics would later tell it, already at a 10 out of 10.

In life and especially in death, JFK changed TV

It’s a measure of how long ago President John F. Kennedy died that, at the time, television was described as a young medium. With the shooting in Dallas, TV grew up.