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Loose lips give ammunition to MSNBC foes

Since MSNBC is in the political ring, its opponents are always on the lookout for things to attack. Lately, NBC’s left-leaning cable news sister has offered plenty of ammunition.

Media sometimes try, fail to keep NSA’s secrets

News organizations publishing leaked National Security Agency documents have inadvertently disclosed the names of at least six intelligence workers and other government secrets they never intended to give away, an Associated Press review has found.

Justice Department applies same-sex rights to itself

In an assertion of same-sex marriage rights, Attorney General Eric Holder is applying a landmark Supreme Court ruling to the Justice Department, announcing Saturday that same-sex spouses cannot be compelled to testify against each other, should be eligible to file for bankruptcy jointly and are entitled to the same rights and privileges as federal prison inmates in opposite-sex marriages.

George Harrison’s sister recalls his visit pre-Beatlemania

Not long after settling in southern Illinois in 1963, an ocean from her native England, Louise Harrison Caldwell trudged from one radio station to the next lobbying for air time for her brother’s quartet. Revered in Britain, the group was virtually unknown in America — and her promotion fizzled.

Curiosity snaps its first photo of Earth from Mars

NASA has released a photo it says is the first photo of Earth the Curiosity rover has taken from Mars since it landed in Aug. 2012.

Target breach may have come through HVAC business

The hackers who stole millions of customers’ credit and debit card numbers from Target may have used a Pittsburgh-area heating and refrigeration business as the back door to get in.

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Woman charged with kidnapping baby found in Iowa

Federal prosecutors charged a Denver woman on Friday with kidnapping her half-sister’s newborn boy from a Wisconsin home hours after police discovered the infant in a storage crate outside an Iowa gas station, alive and well in single-digit weather.

800,000-year-old human footprints discovered in UK

Archaeologists announced Friday that they have discovered human footprints in England that are between 800,000 and 1 million years old.

Tennessee girl, 5, dies from being forced to drink soda

An East Tennessee couple faces a murder charge, accused of forcing the man’s 5-year-old daughter to drink more than 2 liters of grape soda and water, causing her brain to swell and rupture, authorities said.

School volunteer pays off delinquent lunch accounts for 60 kids

A volunteer at a Houston-area elementary school who noticed some students were getting a smaller lunch of cold cheese sandwiches is digging into his own pocket to cover $465 in delinquent meal accounts so all the kids can get the same full lunch tray.

Three held in violin heist including art thief, police say

The mystery of what happened to a multimillion-dollar Stradivarius violin stolen in a stun gun attack was answered Thursday when Milwaukee police recovered the instrument and blamed the heist at least in part on an art thief who once stole a statue from a gallery and then tried to sell it back.

 
‘Affluenza’ teen spared jail time for deadly wreck

A judge on Wednesday ordered a Texas teenager who was sentenced to 10 years’ probation in a drunken-driving crash that killed four people to go to a rehabilitation facility paid for by his parents.

 
Scathing UN report slams Vatican on sex abuse, abortion

The Vatican “systematically” adopted policies that allowed priests to rape and molest tens of thousands of children over decades, a U.N. human rights committee said Wednesday, urging the Holy See to open its files on pedophiles and bishops who concealed their crimes.

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