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WASHINGTON - Paul D. Ryan , Republican of Wisconsin , was elected speaker of the House Thursday and proceeded to declare the institution he now leads `` broken '' and in need of reform .
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They created a Facebook page and posted videos to YouTube .
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WASHINGTON -- The United States is cracking down on the sale and purchase of ivory in hopes of curbing a surge in illicit poaching that 's threatening to wipe out elephants and other species in Africa .
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The scientists were initially skeptical about what they would find on the construction site near the new Sprouts Farmers Market less than 100 yards from busy Matlock Road .
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The Patriots also were fined $ 1 million -- equaling the largest in league history -- and stripped of their first-round draft pick next year and a fourth-round selection in 2017 .
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Yet only in recent years has the significance of Twain 's time in the Mother Lode come into sharper relief , in particular the transformative role the friendships he developed here played in his decision to abandon youthful dreams of a career piloting paddleboats down the mighty Mississippi River and instead `` excite ...
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How about a Lottie astronomer doll complete with a telescope , tripod and fact sheet about notable women stargazers , or a fossil hunter armed with a magnifying glass , geology hammer and ammonite fossils ?
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Local shop owner Cindy Skeen said she often sees black bears around her house , finding them more mischievous than menacing .
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But if monotonously sunny weather continues to curse the state , the pain of water shortages will spread , albeit unevenly .
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With more than $ 40,000 in sales in three years , Grayson is looking to expand and hire people to make his paracord products .
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On another day , the same volunteers swigged a `` placebo '' energy drink that had the same taste , texture and nutrients as Rockstar but none of the caffeine , taurine or other stimulants .
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`` There 's to be no outbursts upon the reading of the verdict or afterwards , '' Judge Debra S. Nelson warned the packed courtroom in Seminole County awaiting the verdict from the jury of six women who began deliberating on Friday and worked a 13-hour day Saturday .
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On Saturday , Asiana Flight 214 from Seoul , South Korea , crashed after touching down on Runway 28 , killing at least two passengers and injuring dozens of others .
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Ancient Egyptians may have been concocting complex and effective mixtures to preserve their dead as far back as 4300 B.C. , new evidence suggests .
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Few people realize , he said , that the hollowed-out crater where lava was flowing just a few years ago now holds the world 's youngest glacier .
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The organism responsible , Naegleria fowleri , dwells in warm freshwater lakes and rivers and usually targets children and young adults .
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Women are bound by strict rules when it comes to their attire , so they can not be seen by men while jogging in sweat pants , much less wearing fitted or revealing shorts .
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The University of Washington 's Burke Museum has been transferring and cataloging 2 million pairs of otoliths , representing some 80 species .
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John Jastremski and Jim McNally , the equipment staffers , were suspended indefinitely .
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`` Spider-Man '' and `` Star Wars '' stamps vastly outsell those commemorating the Civil War , insects and spiders , and Pacific Coast lighthouses .
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The pieces consist of animal bones , mostly skulls , into which Borders has engraved and inked complex designs of lines and dots that resemble traditional mehndi tattoos .
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WASHINGTON -- Jackie Nussbaum knew her son liked playing DragonVale on the family iPad -- a colorful game with soothing music and chirping birds where kids raise adorable baby dragons .
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Back in his hometown , he 's broadened the menu at Limba beyond Thai .
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LOS ANGELES -- When Alisha Chen first got into real estate 10 years ago , she did n't really plan on becoming a gatekeeper for a global housing market .
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The lack of any tangible clue to its fate was eerie , unsettling , bizarre -- a real-world echo of the TV show `` Lost '' and the wayward-jetliner mystery at the heart of its story .
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He also referred to `` the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners , '' saying he dreamed they would `` meet at the table of brotherhood . ''
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The Grammy Award-winning jazz singer and bassist said the variety of musicians who have performed at the White House conveys a message of inclusion at what the Obamas have long touted as the `` People 's House . ''
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The 2015 seaweed invasion appears to be a bumper crop , with a number of shorelines so severely hit that some tourists have canceled summer trips and lawmakers on Tobago have termed it a `` natural disaster . ''
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NEW YORK -- Characterizing their meeting with the NFL about their disapproval of the use of Redskins by the Washington franchise as disappointing , representatives of the Oneida Indian Nation requested a meeting with all 32 NFL owners during Super Bowl week .
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Experts even recreated stalactites and stalagmites from the original site , as well as the cool temperatures and thick smell of humidity .
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It expands the academy 's longstanding recommendations on banning televisions from children 's and teens ' bedrooms and limiting entertainment screen time to no more than two hours daily .
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San Francisco 's Fisherman 's Wharf typically bustles this time of year as workers prepare to haul in millions of pounds of Dungeness crab that are a tradition at Thanksgiving and other holiday meals .
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Once numbering in the millions , Africa 's elephant population has dwindled to 500,000 or less , said Dan Ashe , the director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service .
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So precious was that newfound freedom that on Nov. 24 he applied for asylum in the United States , joining a surge of Iraqis seeking asylum since the extremist Islamic State group 's rise .
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Results from the 2012 Program of International Student Assessment showed that U.S. teenagers were in the bottom half for financial literacy among the 18 countries that participated , ahead of France and Spain , but below Latvia , Russia and China .
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Scientists launched the mission to better study the makings of comets , which they believe date back to the earliest days of the solar system , in hopes of learning more about their history .
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An editorial in the state media China Daily charged , however , that Washington `` is turning a blind eye to Tokyo 's provocations , '' calling that the `` root cause of the tensions . ''
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`` For the first time in history , states recommended by consensus that an international treaty be negotiated to address the urgent crisis of biodiversity loss on the high seas , '' says Daniela Diz , a marine policy expert at WWF -LRB- World Wildlife Fund -RRB- , who sat in on the consultations , `` It 's an important...
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LOS ANGELES -- Seventy feet below Wilshire Boulevard , catercorner from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art 's street-lamp installation , fresh air roaring from giant ventilation pipes dulled the sickly sweet smell of petroleum .
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Bagu 's husband called EcoSolutions , a company with a `` Ghostbusters '' - style relocation service .
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Army spokesman Gen. Asim Saleem Bajwa said the detained men attacked Yousafzai , then 15 , on orders from Mullah Fazlullah , the head of the Pakistani Taliban .
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Tom Brady has been an NFL golden boy , with movie-star looks , a supermodel wife , four Super Bowl championship rings , and a regular-guy-makes-good back story -- he went from being a sixth-round draft pick to one of the greatest quarterbacks in league history .
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Five years ago , students were scolded with 74,765 days of suspension ; last year , they received 8,351 , an 89 percent decrease .
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Beaver dams benefit the environment in ways that humans ca n't easily copy .
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They are sitting on ergonomic swivel chairs in front of computer screens and tapping away at keyboards and mouses as they try to kill rival factions on the military sci-fi strategy game StarCraft .
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Where this and the other rocky planets now orbit there may have first been a previous generation of worlds destined to be bigger , gas-shrouded , utterly uninhabitable orbs .
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`` You can not charge consumers for purchases they did not authorize , '' said Edith Ramirez , the commission chairwoman .
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Every high school senior in Tech Connect has gone on to attend college -- a great feat , especially considering that 62 percent of adults in Cutler-Orosi do n't have a high school diploma , compared to 32 percent throughout Tulare County , according to a 2013 survey .
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While she wanted to help , her husband worried they may be arrested or lose their land if they gave aid to the dozens of travelers , many of them desperate and dehydrated , and some nearly crippled by enormous blisters on the bottoms of their feet .
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Now , 39 states and Puerto Rico have tax incentives of one kind or another , all aimed at the film and television industries , according to the National Conference of State Legislatures .
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ISLAMABAD , Pakistan -- Pakistan 's army said Friday that it has arrested 10 militants suspected of involvement in the 2012 attack on teenage activist Malala Yousafzai , who won world acclaim after she was shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating gender equality and education for women .
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This season , Mask is taking his players ' online personas so seriously that he 's assigning an assistant to monitor their accounts .
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WASHINGTON -- Next up for `` Let 's Move ? ''
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Most of us have experienced writer 's block at some point , sitting down to write , paint or compose only to find we ca n't get the creative juices flowing .
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CARMEL VALLEY , Calif. -- High above the Big Sur coast , Ian Faloona is finding pollution on the edge of the continent , a place that should have some of the country 's cleanest air .
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WASHINGTON -- Army Capt. Brian Dowling was leading his Special Forces team through a steep mountain pass in eastern Afghanistan when insurgents ambushed his patrol , leaving two of his soldiers pinned down with life-threatening wounds .
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Surrounded by cornfields and Husker football fans , they stare at their phones and wait for news from northern Iraq , as if connected to their kin by a psychic tether .
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From an astronomical observatory on Chews Ridge in the Santa Lucia Mountains , the University of California , Davis atmospheric scientist has for the last three years measured ozone , the lung-damaging gas in smog , as it arrives to California .
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The children like to take an extra minute near the stop to peek inside the free-standing blue and white box full of books , some of them grabbing a book to go .
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Thinking of being in the sky brought the 17-year-old some respite .
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A team of cardiovascular researchers at the esteemed clinic in Rochester , Minn. , reported that a single can of Rockstar energy drink can boost your blood pressure and cause the fight-or-flight hormone norepinephrine to increase in just 30 minutes .
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A new study on snakebite rates in Costa Rica has found that the bite rate shoots up during El Nino -- at both the hot and cold parts of the cycle -- and that the problem disproportionately affects poor , rural populations .
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That 's why there was cause for celebration a few weeks ago when , after a decade of hair-pulling discussions , national representatives at the United Nations finally agreed that the high seas need protection .
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Years later , Borders still is collecting bones and curiosities , only now they are his canvas for intricate designs and hang in galleries where they sell for hundreds and thousands of dollars each .
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`` Today , a younger generation deserves to come to the fore , one with new energy , willing to tackle with determination the transformations and reforms that the current situation demands , '' he said .
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The passage is , of course , the literary skeleton of what down-on-his-luck Samuel Clemens would transform into literary gold , a wildly improbable story originally called Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog , '' which introduced much of the 19th-century world to Mark Twain .
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Let other octogenarians take it easy .
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Population estimates are eagerly watched by state officials because the figures determine the flow of money into many federal programs and the number of seats each state receives in the House of Representatives .
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`` It 's like they had to make a mental readjustment , '' said Brumfield , founder of the non-profit Girls Rule !
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`` Probably the only other place where they might exist in a short period of time could be a supernova , where you have so much energy and so many particles that are really heavily concentrated , '' said Dawn Shaughnessy , the principal investigator for the Heavy Element Group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ...
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WASHINGTON -- The American public is unusually pessimistic about the direction of the country and increasingly fed up with Washington gridlock , a sour mood reflected in the worst disapproval ratings for President Barack Obama since he took office nearly five years ago .
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Before the jurors began their deliberations , District Judge George A. O'Toole Jr. reminded them that they had to decide if Tsarnaev would spend the rest of his life in prison or if he should be executed by the federal government .
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The bow-shaped board , which does n't really `` hover '' but is instead more akin to a cross between a skateboard and a Segway , flamed and popped angrily .
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Ryan won 236 votes Thursday , while Rep. Daniel Webster -LRB- R-Florida -RRB- , who won a following among staunch conservatives for his procedural reform agenda , received nine votes .
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For Bailey , the event was a way to celebrate his love for his youngest daughter .
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That engagement extended far beyond what can be measured in pounds or body mass index .
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It 's the latest innovation in French public education : Their child must now attend school on Wednesdays .
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They 're arguing that as sea ice continues to melt in the Arctic , passageways are opening for certain animals - heretofore restricted by the ice - to start moving through , enabling them to cross into new territories .
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Every year Aleksey Marchenko of The University Center in Svalbard , a Norwegian archipelago north of Scandinavia , leads students across the chilly waters of the Barents Sea to study the seasonal ice pack .
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Reporters had covered King 's 55-minute speech at a high school gymnasium in Rocky Mount on Nov. 27 , 1962 , but a recording was n't known to exist until English professor Jason Miller found an aging reel-to-reel tape in a town library .
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Depending on who you talk to , some of the children are doing relatively well , others are dealing with various issues and still others are facing a crisis .
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`` We took it upon ourselves to really promote the sport at a time when it was a big time taboo ... when there was a self-imposed censorship on women 's sports . ''
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The passage is , of course , the literary skeleton of what down-on-his-luck Samuel Clemens would transform into literary gold , a wildly improbable story originally called Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog , '' which introduced much of the 19th-century world to Mark Twain .
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KADUNA , Nigeria -- In a historic moment for Africa 's most populous country , former dictator Muhammadu Buhari won Nigeria 's presidency , the first time in 16 years of democracy that an opposition candidate has defeated a sitting president .
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NEW YORK -- As the Girl Scouts ' membership continues a sharp decline , its leaders are betting on technology to reverse the trend , including a major expansion of its year-old program enabling Girl Scout cookies to be sold via mobile apps and the girls ' personalized websites .
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From all over California , farmers , environmental lawyers , wildlife groups , cities and even the Fresno County sheriff have posted thoughts in a siege of protests to state officials about the use of this year 's puny snowpack and half-empty reservoirs .
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Inspired by their courage , demonstrators across the South adopted their `` jail not bail '' tactic and filled jail cells .
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They petitioned the Berkeley City Council and school district , which passed resolutions supporting their cause .
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One hundred years ago , on Aug. 15 , 1914 , the Panama Canal officially opened when the SS Ancon steamed through from the Atlantic to the Pacific side .
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Borders now lives in Portland , Ore. , with his wife , fellow Henry Clay High School graduate Elizabeth Sumney Borders .
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Due to the demonstrations , government officials said they would cancel a major annual fireworks celebration scheduled for Wednesday -- China 's equivalent of the Fourth of July .
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A layer of calcium carbonate laid down each year offers a snapshot of both the fish 's yearly growth and its surrounding ocean conditions .
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Now , at least , neuroscientists might have found a clue about why it is so hard to force that creative spark .
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But if monotonously sunny weather continues to curse the state , the pain of water shortages will spread , albeit unevenly .
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`` The highest rank in a democracy is citizen , not Senate president , so soon along with many of you , I will hold that rank and there 's nothing citizens ca n't accomplish when they put their minds to accomplishing it , '' Morse told disconsolate supporters at a party that turned into a political wake .
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They are sitting on ergonomic swivel chairs in front of computer screens and tapping away at keyboards and mouses as they try to kill rival factions on the military sci-fi strategy game StarCraft .
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The International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species considers 12 percent of grouper , 11 percent of tuna and billfish and 24 percent of shark and ray species to be threatened with extinction .
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The surge in unaccompanied minors shocked the nation as arrivals reached record levels .
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