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<description>Michael Hastings died early Tuesday in a one-car crash in Los Angeles. His controversial article on Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal led to McChrystal&#x26;rsquo;s resignation. </description>
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<description>Retiring goalkeeper must wait for playing time behind starter Michael Gspurning, and missed chances to play when the Sounders were eliminated from the U.S. Open Cup.</description>
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<description>Tina Thompson scored 30 points, including five 3-pointers, to lead the Seattle Storm to a 96-86 overtime win over the Washington Mystics on Tuesday night.</description>
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<description>Washington&#x26;rsquo;s cities, counties, ports, Indian tribes, public utility districts and school districts spent about $2.5 million lobbying state lawmakers during the regular legislative session &#x26;mdash; more than any other group.</description>
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<description>Satellite TV operator Dish Network Corp. said Tuesday it would not submit a revised bid for Sprint, leaving the path open for the wireless carrier to accept what it already considers a superior offer from Japan&#x27;s Softbank.</description>
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<description>Johnnie Lee Wiggins was found guilty of second-degree murder by a King County Superior Court jury on Monday for the Christmas 2011 beating death of his girlfriend, Woodinville High School teacher Prudence Hockley.</description>
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<description>Seattle police say they rescued - and arrested - a man who had been chased by an angry crowd that believed he groped a woman in a downtown park.</description>
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<description>An engineer killed in a fiery train collision in the Oklahoma Panhandle last year suffered from serious vision problems for much of his life, underwent several corrective procedures in the years leading up to the crash and even complained that he couldn&#x27;t distinguish between red and green signals, a doctor told a federal oversight board Tuesday.</description>
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<description>The latest possible resting place of Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa is an overgrown farm field where the normal calm of chirping crickets is being drowned out by a beeping backhoe, the chop of an overhead news helicopter and the bustle of reporters and onlookers.</description>
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<description>Pedro Alvarez singled home a pair of runs in the first inning, and the Pittsburgh Pirates ended Mat Latos&#x27; streak of 21 regular-season starts without a loss, beating the Cincinnati Reds 4-0 on Tuesday night.</description>
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<description>Singaporeans rolled back military training, kept cough-stricken children indoors and considered wearing protective masks to work after a smoky haze triggered by forest fires in neighboring Indonesia caused air pollution to briefly hit its worst level in nearly 16 years.</description>
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<description>Worry and speculation have consumed investors since Chairman Ben Bernanke spoke to Congress last month about the Federal Reserve&#x27;s drive to keep long-term interest rates at record lows.</description>
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<description>A mentally disabled woman charged with shoplifting a candy bar asked to be jailed because three people &#x22;had been mean to her&#x22; - then went on to tell authorities about her time spent in unfathomably cruel servitude, along with her young daughter, at the hands of three people, authorities said Tuesday.</description>
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<description>Colorful propellers gave a different spin to some aircraft on display at the Paris Air Show. See our photo gallery for some of the day&#x26;rsquo;s best images. Also deserving some props for its props was the Piaggio Aero P.1HH HammerHead, described as an Unmanned Aerial System: </description>
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<description>A Boeing 787 traveling from Denver to Tokyo diverted to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport late Tuesday afternoon because of an oil-filter problem, officials said. United Airlines flight 139 landed at Sea-Tac without incident&#x26;nbsp;at around 4:10 p.m. after declaring an emergency for engine failure</description>
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<description>New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski underwent back surgery on Tuesday, his fourth operation this year.</description>
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<description>Japan&#x27;s trade deficit rose nearly 10 percent in May to 993.9 billion yen (nearly $10.5 billion) as rising costs for imports due to the cheaper yen matched a rebound in exports, the Ministry of Finance reported Wednesday.</description>
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<description>When land-use planning goes bad: For Father&#x26;rsquo;s Day, my college-graduate daughter and I planned an outing near her Olympia home. I&#x26;rsquo;d read and heard about Mima Mounds, the oddly interesting geographical wonder in rural Thurston County where myriad 6-foot-high earthen mounds of mysterious or</description>
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<description>Lawyers working with the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal judge Tuesday to find the public defense systems in two northwest Washington cities inadequate, saying &#x22;a warm body with a law degree doesn&#x27;t cut it&#x22; when it comes to providing legal representation to poor defendants.</description>
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<description>Lorenzo Romar talked about Sunday&#x26;rsquo;s Washington&#x26;rsquo;s Alumni Game. After picking the rosters for both teams, he said a few former UW asked which team Jon Brockman was going to play with. According to Romar, Isaiah Thomas was happy upon learning that he was paired with Brockman, the school&#x26;rsq</description>
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<description>Oklahoma executed a 36-year-old man on Tuesday for the October 2000 stabbing deaths of a couple on whose ranch he had worked.</description>
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<description>Activist investor Carl Icahn on Tuesday proposed a $16 billion share buyback in his latest effort to thwart Dell Inc. founder Michael Dell&#x27;s effort to take the struggling computer maker private.</description>
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<description>A new report released Tuesday faults Washington state for lax oversight at the nation&#x27;s most contaminated nuclear site, saying the state employs too few inspectors and gives advance notice of inspections to the federal agency charged with managing the cleanup.</description>
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<description>Radar indicated a tornado briefly touched down Tuesday over the east runways of Denver International Airport, where thousands of people took shelter in bathrooms, stairwells and other safe spots until the dangerous weather passed, officials said.</description>
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<description>Major League Baseball is dragging its feet on having team owners vote on the Oakland Athletics&#x27; proposed move to a new ballpark 40 miles south in San Jose, San Jose city officials said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.</description>
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<description>Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj will take the stage at the BET Awards.</description>
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<description>It&#x27;s all about the Fed. Still.</description>
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<description>A wooden beam embedded at the bottom of northern Lake Michigan appears to have been there for centuries, underwater archaeologists announced Tuesday, a crucial finding as crews dig toward what they hope is the carcass of a French ship that disappeared while exploring the Great Lakes in the 17th century.</description>
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<description>A Utah man shot in the head during a Father&#x27;s Day Mass was upgraded to fair condition Tuesday - just a few hours after his son-in-law was charged with attempted homicide in the shooting.</description>
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<description>Declaring &#x22;the days of Rambo are over,&#x22; a top general said Tuesday that cultural, social and behavioral concerns may be bigger hurdles than tough physical fitness requirements for women looking to join the military&#x27;s special operations units.</description>
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<description>Next week marks four years that Justin Rose first began working on his swing with Sean Foley. But in the moments after winning the U.S. Open for his first major championship, Rose referred to him as more than just a swing coach.</description>
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<description>The directors of the New York Racing Association have chosen a lawyer without a background in horse racing as the organization&#x27;s new president and CEO.</description>
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<description>Defense officials say four U.S. troops were killed Tuesday at or near Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.</description>
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<description>Authorities say a fisherman who dove into the Columbia River after his pole has drowned.</description>
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<description>A woman from the ritzy New York City suburb of Scarsdale who is accused of raising thousands of marijuana plants was compared Tuesday to Colombian cocaine lords.</description>
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<description>Google on Tuesday sharply challenged the federal government&#x27;s gag order on its Internet surveillance program, citing what it described as a First Amendment right to divulge how many requests it receives from the government for data about its customers in the name of national security.</description>
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<description>Samuel L. Jackson would have been cursing up a storm.</description>
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<description>Forty potential jurors in George Zimmerman&#x27;s murder trial were asked Tuesday to return for further questioning, clearing the first round of interviews for a case that involves issues of race, equal justice and gun control.</description>
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<description>A year ago, Julian Assange skipped out on a date with Swedish justice. Rather than comply with a British order that he go to the Scandinavian country for questioning about sex crimes allegations, the WikiLeaks founder took refuge in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London.</description>
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<description>FBI agents with jackhammers and shovels were digging Tuesday under a New York City house once occupied by a famed gangster who inspired Robert De Niro&#x27;s character in the movie &#x22;Goodfellas.&#x22;</description>
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<description>Three more employees of the truck stop chain owned by the Cleveland Browns&#x27; owner and Tennessee&#x27;s governor pleaded guilty Tuesday in what authorities call a scheme to cheat trucking firms out of rebates.</description>
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<description>A woman disfigured by a friend&#x27;s pet chimpanzee in 2009 plans to appeal a decision denying her permission to sue the state for $150 million on her claim that officials knew the chimp was dangerous but didn&#x27;t do anything about it, her attorney told The Associated Press on Tuesday.</description>
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<description>U.S. safety regulators said Tuesday that they are investigating problems with air-bag sensors in the seats of some small Suzuki SUVs.</description>
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<description>Nearly four years after the deadly Fort Hood shooting rampage, the Army psychiatrist charged in the case will finally go on trial after a judge Tuesday refused his request for a three-month delay.</description>
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<description>Physicist Kenneth Wilson, who earned a Nobel prize for pioneering work that changed the way physicists think about phase transitions, has died in Maine, where he retired to enjoy kayaking with his wife. He was 77.</description>
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<description>New York regulators reached an agreement Tuesday for Deloitte Financial Advisory Services to pay $10 million and cease new consulting for one year at state-regulated banks to settle an investigation into misconduct.</description>
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<description>Marian Hossa is one of the Chicago Blackhawks&#x27; top scorers, with three game-winning goals already this postseason.</description>
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<description>A surfer who was shot at by police during the manhunt for rogue ex-cop Christopher Dorner has filed a lawsuit against a Los Angeles suburb and its police department.</description>
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<description>As of Tuesday, June 18, 2013, at least 2,103 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count.</description>
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<description>Same-sex couples are treated less favorably than heterosexual couples when seeking information about rental housing advertised over the Internet, according to a first-of-its-kind national study from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.</description>
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<description>ONE DIRECTION: All the major U.S. stock indexes were up Tuesday. Reports of increased home building and low inflation helped boost the market, but the Federal Reserve&#x27;s Wednesday afternoon news conference was top of mind for many investors.</description>
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<description>An associate head basketball coach at Central Washington University has been named head coach at the University of Hawaii at Hilo.</description>
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<description>U.S. U-20 coach Tab Ramos held a conference call with reporters Tuesday afternoon ahead of the FIFA U-20 World Cup, which starts this week in Turkey. The U.S. kicks off group play Friday against Spain, the tournament favorite. One of the players who came up a few times on the call was Sounders FC de</description>
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<description>A temporary bridge over the Skagit River will reopen Wednesday, restoring Interstate 5 traffic less than a month after the old bridge collapsed.</description>
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<description>Republicans controlling the House unveiled slashing cuts Tuesday to a program that helps localities build community development projects, while their rivals in the Democratic-led Senate proposed to restore GOP cuts to international food aid and nutrition help for pregnant women.</description>
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<description>Syrian warplanes struck rebel positions near a besieged military air base and other rebel-held areas in the country&#x27;s north Tuesday as regime forces stepped up attacks against opposition fighters in the key province of Aleppo, activists said.</description>
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<description>President Barack Obama, Russian President Vladimir Putin and other G-8 leaders attempted to speak with one voice Tuesday on seeking a negotiated Syrian peace settlement - yet couldn&#x27;t publicly agree on whether this means President Bashar Assad must go.</description>
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<description>The infant boy who was critically injured when a pickup slammed into his family in March recently &#x26;ldquo;celebrated his three-month birthday like a champ,&#x26;rdquo; and his mother is also continuing to recover, according to an update posted by the family Tuesday. The son, Elias, who was 10 days old at </description>
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<description>Chiropractor Dr. Jeremy Welch has a policy that he doesn&#x26;rsquo;t hire anyone straight out of massage therapy school. He&#x26;rsquo;s only broken that policy once. Six years ago he hired Nataliya Vabischevich. &#x26;ldquo;She blew my stocks off,&#x26;rdquo; said Welch, who owns Pure Chiropractic Center in Bellevue.</description>
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<description>A woman sued Fox News Network for airing live footage last fall of a carjacking suspect in a police chase committing suicide in the Arizona desert and not using a time delay that would have prevented the death from being broadcast on national television.</description>
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<description>U.S. stocks moved higher Tuesday, boosted by reports about increased home building and low inflation. But the real emphasis was on the Federal Reserve, which on Wednesday should reveal more about how long it expects to keep in place its programs meant to support the economy.</description>
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<description>In the decades after the Civil War, the nation&#x27;s first black Army regiments guarded Yosemite and Sequoia national parks against poaching and timber thefts, a role that in hindsight made them America&#x27;s first park rangers.</description>
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<description>Years of talk about building an arena capable of hosting professional sports and big-name concerts yielded an announcement Tuesday that casino giant MGM Resorts International and entertainment company AEG will build a privately financed 20,000-seat indoor venue on the Las Vegas Strip.</description>
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<description>Well, that was close. Or was it? Shortly after wrapping up one of the most peaceful Group of Eight summits in recent memory, Prime Minister David Cameron let a cat out of the bag.</description>
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<description>A former Playboy Playmate has admitted helping her Canadian boyfriend after he illegally entered the United States in northern New York last summer.</description>
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<description>Italy&#x27;s high court on Tuesday harshly faulted the appeals court that acquitted American student Amanda Knox of murdering her roommate, saying its ruling was full of &#x22;deficiencies, contradictions and illogical&#x22; conclusions. It ordered a new appeals court to consider all the evidence to determine whether Knox helped kill the young woman.</description>
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<description>Italy&#x27;s high court on Tuesday harshly faulted the appeals court that acquitted American student Amanda Knox of murdering her roommate, saying its ruling was full of &#x22;deficiencies, contradictions and illogical&#x22; conclusions. It ordered a new appeals court to consider all the evidence to determine whether Knox helped kill the young woman.</description>
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<description>Metal prices fell as traders anticipate that the Federal Reserve may start easing its support for the economy.</description>
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<description>In case you missed it, the lineup for Pac-12 Media Day has been set &#x26;mdash;- the ESPN Pac-12 blog has the details here. As you can read, QB Keith Price and safety Sean Parker will represent UW, along with coach Steve Sarkisian. Each is a native of the LA area, so each will get a </description>
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<description>CHRYSLER CAVES: Chrysler reversed course and agreed to recall 2.7 million Jeeps Tuesday. The company insists the vehicles are safe, and initially denied the government&#x27;s request to recall them. But it says it realizes customers are worried.</description>
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<description>A State Department spokeswoman says a man who ranted about national security and repeatedly screamed &#x22;I&#x27;m dead&#x22; during a flight from Hong Kong to New Jersey once worked at the agency.</description>
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<description>A clouded leopard cub born May 1 at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma is now on public exhibit.</description>
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<title>State Fish and Wildlife Columbia River regional fishing reports</title>
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<description>Salmon/Steelhead Cowlitz River &#x26;ndash; 16 boat anglers kept 1 adult spring Chinook and 1 steelhead. &#x26;nbsp;63 bank anglers kept 8 adult and 1 jack spring Chinook plus 1 steelhead.&#x26;nbsp; &#x26;nbsp;All the fish were sampled in the barrier dam area. Last week Tacoma Power recovered 183 spring Chinook adults</description>
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<description>Sen. Claire McCaskill endorsed an outside political group encouraging Hillary Rodham Clinton to run for president in 2016, saying it was important for Democrats to build a groundswell of support for the former secretary of state.</description>
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<description>A man accused of fatally shooting a gay man walking with a companion in New York City&#x27;s Greenwich Village afterward claimed that he opened fire because the victim &#x22;thought he was tough in front of his bitch,&#x22; prosecutors said in court papers Tuesday.</description>
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<description>The stock market is closing higher as investors anticipate that the Federal Reserve will keep programs to support the U.S. economy in place.</description>
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<title>The quickest way to tell your friends they&#x27;re boring you</title>
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<description>We know to put away our phones at the front of the line and keep public phone calls short and quiet. But when it comes to checking our phone while we&#x26;rsquo;re with family and friends, it&#x26;rsquo;s complicated. My Sunday column proposed nine points of tech etiquette that might have enough consensus to </description>
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<description>Many exchange shops closed in Damascus on Tuesday, fearing more chaos a day after the Syrian currency plunged to a new record low, reflecting growing fears in the capital following a U.S. decision to arm rebel groups fighting to topple President Bashar Assad&#x27;s regime.</description>
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<description>Basketball and talent shows commanded TV viewers&#x27; attention last week.</description>
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<title>Scientists discuss new photo-taking satellite
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<description>Nearly 120 scientists and engineers from around the world are meeting in South Dakota this week to discuss operational and technical issues with collecting images from the Landsat 8 satellite.</description>
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<description>A temporary bridge over the Skagit River opens Wednesday, restoring Interstate 5 traffic less than a month after the old bridge collapsed May 23 when it was struck by a truck with an oversize load.</description>
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<description>The Interior Department says it is ready to start a program to help Native American tribes buy parcels of reservation land that have accumulated multiple owners.</description>
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<title>Deputies return to Lake Stevens home for death investigation</title>
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<description>Snohomish County sheriff&#x26;rsquo;s detectives returned this morning&#x26;nbsp;to a West Lake Stevens home where a&#x26;nbsp;young woman was found dead on Monday. Investigators have obtained a search warrant to allow them back inside the house, according to Lt. Jeff Brand of the Sheriff&#x26;rsquo;s Office. No other </description>
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<title>Elsewhere at the Air Show...</title>
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<description>While nobody was watching, Russia&#x26;rsquo;s Sukhoi was experiencing delays with its SuperJet, the first new airliner from the factories that once were part of the Soviet Union&#x26;rsquo;s powerful aviation complex. But Tuesday the company delivered its first jet to a Western client, Mexico&#x26;rsquo;s Interje</description>
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<description>Turkey&#x27;s prime minister on Tuesday brushed aside international criticism over his government&#x27;s crackdown on widespread demonstrations and vowed to increase the police&#x27;s powers to deal with the unrest. Meanwhile, more than 90 people were detained in police raids linked to the protests.</description>
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<description>Prosecutors in Poland and Germany said Tuesday they are reviewing files on a Minnesota man who was a commander of a Nazi-led unit to see if they have enough evidence to press charges and request his extradition from the United States.</description>
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<title>Centralia man accused of running drug ring
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<description>A Centralia man imprisoned at the Coyote Ridge Corrections Center in Connell is accused of leading a drug trafficking operation from behind bars.</description>
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<title>Thomas talks on NFL AM</title>
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<description>I passed along the video earlier of Earl Thomas&#x26;rsquo; appearance on the NFL Network&#x26;rsquo;s NFL AM show. Now, courtesy of the network, are some transcribed quotes of what Thomas had to say: &#x26;nbsp;On the feeling he has coming out of OTAs and minicamp: &#x26;ldquo;Confidence. The biggest thing around the </description>
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<description>It&#x27;s a sight that can trigger dread: the low-battery message on your cellphone when there&#x27;s no charger around.</description>
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<description>A woman who worked as a stunt double for Angelina Jolie sued Rupert Murdoch&#x27;s News Corp. in Los Angeles on Tuesday, claiming she&#x27;s a victim of a phone hacking scheme to obtain information about the actress.</description>
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<description>State TV channels in Greece remained off-air Tuesday as the political storm over the future of public broadcaster ERT raged on, despite a court ruling that the prime minister&#x27;s decision to pull the plug was wrong.</description>
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<title>Datsyuk, Red Wings agree on $22.5M, 3-year deal
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<description>The Detroit Red Wings accomplished their No. 1 goal of the offseason Tuesday by agreeing to a $22.5 million, three-year deal with Pavel Datsyuk.</description>
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<title>NTSB rules in 2011 Mayo Clinic helicopter crash
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<description>Financial pressures likely contributed to a helicopter pilot&#x27;s decision to continue flying through deteriorating weather before crashing in north Florida, killing a Mayo Clinic heart surgeon and technician on their way to retrieve a heart for transplant in 2011, according to a report from the National Transportation Safety Board.</description>
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<title>The ins and outs of G-8 summit promises
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<description>Group of Eight summit participants are powerful people: the leaders of the U.S., Russia, Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Canada and Japan, plus top officials from the European Union. But they only make promises.</description>
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<title>Search for Hoffa mystery endures for decades
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<description>Jimmy Hoffa&#x27;s disappearance almost 40 years ago has been the stuff of urban legend, prompting numerous theories about what happened to the former Teamsters leader.</description>
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<description>A nonprofit group helping to spread the word about President Barack Obama&#x27;s health care overhaul launched a campaign Tuesday that will target states with high numbers of uninsured Americans and tackle their skepticism with straightforward messages.</description>
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<title>Army Corps won&#x27;t do overall study of coal exports
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<description>An official with the Army Corps of Engineers told a Congressional committee Tuesday it doesn&#x27;t plan a broad environmental study on exporting coal from the Western United States.</description>
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<description>Montreal&#x27;s interim mayor resigns, a day after his arrest on fraud charges.</description>
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<title>AP Interview: Wiggins will be strong in 2014
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<description>The director of the Tour de France expects Bradley Wiggins to come roaring back in 2014 after not defending his crown in this year&#x27;s race that starts in just over a week.</description>
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<description>A scrappy Vice President Joe Biden vowed Tuesday to &#x22;beat the gun lobby&#x22; by ultimately passing stronger firearm laws and said some lawmakers who voted against background checks have privately told him they want another chance.</description>
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<description>A federal judge has ruled that a class of more than 650 farm workers should have had information about wages and other job conditions disclosed to them by the company that hired them.</description>
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<description>Mali, which lost half its territory last year to a rebel invasion, signed an accord Tuesday with Tuareg separatists who still control the country&#x27;s northernmost province, paving the way for the Malian military to return to the areas that remain under rebel control.</description>
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<description>A California grand jury has indicted a Florida man on charges he strangled his ex-wife and tossed her off a cruise ship in Italy.</description>
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<title>SOMM: Film follows would-be master sommeliers</title>
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<description>Allow me to raise a glass to SOMM, a new documentary in which four guys vie for a spot on the court. &#x26;nbsp;I&#x26;rsquo;m not talking Wimbledon here; I mean The Court of Master Sommeliers. The quest to become a Master Sommelier, the highest distinction a professional in the fine wine and beverage industr</description>
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<description>Sprint is suing to stop Dish Network&#x27;s buyout of wireless data network operator Clearwire. The nation&#x27;s third-largest cellphone carrier said the proposed deal violates the rights of Sprint and other Clearwire shareholders.</description>
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<description>Substantial improvements in Washington&#x27;s financial outlook provided state lawmakers with a pathway to resolve their budget differences Tuesday, and negotiators expressed optimism they would avoid any government shutdown.</description>
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<description>A son and daughter of former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi moved from Algeria to Oman in apparent violation of a U.N. travel ban, the committee monitoring U.N. sanctions against Libya said Tuesday.</description>
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<description>American qualifier Jamie Hampton upset top-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska 7-6 (2), 6-2 Tuesday in the first round at Eastbourne on Tuesday.</description>
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<title>Nielsen&#x27;s top programs for June 10-16
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<description>Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for June 10-16. Listings include the week&#x27;s ranking and viewership.</description>
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<description>A French man who gained access to the cockpit of a plane at Philadelphia International Airport by impersonating an airline employee has been sentenced to time served and will be deported.</description>
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<description>Yahoo is the latest company to disclose how many requests for user data it has received from U.S. government agencies, putting the number between 12,000 and 13,000 in the six months that ended on May 31.</description>
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<description>A former Massey Energy official who is cooperating in the investigation of the Upper Big Branch mine disaster is asking a judge for leniency when he&#x27;s sentenced Aug. 1.</description>
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<description>The New York Police Department&#x27;s widespread spying programs directed at Muslims have undermined free worship by innocent people and should be declared unconstitutional, religious leaders and civil rights advocates said Tuesday after the filing of a federal lawsuit.</description>
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<description>A toddler whose feet were amputated after her father accidentally backed over her with a riding lawnmower took her first steps on her new prosthetic test legs Monday.</description>
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<description>Obama opens trip to Germany; will meet with leaders and speak at iconic Brandenburg Gate.</description>
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<description>Two suicide bombers targeted a Shiite mosque in Baghdad on Tuesday, one blowing himself up at a nearby checkpoint while the other slipped inside during prayers. The blasts killed 34 people, Iraqi officials said.</description>
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<description>President Barack Obama is opening a 24-hour visit to Germany, the culmination of which will be a speech Wednesday at Berlin&#x27;s iconic Brandenburg Gate.</description>
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<description>Washington State University&#x26;rsquo;s teacher preparation program was one of only 104 such programs in the nation that made the honor roll for quality in a newly-released study of teacher training programs. The WSU undergraduate program that trains secondary school teachers received three stars from t</description>
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<description>Edmonds police responding to an early morning 911 call found a man with a bloody face &#x26;mdash; and a confusing crime scene that&#x26;nbsp;led&#x26;nbsp;to initial reports of a man being shot. Police now say it was a domestic dispute and no one was shot. It all started during a car ride from Everett and ended w</description>
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<description>Seattle police Harbor Patrol officers rescued a dog that had become trapped last night on a capsized boat on Lake Washington. The officers responded to the capsized boat near the Windermere neighborhood just before 8 p.m. and found that the three people aboard had been picked up by another boat. The</description>
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<description>The event of my Saturday morning was the dock sale at Ocean Beauty Seafoods. Really it isn&#x26;rsquo;t on a dock, but at a warehouse on a dirt road over the railroad tracks by the south end of the Ballard Bridge. I was late. The sale went from 8 a.m. to 11. I got there at </description>
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<description>Alex Liddi appeared to have been told in the postgame clubhouse that he is Class AAA bound. Liddi emerged from a back room right before we left and was sitting gloomily by his locker while a teammate or two headed over to chat. If he&#x26;rsquo;s headed back, then Justin Smoak is coming up. Mariners mana</description>
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<description>Daytona International Speedway is getting another facelift, this one considerably bigger than the last.</description>
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<description>(But first, a brief digression: Last night, I attended a screaming, er, screening of &#x26;ldquo;Monsters University.&#x26;rdquo; It was, as you might imagine for a Pixar movie, packed with kids, and the kiddie radio station sponsoring the screening had some, um, entertaining ideas. &#x26;ldquo;At the count of thr</description>
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<description>Weeks before a Chinese conglomerate agreed to buy Smithfield Foods Inc. in the largest such takeover of a U.S. business, Missouri lawmakers quietly approved legislation removing a ban on foreign ownership of agricultural land.</description>
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<description>During his team&#x27;s Game 3 rout of the Heat, Gregg Popovich was shown on TV talking to his players while they were in the process of burying Miami with a stirring offensive display.</description>
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<title>Sleepwalking into Washington&#x27;s future | Jon Talton</title>
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<description>When I worked in Phoenix, the three most important players in the local economy were the governor, the mayor and the president of Arizona State University. At the time, it was the nation&#x26;rsquo;s fifth-largest city but the economy was so limited that the people most looked to for progress were all on</description>
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<title>Paris Air Show: Boeing launches 787-10, punts on where it will be assembled</title>
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<description>At the Paris Air Show Tuesday, as expected, Boeing launched the final and largest member of its Dreamliner jet family, the 787-10. The jet officially entered the market with a total of 102 orders from blue-ribbon&#x26;nbsp;customers United, British Airways, Singapore Airlines, GECAS (the airplane leasing</description>
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<description>It&#x26;rsquo;s an abused genre that can cater to low tastes, but a handful of places across Europe truthfully document harsh tools of medieval justice.</description>
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<description>A revised revenue forecast in Olympia may help avert a government shutdown, as economists determined Tuesday that an improved housing market will provide government with $120 million more in the coming years than previously anticipated.</description>
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<description>He really is more than a businessman.</description>
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<description>THE MOVE: Hewlett-Packard Co. named executive Todd Bradley to a new position in charge of the company&#x27;s strategy. Bradley will work with CEO Meg Whitman to improve HP&#x27;s business in China and extend relationships with important partners worldwide.</description>
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<description>Federal regulators are investigating the deaths of two patients who received injections of a longer-lasting version of Eli Lilly&#x27;s antipsychotic Zyprexa.</description>
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<description>Traffic on Interstate 5 through Western Washington should be flowing smoother soon with the opening of a temporary span on the Skagit River where the bridge collapsed May 23 when it was struck by a truck with an oversize load.</description>
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<description>Two people were injured in a head-on collision on busy Highway 195 near Spokane.</description>
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<description>Womenswear and accessories like handbags may be the mainstays of the luxury goods market, but right now menswear is where the growth is.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:46:03 PDT</pubDate>
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<description>The best advice for visitors to Britain - pack an umbrella - is more vital than ever.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:31:04 PDT</pubDate>
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<description>Secretary of State John Kerry announced on Tuesday that he has chosen former Sen. Russ Feingold as the new U.S. special representative for the Great Lakes region of Africa and the ongoing crisis in the Congo.</description>
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<description>An official with the Army Corps of Engineers told a Congressional committee Tuesday it doesn&#x27;t plan a broad environmental study on exporting coal from the Western United States.</description>
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<description>The attorney for a young Florida woman who was charged with a felony for having sexual contact with her 14-year-old girlfriend has filed a motion asking the judge to remove himself from the case.</description>
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<description>A made-for-television movie on Jodi Arias is scheduled to air this weekend.</description>
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<description>An Everett aircraft maintenance company has agreed to pay $275,000 to settle two Federal Aviation Administration penalty claims.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:29:29 PDT</pubDate>
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<description>Todd Bradley, the head of Hewlett-Packard Co.&#x27;s printing and personal computer business, has been appointed to a new position in charge of the company&#x27;s strategy with a focus on China, the company said Tuesday.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:28:32 PDT</pubDate>
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<description>President Barack Obama has given the clearest signal yet that Chairman Ben Bernanke will likely leave the Federal Reserve when his term ends in January.</description>
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<description>Romanian prosecutors said Tuesday they are investigating a popular singer&#x27;s claim that she was beaten up by her manager-boyfriend after a dispute over money, prompting a rare debate about domestic violence in this conservative East European nation.</description>
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<description>A new revenue forecast released Wednesday projects the state will take in $231 million more than expected in tax collections &#x26;ndash; a potential game changer for ongoing budget negotiations. Theoretically, this could help lawmakers reach a deal on the state budget after months of stalled talks. Nego</description>
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<description>A revised revenue forecast in Olympia may help avert a government shutdown, as economists determined Tuesday that an improved housing market will provide government with $120 million more than previously anticipated.</description>
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<description>Kentucky Derby champion Animal Kingdom was unable to go out a winner, fading quickly and finishing 11th in the Queen Anne Stakes on Tuesday in his last race before retirement.</description>
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<description>A Mississippi woman has pleaded not guilty to killing a woman by giving silicone injections as a buttocks enhancement.</description>
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<description>A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of hundreds of mourners attending a funeral in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 29 people. Among the dead was a newly elected lawmaker who may have been the target, authorities said.</description>
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<description>Failure to restart Israeli-Palestinian negotiations could stir unrest in the West Bank, Israel&#x27;s top army commander in the territory warned Tuesday.</description>
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<description>French Open finalist David Ferrer lost his first-round match Tuesday at the Topshelf Open, a grass-court tournament held the week before Wimbledon.</description>
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<description>Islamic militants have driven 19,000 rice farmers from their land in northeast Nigeria while a military crackdown is preventing thousands more from working their fields, raising fears of imminent food shortages, officials warned Tuesday.</description>
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<description>Washington lawmakers are projected to have $120 million more revenue than previously anticipated.</description>
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<description>German prosecutors said Tuesday they are investigating whether three alleged neo-Nazis suspected of a series of racist killings and bombings were also responsible for an earlier explosives attack not previously linked to the group.</description>
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<description>App Store Official Charts for the week ending June 17, 2013:</description>
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<description>William Mukurazita&#x27;s deposit at the bank has four legs and moos.</description>
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<description>Mayoral candidates gathered at the Seattle Public Library Monday night to field questions with a literary bent.&#x26;nbsp;At the event sponsored by Friends of the Seattle Public Library, the candidates also read from a book that shaped their view of the world. Here&#x26;rsquo;s a pop quiz about candidates Joe</description>
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<description>Duke Energy Corp., the nation&#x27;s largest electric utility, named Chief Financial Officer Lynn Good to replace Jim Rogers next month as CEO.</description>
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<description>Starbucks has a new way to wake up its customers: showing the calories in its drinks.</description>
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<description>Starbucks wants coffee fans to think of it as a spot to grab lunch or late afternoon bite - not just a place to get a cup of morning joe.</description>
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<description>The Palestinian envoy to the United Nations praised China&#x27;s growing involvement in the Mideast peace process, saying it enhances the efforts of other nations and should continue to expand.</description>
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<description>Video shows Justin Bieber running into a photographer with his white Ferrari in Hollywood, but police say there was no crime and the injuries aren&#x27;t life-threatening.</description>
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<description>Police say a Camas man who painted the fire hydrant in front of his house red became angry about a note from the water department that said it should be yellow, like all the other hydrants in the city.</description>
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<description>A woman says she and her 5-year-old developmentally disabled daughter were thrown out of a theater during a &#x22;Beauty and the Beast&#x22; performance because the girl was making giggling and humming noises she makes when she&#x27;s happy.</description>
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<description>Smithfield Foods Inc. said Tuesday that it is laying off 120 more workers as part of its previously announced closure of a Virginia facility that makes hot dogs and deli meat.</description>
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<description>Fox News host Bill O&#x27;Reilly is taking his book-turned-movie franchise and running with it.</description>
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<description>A lawyer for a son of ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi accused Libyan authorities on Tuesday of showing a &#x22;blatant disregard&#x22; for the International Criminal Court by announcing they will put Seif al-Islam Gadhafi on trial in August.</description>
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<description>Stray bullet in Ferndale is deadly: The 23-year-old woman who was at a Father&#x26;rsquo;s Day barbecue when she was struck by a stray bullet from a half-mile away has died. How sad. How bizarre. Two of five people who were shooting handguns and rifles on the other side of the Nooksack River were arreste</description>
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<description>Federal probation officers in upstate New York have been fired or demoted after a man they were monitoring was charged with slipping out of his electronic bracelet, raping a 10-year-old girl and killing her mother during a carjacking at a New York mall.</description>
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<description>Switzerland&#x27;s lower house of parliament pushed back strongly Tuesday against a government proposal to end a bitter dispute with U.S. authorities over American tax cheats suspected of hiding money in the country&#x27;s banks.</description>
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<description>The FBI saw enough merit in a reputed Mafia captain&#x27;s tip to once again break out the digging equipment in search of the elusive remains of former Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa, last seen alive when he left for lunch with two mobsters 38 years ago.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:16:05 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Quotations of the day
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<description>&#x22;It is transparent. That&#x27;s why we set up the FISA court.&#x22;  - President Barack Obama, defending two surveillance programs that tracks U.S.-based phone and Internet records and overseen by a secret court.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:16:05 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Gender report of Shah Rukh Khan baby investigated
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<description>Health officials in Mumbai are investigating reports that Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan and his wife know the sex of a baby they are having through a surrogate mother.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:16:05 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Transgender candidate could become a first in NYC
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<description>Mel Wymore is a typical city council candidate in many ways, campaigning as a community board appointee, ex-PTA chair and founder of a roster of local organizations. But Wymore&#x27;s community-leader resume has an unusual feature: He built much of it while he was a woman.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:01:06 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Ukraine kids at risk from low vaccination rates
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<description>When the time came to vaccinate her 4-year-old daughter, Yelena Hlushko hesitated, spooked by widespread fears in Ukraine about vaccines and by a boil her older child developed after an immunization shot. Eventually she decided to follow the government&#x27;s recommendation - only to find her local health clinic was out of the vaccine.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:01:06 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Freeman HR ruins Gee&#x27;s night, Braves beat Mets 2-1
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<description>On his 100th pitch of the night, Dillon Gee fooled Freddie Freeman badly with a changeup.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:46:04 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Seattle gives up 21 hits in Angels&#x27; 11-3 win
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<description>Aaron Harang has never beaten the Los Angeles Angels in his lengthy career. During his latest attempt, the Seattle right-hander could barely even slow them down - and he still did better than his bullpen on a rocky night for the Mariners.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:31:04 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>100K protesters flood Brazilian streets in protest
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<description>In some of the biggest protests since the end of Brazil&#x27;s 1964-85 dictatorship, demonstrations have spread across this continent-sized country and united people from all walks of life behind frustrations over poor transportation, health services, education and security despite a heavy tax burden.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:31:04 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Freeman&#x27;s homer in 9th lifts Braves over Mets 2-1
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<description>The Atlanta Braves waited a long time to get going.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:31:04 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Stanton&#x27;s HRs spoil Corbin&#x27;s strong bid for 10th W
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<description>Patrick Corbin had another chance to go to 10-0, and he certainly was good enough to do it.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:16:05 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>LA Angels belt Seattle with 21 hits in 11-3 win
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<description>Jason Vargas knows that whenever the Los Angeles Angels&#x27; lineup puts up an eye-popping performance befitting all of its money and talent, their starting pitcher&#x27;s job becomes a whole lot easier.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:16:04 PDT</pubDate>
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<description>Afghan president says his armed forces now taking the lead for security around the country.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:16:04 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Astrological Forecasts for 06/18/2013</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:08:05 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Wife&#x26;rsquo;s long hours make  him feel like a pathetic hanger-on</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:21:07 PDT</pubDate>
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