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Former cricket star Imran Khan misses flight after two-hour questioning session

A Pakistani politician critical of U.S. drone strikes says American authorities detained and questioned him at a Canadian airport Friday night.


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Mother found her two children dead in bathtub

The New York nanny suspected in the killings of two children in her care began knifing herself when their mother entered the bathroom and saw the bodies in the bathtub, police said Friday.


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Jobs, libraries, access to foreign books, music, movies is at stake

Supreme Court takes controversial copyright case of Thai student who sold foreigh textbooks to finance studies.


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Outside groups have spent $190 million in Senate races as of Oct. 23

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Even before a second Republican Senate candidate tripped over incendiary comments about rape, GOP leaders in Washington knew that their once promising chances of winning control of the Senate had diminished.


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Concerns about safety, operations and privacy if drones proliferate in United States

(CNN) -- Police drones circling overhead, ready to help search for lost children, rescue stranded boaters, and capture criminals. Or drones equipped with lethal weapons, high-tech cameras able to see through clothing, and technology that monitors a person's visit to religious or political events.


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It has a 90 percent chance of hitting Northeast, CNN meteorologist says

(CNN) -- Floridians have little to fear from Hurricane Sandy as the storm loses some force and begins veering away, but all the way up the Atlantic Coast, New Englanders are worrying about its fury as a combination of weather conditions threaten to turn it into a disaster for them as early as Monday.


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The Republican candidate was explaining his opposition to abortion in cases of rape or incest when he made the remark

(CNN) -- The most recent controversial comment from a male politician on the subject of rape and abortion had President Barack Obama incredulous Wednesday during an appearance on Jay Leno's late-night talk show.


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The Air Force ejected her because it forbids single parents from enlisting

The reason for the policy, according to Air Force officials, is that the demands of deployment and military service put strain on family life and even more so for single parents.


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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock: pregnancies from rape are 'something that God intended to happen'

(CNN) -- The pregnant 12-year-old girl was strung out on heroin and looked like a walking skeleton when she arrived at the hospital. The conversation that followed, said Phoenix police chaplain John South, has stuck with him ever since.


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The group is shifting jobs from the United States to the Chinese plant

CHANGZHOU, China (CNN) -- This is a bustling, modern Chinese city. Shoppers decked out in the last fashions prowl shining new shopping malls. It's about two hours drive from the glamorous metropolis of Shanghai, yet it's fair to say very few people outside of China have heard of it.


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