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Melinda Coleman and her daughter, Daisy, speak to CNN's 'Erin Burnett OutFront'

The football player was arrested and charged with sexual assault. His friend was also charged with recording at least a part of the incident on an iPhone.

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No apparent link to shutdown, but USDA is unavailable to provide information

(CNN) -- A computer failure temporarily halted the processing of food stamp purchases in parts of the country Saturday.

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Co-laureate Robert Shiller says he had 'discounted' possibility of winning award

(CNN) -- Groundbreaking research that reshaped the way economists and investors look at how markets work has earned three American professors the Nobel Prize in economics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Monday.

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The report suggested death may have been auto-erotic asphyxiation

Convicted kidnapper Ariel Castro killed himself, the Ohio medical examiner who conducted his autopsy says, disputing assertions that the convicted kidnapper and rapist may have died by accident.

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Orthodox law says women must get release document to be truly divorced

courtroom sketch Rabbis in courtA group of rabbis face kidnapping charges after allegedly arranging assaults of Orthodox Jewish husbands to persuade them to grant divorces to their wives

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This marks the largest one-week rise since November 2012

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- First-time claims for unemployment benefits suddenly jumped last week, marking the biggest one-week rise since Superstorm Sandy left thousands of people temporarily out of work.

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Intelligence services have held the right to call back essential staff in cases of national security

(CNN) -- The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) will begin calling more of its furloughed employees back into the office this week despite the ongoing partial government shutdown.

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Employers only have to provide 'affordable' coverage to their workers, but not dependents

President Obama signing ObamacareNEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Obamacare is designed to make health care affordable for everyone, but several million families could get caught in a loophole in the law that leaves them out in the cold.

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Discrimination against minorities affects Black inmates more than any other group

Death Row ReportA new report by the Center for Constitutional Rights and the International Federation for Human Rights finds that prisoners on California and Louisiana's death row are being held in degrading and inhumane conditions that amount to torture under international law.

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After disappearance man returns to find he has to stay dead in eyes of law

An Ohio man who has been legally dead since 1994 will remain so in the eyes of the law after losing his complaint to overturn his death filing, according to authorities.

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