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'Fixing the educational system is a really urgent priority, because we'll lose another generation if nothing is done'

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Lonnie David Franklin Jr. is charged with 10 murders but police have widened scope of investigation to 230 killings

(CNN) -- Los Angeles police have posted the images of 42 women culled from the photo collection of the "Grim Sleeper" serial murder suspect on social media and their website, officials announced Thursday.


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Why the mad rush to offer incentives for holiday shoppers even before Halloween this year?

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Stores are falling over themselves this holiday season to lure shoppers in with deals like matching online prices, extending layaways, and even making their own tablets.


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A big reason for there being a small supply of electrics but many models has to do with regulations in California

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- This year was supposed to be the year of the plug-in car but, as 2012 draws to a close, it looks like the electric car market still isn't fully charged.


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'I understand the challenges women face and want to make it easier for them in the workplace,' he wrote on Twitter Wednesday afternoon

(CNN) -- After a day dominated by Mitt Romney's "binders full of women" comment from the second presidential debate, the GOP presidential nominee defended himself against the tsunami of social media swipes and blatant jabs at Romney's expense.


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The files will show the names of Scoutmasters banned from the group for 'perversion'

(CNN) -- More than 20,000 confidential Boy Scout documents will be released Thursday identifying more than 1,000 leaders and volunteers banned from the group after being accused of sexual or inappropriate conduct with boys.


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Bangladeshi national made initial court appearance Wednesday at federal courthouse in Brooklyn

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Federal authorities running a sting operation arrested a 21-year-old Bangladeshi man, who came to the U.S. on a student visa and was allegedly planning to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank of New York with what he believed was a 1,000-pound bomb, officials said.


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Increase in serious violent crime from previous year calculated to be statistically insignificant

(CNN) -- The rate of U.S. violent crime went up last year for the first time in nearly two decades due to a jump in assaults, the Justice Department said on Wednesday.


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Academics have expressed skepticism about the fragment's authenticity

(CNN) -- If you set your DVR to record the Smithsonian Channel's documentary on the "Jesus Wife" papyrus fragment two weeks ago and it didn't, it wasn't your fault.


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Obama says voters 'can't buy' Romney's sales pitch on taxes

(CNN) -- President Barack Obama fought back and Republican challenger Mitt Romney mostly stood his ground.


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