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Pakistan blocks, then restores, Twitter access

Sunday, May 20th, 2012

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s telecommunications regulators shut down Twitter for about eight hours Sunday because the social networking site would not remove content the government found objectionable to Muslims, but the nation’s prime minister stepped in to reverse the ban, officials said. Read full article > >

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GOP won’t let Obama’s ‘hot mike’ cool

Monday, May 14th, 2012

Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee previewed just how far the GOP will go this election year to use President Obama’s March 26 “hot mike” moment with then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Read full article > >

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Missing Tenn. sisters found; alleged captor dead

Friday, May 11th, 2012

Two young girls kidnapped from Tennessee after their sister and mother were slain were found alive in Mississippi, authorities said. Adam Mayes, the man accused of the murders and kidnappings, died after shooting himself, the FBI said.

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Court: TN Kidnapper Targeted Sisters

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

FBI adds suspect to “Most Wanted” list.

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Court: TN Kidnapper Targeted Sisters

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

FBI adds suspect to “Most Wanted” list.

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Top Scots lawyer on Libya mission

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

Scotland’s top prosecutor joined the director of the FBI on a mission to Libya to discuss the investigation into the Lockerbie bombing.

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Noism at Kennedy Center Terrace Theater

Saturday, April 28th, 2012

In a blast of white light after a blinding blackout, the Japanese dance group called Noism took a hard turn into surrealism. The dancers who had displayed great skill but little personality earlier in Thursday’s program now appeared as the most wonderful characters, caught in torqued, questioning and defensive poses as if they’d just dropped into the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater from Mars. Or were they refugees from one of Rei Kawakubo’s avant-garde fashion shows? Their billowy, tent-shaped costumes looked like Kawakubo with a bad case of static cling. As the dancers started to move, you saw that they were layered in all manner of frocks and tunics split apart and stitched atop one another. Read full article > >

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Who is Christopher Tappin?

Friday, April 27th, 2012

Christopher Tappin – ‘I was victim of FBI sting’

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New venture aims to mine near-Earth asteroids

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

Asteroids have made people nervous for several decades now, ever since scientists declared that a large object from space smashed into Earth 65 million years ago and put the kibosh on the Age of Dinosaurs. But now some entrepreneurs and tech tycoons are declaring that there’s money in those space rocks. Read full article > >

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New York dig for 1979 body clues

Thursday, April 19th, 2012

New York police and FBI are excavating a Manhattan basement as they seek clues into the 1979 disappearance of six-year-old Etan Patz.

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Several nations trying to penetrate U.S. cyber-networks, says ex-FBI official

Wednesday, April 18th, 2012

At least half a dozen countries with offensive cyber-capabilities are probing U.S. corporate and military computer systems, looking for data and a toehold should they one day want to disrupt or destroy the networks, according to the FBI’s former top cyber-sleuth. Read full article > >

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DOJ review of flawed FBI forensics processes lacked transparency

Wednesday, April 18th, 2012

The bombshell came at the most inopportune time. An FBI special agent was testifying in the government’s high-profile terrorism trial against Omar Abdel Rahman, the “blind sheik” suspected of plotting the first attack on the World Trade Center . Read full article > >

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Who gets on the FBI’s ‘top 10′ list?

Wednesday, April 11th, 2012

Who gets on the FBI’s top 10 list?

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Ex-teacher on FBI’s Most Wanted list

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

A former private school teacher and camp counselor facing child pornography charges was added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list Tuesday.

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Tulsa Police: Shootings Linked

Saturday, April 7th, 2012

FBI join investigation.

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