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Fat Women, Please Stay Away From Crime Scenes. Male Jurors Are Biased Against You.
This month a team of Yale psychologists released a study indicating that male jurors—but not female jurors—were more likely to hand a guilty verdict to obese women than to slender women.
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TV host Jimmy Savile exploited fame to abuse children on vast scale
Britain's late TV presenter and radio host Jimmy Savile sexually abused hundreds of people and carried out more than 30 rapes, police said Friday, as they unveiled a report exposing "vast, predatory and opportunistic" abuses across six decades.
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Teacher talks armed student into giving up
The teacher stood in the classroom, face-to-face with his 16-year-old student, who was holding a shotgun.
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Supreme Court to consider if silence can be evidence of guilt
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider whether a suspect's refusal to answer police questions prior to being arrested and read his rights can be introduced as evidence of guilt at his subsequent murder trial.
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Man arrested for Facebook posts about killing children
A Southern California man was arrested Thursday after Homeland Security officials got a tip that he had been posting threats about killing children on Facebook.
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The Little Lion: Syria’s 11-Year-Old Killing Machine
Child soldiers in Syria are involved in shelling, airstrikes, and sniping. They've also been subject to arbitrary arrest, torture and rape, as reported by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry..
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FBI's Scientology investigation: Balancing the First Amendment with charges of abuse and forced labor
The untold story of two dogged FBI agents, witnesses on the lam, and the surrender of self inside the Church of Scientology. . John Brousseau hadn't been seen for hours, not at the afternoon muster and not at the dinner break. That's when they got concerned.
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Six arrested in second India bus gang rape
Police in India have arrested six men in another gang rape of a bus passenger in India - four weeks after a brutal attack on a student on a moving bus in the capital outraged Indians and led to calls for tougher rape laws.
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Parents Admit Giving Baby Heroin
The 11-month-old baby boy died of acute heroin intoxication.
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Another gang rape in India
In an incident eerily similar to a sexual assault that sent shock waves worldwide, Indian police say a woman was gang-raped over the weekend by seven men after she boarded a bus at night.
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‘Dog who wouldn’t die’ is home after surgery
The dog who was found shot in the head and face with a pellet gun, stuffed in a garbage bag and left to die earlier this month was released from a Texas veterinary clinic on Saturday, following eye surgery paid for by a Facebook campaign.
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Not in my house: how Vegas casinos wage a war on cheating
The only way to win is to fight fire with fire.
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'Red October' cyber-attack discovered by Russian researchers
'Red October' has been targeting embassies, nuclear research centers, and oil and gas institutes since 2007.
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Thieves dig tunnel to burglarize Berlin bank
German police have launched an investigation after thieves tunneled into the safe deposit room of a Berlin bank. The group escaped with their haul, starting a fire as they left to cover their tracks.
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Good Samaritan finds kidnapped child
A 5-year-old girl abducted Monday from a West Philadelphia elementary school was found early Tuesday barely dressed and crying under a slide at a playground, police said.
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GOLD FINGER: Flipping a cop the bird may land culprit $2.1 million in civil rights lawsuit
Giving the finger to a fellow motorist is never a good idea — but it’s especially hazardous when the other driver is a cop.
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Russia's Bolshoi Ballet director may lose sight after acid attack
Doctors are fighting to save the sight of the artistic director of Russia's illustrious Bolshoi Ballet after a masked assailant threw acid in his face on a Moscow street, state media reported.
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New Mexico teenager held over shooting of five people
Two adults and three children were found dead with apparent multiple gunshot wounds at a house near Albuquerque on Saturday evening.
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Group Finds More Fake Ingredients in Popular Foods
The USP Warns the Amount of Food Fraud They Found Is Up by 60 Percent.
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Monsignor Meth Kevin Wallin: The Kinky Priest Who Sold Meth
'Monsignor Meth,' was nabbed on charges that he used an adult novelty shop to launder a transcontinental drug enterprise.
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