The alleged hiring of prostitutes suggests a cultural problem within the Secret Service, Sen. Susan Collins says during a congressional hearing on the scandal.
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Dozens of war-zone-like battles have erupted in northeastern Mexico in recent months as soldiers, marines and police have engaged in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with roaming Zetas hit squads.
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A Nevada wildfire threatening 120 homes grew to 5,000 acres in less than a day and destroyed two residences as well as 17 structures, officials said Wednesday as crews prepared for another attack.
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The high school freshman suspended for five days after she created an anti-bullying video and Facebook page about a fictional girl who commits suicide says she tried to explain her work to school officials to no avail.
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A Magna, Utah, man says he suffered through a weekend of torture in his home at the hands of his six roommates.
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LONDON -- A young woman has told a court in England that as a child she witnessed her 17-year-old sister being murdered by their parents after a months-long quarrel about the teen's Westernized lifestyle.
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The body of a missing Harvard Business School student was found Tuesday in the water not far from where he was last seen drinking in an Irish pub in Portland, Maine, according to NBC affiliate WHDH.com.
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The trial of a man found guilty of murdering white supremacist Eugene Terre'blanche saw far-right groups demonstrating across from anti-apartheid campaigners.
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LONDON -- A young woman has told a court in England that as a child she witnessed her 17-year-old sister being murdered by their parents after a months-long quarrel about the teen's Westernized lifestyle.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and banks led by Morgan Stanley were sued by shareholders, who claimed they hid the company's weakened growth forecasts ahead of its IPO.
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Euro zone officials have agreed that each euro zone country must prepare an individual contingency plan in the eventuality that Greece decides to leave the single currency area, two eurozone officials said on Wednesday.
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First Read:  NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll underscores campaign messages of both Obama and Romney.
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The Associated Press reports — AHUAS, Honduras — A fearsome rattle of gunfire from the sky. The roar of helicopters descending on a tiny, Honduran town.
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Nearly 2 million college graduates will be heading out into the tough job market this spring. The last thing grads need is to make dumb mistakes.
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A new Google doodle honors the birth of Moog synthesizer creator Robert Moog, and it gives you the chance to play the synthesizer, similar to what Google did last year with a guitar that honored the birth of Les Paul.
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Think twice before reaching for the office break room door – three in four are tainted with bacteria, finds a new study that examined 5,000 swabs from offices. “The break room is really the center of germ transfer in the office,” found researcher Charles Gerba.
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A doctor accused of helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden has been sentenced to 33 years in prison, a Pakistani government official told NBC News on Wednesday.
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Two men who vandalized a controversial painting of South African President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed were due to appear in court Wednesday.
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PBT: It's wasn't quite a "statement" game, but it was the next closest thing as LeBron James' team reestablished itself as the best in the Eastern semis.
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LONDON -- Helicopter-mounted cameras capable of identifying the color of a suspect's shoelaces on the ground from almost a mile away have been unveiled as a key weapon for security officials preparing of this summer's London Olympics. The U.K.
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NEW YORK — The nurses, doctors, hospital, attorney and accountant for the reclusive heiress Huguette Clark coerced or influenced her to give them more than $44 million in gifts, the executor of her estate claimed in a remarkable legal petition filed Tuesday in Manhattan. Msnbc.com investigative reporter Bill Dedman has the story.
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A dying man came "for my children," a college student said he finally felt "like a citizen of this country," and an undecided voter was just happy to take part in "a historic" moment.
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A white supremacist likely will spend the rest of his life behind bars after a judge sentenced him to 40 years in prison for a 2004 bombing that wounded a black city official in Phoenix.
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Fighting has ravaged Syria over the past 14 months, as evidenced in parts of the Homs neighborhood of Baba Amr. Nearly destroyed, hollow buildings stand on the side of roads seldom traveled by either cars or people.
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