Thirty-Three Defendants Charged In Staged Automobile Accident Scheme
Doctors, licensed professionals, and clinic owners are among 33 people charged for their participation in a massive staged automobile accident scheme based in Palm Beach and Miami-Dade Counties, Florida.
No New Cases Of Avian Influenza A H7N9 Since May 84:13 pm Eastern | World No new laboratory-confirmed cases of human infection with avian influenza A(H7N9) have been reported to WHO by the National Health and Family Planning Commission in China since 8 May.read more »
| Nigerian Rebels Could Face War Crimes For 'Population Cleansing'3:56 pm Eastern | World Members of Boko Haram and other extremist groups in Nigeria could face war crimes charges for deliberate acts leading to ethnic and religious cleansing, according to officials.read more »
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Number Of Syrian Refugees Tops 1.5 Million17 May 15:23 | World The United Nations refugee agency says the number of Syrian civilians who have fled their country to escape conflict has passed the 1.5 million mark, while warning that the widening gap between the needs and resources available is becoming a huge challenge.read more »
| Invasive Crazy Ants Displacing Fire Ants In Southeastern US17 May 14:07 | U.S. News Invasive "crazy ants" are displacing fire ants in areas across the southeastern United States, according to researchers at The University of Texas at Austin. read more »
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Study Finds Most Scientists Agree Humans Are Causing Global Climate Change17 May 12:34 | SciTech An extensive analysis of the abstracts or summaries of scientific papers published over the past 20 years has found most scientists agree that human activity is causing global climate change.read more »
| World's Biggest Ice Sheets Likely More Stable Than Previously Believed17 May 13:42 | SciTech A new groundbreaking study challenges the thinking that the collapse of the world's largest ice sheets could lead to a much higher high sea level.read more »
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Home Prices Increased By 7.3 percent In 2012: CoreLogic Case-Shiller17 May 10:51 | Business The CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indexes estimate that home prices increased by 7.3 percent in 2012, the strongest rate of appreciation in nearly seven years, with the trend of rising prices expected to continue. read more »
| U.S. Treasury Increases Sanctions Against Syria17 May 09:16 | World The U.S. Treasury Department has announced sanctions against four senior officials of the Syrian government, an airline and one privately owned television station that has been airing forced confessions. read more »
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New Study Recommends Using Active Videogaming To Improve Children's Health17 May 08:47 | Entertainment Exergaming, using active console video games that track player movement to control the game such as Xbox-Kinect or Wii has become popular, and may provide an alternative form of exercise for children to counteract sedentary behaviors, according to a new study.read more »
| "Star Trek into Darkness" #1 Most Anticipated Movie This Weekend: Fandango17 May 07:39 | Entertainment Fandango says J.J. Abrams' highly anticipated "Star Trek Into Darkness" garnered a 96 out of 100 score on the company's Fanticipation movie buzz indicator that measures fan sentiment around the weekend box office line-up. read more »
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Powerball Jackpot Boosted To $550 Million For May 18 Drawing17 May 08:12 | U.S. News The Powerball jackpot has been boosted to a $550 million annuity value or a $350.1 million cash prize for the Saturday, May 18, drawing.read more »
| Five Arrested In Million-Dollar Mobile Phone Insurance Scam17 May 07:13 | U.S. News California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones says five Sacramento area residents have been arrested by Department of Insurance fraud investigators and charged with multiple felony counts related to alleged insurance fraud totaling nearly $1 million. read more »
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Concern About Deteriorating Security In Northeast Nigeria17 May 06:40 | World UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is calling on all extremist groups in Nigeria to cease their attacks amid deteriorating security in the country and where a state of emergency has been declared in parts of the northeast. read more »
| DEA Makes Three More Synthetic Cannabinoids Temporarily Illegal16 May 15:44 | U.S. News The United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has made the synthetic cannabinoids UR-144, XLR11, and AKB48 Schedule I, illegal drugs under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) for the next two years.read more »
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Mortgage Rates Climb for Second Straight Week16 May 15:54 | Business Mortgage rates moved higher for a second consecutive week, with the benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage rate climbing to 3.71 percent, according to Bankrate.com's weekly national survey.read more »
| Oregon Man Indicted for Alleged Role in $50 Million Securities Fraud Scheme16 May 15:37 | U.S. News An Oregon man has been charged with allegedly orchestrating a $50 million securities fraud scheme.read more »
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Tetanus Eliminated In Over 30 Countries At High Risk16 May 11:23 | World Tetanus – one of the most deadly diseases a mother and her newborn can face – has been eliminated in more than 30 countries with previously had high rates of the illness. read more »
| Oregon Man Indicted for Alleged Role in $50 Million Securities Fraud Scheme16 May 15:36 | U.S. News An Oregon man has been charged with allegedly orchestrating a $50 million securities fraud scheme.read more »
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Consumer Reports Releases Gas Grill Tests16 May 09:59 | U.S. News In Consumer Reports' new Ratings of more than 100 gas grills, models from Weber's Spirit line were among the highest scoring in its latest tests. read more »
| House Energy Costs Should Be Listed In All Real Estate Transactions: Report16 May 08:47 | Business A new report suggests requiring energy costs of a house to be listed in all real-estate transactions would one way of encouraging people to develop "net-zero houses", or residences that generate as much energy as they use over the course of a year.read more »
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Inmate Charged In Murder-for-Hire Plot Against Federal Judge16 May 06:48 | U.S. News Texas man Phillip Monroe Ballard, 71, has been charged with murder for hire with the indictment alleging Ballard solicited the murder for hire of a U.S. District Judge in the Northern District of Texas.read more »
| Groundwater Unaffected By Fracking In Arkansas, Say Scientists15 May 15:42 | SciTech A new study by scientists at Duke University and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) finds no evidence of groundwater contamination from shale gas production in Arkansas.read more »
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Global Investor Confidence Set to Return During 2013, Finds Schroders Report15 May 15:23 | Business Global investor confidence is returning but at different rates around the world, according to a comprehensive new report by Schroders, the global asset manager. read more »
| SEC Charges China-Based Executives in Scheme to Overstate Revenues15 May 15:33 | Business The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged husband-and-wife executives at a China-based company with engaging in a scheme to overstate the company’s revenues and divert proceeds from a securities offering for their personal use.read more »
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Fish Oil May Stall Effects Of Junk Food On Brain15 May 11:06 | SciTech Data from more than 180 research papers suggests fish oils could minimise the effects that junk food can have on the brain, a review by researchers at the University of Liverpool has shown.read more »
| Bribery Charges Against Former Marion County Chief Deputy Prosecutor15 May 09:50 | U.S. News Formal federal bribery charges have been filed against former Marion County Chief Deputy Prosecutor, David Wyser, age 53, who is currently a resident of Hamilton County. read more »
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Drug Kingpin Kaboni Savage and Sister Kidada Convicted Of Arson Murders15 May 08:42 | U.S. News A federal jury has found drug kingpin Kaboni Savage, 38, and his sister Kidada, 30, guilty of orchestrating the murders of a federal witness’ family and of conspiring to participate in a long-term, large-scale violent drug trafficking enterprise. read more »
| Critical Shortage Of Food And Supplies In Parts Of Syria15 May 07:38 | World A United Nations mission that recently visited the Syrian village of Houla where over 100 people were massacred in May has found a critical shortage of food, water, medical supplies and fuel.read more »
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New World Trade Organization Chief Announced15 May 06:51 | World Roberto Carvalho de Azevêdo of Brazil has been named as the next Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO).read more »
| More Than 280,000 Complaints Of Online Criminal Activity Reported In 201214 May 15:27 | U.S. News The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) says in 2012 it received and processed 289,874 complaints, averaging more than 24,000 complaints per month. read more »
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New Safety Agreement Between Garment Industry And Bangladeshi Workers14 May 15:49 | World International fashion brands, retailers and trade unions have signed an agreement to prevent workplace disasters in Bangladesh. read more »
| Sir Paul McCartney Joins Call For Global Ban On Animal Tests For Cosmetics14 May 15:32 | Entertainment Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney is backing Cruelty Free International's work for a global ban on cosmetics tests on animals.read more »
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Former Hedge Fund Co-Founder Anthony Chiasson Jailed For Insider Trading14 May 11:07 | Business A former portfolio manager and co-founder of the hedge fund Level Global Investors (Level Global), Anthony Chiasson, has been sentenced to 78 months in prison for crimes stemming from his involvement in insider trading schemes that netted nearly $70 million in illegal profits for Level Global. read more »
| Prehistoric Ear Bones Could Lead To Evolutionary Answers14 May 12:18 | SciTech The tiniest bones in the human body – the bones of the middle ear – could provide huge clues about our evolution and the development of modern-day humans, according to a study by a team of researchers.read more »
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Climate Change Body Urges Coordinated Response To CO2 'Danger Zone'14 May 09:01 | World The United Nations climate change body is warning that a stepped-up coordinated response is needed to fend off the impacts of climate change after the world’s carbon-dioxide concentrations surpassed their highest level in 4 million years.read more »
| Eating Insects Can Help Tackle Food Insecurity Says FAO14 May 08:54 | World While insects can be slimy, cringe-inducing creatures, often squashed on sight by humans, a new book released by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) says beetles, wasps and caterpillars are also an unexplored nutrition source that can help address global food insecurity.read more »
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Former Gulf Cartel Leader Gets 35 Years In Prison for Drug Trafficking14 May 07:16 | U.S. News A Mexican national and high ranking member of the Gulf Cartel, Aurelio Cano Floreswas has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for conspiring to import multi-ton quantities of cocaine and marijuana into the United States.read more »
| New Method of Finding Planets Scores its First Discovery13 May 15:38 | SciTech A team at Tel Aviv University and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) has just discovered an exoplanet using a new method that relies on Einstein's special theory of relativity.read more »
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Israel Urged To Stop Highway Construction Through Palestinian Community13 May 15:29 | World An independent expert has called on Israel to immediately halt construction of a settlement highway that would cut through the Palestinian community of Beit Safafa endangering the livelihoods of some 9,300 people.read more »
| OPEC Boosted Crude Output In April13 May 15:26 | Business The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) boosted crude output by 250,000 barrels per day (b/d) to 30.5 million b/d in April, a just-released Platts survey of OPEC and oil industry officials and analysts showed.read more »
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Two Perpetrators of Nationwide 'Walk Away Today' Scam Plead Guilty13 May 10:42 | U.S. News Mark S. Farhood, 49, formerly of San Diego, California, and Jason S. Sant, 37, of Lecanto, Florida, have pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in connection with their nationwide online foreclosure rescue scam that went by various names, including Home Advocate Trustees and Walk Away Today.read more »
| Elevated Cadmium Levels From Industrial Emissions And Smoking Linked To Disease13 May 11:50 | SciTech People with higher levels of cadmium in their urine — evidence of chronic exposure to the heavy metal found in industrial emissions and tobacco smoke — appear to be nearly 3.5 times more likely to die of liver disease than those with lower levels, according to a study by Johns Hopkins scientists.read more »
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Agent Orange Exposure Linked To Life-Threatening Prostate Cancer13 May 08:14 | SciTech A new analysis has found a link between exposure to Agent Orange and lethal forms of prostate cancer among US Veterans.read more »
| Rare Glass Bottle Returned to Wistar Institute13 May 06:35 | U.S. News A rare glass bottle has been returned to the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania after being lost for more than 50 years. read more »
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Car Bomb Attack In Southeastern Turkey Kills 4013 May 07:39 | World A car bomb attack has reportedly killed 40 people in the town of Reyhanli, in Turkey's Hatay province.read more »
| Climate Change Will Cause Dramatic Loss Of Common Plants And Animals Say Scientists12 May 15:34 | SciTech More than half of common plants and one third of the animals could see a dramatic decline this century due to climate change, according to research from the University of East Anglia.read more »
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Peacekeepers Detained In Golan Heights Released12 May 15:45 | World Four United Nations peacekeepers captured last week while on patrol in the Golan Heights have been released unharmed.read more »
| 12 Year Old Boy Charged With Murder Of 8 Year Old Sister12 May 01:00 | U.S. News The Calaveras County Sheriff’s Office in California says after an extensive fifteen day investigation into the murder of 8 year old Leila Fowler, detectives have arrested Leila's 12 year old brother on the charge of homicide. read more »
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Potential Flu Pandemic Lurks Say MIT Researchers10 May 15:57 | SciTech A new study from MIT reveals there are many strains of H3N2 influenza virus circulating in birds and pigs that are genetically similar to the 1968 strain which killed an estimated 1 million people.read more »
| U.S. Postal Service Makes Second Quarter Loss Of $1.9 Billion10 May 15:50 | Business The U.S. Postal Service ended the second quarter of its 2013 fiscal year with a net loss of $1.9 billion and called for comprehensive legislation to return it to solvency.read more »
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FBI Cleveland Seek Assistance In Disappearances Of Christina Adkins and Ashley Summers10 May 15:39 | U.S. News In light of the recent events in Cleveland, Ohio, with the homecomings of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus, the Cleveland FBI and Cleveland Division of Police have received numerous inquiries regarding the disappearances of Christina Adkins and Ashley Summers.read more »
| Man Claiming To Be Congo President's Son Indicted for Defrauding Victims of $1.6 Million10 May 15:36 | U.S. News A federal grand jury in San Francisco has indicted Blessed Marvelous Herve, a/k/a Rodrigue Herve Ngandou, a/k/a Herve Rodrigue Ngandou, a/k/a Blessed Roll Herve, for wire fraud after the 41 year allegedly old devised and executed a scheme to defraud victims of approximately $1.6 million. read more »
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Syria: Thousands Displaced By Deadly Violence In Baniyas Area10 May 15:29 | World Relief agencies say they have begun distribution of emergency assistance to thousands of Syrians who were recently displaced by alleged massacres in Baniyas and its surrounding areas. read more »
| Tunisian Man Charged with Visa Fraud Related to Terrorism10 May 07:39 | U.S. News A Tunisian citizen, Ahmed Abassi, has been charged for fraudulently applying for a work visa in order to remain in the United States to facilitate an act of international terrorism. read more »
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Water On Moon And Earth Came From Same Primitive Meteorites: Scientists10 May 08:56 | SciTech The water found on the moon, like that on Earth, came from small meteorites called carbonaceous chondrites in the first 100 million years or so after the solar system formed, researchers from Brown and Case Western Reserve universities and Carnegie Institution of Washington have found.read more »
| Pakistanis Prepare To Vote In General Election10 May 06:35 | World UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging all eligible Pakistanis to peacefully take part in the country’s upcoming elections while also expressing concern about the recent wave of violence and attacks aimed at disrupting preparations for the 11 May polls. read more »
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Mortgage Rates Rebound After Better Jobs Report: Bankrate9 May 15:27 | Business After declining for seven straight weeks, mortgage rates moved higher following better than expected news about jobs, with the benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage rate increasing to 3.6 percent, according to Bankrate.com's weekly national survey. read more »
| Scientists Find Arctic Was Much Warmer Millions Of Years Ago9 May 15:46 | SciTech The Arctic was very warm during a period roughly 3.5 to 2 million years ago - a time when research suggests that the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was roughly comparable to todays, accord to a new study.read more »
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Netflix And Disney Announce Licensing Deal For Five Popular Shows9 May 15:39 | Entertainment Netflix and The Disney/ABC Television Group have announced a new multi-year licensing agreement that will make Netflix the exclusive U.S. subscription television service for one of the most popular shows on Disney Junior, Jake and the Never Land Pirates, as well as fan favorite Disney XD show Tron: Uprising. read more »
| World Food Prices Rise For Second Month In A Row9 May 15:20 | World World food prices have risen for a second straight month, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which added global production of coarse grains could set a new record this year with strong growth also projected for global wheat and rice production. read more »
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U.S. Marshals Make Largest Real Property Sale In Service History9 May 15:15 | U.S. News The United States Marshals Service has announced the largest sale of real property in U.S. Marshals Service history. read more »
| 131 Cases Of Avian Influenza A H7N9 Virus Confirmed9 May 08:29 | World The World Health Organization says a total of 131 laboratory-confirmed cases of human infection with avian influenza A(H7N9) virus have now been reported, with 32 deaths.read more »
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Call For Western Clothing Brands To Work With Bangladesh To Prevent Another Disaster9 May 07:13 | World Global clothing brands are being urged to work with Bangladesh, international organizations and civil society to improve working conditions in the country’s garment sector, following the collapse last month of a factory that left hundreds dead and wounded. read more »
| Libyan Trials Could Be 'Nuremberg Moment' Says ICC Prosecutor9 May 06:28 | World The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) says if Libya can conduct fair trials of alleged perpetrators during the pro-democracy uprising in 2011, the proceedings could equal the lasting impact of the Nuremberg trials.read more »
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