Scott Neuman

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Supreme Court Halts Execution Of Missouri Inmate

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

The Supreme Court on Wednesday put off the execution of Russell Bucklew, a Missouri inmate who has maintained that his rare congenital medical condition would make the lethal injection procedure excessively painful.

Bucklew had been scheduled to be put to death at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday for a 1996 murder, but ...

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Kidnapped California Woman, Missing Since 2004, Is Found Alive

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

A woman in Southern California who was reportedly abducted a decade ago has been found alive, and her alleged kidnapper has been arrested, Santa Ana police say.

The unidentified victim was reported missing by her mother in 2004, when she was 15. Police say Isidro Garcia, 41, was taken into ...

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71 Arrested For Internet Child Porn In New York

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Officials in New York say they have arrested 71 people for possessing and trading child pornography via the Internet in what's being described as the largest-ever such operation in the city.

Member station WNYC's Annemarie Fertoli reports that the five-week investigation, called Operation Caireen, was led by U.S. Immigration ...

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Obama: U.S. Military In Chad To Aid Search For Missing Schoolgirls

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

President Obama on Wednesday informed House Speaker John Boehner that 80 U.S. military personnel had been sent to the central African nation of Chad as part of efforts to help locate nearly 300 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist militants in Nigeria last month.

Chad borders Nigeria, where members of Boko Haram ...

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Russia, China Secure Nearly Half-Trillion-Dollar Gas Deal

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

In an agreement reminiscent of the early days of the Cold War, Russia has agreed to supply China with hundreds of billions of dollars worth of natural gas via a pipeline from Siberia pipeline to begin pumping in four years.

NPR's Frank Langfitt reports from Shanghai that in 2018, Russia ...

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White House To Release Secret Memo On Drone Strikes

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

The White House will reportedly comply with a court order to release a secret memorandum describing the legal justification for the 2011 drone strike against three Americans in Yemen, including Anwar al-Awlaki, an al-Qaida leader born in the U.S.

NPR's Scott Horsley reports that "the document had become a stumbling ...

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Federal Court Stays Execution Of Missouri Inmate

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Updated 5:00 a.m. ET Wednesday:

A U.S. Supreme Court Justice has temporarily halted the execution of a Missouri inmate who had been scheduled to die just after midnight Tuesday. Samuel Alito did not explain why he order the suspension of Russell Bucklew's execution.

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A federal appeals court has ...

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Royal Caribbean Offers 5-Week-Long U.S.-To-China Cruise

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Royal Caribbean says it's offering a 53-day voyage from the U.S. to China to inaugurate its newest giant luxury liner, the Quantum of the Seas, which is scheduled to begin cruises out of Shanghai next year.

The Quantum Global Odyssey cruise, set to begin May 2, 2015, will go ...

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Coup Or Not, It's Business As Usual For Most Thais

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Despite Thailand's declaration of martial law in what the army said was an effort to end political unrest, most Thais were going about life as normal.

In many ways, it's business as usual for the country of 67 million, where the military has been in power at least as ...

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Thai Army Declares Martial Law But Says It's No Coup

Monday, May 19, 2014

Thailand's army has declared martial law less than two weeks after Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was thrown out of office by the country's Constitutional Court.

The Associated Press reports:

"The army said in a statement that it had taken the action to 'keep peace and order,' and soldiers ...

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Credit Suisse Pleads Guilty To Helping U.S. Tax Evaders

Monday, May 19, 2014

Credit Suisse AG has pleaded guilty to helping wealthy Americans evade taxes in offshore havens, and the Swiss bank has agreed to pay U.S. authorities $2.6 billion in penalties, the Justice Department has announced.

Attorney General Eric Holder told a news conference in Washington on Monday that the Swiss bank ...

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U.S. Coast Guard Calls Off Atlantic Search For 4 British Sailors

Monday, May 19, 2014

The first person to sail single-handedly and nonstop around the world has joined others in urging the U.S. Coast Guard to resume a search for four missing British yachtsman who disappeared aboard a 40-foot sailboat in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean last week.

Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, who completed ...

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NASA Chief Dismisses Concern Over Russia Quitting Space Station

Monday, May 19, 2014

NASA's Administrator Charles Bolden says that Russia's plan to end cooperation on the International Space Station after 2020 will not have an impact on the success of the orbital platform.

Speaking to reporters in Germany, Bolden said Monday that even if Russia withdrew, no one country "is indispensable" ...

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Victories In Oregon, Utah For Same-Sex-Marriage Proponents

Monday, May 19, 2014

This post was updated at 6:30 p.m. ET.

Federal judges in two states have ruled in favor of same-sex marriage, with a decision in Oregon overturning a ban on the practice and another in Utah ordering officials to recognize more than 1,000 marriages that had been thrown into legal limbo.

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Occupy Wall Street Activist Gets 90 Days For Assaulting Officer

Monday, May 19, 2014

An Occupy Wall Street activist convicted of assaulting a police officer who was arresting her during a March 2012 protest has been sentenced to three months in jail.

"A civilized society must not allow an assault to be committed under the guise of civil disobedience," said Justice Ronald Zweibel. However, ...

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Apple, Google, Agree To Drop Patent Infringement Dispute

Friday, May 16, 2014

Apple and Google have agreed to drop perhaps the highest-profile lawsuit in high-tech, ending litigation over smartphone patents.

"Apple and Google have agreed to dismiss all the current lawsuits that exist directly between the two companies," the tech giants said in a joint statement on Friday. The two firms ...

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Record Flooding In Balkans Destroys Communities

Friday, May 16, 2014

The worst flooding in Bosnia and Serbia since records began 120 years ago has swept away homes, triggered dozens of landslides, cut off whole communities and killed at least four people.

Heavy rainfall has inundated the Balkans.

In a dramatic video, part of what appears to be a bridge ...

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Arkansas Supreme Court Suspends Ruling Allowing Gay Marriage

Friday, May 16, 2014

Same-sex marriage is off again in Arkansas.

The state's Supreme Court on Friday suspended a lower court's decision striking down a 2004 ban on gay marriage. So, no more marriage licenses will be issued to same-sex couples — at least for now.

Last week, Pulaski County Circuit Court Judge Chris ...

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Ancient Skeleton In Mexico Sheds Light On Americas Settlement

Friday, May 16, 2014

DNA from a 12,000-year-old skeleton of a teenage girl found in a cave in the Yucatan Peninsula shows the same markers found in modern Native Americans.

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Watergate Conspirator Jeb Stuart Magruder Dies At 79

Friday, May 16, 2014

Jeb Stuart Magruder, a former Nixon campaign official who pleaded guilty to conspiracy for his role in the Watergate break in and coverup, has died at 79.

Magruder, who became a Presbyterian minister after serving seven months in federal prison over the Watergate affair, died on Sunday of complications from ...

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