Scott Neuman

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Fire Sweeps Through Businesses Along Jersey's Seaside Boardwalk

Thursday, September 12, 2013

A fire that started in an ice cream shop is spreading elsewhere along New Jersey's famous boardwalk in Seaside Park.

News video shows the boardwalk — located in an area that had just been rebuilt after it was destroyed by Superstorm Sandy nearly a year ago — clouded by thick ...

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Bulgaria Closes Cold War 'Umbrella Murder' Case

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Thirty-five years after the assassination of Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov by a ricin-tipped umbrella as he waited for a bus in London, no one knows for sure who was responsible. And now it's quite possible that no one ever will.

Bulgaria's chief prosecutor said Thursday that his office is ...

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Voyager Has Left The Solar System (This Time For Real!)

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Stop us if you've heard this one: A spacecraft flies out of the solar system ...

Yes, the planetary probe Voyager 1, launched in the era of Jimmy Carter and bell-bottoms, has finally left the room, so to speak, years after completing its primary mission: a "grand tour" ...

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D.C. Mayor Vetoes 'Living Wage' Bill Targeting Large Retailers

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Washington, D.C., Mayor Vincent Gray has vetoed a controversial "living wage" bill that would have forced large retailers such as Wal-Mart to pay a 50 percent premium on the district's $8.25 per hour minimum wage.

When the bill was approved by the city council in July, Wal-Mart said it would ...

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Missouri Vote Fails On Measure To Invalidate Federal Gun Laws

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Missouri lawmakers failed to override Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon's veto of legislation aimed at invalidating certain federal firearms restrictions.

Senators voted 22-12 Wednesday night to override the veto, falling a single vote short of the required two-thirds majority. The override had already passed the Republican-controlled House.

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Satellite Image Suggests North Korea Is Restarting Reactor

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

North Korea appears to be in the process of restarting a nuclear reactor used to produce weapons-grade plutonium, five years after shutting the facility down as part of international disarmament efforts.

New satellite imagery appears to reveal that the 5-megawatt reactor at Yongbyon, which experts believe can produce enough plutonium ...

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Discovery Of Massive Aquifers Could Be Game Changer For Kenya

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Satellite imagery and seismic data have identified two huge underground aquifers in Kenya's drought-prone north, a discovery that could be "a game changer" for the country, NPR's Gregory Warner reports.

The aquifers, located hundreds of feet underground in the Turkana region that borders Ethiopia and South Sudan, contain billions of ...

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Chinese Premier Says Foreign Companies To Get 'Equal Treatment'

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has pledged to treat foreign multinational companies on a par with the country's own state-owned enterprises, but he warned that an economic rebound remains fragile.

Li, speaking at a business forum in the northeastern city of Dalian on Wednesday, cautioned that the global economic outlook was ...

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Series Reveals Underground Market For 'Re-Homing' Adoptees

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

In an exhaustive, 18-month investigation, Reuters has detailed a practice in the U.S. of "private re-homing" of unwanted foreign adoptees and allegations of sexual and physical abuse at the hands of guardians.

In the five-part series "The Child Exchange: Inside America's underground market for adopted children," Reuters tracked down ...

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Humberto Expected To Become First Hurricane Of Atlantic Season

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Tropical Storm Humberto is poised to get a promotion, becoming the first hurricane of an otherwise lackluster Atlantic season to date.

Humberto and Tropical Storm Gabrielle are both active in the Atlantic right now. Brian McNoldy, of the University of Miami's Rosenthiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, writes ...

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Study Says America's Income Gap Widest Since Great Depression

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

The gap between the 1 percent and the 99 percent is growing, according to an analysis of IRS figures by an international group of university economists, and it hasn't been so wide since 1928.

The incomes of the very wealthiest 1 percent of Americans increased by 31.4 percent from 2009 ...

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Beijing To Crack Down On Social Media 'Slanderous Rumors'

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

China will jail anyone caught using social media to spread "slanderous rumors" or "false information" for up to 10 years, according to a new legal interpretation of Internet restrictions, the official Xinhua news agency reports.

A court's interpretation says the spread of such rumors could automatically incur a three-year prison ...

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Apple Unveils New iPhones — One Innovative, One Cheap

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Apple unveiled its replacement for the iPhone 5 — one for the top end of the market that features an innovative new fingerprint security device, a faster processor and longer battery life; and a second budget phone that will retail for as low as $99.

CEO Tim Cook was joined ...

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New Survey Gives U.S., U.K. Universities Top Rankings

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

A new ranking of the world's 800 best universities has U.S. institutions dominating the Top 10, with MIT and Harvard ranking first and second, respectively.

The QS World University Rankings 2013, which is based on surveys of academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty-student ratio, citations per faculty and the number ...

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Warding Off Polar Bears? There's An App For That

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Just in time for the release of the new iPhone, a man in Canada has found yet another new use for the cellphone — thwarting a polar bear attack.

Garett Kolsun says he used his cellphone to scare off a 400-pound polar bear on the attack, using the light from ...

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Top Afghan Militant Reportedly Killed In U.S. Drone Strike

Friday, September 06, 2013

A senior leader of the al-Qaida-linked Haqqani network — considered one of the most dangerous factions fighting American troops in Afghanistan — has been killed in a U.S. drone strike over northwestern Pakistan, officials say.

Sangeen Zadran was among five people killed at a compound in the North Waziristan tribal ...

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Job Applicants Made To Dance: 'Like A Scene Out Of The Office'

Friday, September 06, 2013

It sounds like something out of a sitcom; in this case, the original British television version of The Office: job seekers being compelled to dance for a chance at a sales position at a U.K. electronics retailer.

Applicant Alan Bacon, who hoped for a position at a Currys Megastore in ...

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Deep In The Pacific, Scientists Discover Biggest Volcano On Earth

Friday, September 06, 2013

The world's largest volcano has until now been lurking undiscovered in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, according to a team of scientists who identified the massive object and reported their findings in the latest issue of Nature Geoscience.

The newly revealed Tamu Massif volcano — located about 1,000 ...

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Antitrust Monitor Ordered For Apple Over E-Book Price Fixing

Friday, September 06, 2013

A federal judge who found Apple guilty of colluding with publishers in an e-book price-fixing scheme ordered the tech giant on Friday to modify its contracts and submit to oversight to make sure it doesn't happen again.

The injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan orders the ...

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German Police Raid Christian Sect For Alleged Child Abuse

Thursday, September 05, 2013

Two communities affiliated with a U.S.-founded Christian sect have been raided by German police, who removed 40 children after allegations of abuse.

Officials say they acted after receiving evidence of ongoing child abuse at the two communities in Bavaria belonging to the Twelve Tribes, according to Germany's Spiegel Online.

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