At Benghazi Hearing, State Dept. Concedes Errors

WASHINGTON — State Department officials promised on Thursday to carry out quickly the recommendations of a review board to beef up security for the foreign service and urged Congress to provide more money to protect American diplomats. The promises came during a Senate hearing into the handling of diplomatic security in Benghazi, Libya, before a deadly attack on a diplomatic outpost there...

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Acer will beat Google to market with its own $99 tablet

Title Post: Acer will beat Google to market with its own $99 tabletRating: 100%based on 99998 ratings.5 user reviews.Author: Fluser SeoLinkThanks for visiting the blog, If any criticism and suggestions please leave a comm...

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Shiri Appleby Expecting Her First Child

Mom & Babies Celebrity Baby Blog 12/20/2012 at 03:00 PM ET Charley Gallay/GettyShiri Appleby is going to be a mom.The actress and fiancé Jon Shook are expecting their first child this spring, PEOPLE confirms.“Thank you for all the well wishes,” Appleby, 34, says. “We can’t wait to meet our little...

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AP IMPACT: Steroids loom in major-college football

WASHINGTON (AP) — With steroids easy to buy, testing weak and punishments inconsistent, college football players are packing on significant weight — 30 pounds or more in a single year, sometimes — without drawing much attention from their schools or the NCAA in a sport that earns tens of billions of dollars for teams.Rules vary so widely that, on any given game day, a team with a strict no-steroid...

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Executive accused of dumping dead wife on Mexico border free on bail

A man accused of killing his wife at their Newport Coast home and leaving her body on the U.S. side of the Mexican border was released from jail Wednesday, court records show. Peter Gregory Chadwick, 48, who is charged with murder, posted bail and was released from jail at 1:47 a.m., jail records show. One of the sentencing enhancements against him, murder for financial gain, was dropped, according...

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The Lede Blog: Aleppo's History Under Threat

As my colleagues Chris Chivers, Tyler Hicks and Ben Solomon report in text, photographs and video, civilians are suffering from shortages of food and medicine, among other hardships, in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, which is being torn apart in urban warfare between rebels and forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.But the city is also one of the Middle East’s most culturally and historically significant....

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Wii U finally gets Nintendo’s TVii service on December 20th

After a month-long delay, Nintendo (NTDOY) will launch its Nintendo TVii service for the Wii U on December 20th in the U.S. and Canada. Nintendo TVii is the company’s take on organizing all of the various video streaming and DVR services a user might subscribe to and then displaying them in an easy-to-navigate touchscreen-based interface on the Wii U GamePad. With Nintendo...

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Taylor Swift's Cat Really, Really Likes Her New Song

People Pets By Alison Schwartz UPDATED 12/19/2012 at 03:00 PM EST • Originally published 12/19/2012 at 02:00 PM EST Taylor Swift's cat Meredith is no trouble at all – just a fan. "What's on the radio right now?" the Red singer asks her feline friend as her new single, "I Knew You Were Trouble,"...

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Experts: Kids are resilient in coping with trauma

WASHINGTON (AP) — They might not want to talk about the gunshots or the screams. But their toys might start getting into imaginary shootouts.Last week's school shooting in Connecticut raises the question: What will be the psychological fallout for the children who survived?For people of any age, regaining a sense of security after surviving violence can take a long time. They're at risk for lingering...

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Scarlett Johansson: Hacker who stole nude photos 'perverted'

Actress Scarlett Johansson said she was "truly humiliated and embarrassed" by a Florida man who hacked into celebrity email accounts and procured naked images of her, actions she called "perverted and reprehensible."Johansson, whose then-husband Ryan Reynolds' email was hacked, videotaped a statement that was played in U.S. District Court on Monday as Judge S. James Otero sentenced Christopher...

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