Video: Life-sized Lego Star Wars X-wing starfighter unveiled in New York - Teleg
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 The largest Lego model ever assembled, the life-size X-wing starfighter is 42 feet long with a 44-foot-wide wingspan and took 32 builders more than a year to put together.
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Theodore J. Boutrous Jr.: A Radical Departure on Press Freedom - WSJ.com
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In The Wall Street Journal, Theodore J. Boutrous Jr. considers the Justice Department`s surveillance of Fox News reporter James Rosen. By Justice`s logic, doing basic reporting is committing a crime.
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Strassel: Conservatives Became Targets in 2008 - WSJ.com
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 In The Wall Street Journal, Potomac Watch columnist Kimberley Strassel writes that Obama campaign counsel Bob Bauer played a big role in a liberal onslaught that far pre-dated highlight type=ITALIC
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A Battering Ram Becomes a Stonewall - WSJ.com
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 The IRS`s leaders refuse to account for the agency`s corruption and abuse. Peggy Noonan reviews the hearings.
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Adrian McKinty`s Hard-Boiled Belfast Trilogy - WSJ.com
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The war-torn Ulster of his youth fuels the author`s crime novels.
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Kenny Chesney: King of the Road - WSJ.com
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 Never mind the Stones, U2 and Springsteen. Chesney has sold more concert tickets than anyone else in the past 10 years. A look inside the complex machinery of his touring operation.
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One Small Town's Fight to Banish a Brutal Mexican Cartel | Raw File | Wired
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Canadian photojournalist Brett Gundlock traveled to Cherán, Mexico last year to find out how things had changed for residents in that town after they confronted a violent Mexican cartel that had been illegally harvesting timber in the area.
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Exclusive: Congressman Preps Bill to End Terror War Authority | Danger Room | Wi
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A prominent legislator thinks it's time for the broad post-9/11 law authorizing the war on terrorism to expire. And he's going to introduce a bill to repeal it.
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IRS Replaces Official At Center Of Targeting Scandal
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 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service official who led the unit that targeted tea party groups and publicly disclosed the activity has been replaced, making her the third top IRS official moved aside since the episode was revealed two…
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Despite Obama Veto Threat, House GOP Backs Variable Rate Student Loans
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Dismissing a veto threat from President Barack Obama, lawmakers in the House passed legislation that links student loan rates to the ups and downs of the financial markets in a vote largely along party lines. The Republican-backed&
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UK arrests 2 men over incident with Pakistan plane
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 British police say two men have been arrested on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft after an incident on a civilian plane flying from Pakistan to England.
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BBC News - Have mechanical clocks' time passed?
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Marc Cieslak discovers how far time has come since the tower containing Big Ben was built
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BBC News - Europe's stance on Hezbollah hardens
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Europe's attitude to Hezbollah is hardening as the militant Lebanese group's intervention in Syria on the side of Assad changes the calculus, writes the BBC's Jonathan Marcus.
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After London attack, Britain officials begin intelligence review - latimes.com
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 Britain wants to know whether there were warning signs before the slaying of a soldier in London. Two more suspects are arrested.
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Drug cartel boss pleads guilty to murder in U.S. agent`s death - latimes.com
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 A Mexican drug cartel commander pleads guilty to murder and attempted murder in a 2011 ambush that sharply strained U.S.-Mexico relations.
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Glendora backyard excavation ends without cold-case clues - latimes.com
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 A search for clues in a Glendora backyard has turned up no evidence in the disappearance of a woman 35 years ago, officials said.
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Teacher`s recording captures harrowing moments during tornado - latimes.com
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 The chilling screams of students and teachers can be heard on an audio recording made as a tornado swept through Briarwood Elementary School in Oklahoma City.
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New lane opens on northbound 405 Freeway - latimes.com
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 A new northbound lane of the 405 Freeway was opened Friday between the 10 Freeway and Santa Monica Boulevard, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced.
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Overturned big rig, fuel spill wreak havoc on West L.A. commute - latimes.com
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 A big rig and a second vehicle collided on the northbound 405 Freeway, causing 700 gallons of fuel to spill and blocking three lanes of traffic during Friday morning’s rush hour.
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Dozens of aftershocks shake Northern California after 5.7 quake - latimes.com
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 More than three dozen aftershocks, ranging up to a magnitude 4.9, have been registered following a 5.7 earthquake about 150 miles northeast of Sacramento, officials said.
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