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  4 Americans killed since 2009 in US drone strikes

  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009 in Pakistan and Yemen. The disclosure to Congress comes on the eve of a major national security...   5:30 PM
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  And the best and worst airlines in America are...

   These days when most airlines are turning people off with their excessive fees and crowded flights, Virgin America is getting some of the highest customer satisfaction scores any airline has seen in years.  According to a Consumer Reports' airline...   5:18 PM
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  DOJ seized records for Fox News phone numbers, reporter's parents

  Newly uncovered court documents reveal the Justice Department seized records of several Fox News phone lines as part of a leak investigation -- even listing a number that, according to one source, matches the home phone number of a reporter's...   5:19 PM
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  Insurers feared Michael Jackson had cancer, other diseases: witness

  LOS ANGELES - Concert promoters couldn’t buy coverage for Michael Jackson because insurers feared he had cancer and several other diseases The King of Pop really didn’t have, a top executive testified today. Shawn Trell, AEG Live's general counsel,...   4:15 PM
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  Mike unleashes a ‘hail’ storm

  Mayor Bloomberg went on a spitting-mad rant against a city cab-fleet boss who won a court victory over Hizzoner’s planned “Taxi of Tomorrow” — vowing to “destroy your f--king industry” when he leaves office, The Post has learned. A fuming Bloomberg...   12:40 PM

• Senators' bill to block TSA big's plan to allow small knives on planes

  TTransportation Security Administration Administrator John Pistole is poised to lose a knife fight. A new bill introduced today on Capitol Hill by Sen....   7:10 PM
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  Harlem man acquitted of trying to murder cop

  A Manhattan jury this afternoon acquitted a 24-year-old Harlem gunslinger of attempting to murder a police officer during a foot chase last year at 144th Street and Eighth Avenue. The jury cleared Franklin Nunez in the alleged March, 2012 shootout...   5:41 PM
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  Greek yogurt's half a supertanker per year toxic waste problem

   Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffit eating her curds and the toxic by-product of Greek yogurt. The production of the smooth, creamy and protein-packed breakfast food that has made brands like Fage and Chobani household names creates massive...   4:13 PM
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  Arias jury deadlocked but must continue

  PHOENIX — Jurors in the Jodi Arias murder trial told the judge Wednesday that they are unable to reach a unanimous verdict on whether the convicted murderer should be get life or death for killing her boyfriend, prompting the judge to send them back...   3:40 PM
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  Canseco tweets he is suspect in Las Vegas sex assault probe

   Jose Canseco loves the limelight — even though he’s the target of a rape investigation. The outspoken slugger and admitted steroid-taker today posted a series of tweets, some that he removed a short time later, that revealed he’s being...   4:35 PM
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  President Obama to visit tornado-ravaged Moore on Sunday: report

  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will travel to tornado-ravaged Moore, Okla., on Sunday. That's according to a White House official, who wasn't authorized to publicly discuss the trip ahead of the official announcement and requested anonymity. A...   1:42 PM
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  Cops bust looters in tornado-ravaged town, ID badges eyed to discourage banditry

  These two really are the lowest of the low.  Cops in Moore busted two thugs allegedly looting homes destroyed by the deadly F-5 twister that flattened the Oklahoma City suburb on Monday afternoon. The fiendish pair were arrested last night after the...   1:24 PM
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  18-year-old invents 30-second phone charger

   Your dead battery will be gone in 60 seconds. A new device can fit inside a cell phone’s battery and recharge it fully in less than half a minute. Is it the latest from Duracell or Energizer? The brainchild of a startup with $20 million in the...   3:01 PM
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  Anthony Weiner hides from press after mayoral bid vid prematurely leaks online

  Anthony Weiner was lying low this morning after releasing a video announcing his last-minute entry into the race for mayor. A crush of reporters was camped outside his Park Avenue South apartment for so long that campaign aides treated them to three...   4:11 PM
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  Bernanke says it's too soon for Fed to end stimulus programs

  WASHINGTON — Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress Wednesday that the U.S. job market remains weak and that it is too soon for the Federal Reserve to slow its extraordinary stimulus programs. Reducing the Fed's efforts to keep borrowing rates low...   3:02 PM
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  Target's first-quarter profit falls 29 percent on weak sales

  Target Corp. reported a 29 percent drop in first-quarter profit as unusually cool spring weather and financial pressures chilled customers' appetite for spending. The company, based in Minneapolis, also on Wednesday cut its annual profit outlook,...   1:44 PM
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  Oklahoma tornado damage could cost more than $2 billion

  MOORE, Okla. — The tornado that tore through an Oklahoma City suburb destroyed or damaged as many as 13,000 homes and may have caused $2 billion in overall damage, officials said Wednesday. State authorities meanwhile said two infants were among the...   3:12 PM
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  Tick Tock diner manager charged with plotting to kill uncle co-owner freed on bail

  CLIFTON, NJ — The manager of a New Jersey diner is free on bail six weeks after he was charged with plotting to kill the co-owner of the restaurant, his uncle. The Record newspaper reports 45-year-old Georgios Spyropoulos posted the $600,000 bond on...   12:40 PM
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  SUPER FIND: Man discovers $100K Superman comic while gutting home

  A home remodeler reportedly made the discovery of a lifetime while gutting a property in Minnesota: A 1938 comic book worth more than $100,000. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that David Gonzalez, 34, made the startling find amid old newspapers...   3:01 PM
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  Michelle Obama may take extended summer getaway with daughters: report

  In between all the political brush fires that have engulfed the White House in recent days, President Obama and wife Michelle Obama have still managed time for vacation planning. The nation’s first family is looking to cool their jets this summer at...   3:28 PM
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  50-year-old man struck by Q train being treated for head trauma

   A man was struck by a train in Brooklyn this morning, authorities said. The 50-year-old was hit by a Queens-bound Q train about 10:30 a.m. at the Avenue J station near 15th Street, according to an MTA spokeswoman and FDNY. He is being treated for...   12:30 PM
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  Mourners remember Hofstra student killed by friendly fire while taken hostage

   Weeping mourners said tearful good-byes today to a beautiful Hofstra University coed, as cops continued their probe into why a career criminal targeted her house for a violent robbery. Loved ones of Andrea Rebello, 21, packed St. Theresa of Avila...   3:11 PM
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  'I held on for dear life': battered mother from iconic photo relives Okla. terror

   The image of bloodied teacher Ledonna Cobb and her husband leading two young children away from obliterated Briarwood Elementary School became one of the images that defined that tragedy in Moore, Oklahoma. Last night, Cobb told the story of her...   10:35 AM
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  Wannabe jumper talked down by cops in Midtown

   A woman who threatened to jump from a Midtown building was talked down by police this morning, authorities said. She began threatening to jump from the ledge of a balcony on the 20th floor of 112 West 38th Street, near Sixth Avenue, at 7:50 a.m.,...   12:30 PM
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  IRS official Lerner says 'I did nothing wrong' before taking Fifth

  WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the storm over the agency's targeting of conservative groups told Congress on Wednesday that she had done nothing wrong in the episode, and then invoked her constitutional right to...   1:42 PM