| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | Typhoon Dujuan hits Taiwan | | Typhoon Dujuan made landfall near the border of Hualien and Yilan counties in northeast Taiwan, just after 5 p.m. local time Monday.
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| Children plead to spare mom's life | | Kayla Gissendaner was only 7 when her father was stabbed in the neck and back. She lost her best friend when he died, and as she grew up she grasped the shocking reality of her family: Her mother had arranged the gruesome murder.
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| Woman sentenced in prison break | | Joyce Mitchell, who helped two convicted murderers escape an upstate New York prison in June, is headed to prison herself, as the judge said he didn't find her explanation credible.
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| Contraception gone wrong | | After giving birth to three children, Kristiana Burrell was thrilled when her gynecologist told her about Essure, a sterilization technique she could do right in the office in just minutes -- no operating room, no incisions.
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| Obama hits GOP, Putin at U.N. | | President Barack Obama slammed adversaries in Russia and Syria -- and political foes at home -- while defending the use of diplomacy over force in his address to the U.N. Monday.
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| The campus issue no one talks about | | A new survey of college students, one of the largest ever focusing on sexual assault and sexual misconduct, has reignited the debate over just how big a problem sexual assault on campus really is.
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