| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | Lucrative nut thefts on the rise | | Almonds, pistachios and other high-value nuts are an appealing commodity for not only health nuts, but also more recently to highly sophisticated criminal organizations in the San Joaquin valley. |
| Hotel bombing is latest to shatter Kabul | | The Taliban took credit for an explosion that targeted a Kabul, Afghanistan, hotel early Monday morning, the latest of a series of bombing attacks seeking to further destabilize the war-torn nation. |
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