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| One vessel zeroes in on pings | | A spokesperson for the Australian Defence Force told CNN there will be a "big" operations news conference by the leader of the search effort. |
| Tornado rattles St. Louis | | Residents across a swath of the central United States braced Thursday evening for possible tornadoes tied to a system that has already brought drenching rains to the region. |
| Chris Brown's miserable trip to trial | | Chris Brown's trip to face trial in Washington will be on the Justice Department's "Con Air" prisoner airline, not on a private jet or a first class commercial ticket as the singer hoped. |
| 'Shocking' CIA report closer to release | | The Senate Intelligence Committee voted Thursday for the public release of key parts of a report on the notorious CIA detention and interrogation program launched after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. |
| Should the mentally ill own guns? | | Dr. Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, a retired Army psychiatrist who served as the Office of the Army Surgeon General's top advocate for mental health, says the debate around gun control, soldiers and the mentally ill is more nuanced. The answer isn't as simple as some gun control advocates would want, she says, nor as black and white as many Second Amendment advocates would claim -- especially for those in the military. |
| Why is heir not jailed for child rape? | | Mel Robbins says the outrage of a wealthy man doing zero jail time in the rape of his own daughter because he would "not fare well" shows a justice system blind to its failure |
| I spent my family vacation with weed | | After a day on the slopes, a cocktail normally would be in order. But Wendy Sachs was in Colorado, and legalized marijuana has given après ski a new meaning. |
| Again, a female cop is the hero | | A soldier has committed a deadly mass shooting at Texas' Fort Hood again. And again, a female police officer was involved in bringing the violent rampage to an end. |
| Was woman taken by large shark? | | A 63-year-old woman is presumed to have been "taken" by a large shark while swimming off the coast of Australia Thursday, police told CNN. |
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