Tajikistan Earthquake Leaves 20000 Homeless
A magnitude 5.3 quake struck the Pamir Mountains injuring none and displacing about 20,000 people in Tajikistan. Hundreds of mud brick homes were damaged as electricity and communications were cut. Victims moved to emergency shelters or with relatives.
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Iranian journalist given prison and exile in Iran
Ahmad Zeidabadi, a prominent Iranian journalist and former student activist, lost an appeal and received six years in prison and five years of internal exile in a remote desert town. The court also lifelong political activity ban and confirmed his conviction for spreading propaganda against the ruling establishment amid the post election crackdown.
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Tehran
Iran
Ahmad Zeidabadi
Zeidabadi
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Florida motel guest tied to Jupiter family killings
Paul Merhige, named as the suspected killer of four relatives at Thanksgiving in Jupiter, checked into a Florida Keys motel under a false name and paid cash while stockpiling food and cleaning his own room. He was arrested after being shown on Americas Most Wanted.
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Lake County
James Treanor
Walt Disney World
Chris Loyko
Treanor
Loyko
Miami
Florida Keys
Paul Merhige
Melinda Pfaff
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Merhige
Edgewater Lodge
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John Baca
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Lakes warm faster than air across northern California and Nevada
NASA researchers led by Philipp Schneider used 18 years of satellite data to show Lake Tahoe Clear Lake Almanor Mono Pyramid Walker and other large northern California and Nevada lakes warming at roughly twice the rate of regional air temperatures. The study, in Geophysical Research Letters, calls for more work to link warming to climate change.
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Mono Lake
California
Pyramid Lake
Walker Lake
Nevada
Philipp Schneider
NASA
Geophysical Research Letters
Schneider
Ohio native ID'd as bombing victim at CIA base
Scott Michael Roberson, 39, an Ohio native and former Navy SEAL, was killed in a suicide bombing attack on December 30 at a CIA outpost in Khost Province, Afghanistan. Roberson, who worked as a CIA security officer, leaves behind a wife who is expecting their first child. He previously served with United Nations security forces in Kosovo and completed tours in Iraq.
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Ohio
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Afghanistan
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Khost
Amy Messner
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Messner
Roberson
United Nations Security Forces
Kosovo
Iraq
Obama adviser says no smoking gun in airline plot
White House counterterrorism aide John Brennan says no single intelligence clue predicted the Christmas Day attack attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He cites lapses and missharing of information and notes the system failed to connect disparate streams of data.
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U.S
Barack Obama
White House
John Brennan
Brennan
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
Northwest
al-Qaida
Yemen
Obama
Homeland Security
Abdulmutallab
Expert panel finds no evidence for autism special diets
A panel published in Pediatrics says there is no rigorous proof that digestive problems are more common in children with autism or that special diets help. Painful digestion should be treated medically, and barriers to care for autistic children remain a concern.
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Chicago
Pediatrics
Timothy Buie
Harvard Medical School
U.S
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