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Cops pull guns for a snowball fight

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$2 billion snow storm: Super Saturday takes a super hit to sales

Stores in the snow-battered East Coast may have been sparse this weekend, but shoppers kept spending online. Retailers spurred sales with new discounts and shipping offers to make sure gifts arrive by Christmas. The storm that battered the East Coast, from the Carolinas to New York, may have put at least a $2 billion dent in “Super Saturday,” which usually accounts for $15 billion worth of sales nationwide, according to weather research firm Planalytics

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Bird-like dinosaur was ‘venomous’

bird-like dinosaur that prowled an ancient forest 125 million years ago used venom to subdue its prey, according to a new theory. Sinornithosaurus's upper teeth resemble those of “rear-fanged” snakes which bite their prey and channel venom into the wound

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Ford: Buyouts, early retirement offered to all 41,000 of U.S. hourly workers

Ford Motor Co. has offered buyout or retirement incentive packages to all of its 41,000 U.S. hourly workers as it tries to further reduce its factory work force.

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Mexico City lawmakers approve gay marriage

MEXICO CITY — Mexico City lawmakers have become the first in Latin America to legalize gay marriage. City legislators passed the bill 39-20 on Monday with five lawmakers absent. Gay marriage is currently allowed in only seven countries and some parts of the United States

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The decade in news photographs

WARNING: Some of these images are very disturbing.

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The decade in news photographs

Cat found glued to US highway

A cat in the US is lucky to be alive after its paws were found glued to a busy highway. An unidentified couple rescued the feline, named Timothy, after they passed it in Minnesota and believed it to be injured, television station KSFY reports.

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EMTs refused to help dying pregnant mother

A furious Mayor Bloomberg yesterday blasted two EMTs who allegedly refused to help a dying, pregnant mom because they were on break at a Brooklyn coffee shop. “It was unconscionable, [an] outrage, pick some adjectives and stick it in,” the fuming mayor said at a news conference a day after The Post broke the scandal involving tragic mom Eutisha Revee Rennix, 25

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Stroke patient may have been saved by NPR story

When a Los Angeles physician found out his sister in Chicago was having a stroke, he rushed to be with her. But not before accessing an NPR story his wife had heard about a drug called TPA that can sometimes stop a stroke in its tracks

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Israel admits harvesting Palestinian organs

Israel has admitted that pathologists harvested organs from dead Palestinians, and others without the consent of their families – a practice that it said ended in the 1990s, it emerged at the weekend. The admission, by the former head of the country's forensic institute, followed a furious row prompted by a Swedish newspaper reporting that Israel was killing Palestinians in order to use their organs – a charge that Israel denied and called “antisemitic”. The revelation, in a television documentary, is likely to generate anger in the Arab and Muslim world and reinforce sinister stereotypes of Israel and its attitude to Palestinians

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