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States have collected billions of dollars from tobacco companies but spent only 3 percent of it to combat smoking - a less-than-robust response to the high costs of health care associated with smoking, a federal report released Thursday says.

Of the $243.8 billion in tobacco money received from 1998 to ...

CHARDON, Ohio — A 17-year-old will be tried as an adult in the school shooting deaths of three students, a juvenile court judge ruled Thursday after hearing a sheriff's deputy describe how the teen wore a T-shirt with the word "Killer" and admitted shooting people.

T.J. Lane admitted firing at ...

Mike Adams | Bill would halt the FDA's armed raids on raw milk farmers and more.

POTLATCH, IDAHO — This small community in the forested, western foothills of the Rocky Mountains was created as a company town to house workers for the nation's largest white pine sawmill, and its tidy homes and straight, tree-lined streets are a testament to its planners.

But the town has slumbered ...

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KITTERY — Officials are venting smoke and noxious fumes from a nuclear-powered submarine at a Maine shipyard so they can get inside to assess what a fire did to it.

Firefighters from the shipyard and coastal departments in Maine and New Hampshire spent Wednesday night and early Thursday fighting ...

Infowars.com | Mark of the Beast: Bilderberg Pushes Mandatory Internet ID for Europe.

CBS | Illegal aliens get craftier in their attempts to fool Border Patrol agents.

Kurt Nimmo | Hatch loves the bankers just as much as Ronnie did -- he voted no less than sixteen times to raise the so-called debt ceiling.

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DALLAS — Miniature laundry detergent packets arrived on store shelves in recent months, touted as a solution to bulky bottles and messy spills. But doctors across the country say children are confusing the tiny, brightly colored packets with candy and swallowing them.

Nearly 250 cases have been reported this year ...

tenthamendmentcenter.com | Heritage Foundation quests Thomas Jefferson’s declaration that “the price of liberty is eternal vigilance."

washingtonpost.com | Documentary about soldiers suffering from the psychological wounds of war has been restored by the National Archives.

Jim Lobe | Neo-conservatives and other hawks escalated their campaign against any compromise agreement.

NY Daily News | 'The New America Foundation think-tank says drone strikes have killed between 1,715 and 2,680 people in Pakistan in the past eight years.'

Paul Joseph Watson | Is the federal agency compiling a list of firearms owners?

Miami Herald | Defense attorneys ask judge to order Obama, George W., Biden, Lindsey Graham, and Eric Holder to testify.

KERO ABC-23 | 'Among the 6,463 residents included in the study, more than half reported upper respiratory problems.'

Kurt Nimmo | Social media tools used against used against dirt poor terrorists.

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The kidnap-rape conviction of a once-promising prep football star was dismissed Thursday following a recantation by his accuser.

Brian Banks collapsed in sobs on the counsel table during a court hearing where a prosecutor quickly conceded the decade-old case and moved for the dismissal.

In ...

TRENTON, N.J. — New York City police did not violate New Jersey laws when they conducted surveillance of Muslim businesses, mosques and student groups, Gov. Chris Christie's administration said Thursday following a three-month review, rejecting demands by Muslim leaders for a formal investigation and a clampdown on cross-border police operations.

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