Flourishing eagles feast on Maine's rare seabirds

Bald eagles, bouncing back after years of decline, are swaggering forth with an appetite for great cormorant chicks that threatens to wipe out that bird population in the United States.

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Gates: Missile strikes in Pakistan to continue

President Barack Obama is retaining a powerful but controversial weapon left over from the Bush administration's war on terror: Predator missile strikes on Pakistan.

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Report: Human error causes most Predator crashes

As the U.S. military scrambles to get more robotic warplanes like the Predator drone aloft, it is confronting an unexpected adversary: human error.

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Settlement in NY lawsuit over NBC's 'Predator'

NBC Universal has settled a $105 million lawsuit brought by a woman who claimed a televised sex sting by "Dateline NBC: To Catch A Predator" drove her brother to kill himself.

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New prosecutor jobs to target online predators

The Justice Department said Wednesday it will spend $5 million to create 43 new jobs for prosecutors targeting online sexual predators of children.

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A Look at the Predator Drone

A look at the Predator, a drone that targeted al-Qaida commander Abu Laith al-Libi in Pakistan's North Waziristan region this week.

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Baseline Killer Suspect Gets 438 Years

A man accused of being the Phoenix Baseline Killer was sentenced to 438 years in prison Friday for the sexual assaults of two sisters. Mark Goudeau still faces trial for the slayings of eight women and a man in 2005-2006, and faces a possible death sentence if he is convicted. He has pleaded not guilty.

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Report: 'Dateline' Target Had Child Porn

Authorities found child pornography among the possessions of a prosecutor who fatally shot himself last year when police arrived at his home as part a sting arranged by "Dateline NBC: To Catch A Predator," according to a state report.

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Wis. Considers Green Sex Offender Plates

Wisconsin's worst sex offenders would have to drive around with bright green license plates under a bill a Republican lawmaker introduced Monday.

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Phoenix Parents Fear New Predator

Parents are waking up through the night to check on their little girls, sleeping alongside them in their beds and even using heavy furniture to block the windows.

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Cheryl Roberts, 61, suspected her husband David was accessing chatrooms to lure girls into sex so she set up a different computer in their home to pretend she was a 14-year-old girl and caught him in the act.

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or drone freaks (and these days Washington seems full of them), here's the good news: Drones are hot! Not long ago -- 2006 to be exact -- the Air Force could barely get a few armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the air at once; now, the number is 38; by 2011, it will reputed …

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A Henderson soccer coach denied having sex with a 15-year-old girl, but police said the teen's mother admitted knowing of and supporting the affair.

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American scientists have discovers a spider that feeds almost exclusively on plant food. The findings are significant because of the known approximately 40,000 species of spiders in the world, all were thought to be strict predators. More Articles

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The decline of top predators such as North American wolves and African lions is driving increases in smaller predators such as coyotes and baboons, disrupting ecosystems and economies worldwide, a study concludes.

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"I looked at Brewster and said, 'You know, I hope you knew to use a condom.'"

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'Keep in mind, Riehl quickly admits he doesn't have the slightest idea why the census worker was killed, and that the "child predator" thing is just, y'know, a hypothetical. He's simply "speculating" and "keeping an open mind." But he's gonna float it anyway.'

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Phillip Garrido's unspeakable private life began unraveling in a very public place: a college campus.

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The role of the company in the Predator program highlights the degree to which the CIA depends on outside contractors to perform some of the agency's most important assignments.

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A 13-year-old girl was sexually assaulted and strangled to death by a 25-year-old illegal alien online predator.

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ISLAMABAD/WANA: Supreme Commander banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Baitullah Mehsud was killed along with his wife and bodyguards in a drone strike two days ago in Ladha area of South Waziristan

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Some tiger moths can produce sounds that interfere with a bat's sonar, rendering the predator unable to find its prey, a study has found.

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...the meltdown of the hypermasculine, risk-seeking model of finance capitalism has lately thrown a new light on this old and deeply contentious question: Given their record, should men really be running the world?

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The new commander of US and Nato-led troops in Afghanistan has said troops must shift from conventional warfare to protecting Afghan civilians. Gen Stanley McChrystal is expected to release new combat rules aimed at reducing the number of civilian deaths.

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Last month Richard Holbrooke, the US state department's special representative, met students from Pakistan's north-west tribal ­areas.

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WASHINGTON — American officials say they are seeing the first evidence that dozens of fighters with Al Qaeda, and a small handful of the terrorist group's leaders, are moving to Somalia and Yemen from their principal haven in Pakistan's tribal areas.

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"It's analogous to the way we walk or run," Dr Hu said. "You shift your weight to the left or the right leg, but you don't drag the other leg. The snakes are only touching the ground where the friction force is going to help them move." More Articles

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The Americans do not want Pakistanis to capture Baitullah Mehsud alive, and they cannot eliminate him with an air strike anymore since Pakistan Army is advancing towards him already.

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The Summer of My Discontent, a Story of Sexual Abuse

This is something I started in Scott Butki's "Writing Down the Bones" Topic -

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HIV PREDATOR ARRESTED

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This is happening in NZ and I think it is important for the world to take notice. I have a personal connection to people who have been infected by this man. His crime is truly abhorrent; he knowingly and willingly infected others with HIV.

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Authorities believe there may be dozens of victims of a MySpace scam that targeted teenage girls thoughout California, Canada and the United Kingdom.

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A misdirected US air strike has killed as many as 120 Afghans, including dozens of women and children. The attack is the deadliest such bombing involving civilian casualties so far in the eight years since the US-led invasion of Afghanistan.

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SALINAS, Calif. -- A Salinas priest was arrested Thursday evening and accused of sexual misconduct with a boy, police said.

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Excerpt: When 14-year-old John Zera was murdered in 1976, Daniel Acker made it his personal crusade to solve the crime. He befriended John's family, which included two teenage brothers.

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