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Saira Liaqat squints through her one good eye as she brushes a woman’s hair. Her face, most of which the acid melted years ago, occasionally lights up with a smile. Her hands, largely undamaged, deftly handle the dark brown locks.
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PepsiCo Inc. says it plans to eliminate 3,300 positions globally, as it reports a 9.5 percent drop in third-quarter profit.
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Health groups and tobacco companies are asking a federal appeals court to reverse parts of a landmark ruling two years ago against cigarette-makers.
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Wall Street was gearing up for another surge higher Tuesday following the Dow Jones industrial average’s historic 936-point jump, with investors encouraged by the...
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Voters are heading to the polls in and around Cleveland to pick a candidate to finish the final two months of the late Stephanie Tubbs Jones’ congressional term.
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It was a wild, chaotic scene across a rugged swath of the San Fernando Valley as fire season arrived with a vengeance.
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Powerful gusts stoked three major wildfires in Southern California early Tuesday that have charred nearly 12,000 acres, destroyed dozens of homes and forced thousands...
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The Supreme Court is meeting to issue orders and hear arguments in cases about voting rights and warrantless home searches.
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Former presidential candidates Bob Dole and George McGovern both saw their presidential ambitions quashed in landslide elections.
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Late-night TV show hosts found humor in the presidential debate. A sampling from Monday night:
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A former U.S. Army sergeant who has been living in Canada as a war resister has been denied refugee status there.
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Four manmade waterfalls cascaded to a close Monday, ending an ambitious public art project that inspired both admiration and complaints.
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A jury has convicted a woman of capital murder for the shooting and beating deaths of four people in suburban Houston in 2003.
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A homeless man died after being set on fire on a street where he had lived for many years, police and local merchants said Friday.
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Authorities say a woman has been arrested in west Florida after pouring scalding hot water on her husband’s groin. Manatee County Sheriff’s Office deputies...
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A man killed his parents-in-law by setting them on fire with a homemade flame-thrower, Austrian police said Saturday.
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Austrian police say a man set his parents on fire with a home-made flame thrower, killing them.
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A woman who set her three young daughters on fire, killing one of them, has been sentenced to life in prison without a chance of parole in a plea deal that spared her...
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A teenager convicted of killing a man, then beheading him and setting fire to his body in what prosecutors called a thrill killing was sentenced Monday to life in...
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A jury convicted an 18-year-old man Wednesday of killing another man, beheading him and setting fire to his body in what prosecutors called a thrill killing.Jean Pierre...
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Two thrill-seeking teenagers stabbed an adult acquaintance, took a blowtorch to his corpse and threw his severed head into a river, prosecutors said Monday as they...
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A mother accused of dousing her three young daughters with gasoline and setting them on fire, killing one, was charged Thursday with capital murder.Alysha Green’s...
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A mother drowns her five children in the bathtub. A woman beats her sons to death with rocks. Now a suburban mom is accused of dousing her three daughters with gasoline...
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A 3-year-old who was the youngest of three severely burned sisters died Tuesday, and police said her mother, accused of setting the girls on fire, will be charged with...
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