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A mutually uncomfortable circumstance: the boomerang generation
There is a new, growing number of young people that are graduating from college, but are unable to find work, and are forced to move back home--they're called the boomerang generation.
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Did race play a role in the fatal Trayvon Martin shooting?
Race, many believe, is a factor in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin. The FBI confirms it's looking into possible hate crime charges
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Missing Tenn. girls found alive, suspected killer dead
The search for two sisters, who were kidnapped from their home in Tennessee, has ended. Swat teams found the girls unharmed in Mississippi, but the man accused of taking them, shot and killed himself.
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It's (almost) vacation season and the White House wants to keep it local
The Obama administration on Thursday released a list of new incentives to draw more tourists to the United States, pushing the idea that “America is open for business.”
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Hopeful news: Less Americans filed for jobless benefits
The number of people applying for U.S. unemployment benefits ticked down last week after dropping sharply the previous week, evidence hiring could pick up this month.
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Southwest Airlines flights halted by bomb threat
Authorities say two Southwest Airlines flights with ties to Phoenix and Orange County's John Wayne Airport were grounded following a threatening phone call.
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Riding the tech wave: Orangutans use iPads too
The eight year-old twin orangutans at Miami's Jungle Island love their iPad. They draw, play games and expand their vocabulary.
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Would-be suicide bomber ID'd as CIA informant
The would-be suicide bomber, the man al-Qaida entrusted with its latest device, actually was a double agent working with the CIA and Saudi intelligence agencies, officials said.
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Officials: Would-be al-Quaida bomber worked for CIA
The man at the center of an al-Qaida plot to bomb an airliner was a CIA informant, officials say.
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Balfour found guilty in Jennifer Hudson slayings
Jennifer Hudson was visibly overcome with emotion as the verdict was read.
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Parents don't plan to sue after 18-month-old appears on no-fly list
A computer glitch is apparently to blame for a toddler being on the U.S. no-fly list, and after the girl was pulled off a plane in South Florida, they don't plan to take any legal action.
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Did Zimmerman shoot Trayvon in self defense?
ABC7's Scott Thuman went to the Sanford, Florida neighborhood where George Zimmerman admits he shot and killed Trayvon Martin. He examines the scene with Frank Taaffe, a friend of Zimmerman's, who claims it was self defense.
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Medicare paid $5.6 billion in questionable billings
Medicare paid $5.6 billion to 2,600 pharmacies with questionable billings, including a Kansas drugstore that submitted more than 1,000 prescriptions each for two patients in just one year, government investigators have found.
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Obama now supports same-sex marriage
In a televised interview with ABC News, President Barack Obama says that his personal views on same-sex marriage have changed and personally believes it should be legal.
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Gun parts found in stuffed animals at RI airport
Police at Rhode Island's T.F. Green Airport said a domestic dispute was behind an incident in which gun components and ammunition were found hidden inside a child's stuffed animals, including a Mickey Mouse.
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Wife, mother of abduction suspect arrested in missing mother, daughters case
Heavily-armed FBI agents and authorities from Mississippi and Tennessee were searching woods and back roads for what they said was a dangerous man suspected of killing a Tennessee woman and her teenage daughter and fleeing with her two younger girls.
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North Carolina referendum slams door on gay marriage
North Carolina voters have approved a referendum on Tuesday's ballot that defines marriage as a union solely between a man and a woman.
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GOP blocks student loan Senate debate
Senate Republicans derailed a Democratic bill on Tuesday keeping interest rates on federal college loans from doubling July 1 in an election-year battle aimed at the hearts - and votes - of millions of students and their parents.
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