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Official: Virtual border fence canceled

CNN Top Stories - Fri, 01/14/2011 - 22:36

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Friday canceled the controversial virtual fence along the U.S. border with Mexico, citing technical problems, cost overruns and schedule delays since its inception in 2005.

Cops: Model admits castrating reporter

CNN Top Stories - Fri, 01/14/2011 - 21:38

Police say a male model confessed to strangling and castrating a prominent Portuguese television journalist in his posh Manhattan hotel room, according to a court document released Friday.

Giffords making 'all the right moves'

CNN Top Stories - Fri, 01/14/2011 - 21:32

Rep. Giffords' breathing tube may be removed today, her husband says. Mark Kelly also thinks his wife knew President Obama visited her.

Cops: Loughner up all night at Walmarts

CNN Top Stories - Fri, 01/14/2011 - 21:28

Jared Lee Loughner was up all night prior to gunning down 19 people -- six fatally -- outside an Arizona supermarket, taking several trips to the supermarket's shopping plaza in between checking in at an area hotel and visiting two Walmarts to buy ammunition, according to a timeline released Friday by the Pima County Sheriff's Office.

Tunisia PM takes over embattled nation

CNN Top Stories - Fri, 01/14/2011 - 20:34

Tunisia's prime minister says he's in charge and media reports say President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali left the country after massive protests over living conditions.

Arizona mourns judge killed in shooting

CNN Top Stories - Fri, 01/14/2011 - 20:29

Arizonans paid tribute Friday morning to the federal judge killed in the deadly shooting rampage last weekend in Tucson.

Pilot waits for dying boy's granddad

CNN Top Stories - Fri, 01/14/2011 - 20:17

Time was running out, and Mark Dickinson wasn't sure whether he'd get to see his dying 2-year-old grandson one last time. A long line at Los Angeles International Airport's security checkpoint had kept him from getting to his gate on time.

More than 500 dead in Brazil flood

CNN Top Stories - Fri, 01/14/2011 - 19:25

It was like a tsunami from the sky in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state as floodwater gushed through hill towns and giant boulders catapulted from hillsides, instantly crushing cars and houses.

Opinion: What if he were your kid?

CNN Top Stories - Fri, 01/14/2011 - 18:00

What if he were your kid? You wouldn't raise that kind of kid. You'd know the signs and get help. You'd have spotted it early on and gotten help for him right away. You would've seen the warnings and acted before it became the national tragedy that it did. Good parents don't raise those kinds of kids.

A lawmaker-astronaut love story

CNN Top Stories - Fri, 01/14/2011 - 15:15

There's a moment from Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly's 2007 wedding that everyone seems to remember.

Clinton condemns WikiLeaks document release

CNN Top Stories - Mon, 11/29/2010 - 19:24

The WikiLeaks disclosure of sensitive diplomatic documents is an attack on America's foreign policy interests, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today.

6 U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan

CNN Top Stories - Mon, 11/29/2010 - 19:24

A gunman in an Afghan Border Police uniform opened fire on NATO-led service members Monday, killing six of them, the International Security Assistance Force said.

Police: Father of missing boys lied

CNN Top Stories - Mon, 11/29/2010 - 19:05

The father of thee missing Michigan boys has no "established relationship" with a mystery woman that he claimed he left his sons with before unsuccessfully trying to commit suicide, a police chief investigating the boys' disappearance said Monday.

Man blamed for 80% of Juarez killings

CNN Top Stories - Mon, 11/29/2010 - 19:00

An alleged gang member who police say was behind 80 percent of the killings in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, over the past 16 months was arrested over the weekend, officials said.

Leslie Nielsen of 'Naked Gun' fame dies

CNN Top Stories - Mon, 11/29/2010 - 18:09

Leslie Nielsen, whose longtime career as a square-jawed dramatic actor took a sudden turn into comedy with gut-busting spoofs like "Airplane!" and "The Naked Gun," has died at age 84, his family said Sunday.

Southwest tops Zagat airline survey

CNN Top Stories - Mon, 11/29/2010 - 17:59

There is one thing people seem to like about flying: Southwest.

S. Korea: 'Dear price' for more attacks

CNN Top Stories - Mon, 11/29/2010 - 16:59

Joint military exercises between South Korea and the United States continued in the Yellow Sea on Monday as tensions with nearby North Korea continue to brew.

Neighbor 'shocked' by bomb suspect

CNN Top Stories - Mon, 11/29/2010 - 16:19

A 19-year-old Somali-American, accused of planning to detonate what he believed was a vehicle bomb, is expected to make an initial appearance in a Portland, Oregon, federal court Monday.

Man falls to death at Chicago stadium

CNN Top Stories - Mon, 11/29/2010 - 15:15

Police in Chicago, Illinois, are investigating the death of a man who fell from the upper level of Soldier Field, home of the Chicago Bears, to the ground outside the stadium, police said.