Leonardo Blair

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  Jul 17, 2014

  Ukrainian Official Says 23 Americans Were Aboard Malaysia Flight MH17; Obama Still Checking as Bodies Lay Scattered on Scene

  A Ukrainian official said 23 Americans were aboard Malaysia Flight MH17, reportedly shot down in the troubled Donetsk region of the Ukraine near the Russian border Thursday. President Barack Obama said, however, that the U.S. is still checking to see if any Americans were among the 295 people killed on the doomed flight.

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  Jul 17, 2014

  'I Briefly Tried to Commit Suicide,' Says Stephen Hawking as UK Seeks to Legalize Suicide; Church Calls Move 'Grave Error'

  Famed Cambridge scientist Stephen Hawking, 72, recently confessed that he "briefly tried to commit suicide" and said denying an individual who is in great pain and facing imminent death the right to commit suicide is "discrimination."

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  Jul 17, 2014

  Malaysia Airlines Flight With Nearly 300 People Aboard Shot Down in Ukraine

  Authorities in the Donetsk region of Ukraine confirmed that a Malaysia Airlines "Boeing 777" aircraft carrying nearly 300 people en route from Amsterdam, Netherlands, to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, crashed after it was shot down Thursday near the border between Russia and Ukraine.

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  Jul 16, 2014

  Retired Methodist Minister Sets Himself on Fire in Honor of Lynched African-Americans (Read Suicide Note)

  A retired 79-year-old Methodist Minister who died after setting himself on fire on a busy street in Grand Saline, Texas, revealed in a suicide note made public by police that he did it in honor of the many African-Americans who were lynched in the United States, and implored the community to repent of its racist past.

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  Jul 16, 2014

  Abortion War: Doctor Who Performs Abortions Up to 6 Months and Says He's Christian Would Roll Back Abortion Limits

  Dr. Willie Parker, a Washington, D.C.-based abortionist who claims to be a Christian, says he now regrets not performing abortions in the first 12 years of his medical career. Parker threw his support Tuesday behind a bill called the Women's Health Protection Act that would make it difficult for states to regulate abortion clinics.

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  Jul 15, 2014

  Dead 3-Y-O Girl Wakes Up During Funeral Inside Church Sparking Claims of a Miracle; Doctor Pronounces Her Dead Again Days Later

  A 3-year-old girl from the Philippines, who reportedly woke up during her funeral Saturday after being declared clinically dead on Friday, sparked claims of a miracle and inspired her family to abandon her empty coffin in a church.

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  Jul 15, 2014

  'Small Lifeless Bodies' of Migrant Children Who Failed to Make It Across US Border Washing Up on Banks of Rio Grande

  A number of immigrant children seeking to illegally cross the Rio Grande, a natural border between the United States and Mexico in Texas, have been dying in the process and their bodies are reportedly being washed up along the river bank leaving those who knew them with nothing but grief.

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  Jul 15, 2014

  Strangers Donate Thousands to Girl Whose Ex-Uncle Executed Her Entire Family as She Prepares to Bury Them Wednesday

  Complete strangers and well-wishers have donated more than $300,000 to help 15-year-old Cassidy Stay, the sole survivor of the brutal execution-style massacre carried out by her ex-uncle at her family's Texas home last Wednesday, which left her mother, father and four younger siblings dead.

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  Jul 15, 2014

  'God Work and Get Back at Nasty People,' Says Miami Cop Suspended After Unknowingly Stopping Lieutenant for Speeding in Video

  A Miami police officer has been suspended with pay after he unknowingly stopped a superior officer for speeding, and then ended up in a tense scuffle with him after his superior allegedly refused to provide his driver's license, told him to "get the back in his car," and attacked him as he tried to do his job last month.

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  Jul 14, 2014

  Sony Signs 8th Grade Metal Band, Unlocking The Truth, to $1.7 Million Deal and 'at Least One of Them Is Christian'

  An unconventional metal band made up of three eighth graders from Brooklyn, New York, called Unlocking The Truth just signed a deal worth a potential $1.7 million with Sony and they are taking the Internet by storm.