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Hundreds evacuated from Florida school after explosives found

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Hundreds of students were evacuated early Monday from a dorm on the University of Central Florida campus in Orlando after explosives devices were found while authorities were...

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UCF: Drop-out planned campus attacks

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A University of Central Florida drop-out planned an attack on campus but committed suicide in a dorm before carrying it out, authorities said Monday.Materials found in his dorm...

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Florida man with connection to Tsarnaev killed by FBI

According to NBC's local affiliate in Orlando Wednesday, a 27-year-old man shot dead in Florida by an FBI agent had connections to the Boston bombing suspects. Ibragim Todashev was reportedly being...

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Before FBI shooting man implicated self, Tsarnaev in triple murder

Question marks hang over the shooting by an FBI agent in Orlando Wednesday of a young Chechen man with connections to the late Boston bombing suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev. According to CBS, during...

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“He’s going to be looking over his shoulder the rest of his life”

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — After a year and a half of living as a hermit, George Zimmerman emerged from a Florida courthouse a free man, cleared of all charges in the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon...

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Orlando’s newest tourist attraction: Electric cars

Starting today, getting the full Orlando experience can include renting a Nissan Leaf. A new program, Drive Electric Orlando, is promoting itself as "the nation's first large scale electric car...

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Skewed poll: 99 percent of people’s perceptions of SeaWorld unaffected by...

Almost anyone you ask who has seen CNN’s documentary "Blackfish" (which is streaming on Netflix now), will tell you that, since viewing it, they have vowed to never go to SeaWorld. In fact, many people...

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Hundreds evacuated from Florida school after explosives found

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Hundreds of students were evacuated early Monday from a dorm on the University of Central Florida campus in Orlando after explosives devices were found while authorities were...

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UCF: Drop-out planned campus attacks

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A University of Central Florida drop-out planned an attack on campus but committed suicide in a dorm before carrying it out, authorities said Monday.Materials found in his dorm...

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Florida man with connection to Tsarnaev killed by FBI

According to NBC's local affiliate in Orlando Wednesday, a 27-year-old man shot dead in Florida by an FBI agent had connections to the Boston bombing suspects. Ibragim Todashev was reportedly being...

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Before FBI shooting man implicated self, Tsarnaev in triple murder

Question marks hang over the shooting by an FBI agent in Orlando Wednesday of a young Chechen man with connections to the late Boston bombing suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev. According to CBS, during...

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“He’s going to be looking over his shoulder the rest of his life”

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — After a year and a half of living as a hermit, George Zimmerman emerged from a Florida courthouse a free man, cleared of all charges in the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon...

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Orlando’s newest tourist attraction: Electric cars

Starting today, getting the full Orlando experience can include renting a Nissan Leaf. A new program, Drive Electric Orlando, is promoting itself as "the nation's first large scale electric car...

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Skewed poll: 99 percent of people’s perceptions of SeaWorld unaffected by...

Almost anyone you ask who has seen CNN’s documentary "Blackfish" (which is streaming on Netflix now), will tell you that, since viewing it, they have vowed to never go to SeaWorld. In fact, many people...

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Obama to give statement on Orlando mass shooting at gay nightclub

FILE - In this file photo dated Thursday, June 9, 2016 President Barack Obama speaks in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 9, 2016. The world was a more peaceful...

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Read Obama’s full statement on the mass shooting in Orlando

FILE - In this May 4, 2016 file photo, President Barack Obama holds up a glass of water he will drink from, after speaking at Flint Northwestern High School about the ongoing water crisis, in Flint,...

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The latest from Orlando: Gunman reportedly pledged allegiance to ISIS

Terry DeCarlo, executive director of the LGBT Center of Central Florida, center, is comforted by Orlando City Commissioner Patty Sheehan. (Credit: AP/Phelan M. Ebenhack) ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The...

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Watch John Oliver’s sobering Orlando shooting address: “This pain is so...

“Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver opened last night’s show with a brief address concerning the attack that claimed upwards of 50 lives at a gay nightclub in Orlando over the weekend. “It’s still...

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“Dance is a form of survival for the LGBT community:” A Latino Vogue dancer...

Edwin Zapata, better know was Nunney Karma, is an urban style street dancer in New York City. He started Voguing at an early age and later decided to teach the dance to people outside of the LGBT...

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The do-nothing-about-guns party: The GOP’s loyalty to the NRA rises above...

John McCain, Mitch McConnell (Credit: AP/Reuters/Jonathan Ernst/Manuel Balce Ceneta/Lucy Nicholson/Photo montage by Salon) In the months following the Sandy Hook massacre, the FBI received word of a...

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