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North Korea Fails in Attempt to Launch Long-Range Missile

North Korea found itself front and center in the international community when it launched a long-range missile Friday morning, local time.

Despite the country’s reported efforts, officials in the US claim the launch failed because the rocket broke before leaving the Earth’s atmosphere.

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Watch Incredible Footage of Tornadoes Descending on Dallas [VIDEOS]

The Dallas/Fort Worth region in Texas has been besieged by tornadoes Tuesday, leaving most counties in the northern part of the state under a tornado watch.

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NCAA Tournament Bracket Is Here for You!

Get ready for some madness — March Madness.

The field for the NCAA Division 1 men’s basketball tournament has been set, so it’s time to join the millions of other Americans and fill out your bracket.

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Who Will Win Big at This Year’s Academy Awards? Let Your Voice Be Heard

The Academy Awards are slated for Sunday evening. While you can catch the live broadcast on ABC at 7 p.m. ET, there’s no reason you can’t get into the spirit of Hollywood’s biggest night now.

Here’s a look at this year’s nominees in the major categories. Let your voice be heard and tell us who you think will win!

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Was Cop in Utica, NY Busted Planting Evidence on Video During Traffic Stop? [VIDEO]

A video from a dashboard camera taken back in February of 2011 has recently surfaced and quickly gone viral on the internet.

The video is alleged to show a Utica, New York police officer planting evidence, presumably a bag of drugs, during a traffic stop.

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College Football Top 25 Weekend Recap

The college football season is underway. Week one was mostly a humdrum affair, with Notre Dame and TCU suffering the biggest upsets among ranked teams. Here’s a complete look at how the top 25 did:

#1 Oklahoma 47, Tulsa 14
Junior walk-on RB Dominique Whaley rushed for 131 yards and four touchdowns in the top-ranked Sooners’ season opener. Any chance Tulsa had in the game vanished

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Virginia Tech Goes into Lockdown Mode After Reports of Gunman on Campus

Four years after the nation’s deadliest school shooting, a report of another armed man on the grounds of Virginia Tech sparked an all-day manhunt Thursday.

A campus-wide lockdown was instituted just 28 minutes after three teens attending a summer program at Virginia Tech reported seeing a man carrying a weapon. While officers searched some 150 buildings for the suspect, the university activated a new emergency alert system put in place after the 2007 rampage that claimed the lives of 33 students.

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Congressmen Holding Fundraisers at Taylor Swift’s Washington Concerts

UPDATE: Turns out this information was false — Swift’s reps have told us that the singer’s shows are not, in fact, doubling as political fundraisers.

Taylor Swift is already a musical powerhouse, but she could soon turn into a political one, as well.

The superstar pulls into the nation’s capital this week for a pair of shows that will have seven Congressman in attendance to help them raise funds.

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LAPD Arrest Two People for Brutal Beating at Dodger Stadium, Previous Suspect Cleared

There’s been a new twist in the investigation into the beating of a San Francisco Giants fan at Dodger Stadium back on Opening Day.

On Thursday, police in Los Angeles arrested two men in connection with the attack on 42-year-old Bryan Stow.