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24-Year-Old Wins $8.53M at Poker in 12 Hours

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image 24-Year-Old Wins $8.53M at Poker in 12 Hours After nearly 12 hours and 400 hands, a  poker player from Maryland has received the biggest treat possible this Halloween:  $8.53 million. Twenty-year-old Greg Merson won the World Series of Poker tournament  before dawn Wednesday in Las Vegas at the Penn and Teller Theater.  The tournament was...


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Bellevue Hospital Evacuate Patients

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Bellevue Hospital Evacuate Patients Bellevue Hospital Evacuate Patients New York City's Bellevue Hospital Center was evacuating hundreds of patients to other hospitals, according to city officials, making it the latest hospital in the city forced to transfer patients after damage from Superstorm Sandy.


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NYC's Bellevue Hospital Evacuating Patients

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NYC's Bellevue Hospital Evacuating Patients NYC's Bellevue Hospital Evacuating Patients New York City's Bellevue Hospital Center was evacuating hundreds of patients to other hospitals, according to city officials, making it the latest hospital in the city forced to transfer patients after damage from Superstorm Sandy.


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Vet Pursues Career in Filmmaking

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Vet Pursues Career in Filmmaking Vet Pursues Career in Filmmaking Veteran Michael Chan joined the Marines after 9/11 and served two tours in Iraq. Since returning home, he's suffered from PTSD but is currently working on a feature-length script titled "End of Active Service."


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Sewage, Bacteria, Gasoline Found in NYC Floodwater

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Sewage, Bacteria, Gasoline Found in NYC Floodwater Water is everywhere in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy – in basements, on the streets and in transit systems – but the one place it could be most dangerous is in your body. ABC News chief health and medical editor Dr. Richard Besser collected floodwater...


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Hoboken, NJ, Residents Wade in Flood

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Hoboken, NJ, Residents Wade in Flood Hoboken, NJ, Residents Wade in Flood Across the Hudson River from storm-battered New York City, residents in Hoboken, N.J., waded through waist-high water with their belongings and children.


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Russia Takes Swipe at US Democracy

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image Russia Takes Swipe at US Democracy MOSCOW — Moscow’s Foreign Ministry took a shot at American democracy on Wednesday. “The #US lectures the world on democracy and human rights, but looks only to its own laws when flaws in its voting system are pointed out,” the ministry tweeted from its English...


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20-Year-Old Wins $8.53M at Poker in 12 Hours

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image 20-Year-Old Wins $8.53M at Poker in 12 Hours After nearly 12 hours and 400 hands, a  poker player from Maryland has received the biggest treat possible this Halloween:  $8.53 million. Twenty-year-old Greg Merson won the World Series of Poker tournament  before dawn Wednesday in Las Vegas at the Penn and Teller Theater.  The tournament was...


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Watch: Rebuilding After Superstorm 2012

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Watch: Rebuilding After Superstorm 2012 Battered shorelines and devastated communities on the East Coast begin recovery efforts.


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Watch: Rebuilding After Superstorm 2012

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Watch: Rebuilding After Superstorm 2012 Battered shorelines and devastated communities on the East Coast begin recovery efforts.


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Cops Hunt Serial Pipe Bomb Thrower in Virginia

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PHOTO: Laurence Alan Stewart Cops Hunt Serial Pipe Bomb Thrower in Virginia Federal, state and local police are on the lookout for a man they said attempted to kill two policemen and an ex-girlfriend using homemade pipe bombs.


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Haunted America: Ghosts, Spirits

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Haunted America: Ghosts, Spirits Haunted America: Ghosts, Spirits Spooky, creepy or much ado about nothing? You decide if these sightings are real.


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6 Worst Credit Cards

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6 Worst Credit Cards While banks are offering near-zero introductory credit card interest rates as they compete to attract card users, others are stacking up on fees they charge. Driven in part by growing usage of credit cards by confident consumers,  on Wednesday MasterCard reported profit of $772 million...


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Hawaii Tourist Punches Shark

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image Hawaii Tourist Punches Shark Mariko Haugen credits her Taekowndo skills for saving her life.


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NYPD Videos Show Rooftop Rescues of Storm Victims

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image NYPD Videos Show Rooftop Rescues of Storm Victims The New York Police department has posted four videos of a helicopter rescuing people off of rooftops on Staten Island, N.Y., where entire neighborhoods are submerged under flood waters in the wake of superstorm Sandy. Members of the Aviation and Scuba teams saved five adults...


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NYPD Videos Show Rooftop Rescues of Storm Victims

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image NYPD Videos Show Rooftop Rescues of Storm Victims The New York Police department has posted four videos of a helicopter rescuing people off of rooftops on Staten Island, N.Y., where entire neighborhoods are submerged under flood waters in the wake of superstorm Sandy. Members of the Aviation and Scuba teams saved five adults...


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Americans Slip From Minnesota to Somali Terror Group: FBI

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PHOTO: Al-Shabaab fighters Americans Slip From Minnesota to Somali Terror Group: FBI Young American men continue to slip through a terrorist recruiting pipeline from the homeland to join the ranks of jihadists half a world away in East Africa, with two going as recently as three months ago, according to federal officials.


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Sandy Threatens Years of Med Research

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Sandy Threatens Years of Med Research Sandy Threatens Years of Med Research Researchers at the shuttered NYU Langone Medical Center scrambled today to salvage years of research into heart disease, cancer and other diseases as well as priceless lab specimens that have been put in jeopardy by the devastating storm Sandy.


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Hoboken, NJ, Residents Wade in Flooded City

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Hoboken, NJ, Residents Wade in Flooded City Hoboken, NJ, Residents Wade in Flooded City Across the Hudson River from storm-battered New York City, residents in Hoboken, N.J., waded through waist-high water with their belongings and children.


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