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A mom who confronted a blood-soaked, knife-carrying man moments after the apparently ideologically motivated murder of a British soldier said she did so in order to protect onlookers.
First Read: In foreign policy speech, the president is expected to announce new limits on the use of overseas drones.
OlyTalk: Michael Phelps denies that he'll make a comeback to swimming, but his friend and top rival, Ryan Lochte, said Phelps will be back.
The founder of "Girls Gone Wild," recently convicted of falsely imprisoning women in his home, is not standing by his statements made to The Hollywood Reporter.
When a devastating tornado touched down in Moore, Okla., on Monday afternoon, Shayla Taylor was on the upper floor of the local hospital, in active labor with her second child. “We were all just sitting there holding each other’s hands and praying,” Taylor, 25, told NBC News.
The Swiss-made Solar Impulse plane landed in Dallas on Thursday, breaking the distance record for a solar-powered flight on the second leg of its coast-to-coast odyssey across America.
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