College sports 'cheat student athletes'

Sally Kohn says the UNC report highlights how some colleges exploit student athletes while offering little in return



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Federer closes in on No.1 spot

It seemed an unlikely prospect at the start of the year but Roger Federer has the very real prospect of ending 2014 at the summit of the men's game for the sixth time.



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Halloween costumes to avoid this year

Freeze! Step away from the stack of face masks and hazmat suits.



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800 killed in 40-day Kobani fight

At least 815 people -- most of them ISIS militants and Kurdish fighters -- have died in the 40-day fight for control of Kobani, Syrian observers say.



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Football world mourns star player

The world of football is mourning the loss of Senzo Meyiwa after the South Africa captain was shot and killed Sunday during a botched robbery, according to authorities.



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How do we stop 'lone wolf' attacks?

Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, the 32-year-old gunman who attacked the Canadian Parliament and killed a soldier last week, had a familiar profile. It is that of a young man alienated from mainstream society, with few friends, without a steady job, drifting from one place to another -- often with a history of petty crime and drug abuse.



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Giant gold nugget discovered

Five-pound nugget is 90% gold, believed to be worth between $350,000 and $450,000. KTVU has the story.



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Iran executes woman despite pleas

Reyhaneh Jabbari, an Iranian woman convicted of murder in a killing human rights groups called self-defense against her rapist, is hanged despite pleas.



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Brazilian voters 'hope for the best'

Uncertainty normally comes with the new. This year's Brazilian presidential elections, though, have been like no other. After Sunday's polls gave President Dilma Rousseff, from the left-wing Worker's Party (PT), another four-year term with a narrow margin of victory, Brazilians embarked on a guessing exercise about what her next government will look like.



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Tunisian vote raises democracy hope

Elections in Tunisia on Sunday are about much more than one country. They could mark a big step toward democracy.



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Iran nukes: Solution, not deadline, key

Another round of nuclear talks ended late Thursday in Vienna. Nothing good, bad or even surprising has publicly emerged from the two-day talks between Iran and the P5+1 countries.



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A surprising truth about serial killings

The case of Darren Deon Vann, who police say confessed to murdering as many as seven women in northwest Indiana over the past couple of years, is just the latest example of a kind of crime spree that has become all too familiar. At a time when television crime dramas like "CSI," "Criminal Minds," and "Law and Order" record high ratings with lurid plot lines about repeat killers, it is easy to come away believing that serial killings are as prevalent as they have ever been.



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Should Ebola workers be quarantined?

When doctors risk their lives and sacrifice their livelihoods to go to West Africa and provide desperately needed treatment to those suffering from Ebola, what should be their reward upon coming home?



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UK ends Afghanistan combat mission

Britain formally ended its combat mission in Afghanistan on Sunday, when it handed over its last base to Afghan forces, the Ministry of Defense said.



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10 Commandments statue smashed

Though he told authorities that the devil made him do it, Satanists disapproved, after a man allegedly shattered a stone copy of the Ten Commandments last week.



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Death penalty plea for South Korea ferry captain

South Korean prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for the captain of the Sewol, the ferry which capsized leaving at least 294 people dead.



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Sewol disaster: 6 months of pain

6 months after the Sewol ferry sank off South Korea, many still wait for the bodies of loved ones. Paula Hancocks reports.



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Student survivors testify at ferry trial

Students aboard the stricken Sewol ferry had to use rising water levels to float out of their cabins after the ship listed, survivors told a South Korean court Monday.



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Victim's haunting cry for mom

The words and images from the cell phone of a girl who perished on the South Korean ferry convey the rising panic aboard.



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Hostages 'tortured before beheadings'

American James Foley and other captives held by ISIS were threatened with execution, tortured and starved ahead of their beheadings, report says.



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