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Iraqi Forces Reportedly Enter Tikrit In Push Against ISIS Plus 9 More Stories

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Iraqi Forces Reportedly Enter Tikrit In Push Against ISIS
Officials and witnesses say an Iraqi force now controls part of northern Tikrit, the city that was taken last June by the self-proclaimed Islamic State.
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2 Oklahoma Students Seen In Racist Fraternity Video Apologize
The men were in a video of Sigma Alpha Epsilon members singing a racist chant. They have apologized, with one of the now-former fraternity brothers saying he had learned "a devastating lesson."
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French Highway Heist: Armed Thieves Take Millions In Jewels
Police say two armored trucks carrying jewels and other items worth some $9.5 million were seized last night by heavily armed attackers on the highway between Paris and Lyon.
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11 Missing In Black Hawk Helicopter Crash In Florida
Seven Marines and a crew of four were aboard the helicopter, which had been on a training exercise at Eglin Air Force Base in the Florida Panhandle, according to the base's public affairs office.
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9 Iraqi Interpreters Sue U.S. Government Over Visa Delays
Thousands of Iraqis and Afghans have been resettled in the U.S. through a special visa program, but hundreds of cases are on hold.
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Music
Hear Lydia Loveless Cover Prince's 'I Would Die 4 U'
This roughed-up, rootsy take on one of Prince's most ecstatic pop songs — out on Record Store Day — makes good on an April Fools' Day prank that fans wished wasn't a joke.
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Benjamin Booker Faces The Past
In a double-length video for two songs from his debut album, the punk-influenced blues singer struggles with civil rights issues that we can't seem to settle.
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Let Ethan Hawke Introduce You To A Fine, Forgotten Pianist
The famed actor, in his debut as a documentary filmmaker, takes on an unlikely subject: a virtually unknown, octogenarian classical pianist who quit performing decades ago.
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How Mexico Learned To Polka
Renee Montagne speaks with Felix Contreras, co-host of NPR's Alt.Latino, about the link between Tex-Mex music and Eastern European waltzes and polkas.
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Got To Give $7.4 Million Up: Jury Finds Pharrell And Thicke Copied Marvin Gaye Song
A Los Angeles jury has determined that singers Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke lifted portions of Marvin Gaye's 1977 hit "Got to Give It Up" when writing their hit "Blurred Lines."
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