"If you give me Times Square, I want to give it back to the people."
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Travel photos you wish you'd taken
Each day, CNN producers select a user-submitted photo to be our Travel Photo of the Day. Click through the gallery above to see stunning shots from around the world, and be sure to come back every day for a new image. Have a gorgeous travel photo of your own to share? Submit it for the gallery at CNN iReport!
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Dick Trickle to 911: Body will be mine
Richard "Dick" Trickle -- who parlayed a legendary reputation as a short-track driver into a full-time career on stock car racing's biggest stages in the 1990s -- died Thursday of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, a North Carolina sheriff's office said. He was 71.
European soccer body UEFA has issued a statement after an 11-year-old boy managed to invade the pitch and pose as a member of Chelsea Football Club's entourage following this week's Europa League Final. He follows a (dis)honorable line of other gatecrashers who between them have blagged their way past security at the White House, the Olympics, the Oscars and even royal parties.
The officers first on the scene at Ariel Castro's house were overwhelmed by emotion when they found the women missing for a decade. FULL STORY
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'You saved us, you saved us'
Police officers who first breached the house holding three missing Cleveland women describe rescuing those inside.
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First responders honored
CNN's Pamela Brown on the first responders describing the emotional scene at Ariel Castro's home.
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Ousted IRS chief: It wasn't political
Steven Miller told a skeptical Congress today the IRS didn't target conservatives deliberately. He apologized for "horrible customer service" but said it was "not an act of partisanship." FULL STORY
The jackpot has a cash value of $376.9 million, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association. It's the second-largest jackpot in U.S. history and the largest in the history of the Powerball game. FULL STORY
Legendary sports broadcaster Bob Costas offers his stance on gun control and gun legislation
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Former dictator dies in prison
Jorge Rafael Videla, a former Argentinian dictator, has died, the state news agency said, quoting a prison official Friday.
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FBI probes doctor's cyanide death
CNN's Martin Savidge investigates the mysterious poisoning death of a neurologist at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Professor and wife found dead
Police in Omaha, Nebraska, are looking into whether two double killings could be linked.
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'Cheating is natural for men'
Televangelist Pat Robertson sparks outrage after telling a viewer on "The 700 Club" that cheating is natural for men.
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Girls 'were just covered in blood'
Tina and Billy Clark saw the funnel cloud approaching and did what many of their neighbors did.
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'Dog just sucked out of my arms'
CNN's Randi Kaye reports on the reunion between a Texas man and dog that was ripped from him during a tornado.
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Break in Madeleine McCann case?
British police have identified a number of suspects in the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann during a 2007 family vacation in Portugal, London's Metropolitan Police said Friday.
Toronto's mayor has purportedly been filmed on cellphone video smoking crack cocaine, the Toronto Star reported.
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Did mayor smoke crack on camera?
Officials respond to allegations of a cell phone video that appears to show Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack.
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Actor Edward Furlong arrested
Actor Edward Furlong tried to hide, but ended up caught and behind bars in California for allegedly violating a protective order filed against him by an ex-girlfriend, authorities said.
Investigators have not ruled out an intentional fire being behind an explosion at a fertilizer plant in the small town of West that left 15 people dead, the Texas fire marshal said. The blast registered on seismographs as a magnitude 2.1 earthquake. FULL STORY
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N.Korea launches short-range missiles
North Korea launched three short-range guided missiles into the sea off the Korean Peninsula's east coast Saturday, South Korea's semi-official news agency Yonhap cited the South Korean Defense Ministry as saying.
Federal transportation investigators will work to determine what caused two passenger trains to collide during rush hour in Connecticut, sending dozens to the hospital.
Affiliate WABC captured this aerial footage of the train that derailed and crashed into another in Bridgeport.
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NY student killed in home invasion
A 21-year-old Hofstra University junior was fatally shot early Friday in an exchange of gunfire between a suspected home invader and police who came to the house, officials said.
A man was arrested at the Cannes Film Festival after firing a gun loaded with blanks, sending an Oscar-winning actor running for cover. The suspect allegedly had a dummy grenade as well. FULL STORY
CNN's Atika Shubert reports on the brazen heist of thousands of dollars worth of jewelry from the Cannes Film Festival.
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Lawyers can't photograph Tsarnaev
A federal magistrate has refused a request from lawyers for the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect that would allow them to take "current and periodic" photographs of him, which would have been kept from the government.
The trail of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has led investigators to the New Hampshire home of a wheelchair-bound former Chechen rebel living in exile, a law enforcement official told CNN on Friday.
The parents of two children allegedly slain by their nanny in New York City last year are expecting a child this fall, roughly a year after the nightmare deaths, according to a Facebook post.
A cache of e-mails believed lost when Michael Jackson's last manager's laptop disappeared could become key evidence in the wrongful death trial against AEG Live.
Flesh-eating bacteria amputee Aimee Copeland now uses the latest technology in prosthetic hands to chop vegetables, pick up tiny items like Skittles, and comb and iron press her hair.
Not only has it become a lightning rod for America's critics -- it's no prize for America's taxpayers, either.
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The numbers
Running the prison camp costs the Pentagon more than $150 million a year -- just over $900,000 for each of the 166 detainees at the facility, located on a Navy base on the eastern end of Cuba. By comparison, costs for a typical federal prison inmate run about $25,000 a year; at the "supermax" prison in Colorado that holds domestic terrorists Eric Rudolph and Ted Kaczynski, it's about $60,000.
A Metro-North commuter train derailed Friday evening in southwestern Connecticut, police said.
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Powerball
The Powerball jackpot for Saturday's drawing will be at least $550 million, the third largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history, after no one matched the winning numbers in Wednesday night's draw.
Toronto's mayor has purportedly been filmed on cellphone video smoking crack cocaine, the Toronto Star reported.
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IRS
Members of the House Ways and Means Committee will take their turn Friday questioning Internal Revenue Service officials over the targeting of conservative groups by the agency.
North Korea launched three short-range guided missiles into the sea off the Korean Peninsula's east coast Saturday, South Korea's semi-official news agency Yonhap cited the South Korean Defense Ministry as saying.
A man was arrested Friday at the Cannes Film Festival after firing a gun loaded with blanks during a live television interview, sending an Oscar-winning actor running for cover.
Being nice to others and cooperating with them aren't uniquely human traits. Frans de Waal, director of Emory University's Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Lawrenceville, Georgia, studies how our close primate relatives also demonstrate behaviors suggestive of a sense of morality.
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Pacemaker pioneer lives with device
Dr. Vincent L. Gott was part of an innovative group of doctors who trained with Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, considered to be the father of open-heart surgery.