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The Lede: London Attack Suspect Recorded Statement After Killing, Video Shows May 22, 2013

Moments after a man was hacked to death on a street in London on Wednesday, one of two suspects in the attack approached a witness who was recording the scene on video and asked to make a statement.

Iran Pushes Ahead With Nuclear Plant That Worries West May 22, 2013

Iran is pressing ahead with the construction of a research reactor that could offer it a second way of producing material for a nuclear bomb, a U.N. report showed on Wednesday.

U.S. Acknowledges Killing 4 Americans in Drone Strikes May 22, 2013

The acknowledgement that the United States had killed American citizens in Yemen and Pakistan came one day before President Obama is due to deliver a major speech on national security.

Lens Blog: Angelos Tzortzinis's Photos of Growing Desperation in Greece May 22, 2013

In Greece, the perils of a drawn-out debt crisis are imprinted on its younger population — whose unemployment numbers are soaring — who turn to selling their bodies for money and to a dangerous, cheap new street drug for escape.

Environment: Deepwater oil disaster radically altered microbial communities on Gulf Coast beaches

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Bob Berwyn

Oil from BP’s failed Deepwater Horizon drill rig and the Macondo well spread across the ocean in May 2010. PHOTO COURTESY NOAA.

Followup research will determine how long the impacts last

By Summit Voice

SUMMIT COUNTY — Biologists said they were shocked by the dramatic changes they observed in microbial communities along Gulf of Mexico beaches after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster.

The study led by by scientists from University of New Hampshire’s Hubbard Center for Genome Studies, sampled sites around Dauphin Island, Ala., and Grand Isle, La., just after the Deepwater Horizon spill began but before oil reached the shore, then again several months later, in September 2010. (more…)

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Hickenlooper grants Dunlap temporary reprieve May 22, 2013

Gov. John Hickenlooper on Wednesday issued an executive order granting convicted killer Nathan Dunlap a "temporary reprieve" from an execution that had been just three months away.

Officials identify Longmont man suspected of shooting Bushmaster AR-15 at police May 22, 2013

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Technical problems plague launch of Colorado health insurance website May 22, 2013

State insurance officials wanted to offer the public an easy way to check new health policy prices in preparation for "Obamacare," but their site wasn't working after launch Wednesday.

Holmes documents unsealed May 22, 2013

CENTENNIAL — Search warrants in the Aurora theater shooting case unsealed Wednesday morning show that suspect James Holmes received six deliveries from an online ammunition dealer in the weeks before the mass murder,

Craft breweries land in close-in Denver suburbs May 22, 2013

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Adam Gase urging Broncos quarterbacks at OTAs to shift gears on fly May 22, 2013

As the Broncos work through their first set of organized team activities, offensive coordinator Adam Gase said the team's offense will try to pick up the pace in the coming season.

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