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05/21/2014
Reuters Election 2012 Daily round-up of the day's top news from the campaign trail, the White House and all the politics in between
French rail company orders 2,000 trains too wide for platforms
PARIS (Reuters) - France's national rail company SNCF said on Tuesday it had ordered 2,000 trains for an expanded regional network that are too wide for many station platforms, entailing costly repairs.
Steaming mad: Maine charges lobsterman for "egregious" catch violation
BOSTON (Reuters) - Maine wildlife officials are pressing charges against a local fisherman for possessing hundreds of undersized or otherwise protected lobsters, calling it one of the state's most "egregious" lobstering violations in a quarter century.
Connecticut dropout made bomb threats to hide status from family
MILFORD Conn. (Reuters) - A Connecticut college dropout was arrested Sunday night after admitting to calling in two bomb threats to keep her family from learning she had quit Quinnipiac University, police said on Monday.
McDonald's new 'Happy' mascot dubbed McScary in social media
CHICAGO (Reuters) - McDonald's restaurant chain says its new "Happy" mascot will bring "fun and excitement" to its children's meals, but social media contend the toothy, red box-shaped character will have the opposite effect.
California cat that chased off attacking dog gets baseball invite
(Reuters) - Tara, the California cat that became a YouTube sensation after being caught on video saving a boy from a dog attack, has been invited to "throw" the first pitch at a minor league baseball game, Bakersfield Blaze officials said on Friday.
Human zoo hopes to challenge Norway's image on racism
OSLO (Reuters) - Displaying 80 people in a human zoo in Oslo's most elegant park, two artists hope their "Congo Village" display will help erase what they say is Norwegians' collective amnesia about racism.
Texas woman, 31, arrested for posing as high school teenager
(Reuters) - A 31-year-old woman has been arrested after several months posing as a teenage student at a private high school in Texas, local media reported.
Pennsylvania rabbit breeder sues fracking support company over animal deaths
HARRISBURG Pa. (Reuters) - A show rabbit breeder in Pennsylvania is suing a French gas exploration company for using low-flying helicopters she said terrorized her prized animals, causing many to die and leaving survivors unable to breed.
Video captures family cat saving California boy from dog attack
(Reuters) - A California child pulled from his bike by an attacking dog was saved by his family's cat on Tuesday, which quickly rushed in and attacked the dog, a video posted on YouTube showed on Wednesday.
Post-Fukushima, Japan's favorite monster may never go home again
TOKYO (Reuters) - He's dark and lumbering, crashing through cities and destroying them with swipes of his massive tail and blasts of radioactive breath. Godzilla is back on the rampage, roaring and stomping, for the first time in ten years.
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