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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Amazon. com Inc’s first-quarter revenue jumped 22 percent to $16. 07 billion, propelled by growing sales of digital content, cloud-computing services and gains in its main retail business. The world’s largest Internet retailer had been expected to record revenue of $16. 1 billion in the typically slower first quarter, according to average forecasts on Wall Street. (Reporting By Alistair Barr; Editing by Bernard Orr)

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BEIRUT (AP) ? After five weeks of battle, Syrian government troops captured a strategic town near Damascus, cutting an arms route for rebels trying to topple President Bashar Assad’s regime, state media and activists said Thursday.

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A local news anchor?s disastrous first moments on the job have turned him into a Web sensation and an unlikely media star. After being fired for dropping an f-bomb on his first seconds out as the weekend co-anchor at the NBC station in Bismarck, N. D. , A. J. Clemente was cooked. The unfortunate rookie was looking down [. . . ]

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The suspected bombers planned to go to NYC after Boston, sources say.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? House Republicans will take on the immigration issue in bite-size pieces, shunning pressure to act quickly and rejecting the comprehensive approach embraced in the Senate, a key committee chairman said Thursday.

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The U. S. now believes the country used sarin gas on a small scale.

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By Soyoung Kim and Kate Holton NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – Verizon Communications Inc has hired advisers to prepare a possible $100 billion bid to take full control of Verizon Wireless from its partner Vodafone Group Plc, two people familiar with the matter said. Verizon is contemplating a roughly 50:50 cash and stock bid for the 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless it does not already own, an asset it has long coveted, the sources said. It has not put a proposal to Vodafone yet but has hired banking and legal advisers for a possible offer, the sources said late Wednesday. . . .

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ABU DHABI (Reuters) – U. S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Thursday said the U. S. intelligence community believes the Syrian government has used sarin gas on a small scale against rebels trying to overthrow the government of Bashar al-Assad. “This morning the White House delivered a letter to several members of Congress on the topic of chemical weapons use in Syria. The letter . . . states that the U. S. intelligence community assesses with some degree of varying confidence that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons on a small scale in Syria,” Hagel told reporters traveling with him. . . .

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BOSTON (AP) ? Sixteen hours after investigators began interrogating him, the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings went silent: He’d just been read his constitutional rights.

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POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. (AP) ? Anyone lose a giant head made of Styrofoam and fiberglass?

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