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Tuesday, May 20, 2014

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05/20/2014

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

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.

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.

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.

Man suspected of stealing toilet tank from Seattle restaurant

(Reuters) - Seattle police are looking for a man suspected of stealing the toilet tank from a restaurant bathroom as workers at a Subway sandwich franchise prepared his family's meal, police said on Monday.

Astronaut gives University of Connecticut graduation speech from space

STORRS Conn. (Reuters) - University of Connecticut alumnus Rick Mastracchio took a break from orbiting the globe on the International Space Station to deliver an address to students graduating from the university's School of Engineering on Saturday.

UK Labour leader Ed Miliband embarrassed by U.S. adviser's gaffe

LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. political adviser David Axelrod spelt British opposition leader Ed Miliband's surname wrongly in a Tweet on Friday erroneously linking to a spoof account that pokes fun at his new client instead.