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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

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05/28/2014

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

Nepal probes if Chinese woman used helicopter on Everest climb

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal said on Tuesday it was investigating whether a Chinese woman, this season's sole climber of Mount Everest from the Nepalese side, used a helicopter to reach a high camp after a deadly avalanche last month washed away part of the route.

Naked man arrested outside White House gate

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secret Service police on Friday arrested a man who stripped naked outside the White House fence and fought with officers.

Here, piggy piggy: U.S. turns to military gear in hunt for feral swine

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. Agriculture Department is known for its army of statisticians packing yardsticks and calculators to measure wheat and count soybeans.

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.