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  • Unofficial results say more than 95 percent of voters approved the document. The results are seen as a boost to the military government and Army chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who is widely expected to seek Egypt's presidency. The Muslim Brotherhood boycotted this week's vote.
  • The Marine Corps is looking into images obtained by the entertainment website TMZ. They appear to show U.S. Marines burning the corpses of Iraqi fighters during the 2004 battles in Fallujah.
  • The Oscar nominations are in! "American Hustle," "Gravity," and "12 Years a Slave" scored big. But did anything really surprise critics? Host Michel Martin speaks with actor and producer Rick Najera about the nods.
  • An exceptionally rare flower that is virtually extinct has been stolen from London's Kew Gardens, in a crime experts say could be the work of an obsessed collector. aA British newspaper says that stealing the precious water lily "is like an old master theft."
  • Employees at an Amazon.com facility in Delaware have decided against forming a labor union. The company is openly opposed to unions and has successfully fought previous efforts to unionize here, but the attempts had never before gotten as far as an employee vote.
  • Americans' eating habits are changing — and so are our attitudes about food, a new USDA report finds. We're dining out less, eating at home more, cutting back on the saturated fat and consuming more fiber.
  • The rare northern spotted owl species faces habitat loss and, now, intruding barred owls. A biologist, and the federal government, have made a difficult decision — killing one owl to ward off the extinction of another.
  • A thriller from Israeli filmmakers Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado (Kalevet) peppers a grim story — vigilante cop tries to track down a child's murderer — with plenty of uncomfortable black humor.
  • In Hirokazu Kore-eda's latest film, an affluent Tokyo couple is shocked to learn their son was switched with another at birth — and the child they thought was their own comes from a lower-class rural family.
  • The animated comedy The Nut Job follows a selfish squirrel (Will Arnett) as he gets involved in a nut heist, makes some really corny jokes, and learns to cooperate with the other critters in his community.
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