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BreakingNews brings you the biggest stories as they happen, 24 hours a day, from hundreds of news and eyewitness sources across the globe. We're a startup inside msnbc.com, but we're a fully independent, agnostic news organization. BreakingNews is headquartered in Seattle, Wash., and we also have editors based in New York and London. Our editors scan wire services, social media, websites and mobile apps to discover breaking news as soon as it breaks. Once we find it, we publish the information with attribution and links back to the original source on BreakingNews.com, our three mobile apps, @breakingnews on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and several other social media channels. We've partnered with more than 160 news organizations who tip us to their exclusives and news breaks. This allows us to share the news and credit them faster. We also encourage contributions from our community, made up of users who help us "spot" news, photos and videos from social and local media. Stay on top of the news wherever you are by downloading our free apps for iPhone, Android, or the Windows Phone 7.