Boy, 12, gets max sentence for N.M. shooting
Boy had opened fire in a New Mexico middle school gym earlier this year, injuring 2 students.
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Mandatory evacuation ordered for N.C. island
Residents of a fragile barrier island along N.C.'s Outer Banks are evacuating as Tropical Storm Arthur approaches.
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Lawsuit: Afghan subcontractor cheated medical workers
Federal investigators are examining whether a military subcontractor underpaid scores of medical workers in Afghanistan, pocketing federal funds that the government intended the company use to pay its ...
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Bergdahl venturing out in public, U.S. Army says
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was a prisoner of war in Afghanistan for five years, has been allowed to venture off the Texas military base where he is receiving care as part of his "reintegration process" into society, a U.S. Army spokeswoman said Wednesday.
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U.S. ship sails off to destroy Syrian weapons at sea
A United States cargo vessel loaded with hundreds of tons of Syria's chemical weapons left an Italian port Wednesday to destroy the arms at sea as part of the international effort to rid Syria of its chemical weapon stockpile.
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Governor admits to meeting with people tied to domestic terror
Maine Gov. Paul LePage says the meetings were routine and that he does not endorse the allegedly extremist views of the groups that the FBI says are tied to acts of domestic terrorism.
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Stephen Gaskin, founder of 'The Farm' commune, dies at 79
Stephen
Gaskin, a counterculture visionary who led a caravan of hippies from
California to establish one of the country's longest lasting communes in
rural Middle Tennessee and later sought the Green Party nomination for
president, has died. He was 79.Read More ...
Hurricane warning for North Carolina region
Warning issued for a large swath of the N.C. coast as Tropical Storm Arthur moves northward.
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American soccer ref dies after being punched during a match
An amateur soccer referee who was punched in the head while refereeing an adult-league soccer match on Sunday has died.Read More ...
Man uses video game gun to stop home robbery
Video games are often accused of causing violence, but in Pittsburgh, they may have prevented some.Read More ...
U.S.: Hobby Lobby ruling backs nonprofits' birth control plan
Ruling aligns with government's position in ongoing disputes with nonprofits, the Obama administration says.
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U.S. implementing 'enhanced security' at overseas airports
The United States will increase security measures at overseas airports that have direct flights to the United States, the Department of Homeland Security said on Wednesday. The department did not specify which airports or what countries would be affected, nor did it say what triggered the enhanced measures. "We are sharing recent and relevant information with our foreign allies and are consulting the aviation industry," DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said in a statement. U.S. ...
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Foreign ministers agree on steps for resuming Ukraine cease-fire
Foreign ministers from Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France established the series of steps during a Berlin meeting.Read More ...
U.K. investigates Facebook over psych experiment
British data protection authorities are investigating revelations that Facebook conducted a psychological experiment on its users. The Information Commissioner's Office said Wednesday that it wants to ...
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Harley-Davidson rolls out the Tesla of motorcycles
Rick Newman takes Harley's new electric motorcycle, Project LiveWire, out for a test drive in Lower Manhattan
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Missouri governor vetoes 72-hour abortion wait
Gov. Nixon: Legislators showed a "callous disregard for women" by granting no exception for rape and incest victims.Read More ...
Woman named Amelia Earhart honors famous namesake
A Colorado woman is flying around the world to honor aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart.Read More ...
Berlin talks bring Russia, Ukraine closer to resuming cease-fire
The
foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine agreed in Berlin on Wednesday
to hold three-way talks involving pro-Moscow rebels by Saturday to pave
the way for a new ceasefire, despite continued fighting that Kiev says
has now killed 200 of its troops.Read More ...
FBI seeking more victims of alleged child rapist
Investigators found a trove of child pornography in Matthew Coniglio's Georgia home.
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11 killed in blast in Afghan capital
A
Taliban suicide bomber struck a bus carrying Afghan military personnel
in Kabul, killing at least 11 people, officials said, as the militants
step up their campaign of violence aimed at undermining the
Western-backed government.Read More ...
Son-in-law charged in Monaco heiress killing retracts confession
The son-in-law of a Monaco heiress gunned down in a Mafia-style contract killing has retracted his confession to ordering the shooting, saying he did not fully understand police.
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Target asks customers not to bring in guns
With open carry laws on the books of 44 states, the retailer makes a plea to customers.
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Tropical storm warning for N.C.
Fourth of July plans for thousands of people under threat as Arthur moves north off Florida.Read More ...
Ethiopia facing flood of S.Sudan refugees: UN
Ethiopia
is facing a huge wave of refugees from South Sudan, where the spectre
of famine threatens to heap further misery on a people already blighted
by civil war, the UN's food aid agency warned on Wednesday. "The numbers
are increasing exponentially in a very short period of time," said
Abdou Dieng, head of the World Food Programme's Ethiopia operations.
More than 158,000 South Sudanese refugees have already crossed the
border to reach camps in neighbouring Ethiopia, according to UN figures
released Wednesday. "The situation is not improving in South Sudan, so
we expect that they will continue to come.Read More ...
U.S. poll: more voters see Obama as worst president in modern times
The 44th President is ranked the worst since WWII in a Quinnipiac University poll.Read More ...
Facebook admits 'communications' error with emotions study
Facebook "communicated really badly" about a controversial study in which it secretly manipulated users' feelings, the social network's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg admitted Wednesday. The company clandestinely altered the emotional content of feeds of nearly 700,000 users for a week in 2012, giving some sadder news and others happier news in a study aimed at better understanding "emotional contagion". The research, published last month, has prompted online anger and questions about the ethics of the research and forced Facebook on the defensive. "We communicated really badly on this subject," she said, before adding: "We take privacy at Facebook really seriously."
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Iraq's PM hopes for deal on new government that could see him go
Baghdad can't afford another parliamentary delay, and Maliki's political career may be the first casualty of a fresh government.
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Scientists retract stem cell studies following accusations
Researchers who claimed ability to transform ordinary mouse cells accused of falsifying data.Read More ...
Kenya to Americans: Please come visit, we love you
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Maine school teacher's letter delivered 83 years later
SKOWHEGAN, Maine (AP) — A letter written by a Maine school teacher in 1931 to her mother 150 miles away has finally been delivered — 83 years later.
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Suspected revenge killing sparks Jerusalem clashes
Tensions mount after the bodies of three Israeli teens were found in the West Bank.Read More ...
NASA launches carbon-tracking satellite
The
NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) mission is seen sitting on
its launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California June 30,
2014. The launch of the unmanned Delta 2 rocket from Vandenberg Air
Force Base in California was called off less than a minute before
lift-off on July 1 when the pad's water system failed, a live NASA
Television broadcast showed. The rocket, built and flown by United
Launch Alliance, a partnership of Lockheed Martin Corp and Boeing, was
tentatively rescheduled to launch on Wednesday, but engineers first have
to track down the cause of the water system problem, said NASA launch
commentator George Diller. Picture taken June 30. REUTERS/Gene Blevins
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Pardon my (fake) accent: 'Shrek' star against Scots independence
Comedian Mike Myers, the voice of Scottish movie ogre Shrek, came out on Wednesday against the country splitting from Britain ahead of its independence referendum in September. Myers, whose other creations include "Austin Powers" and "Wayne's World", joins stars such as author J. K. Rowling and singer David Bowie in opposing independence. In a BBC radio interview, Myers was asked whether Shrek -- the grouchy but loveable swamp-dwelling star of four animated films -- would back Scotland going it alone. He was initially reluctant to answer but finally said in the ogre's Scottish accent: "Shrek wants what the will of the Scottish people want."
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China bans Ramadan fasting in Muslim northwest
BEIJING (AP) — Students and civil servants in China's Muslim northwest, where Beijing is enforcing a security crackdown following deadly unrest, have been ordered to avoid taking part in traditional fasting during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
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Iraqi PM addresses gov't deadlock
Pins hopes on next session after new parliament fails to agree on top posts.
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Tropical storm threatens East Coast July 4th plans
Hurricane watch issued for part of N.C. coast as Tropical Storm Arthur moves northward.
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Suspected Israeli revenge killing of Palestinian triggers clashes
The
discovery of a body raised suspicions a Palestinian youth had been
killed by Israelis avenging the deaths of three Jewish teens.Read More ...
Colorado gov. on pot legalization: 'It could've been a lot worse'
Six months in, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is refusing to call the state's legalization of marijuana a success — mostly because he says that would send a bad message to kids.
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Psych report says Pistorius is traumatized
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius is severely traumatized after killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp last year and will become an increasing suicide risk unless he continues to get mental health care, the judge overseeing his murder trial heard on Wednesday.
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