Palestinian suspect held over killed teens
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Missouri inmate executed for killing neighbor
BONNE
TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri inmate was put to death Wednesday for
raping and killing a college student in 1995, making him the first U.S.
prisoner put to death since an Arizona lethal injection went awry last
month.Read More ...
Feinstein puts Obama on the spot over CIA's ‘torture report’ edits
The
chief author of the Senate’s so-called “torture report” urged President
Obama on Tuesday to make more of the document available to the public,
over the objections of the CIA. She charged the intelligence agency’s
edits “eliminate or obscure key facts” about controversial interrogation
practices during the Bush administration.Read More ...
Afghan soldier kills US general, wounds about 15
KABUL,
Afghanistan (AP) — An American major general was shot to death Tuesday
in one of the bloodiest insider attacks of the long Afghanistan war when
a gunman dressed as an Afghan soldier turned on allied troops, wounding
about 15 including a German general and two Afghan generals.Read More ...
General killed in Afghan attack was engineer
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Harold J. Greene, the two-star Army general who on Tuesday
became the highest-ranking U.S. military officer to be killed in either
of America's post-9/11 wars, was an engineer who rose through the ranks
as an expert in developing and fielding the Army's war materiel. He was
on his first deployment to a war zone.Read More ...
Death toll in southern China quake rises to 589
LUDIAN,
China (AP) — The death toll in southern China's earthquake rose to 589
on Wednesday as search and rescue teams pushed into isolated mountain
communities to clear debris from collapsed homes.Read More ...
Cease-fire in Gaza holds for second day
GAZA
CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A cease-fire between Israel and Hamas that
ended a month of fighting is holding for a second day, ahead on
negotiations in Cairo on a long-term truce and a broader deal for the
war-ravaged Gaza Strip.Read More ...
Court hearing gay marriage arguments from 4 states
CINCINNATI
(AP) — A federal appeals court is set to hear arguments in six gay
marriage fights from four states — Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and
Tennessee — in the biggest such session on the issue so far.Read More ...
Report: Russian hackers steal 1.2B passwords
NEW YORK (AP) — Russian hackers have stolen 1.2 billion user names and passwords in a series of Internet heists affecting 420,000 websites, according to a report published Tuesday.
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DNA test ends a mystery of Argentina's 'dirty war'
BUENOS
AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The founder of Argentina's leading human rights
group said Monday that she had located the grandson taken from her
daughter while a prisoner of the military dictatorship in the 1970s, one
of the long-unsolved mysteries from the "dirty war" era that still
haunts the country.Read More ...
Kansas GOP Sen. Roberts defeats tea partyer
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Three-term Republican Sen. Pat Roberts edged out Milton Wolf in
Kansas' primary Tuesday night as mainstream conservatives dealt another
blow to the tea party movement. A GOP businessman swamped a first-term
Michigan congressman, upending his re-election bid.Read More ...
Obama welcomes African leaders for unusual dinner
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Take a White House state dinner and multiply it by 50. The
result is the most elaborate and unusual dinner of President Barack
Obama's administration, a one-of-a-kind affair put on Tuesday night for a
one-of-a-kind gathering of several dozen leaders from countries across
Africa.Read More ...
A modern-day Dust Bowl
As California suffers its worst drought in decades, farmers worry about survival.
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Russian hackers steal 1.2B passwords
U.S. companies, others targeted in what could be world’s biggest data breach to date.Read More ...
14 injured in tour bus collision in NYC's Times Square
2 double-decker buses collided in Times Square at height of summer tourist season: police.Read More ...
Obama pledges $33B in commitments for Africa
Seeking
to strengthen America's financial foothold in Africa, President Barack
Obama announced $33 billion in commitments Tuesday aimed at shifting
U.S. ties with Africa beyond humanitarian aid and toward more equal
economic partnerships.Read More ...
21st Century Fox withdraws Time Warner bid
Rupert
Murdoch's 21st Century Fox is abandoning its attempt to take over Time
Warner in a proposed deal that would have combined two of the world's
biggest media companies.Read More ...
Russia threatens to force fly-around for airlines
Russian
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev threatened on Tuesday to retaliate for
the grounding of a subsidiary of national airline Aeroflot because of EU
sanctions, with one newspaper reporting that European flights to Asia
over Siberia could be banned. Low-cost carrier Dobrolyot, operated by
Aeroflot, suspended all flights last week after its airline leasing
agreement was cancelled under European Union sanctions because it flies
to Crimea, a region Russia annexed from Ukraine in March.Read More ...
Landslide hits Utah neighborhood, destroys home
A
landslide struck an upscale suburban Salt Lake City community on
Tuesday, destroying a home and forcing evacuations as a rain-soaked
hillside tumbled from above.Read More ...
Ex-cop charged with homicide says suitcase death accidental
Suspect is charged with homicide in the death 1 of 2 women whose bodies were found in suitcases.Read More ...
U.S. terrorism database doubles in recent years
A
government database of known or suspected terrorists doubled in size in
recent years, The Associated Press has learned. The growth is the
result of intelligence agencies submitting names more often after a
near-miss attack in 2009.Read More ...
Hawaii stocks up on water as storms Iselle, Julio loom
Hawaii residents loaded up on bottled water and canned meat Tuesday in preparation for the unusual threat of a hurricane and tropical storm barreling toward the islands.
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C. African Republic's PM, cabinet resign
A spokesman for Pres. Samba-Panza said CAR’s prime minister and his cabinet have resigned.Read More ...
Man gets 50-year sentence for burglarizing Hank Aaron's home
A
24-year-old man received a 50-year sentence — eight years in jail and
42 years of probation — after pleading guilty to burglarizing Aaron's
home on July 14, 2013.Read More ...
A tale of two shelters: Israelis and Palestinians united in fear
By
Nidal al-Mughrabi and Maayan Lubell GAZA/ASHKELON Israel (Reuters) -
Ramadan Subuh surveyed the packed Gaza school where he and some 2,500
other Palestinians have been sheltering and lamented the plight of
civilians who have struggled to survive nearly four weeks of Israeli
bombardment. "A life of humiliation - this how we live," said Subuh, 42,
whose family of 12 fled to the U.N.-run Al-Fakhoura school from Beit
Lahiya, a town in the northern Gaza Strip devastated by the fighting. No
place in Gaza is safe, and everyone is taking his own chance," he said.
Some 260,000 of the Gaza Strip's population of 1.8 million have taken
refuge in schools and other institutions run by the United Nations.Read More ...
Civilians killed in Ukraine as U.N. warns of mass exodus
At
least two civilians were killed in heavy clashes on the outskirts of
the main rebel-held bastion of Donetsk in east Ukraine on Tuesday, as
the UN warned of a "massive exodus and destruction" if fighting
intensified. Powerful explosions rocked the western Petrovksy suburb of
the sprawling million-strong city, the local administration said, as
government forces pushed on with an offensive to oust insurgents.
Ukraine's military called on insurgents in Donetsk, Lugansk and another
frontline city, Gorlivka, on Monday to open corridors for several hours
each day to allow civilians to escape.Read More ...
2nd Ebola patient arrives in U.S.
The second American aid worker with Ebola has returned home for treatment.Read More ...
Ohio State stands by band director firing
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Man dressed in Afghan army garb kills US general, wounds 15
KABUL,
Afghanistan (AP) — A man dressed in an Afghan army uniform opened fire
Tuesday on NATO troops at a military base, killing a U.S. two-star
general and wounding some 15 people, among them a German brigadier
general and a number of Americans troops, authorities said.Read More ...
Putin readies response to 'unacceptable' sanctions
Latest Western economic targets have been Russia's lucrative oil, arms industries.Read More ...
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