| Obama: U.S. willing to negotiate cease-fire in Middle East Posted: 10 Jul 2014 02:56 PM PDT  Pres. Obama says the U.S. is willing to negotiate a cease-fire between Israel, Hamas.
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| Florida executes man for 1994 rape, murder Posted: 10 Jul 2014 03:49 PM PDT  Execution marks the state's 6th this year.
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| Police: Texas shooter demanded to know ex-wife's whereabouts Posted: 10 Jul 2014 03:39 PM PDT  A man charged with killing four children and their parents forced his way into the family's suburban Houston home, tied them up and shot them in the back of the head when they refused to tell him where his ex-wife was, authorities said Thursday.
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| Ohio company wins rights to shipwreck's gold Posted: 10 Jul 2014 03:33 PM PDT  A fugitive treasure hunter's company has lost its bid to stop deep-sea explorers from bringing up gold and other artifacts from a ship that sank off the South Carolina coast in 1857 and has been the subject of legal fights for nearly 30 years.
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| Calif. man receives 15 years for espionage Posted: 10 Jul 2014 03:35 PM PDT  Chemical engineer had been convicted of selling China a DuPont Co. secret recipe.
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| Is McConnell backing away from the Ryan budget? Posted: 10 Jul 2014 01:26 PM PDT  In 2011 the Kentucky senator said, "I voted for the Ryan budget." Now his campaign says, "There is no way to speculate if [McConnell] would have voted for final passage."
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| Evidence sheds new light on Google exec's overdose death Posted: 10 Jul 2014 01:03 PM PDT  Police: Prostitute had searched online for how to legally defend herself in exact crime.
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| Senate confirms Donovan as White House budget director Posted: 10 Jul 2014 12:29 PM PDT  The Senate on Thursday confirmed President Barack Obama's housing chief as the new director of the White House budget office, completing a second-term Cabinet shuffle.
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| Colorado judge says gay couples can keep marrying Posted: 10 Jul 2014 03:35 PM PDT  The ruling added to the national confusion over same-sex marriage.
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| Former Rep. Todd Akin defends 'legitimate rape' remarks Posted: 10 Jul 2014 12:04 PM PDT  A former Missouri Republican congressman whose "legitimate rape" comments during the 2012 U.S. Senate campaign were roundly criticized now says he was wrong to apologize.
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| No 'stand down' order in Benghazi Posted: 10 Jul 2014 02:38 PM PDT  The testimony of 9 military officers shed new light on Benghazi.
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| Relapse of ‘cured' HIV patient is setback to treatment hopes Posted: 10 Jul 2014 04:19 PM PDT  A Mississippi girl born with the AIDS virus and in remission for more than two years despite stopping treatment now shows signs that she still harbors HIV — and therefore is not cured. The news is a setback to hopes that very early treatment with powerful HIV drugs might reverse an infection that has seemed permanent once it takes hold.
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| Berlin boots top U.S. spy over espionage claims Posted: 10 Jul 2014 04:24 PM PDT  Germany on Thursday demanded Washington's top spy in Berlin leave the country as a new round of allegations of U.S. espionage worsened the friction between the two allies.
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| Ford Models' Eileen Ford dies at 92 Posted: 10 Jul 2014 02:48 PM PDT  Eileen Ford shaped a generation's standards of beauty as she built an empire.
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| Police: Prostitute linked to 2nd heroin overdose death Posted: 10 Jul 2014 10:50 AM PDT  Police in Georgia say they are taking a second look at the 2013 heroin overdose death of a man connected to the woman charged in the overdose death of a Google executive.
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| U.S. blacklists companies linked to Hezbollah militia drones Posted: 10 Jul 2014 10:41 AM PDT  The United States moved Thursday to blacklist a group of companies it said covertly helped Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah militia acquire components for surveillance drones. The US Treasury placed sanctions on Beirut-based Stars Group Holding, which it said purchased electronics and other technology via offices in China and Dubai to support Hezbollah's military operations. The material bought by Stars Group included engines, communications, electronics, and navigation equipment acquired from suppliers in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. It named for sanctions the company, its subsidiaries, its owner, executives Kamel Mohamad Amhaz and Issam Mohamad Amhaz, and two Stars Group managers, Ayman Ibrahim and Ali Zeaiter.
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| Teen charged in fatal shooting at armory Posted: 10 Jul 2014 10:50 AM PDT  A 15-year-old was charged with killing a longtime National Guard member, officials said.
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| China hackers chased secret clearance info Posted: 10 Jul 2014 09:26 AM PDT  Report: Target was US Office of Personnel Management files of employees who applied for clearances.
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| Of 4 rockets fired at Jerusalem, 2 hit open ground, 2 shot down Posted: 10 Jul 2014 09:40 AM PDT  Gaza militants fired four rockets at Jerusalem on Thursday, with two shot down over the city and another two hitting open spaces, the Israeli army said. Witnesses and Palestinian security officials said one rocket struck near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Maaleh Adumim, while a second hit close to an Israeli military prison near Ramallah. "Four rockets were fired at Jerusalem, of which two landed in open areas and two were intercepted," an army spokesman told AFP, without giving further details. Police confirmed the two rockets not intercepted had hit open areas near Maaleh Adumim and in the Ramallah area.
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| Iraq's Kurds say Maliki's crazy, and has to resign Posted: 10 Jul 2014 09:02 AM PDT  Iraq's Kurds said Thursday Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was "hysterical" and not fit to run the country, further dimming the prospect of a new leadership uniting to face jihadist fighters. The worsening political discord comes three days ahead of a planned parliamentary session meant to revive the process of replacing what has effectively been a caretaker government since April elections. Maliki "has become hysterical and has lost his balance", a statement from the office of Kurdish regional president Massud Barzani said, reacting to accusations by the prime minister a day earlier that his administration was harbouring militants. Maliki has accused Barzani of exploiting the chaos created by the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group's military offensive, but the Kurdish president said the security collapse was of the premier's own making.
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| GOP's McConnell: Obama border spending request a 'blank check' Posted: 10 Jul 2014 08:35 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell blamed Obama administration policies Thursday for the sudden arrival of tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors at the southern border and said the president's emergency spending request amounted to more of the same.
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| No comment from White House on Germany's expulsion of CIA chief Posted: 10 Jul 2014 07:33 AM PDT  The White House Thursday refused to comment on reports Germany had expelled its top spy in the country over an espionage row, but stressed intelligence ties between the two nations were vital. Germany took the shock move after investigating two German men alleged to be acting as double agents for US intelligence, the latest twist in a long running showdown over American covert activity in the country. "We have seen these reports and have no comment on a purported intelligence matter," said National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden. "However, our security and intelligence relationship with Germany is a very important one and it keeps Germans and Americans safe," Hayden said.
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| Man who shot six disguised as FedEx driver Posted: 10 Jul 2014 07:57 AM PDT  Suspect in Texas shooting Wednesday that left four children dead ID'd: Ronald Lee Haskell.
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| NYC may take legislative aim at fake Times Square Elmos and Mickeys Posted: 10 Jul 2014 06:55 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City Council member is drafting legislation to regulate the costumed characters who roam Times Square.
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| Pre-dawn fire in Massachusetts apartment leaves 7 dead Posted: 10 Jul 2014 09:32 AM PDT  LOWELL, Mass. (AP) — Seven people died in a fast-moving Massachusetts apartment fire in the pre-dawn hours Thursday, officials said.
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| Big change in unemployment benefits numbers Posted: 10 Jul 2014 06:18 AM PDT  Jobless claims plummet, hint at robust quarter.
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| Matt Bai: Time for the Redskins to get more offensive Posted: 10 Jul 2014 01:40 AM PDT  Yahoo News' Matt Bai writes Redskins owner and offers to help market the team now that its lost its trademark protection.
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| Injured Texas teen girl's heroic act after being shot Posted:  The Texas gunman who killed six people was out to murder more family members, police say.
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| Berlin boots top U.S. spy over espionage claims Posted: 10 Jul 2014 07:23 AM PDT Germany on Thursday demanded Washington's top spy in Berlin leave the country as a new round of allegations of U.S. espionage worsened the friction between the two allies. |
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| 'Game of Thrones' rules Emmy noms with 19 Posted: 10 Jul 2014 01:08 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Emmy voters may need to steel themselves to sort through this year's top nominees: a macabre, medieval-style tale; a meth kingpin and his violent downfall; a bleak mystery about detectives tracking a ritual killer, and a heartbreaking saga of the AIDS epidemic's roots.
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| Judge strikes down Colorado gay marriage ban, stays ruling Posted: 09 Jul 2014 04:50 PM PDT  By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - A state judge struck down Colorado's gay marriage ban on Wednesday, saying the prohibition violated constitutional rights, but put his ruling on hold pending appeal. Adams County District Court Judge C. Scott Crabtree said in his decision that Colorado's prohibition, approved by voters in 2006, conflicted with the fundamental right to marry. Several other same-sex marriage lawsuits are moving toward the U.S. Supreme Court. The attorney general of neighboring Utah said on Wednesday he would appeal directly to the Supreme Court a ruling by a federal appeals court last month that backed gay marriage in the conservative, largely Mormon state.
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| CIA chief in Germany gets 'Das Boot' Posted:  Berlin's anger at US espionage activities boils over, says German legislator.
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| Israel escalates aerial offensive on Gaza Posted: 10 Jul 2014 08:00 AM PDT JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel dramatically escalated its aerial assault targeting hundreds of Hamas sites in the Gaza Strip Thursday as Palestinians reported the strikes also hit a home and a beachside cafe, raising the total number of people killed in this week's offensive to at least 85. Israel's missile defense system also once again intercepted rockets fired by militants at the country's heartland. |
| Obama to border critics: 'This is not theater' Posted: 09 Jul 2014 05:43 PM PDT  DALLAS (AP) — President Barack Obama, seeking to keep a humanitarian crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border from becoming a deeper political liability, pushed back Wednesday at critics who have cast his administration's response to the influx of unaccompanied children as slow and ineffective.
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| 5 children among 7 Palestinians killed in Israeli air strike Posted: 09 Jul 2014 04:50 PM PDT  An Israeli air strike killed seven Palestinian civilians on Thursday, including five children, in the largest death toll from a single attack since the start of a three-day offensive against Hamas militants in Gaza, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. Residents and medical officials said an Israeli air strike bombed at least two houses in a densely populated area near Khan Younis while residents were asleep. Bodies were pulled out of rubble from three or four homes including neighboring structures, and the Palestinian Health Ministry said five of the dead were children. The attack raised the death toll to 60 Palestinians, most of them civilians, since Tuesday, in Israel's offensive aimed at halting rocket fire at the Jewish state from coastal Gaza.
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| Israeli rockets hit 200 Hamas targets amid growing risk of ground invasion Posted: 09 Jul 2014 04:39 PM PDT  At least 22 fatalities have been reported in Gaza Strip, officials say.
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