| World Trade Center ship dates to 1773 Posted: 30 Jul 2014 04:10 PM PDT  Researchers: Ship unearthed at WTC site predates American independence.
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| Human Rights Watch: Syria’s air strikes defy UN resolution Posted: 30 Jul 2014 04:08 PM PDT  Human Rights Watch sharply criticised the Syrian air force Wednesday for intensifying strikes on Aleppo, despite a UN Security Council resolution ordering all sides in the conflict to stop indiscriminate attacks. The New York-based group also rapped the Security Council for inaction over the violence in Syria in a statement issued ahead of a meeting of the UN body. "The Syrian government is raining high explosive barrel bombs on civilians in defiance of a unanimous United Nations Security Council resolution," HRW said, referring to resolution 2139 from February.
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| Stowaway death triggers security review Posted: 30 Jul 2014 12:30 PM PDT  The U.S. Air Force's top civilian and uniformed leaders said Wednesday the failure to prevent a teenager from stowing away aboard a military cargo plane, apparently while on an airfield in the West African nation of Mali, was a serious security lapse.
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| 3 killed, 3 injured in N.C. shootout Posted: 30 Jul 2014 03:35 PM PDT  A domestic dispute erupted into a gun battle with deputies at a North Carolina trailer park.
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| Pipe break in UCLA flooding points to U.S. water main risk Posted: 30 Jul 2014 03:59 PM PDT  The rupture of a nearly century-old water main that ripped a 15-foot hole through Sunset Boulevard and turned a swath of the University of California, Los Angeles into a mucky mess points to the risks and expense many cities face with miles of water lines installed generations ago.
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| House approves GOP-led plan to sue Obama Posted: 30 Jul 2014 04:43 PM PDT  A sharply divided House approved a Republican plan Wednesday to launch a campaign-season lawsuit against President Barack Obama, accusing him of exceeding the bounds of his constitutional authority. Obama and other Democrats derided the effort as a stunt aimed at tossing political red meat to conservative voters.
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| Powell at first not told of post-9/11 tactics Posted: 30 Jul 2014 04:44 PM PDT  Report: Many U.S. officials initially kept in dark on CIA's post-9/11 tactics.
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| 6 Philly officers charged in massive corruption case Posted: 30 Jul 2014 02:08 PM PDT  Six city narcotics officers used gangland tactics to shake down drug dealers, relying on guns, badges, beatings and threats to extort huge piles of cash and cocaine, federal authorities charged in an indictment Wednesday.
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| Grimes uses McConnell’s own footage in attack video Posted: 30 Jul 2014 11:37 AM PDT  Alison Lundergan Grimes uses opponent Mitch McConnell's own B-roll in attack video.
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| Killer of actor Kelsey Grammer's sister denied parole in Colorado Posted: 30 Jul 2014 01:46 PM PDT  A man convicted of murdering the sister of actor Kelsey Grammer in Colorado 34 years ago was denied parole on Wednesday, a day after Grammer testified against his release, authorities said. Freddie Glenn, who was convicted with two accomplices in the murder of 18-year-old Karen Elisa Grammer, was turned down for release by the state parole board, said Adrienne Jacobson, spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Corrections. Grammer was abducted on July 1, 1975, from a Colorado Springs seafood restaurant where she worked. In an audio recording of his testimony played at Tuesday's hearing, the 59-year-old actor told Glenn he forgave him for the crime, but endorsing parole for the convicted killer "would be a betrayal of my sister's life." Grammer said his sister moved to Colorado Springs to be closer to her boyfriend, and was a bright woman with a promising future.
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| McDonnell trial: Key witness takes stand Posted: 30 Jul 2014 02:52 PM PDT  The government's key witness in the corruption trial for former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell took the stand Wednesday under the cloak of immunity, and he was expected to lay out prosecutors' case in the gifts-for favors scandal.
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| House passes VA health care overhaul Posted: 30 Jul 2014 01:42 PM PDT  The House has approved a compromise bill to refurbish the Veterans Affairs Department and improve veterans' health care.
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| Ebola outbreak: Peace Corps removes 340 volunteers from Africa Posted: 30 Jul 2014 03:57 PM PDT  By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Peace Corps said on Wednesday it was pulling all 340 volunteers from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea because of the spreading Ebola virus that has killed 672 people in the three countries since February. A Peace Corps spokesperson said two volunteers were isolated and under observation after being exposed to a person who later died of Ebola. "These volunteers are not symptomatic and are currently isolated and under observation," the spokesperson said in a statement. The Peace Corps, citing privacy concerns, declined to say where the two volunteers had come into contact with the Ebola victim.
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| 46 charges for Colorado suspect in wild car-theft chase Posted: 30 Jul 2014 11:04 AM PDT  A man accused of hijacking one car, stealing two others and trying to take more during a wild chase west of Denver has been charged with a list of felonies, including aggravated robbery and assault.
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| Freed cop killer told to stop coaching youth Posted: 30 Jul 2014 08:29 AM PDT  In 1988, a group of men beat an off-duty Chicago-area cop to death with a baseball bat.
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| Man’s phone stops bullet aimed at his chest Posted:  You know what they say: Never bring a sickle to a gunfight. But if you do make sure you have an enormous phone in your front pocket.
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| Porch shooting trial: Prosecution rests its case Posted:  The prosecution has rested its case in the murder trial of a suburban Detroit man accused of fatally shooting an unarmed teenager.
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| Insanity plea mulled for prom stabbing suspect Posted: 30 Jul 2014 01:08 PM PDT  Lawyers for a Connecticut high school student accused of murdering a female classmate hours before their junior court began talks on Wednesday on whether to amend his plea to not guilty based on insanity or on related grounds. Christopher Plaskon, 17, pleaded not guilty in June to the fatal stabbing of 16-year-old Maren Sanchez. At a pretrial hearing at Connecticut Superior Court in Milford on Wednesday, his attorney, Richard Meehan, began discussions with Superior Court Judge Frank Iannotti on which variant of the plea to enter. Plaskon has been charged with stabbing Sanchez in the chest, neck and face with a kitchen knife in a stairwell at Jonathan Law High School on April 25, the day of the school prom.
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| ‘No intact bodies’ in grim AH5017 investigation Posted: 30 Jul 2014 08:32 AM PDT  Dressed in protective white overalls, French experts sift through the debris of the Air Algerie plane that disintegrated over the northern Mali desert last week, killing all 118 on board. Yet for days of meticulous searching across the shifting sands of the remote crash site at the southern edge of the Sahara desert, they have yet to see a single intact body. In scorching heat, the experts -- gendarmes, police and a team from France's plane crash investigation agency BEA -- are combing the moonscape one square metre at a time. Flight AH5017, which took off early Thursday morning from Ouagadougou in neighbouring Burkina Faso bound for Algiers, went missing amid reports of heavy storms.
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| Ebola outbreak: Liberia shuts schools, quarantines towns Posted: 30 Jul 2014 01:21 PM PDT  Liberia announced on Wednesday the quarantine of a number of communities and the closure of schools across the country, the toughest measures yet imposed by a West African government in a bid to halt the worst Ebola outbreak on record. Security forces in Liberia were ordered to enforce the measures, part of an action plan that included placing all non-essential government workers on 30-day compulsory leave. As of July 23, 672 deaths have been blamed on Ebola in Liberia, neighboring Guinea and Sierra Leone, according to World Health Organisation figures. Liberia accounted for just under one-fifth of those deaths.
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| Going inside Gaza Posted: 30 Jul 2014 04:49 PM PDT  U.S. reporters head into Gaza with the Israeli Defense Forces' 188th Armored Brigade.
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| Argentine FA chief Julio Grondona dies at 82 Posted: 30 Jul 2014 10:36 AM PDT  Julio Grondona, the veteran president of the Argentine Football Association (AFA) and FIFA vice-president, died on Wednesday at the age of 82 in a Buenos Aires clinic, AFA sources reported. The all-powerful figure, who had been in charge of Argentine football since 1979, had been taken to hospital suffering from heart problems and died while undergoing emergency surgery. Earlier this week he had held meetings with Alejandro Sabella, who decided not to continue as Argentina coach after leading the team to the World Cup final in Brazil recently.
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| Deadly Israeli strikes hit UN school, market area Posted: 30 Jul 2014 04:46 PM PDT  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli artillery shells tore through the walls of a U.N. school crowded with sleeping war refugees and back-to-back explosions rocked a market filled with shoppers Wednesday as Israel's stepped up campaign against Gaza's Hamas rulers claimed at least 116 Palestinian lives.
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| Obama takes tougher line against Gaza casualties Posted: 30 Jul 2014 02:59 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration condemned the deadly shelling of a United Nations school in Gaza Wednesday, using tough, yet carefully worded language that reflects growing White House irritation with Israel and the mounting civilian casualties stemming from its ground and air war against Hamas.
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| Clashes prevent experts from reaching bodies Posted: 30 Jul 2014 01:09 PM PDT  DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Almost two weeks after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was blown out of the sky, the remains of some passengers are feared rotting in the 90-degree (32-degree Celsius) midsummer heat, deepening the frustration of relatives desperate to recover the bodies of their loved ones.
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| Sanctions will damage Russia if not lifted quickly Posted: 30 Jul 2014 01:12 PM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — U.S. and European sanctions against Russia's energy and finance sectors are strong enough to cause deep, long-lasting damage within months unless Moscow persuades the West to repeal them by withdrawing support for Ukrainian insurgents.
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| George W. Bush writes book about father Posted: 30 Jul 2014 03:27 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — His paintings made news worldwide, but it turns out that former President George W. Bush has been working on another, highly personal project since leaving the White House: He has quietly completed a biography of his father, former President George H.W. Bush.
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| Pipe break that flooded UCLA dumps 20M gallons Posted: 30 Jul 2014 04:14 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say a pipe break that flooded UCLA's famed Pauley Pavilion has now released 20 million gallons of water and continues to gush.
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| Japanese search US archives for WWII MIA info Posted: 30 Jul 2014 04:02 PM PDT  SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — Racing against time, members of a Japanese organization are combing a New York military museum's World War II records for information they hope will lead to the graves of American servicemen still listed as missing in action on Saipan.
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