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• Progress made in Iran nuke talks
• Police: Suspect shot at New Orleans airport has died
• WABC reporter dies of brain aneurysm while on assignment
• Obama: Stop 'playing politics' over Lynch
• Brooklyn house fire kills seven from Orthodox Jewish family
• Machete-wielding New Orleans airport attacker dies
• Florida mother faces murder charges in deaths of two children
• N.Y. Fire Department: 7 children die in Brooklyn house fire
• FBI: Autopsy report days away in hanging of Mississippi man
• U.S. veterans return to Iwo Jima for 70th anniversary
• Jury convicts grandmother of capital murder in child's death

Progress made in Iran nuke talks Posted: 21 Mar 2015 03:28 PM PDT Iran's president proclaims an agreement is within reach, but John Kerry remains cautious.

Police: Suspect shot at New Orleans airport has died Posted: 21 Mar 2015 04:25 PM PDT KENNER, La. (AP) — A machete-wielding man who was shot during a bizarre rampage at New Orleans' international airport died Saturday afternoon, shortly after authorities revealed that he had also been carrying a bag of Molotov cocktails when the melee began.

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Obama: Stop 'playing politics' over Lynch Posted: 21 Mar 2015 06:11 AM PDT President Barack Obama called on Republican leaders in Congress to give his nomination for U.S. attorney general, Loretta Lynch, a vote.

Brooklyn house fire kills seven from Orthodox Jewish family Posted: 21 Mar 2015 12:26 PM PDT By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - Seven children from an Orthodox Jewish family died early on Saturday when flames ripped through their Brooklyn home in one of New York City's deadliest fires in years, officials said. The two were taken to a local hospital and were in critical condition, New York Fire Department spokesman Michael Parrella said. The blaze erupted in the single-family dwelling around 12:30 a.m. It apparently was started accidentally by a hot plate, used by many Orthodox families to warm food on the Sabbath, said Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro. "This is an unbelievable tragedy," New York Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters after seeing the devastation at the site of the blaze.

Machete-wielding New Orleans airport attacker dies Posted: 21 Mar 2015 03:56 PM PDT (Reuters) - The machete-wielding man who was shot by police when he attacked security agents at a New Orleans airport on Friday has died in hospital, police said on Saturday. Richard White, 63, was carrying six homemade explosives when he attacked agents at the airport with wasp killer spray and a machete. He had a history of mental illness, officials said. "No one at this point in time has any notion of what triggered this behavior," Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand said at a news conference earlier on Saturday.

Florida mother faces murder charges in deaths of two children Posted: 21 Mar 2015 01:42 PM PDT (Reuters) - A Florida mother will face charges of murdering her young children and attempting to murder her five-month-old baby, police said on Saturday, after arresting the woman holding a knife outside the home and finding the children inside. Jessica Lacey McCarty, 33, of Palm Bay, was being held without bond at the Brevard County Detention Center and would face a judge within 24 hours to be formally charged, police said. Palm Bay is on Florida's east coast just south of Cape Canaveral. Police have not said how they believe the children, ages six and seven, were killed.

N.Y. Fire Department: 7 children die in Brooklyn house fire Posted: 21 Mar 2015 02:47 PM PDT The blaze, which tore through the home early Saturday, also left two people in critical condition, authorities said.

FBI: Autopsy report days away in hanging of Mississippi man Posted: 21 Mar 2015 07:45 AM PDT PORT GIBSON, Miss. (AP) — The body of a black man found hanging in a tree in Mississippi has been sent from a state crime lab to a funeral home, but the FBI said it will be days before autopsy results are complete. Until then, investigators are holding off on saying whether Otis Byrd was killed or took his own life, and they're urging people to be patient.

U.S. veterans return to Iwo Jima for 70th anniversary Posted: 21 Mar 2015 08:54 AM PDT IOTO, Japan (AP) — Dozens of aging U.S. veterans, many in their early 90s and some in wheelchairs, gathered on the tiny, barren island of Iwo Jima on Saturday to mark the 70th anniversary of one of the bloodiest and most iconic battles of World War II.

Jury convicts grandmother of capital murder in child's death Posted: 20 Mar 2015 07:42 PM PDT GADSDEN, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama jury convicted a woman of capital murder in the running death of her 9-year-old granddaughter on Friday, rejecting claims that she didn't mean to harm the girl while she was punishing the child for a lie.

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