| FDA approves female sex pill, but with safety restrictions Posted: 18 Aug 2015 04:40 PM PDT  The FDA approved the first prescription drug designed to boost sexual desire in women, a milestone long sought by a pharmaceutical industry eager to replicate the blockbuster success of impotence drugs for men.
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| Report: Subway pitchman to admit to child-porn charges Posted: 18 Aug 2015 04:51 PM PDT  Jared Fogle is expected to plead guilty to child-pornography charges, an Indiana television station reported Tuesday.
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| Scott Walker goes after fellow Republicans in health care pitch Posted:  Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker on Tuesday announced the first major policy initiative of his campaign...
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| George Zimmerman paints Confederate battle flag to raise money for ‘Muslim-free’ gun store Posted: 18 Aug 2015 10:12 AM PDT  George Zimmerman, the man who shot and killed Trayvon Martin in 2012, is selling prints of his Confederate battle flag painting to raise money for a gun store in Florida that refuses to serve Muslims.
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| U.S. military probe of Afghan shooting found Bales' camp had lax discipline Posted: 18 Aug 2015 04:31 PM PDT  By David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The month before he killed 16 Afghan civilians in a shooting rampage, Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales bloodied the nose of an Afghan truck driver in an assault that was not reported to his camp commanders, according to a report released on Tuesday. The assault, and the failure to report it to senior officers, was one of several signs that the post where Bales served in Afghanistan was suffering from "low standards of personal conduct and discipline," said the military's administrative investigation of the 2012 shooting incident. The week before the shootings, Bales used steroids while on a mission and one fellow non-commissioned officer was worried about his erratic behavior, but those concerns were not passed on to camp leadership, the report said.
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| North Carolina officer's manslaughter trial goes to jury Posted: 18 Aug 2015 10:43 AM PDT  The trial of a North Carolina police officer charged in the shooting death of an unarmed black man in 2013 went to a jury Tuesday afternoon. Jurors, who began hearing testimony Aug. 3, will have to decide whether Randall Kerrick was justified in using lethal force against 24-year-old Jonathan Ferrell in the early hours of Sept. 14, 2013. Kerrick, 29, was charged with voluntary manslaughter and placed on unpaid leave from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department the same day as the shooting.
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| Philadelphia archdiocese cancels LGBT program ahead of pope visit Posted: 18 Aug 2015 01:39 PM PDT  Workshops and other discussions around lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues were scheduled to be held at St. John the Evangelist Church on Sept. 26, the day the pope arrives in Philadelphia for a two-day visit. Pope Francis will attend a summit on families being held in the city, and LGBT Catholic groups have asked for an official presence at the gatherings to express their view that gays and lesbians should be more included in the Church. Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput has said he would allow the presence of openly gay and transgender Catholics at the World Meeting of Families but did not want the groups to lobby for their issues during the event.
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| Man in yellow shirt is focus of Bangkok bombing probe Posted: 18 Aug 2015 12:23 PM PDT  BANGKOK (AP) — In the grainy security video, a man in a yellow shirt sits on a bench at the crowded Erawan Shrine, removes a backpack he is wearing, and leaves it behind when he walks away.
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| Indonesian rescuers reach crash site, find plane destroyed Posted: 18 Aug 2015 06:04 AM PDT  Rescuers reach the remote area where a passenger plane crashed, killing all 54 people on board.
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| Thai security forces hunt bombing suspect with backpack Posted: 18 Aug 2015 03:08 PM PDT  Thailand's junta chief on Tuesday said authorities are hunting a male "suspect" seen on CCTV footage near the scene of the bombing.
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| Crashed Indonesian plane found 'destroyed', no survivors Posted: 17 Aug 2015 11:08 PM PDT A plane that crashed in eastern Indonesia was Tuesday found "completely destroyed" with the bodies of all 54 people who had been aboard amid the wreckage in a fire-blackened clearing at a remote site in dense jungle. Rescuers finally reached the debris of the Trigana Air plane, which went down Sunday during a short flight in bad weather, after being forced to abandon search efforts a day earlier due to the mountainous terrain and bad weather. "The plane has crashed, it is completely destroyed," search and rescue chief Bambang Soelistyo said of the ATR 42-300 after rescue teams reached the site in Papua province at 9:30 am (0030 GMT). |
| Planned Parenthood asks judge for emergency ruling Posted: 17 Aug 2015 03:43 PM PDT  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Planned Parenthood in Florida asked a judge Monday for an emergency ruling to allow them to continue performing abortions at 12 and 13 weeks after a discrepancy with the state about what constitutes first and second-trimester abortions.
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