| Trump uses crude language to mock Clinton Posted: 22 Dec 2015 01:37 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump labeled Democrat Hillary Clinton "disgusting" for using the restroom during a commercial break at the last Democratic debate and used crude language to describe her primary loss to now-President Barack Obama in 2008.
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| Bowe Bergdahl Enters No Plea at Arraignment Posted: 22 Dec 2015 04:01 PM PST  Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl deferred entering a plea this morning against charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, after he allegedly deserted his unit in 2009 and was then held captive by the Taliban in Afghanistan for five years. If Bergdahl is convicted of misbehavior before the enemy, he could face a life sentence, while the desertion charge carries a maximum five-year sentence. Bergdahl entered his request to be defended by civilian lawyer Eugene Fidell and military lawyer Capt. Frank Rosenblatt rather than the appointed detailed military defense counselor.
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| AP Poll: Islamic State conflict voted top news story of 2015 Posted: 22 Dec 2015 04:07 AM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — The far-flung attacks claimed by Islamic State militants and the intensifying global effort to crush them added up to a grim, gripping yearlong saga that was voted the top news story of 2015, according to The Associated Press' annual poll of U.S. editors and news directors.
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| No indictments in Sandra Bland jail death Posted: 22 Dec 2015 09:43 AM PST  A grand jury issues no indictments in the case of a black woman who died in a Texas jail.
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| Bowe Bergdahl arraigned at North Carolina Army base Posted: 22 Dec 2015 03:55 PM PST  Wearing a dress blue uniform, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl faced a military judge Tuesday for the first time since the U.S. Army decided to proceed with a military trial that could result in a life sentence for ...
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| Identities revealed for all six U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan attack Posted: 22 Dec 2015 11:22 AM PST  By Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - A female officer in the Air Force, who was one of the first openly gay service members to get married, was identified on Tuesday as being among six U.S. troops killed by a suicide bomber near Bagram air base in Afghanistan. Air Force Major Adrianna Vorderbruggen is the first openly gay woman to be killed in action, the Daily Beast news website reported, citing a Department of Defense official. Six American troops, including Vorderbruggen, were killed Monday when a suicide bomber on a motorbike struck their patrol in the deadliest attack on U.S. forces this year.
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| Real estate heir Robert Durst to be extradited to Los Angeles in writer's death Posted: 22 Dec 2015 03:53 PM PST  (Reuters) - Real estate heir Robert Durst, charged in the 15-year-old murder of a longtime friend as a television show suggested he might have killed her, will return to California from Louisiana to face a homicide charge, prosecutors said on Tuesday. Durst, who also faces charges of illegal firearms possession in federal court in Louisiana, will be arraigned on a single murder charge in the 2000 killing of writer Susan Berman by Aug. 18, 2016 in Superior Court in Los Angeles, District Attorney Jackie Lacy said.
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| Americans aware of Chipotle outbreak eat there less often: poll Posted: 22 Dec 2015 03:11 PM PST  By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) - Nearly a quarter of Americans who have heard of recent E. coli outbreaks at Chipotle Mexican Grill said they are eating less often at its restaurants, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Tuesday, while social media sentiment towards the chain hit a low. Consumers and investors are trying to understand whether Chipotle has solved its food problems and is a safe place to eat, and concerns have deepened since federal investigators on Monday said they were looking at what appeared to be a new Chipotle outbreak in late November. The company says it is rolling out a new food safety plan that will "eliminate or mitigate risk to a level as near zero as possible", although industry experts say Chipotle needs to give more details to show that its new plan will work.
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| SpaceX launches rocket 6 months after accident, then lands Posted: 21 Dec 2015 08:23 PM PST  SpaceX sent a Falcon rocket soaring toward orbit Monday night with 11 small satellites, its first mission since an accident last summer. Then in an even more astounding feat, it landed the 15-story leftover ...
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