| Official: Asiana flight tried to abort landing Posted: 07 Jul 2013 03:40 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal safety official said Sunday the cockpit voice recorder from Asiana Flight 214 showed the jetliner received a warning that it could stall because it was flying too slowly and tried to increase its speed before it crashed.
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| Secretary of State's wife hospitalized in Mass. Posted: 07 Jul 2013 04:13 PM PDT  BOSTON (AP) — Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, is in critical but stable condition in a hospital in Nantucket, Mass.
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| Russia official: Venezuela last chance for Snowden Posted: 07 Jul 2013 01:05 PM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — An influential Russian parliament member who often speaks for the Kremlin encouraged NSA leaker Edward Snowden on Sunday to accept Venezuela's offer of asylum.
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| Convoy takes remains of fallen Arizona firefighters home Posted: 07 Jul 2013 04:27 PM PDT  By Tim Gaynor PHOENIX (Reuters) - A solemn procession of 19 white hearses carrying the remains of firefighters killed battling an Arizona wildfire left Phoenix accompanied by police motorcycle outriders on Sunday on a final journey passing through the crew's hometown. An honor guard of firefighters and police officers stood to attention as the caravan pulled slowly away from the Maricopa County Medical Examiner's office shortly after midday as bagpipers played a dirge. The convoy passed beneath a large U.S. ...
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| Doctor: At least 2 paralyzed in SF plane crash Posted: 07 Jul 2013 11:48 AM PDT  Police officers threw utility knives up to crew members inside the burning wreckage of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 so they could cut away passengers' seat belts. Passengers jumped down emergency slides, ...
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| Procession brings home fallen Ariz. firefighters Posted: 07 Jul 2013 04:36 PM PDT  PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) — Nineteen firefighters killed in a wildfire a week ago went home for the last time on Sunday, their bodies traveling in individual white hearses in a somber procession for 125 miles through Arizona cities and towns.
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| AP: Kerry Heinz wife moved to Boston hospital Posted: 07 Jul 2013 04:46 PM PDT BOSTON (AP) — A person in close contact with the family says Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, has been transferred to a hospital in Boston. |
| Quebec police: 5 dead in oil train derailment Posted: 07 Jul 2013 03:23 PM PDT  LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec (AP) — As firefighters doused still burning oil tanker cars, more bodies were recovered Sunday in this devastated town in eastern Quebec, raising the death toll to five after a runaway train derailed, igniting explosions and fires that destroyed the downtown district. With dozens of people reported missing, authorities feared they could find more bodies once they reached the hardest-hit areas.
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| Talks on Egypt leaders hit Islamist block Posted: 07 Jul 2013 04:20 PM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — Secular and liberal factions trying to install one of their own as Egypt's new prime minister collided into strong resistance Sunday from the sole Islamist faction that backed the military's ouster of President Mohammed Morsi, reflecting the difficulties in building a broad coalition behind a new leadership.
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| Pilots faced challenges landing in San Francisco Posted: 07 Jul 2013 04:42 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — San Francisco International Airport, with its tightly spaced runways that extend right up to the water, requires more skill for landing than most of the nation's big airports, experienced airline pilots say. That challenge was further complicated by the shutdown of a ground-based instrument landing system and the movement of runway thresholds prior to the crash Saturday of a Korean airliner.
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| Egypt overthrow shakes Islamists in the region Posted: 07 Jul 2013 02:00 PM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — The military's overthrow of Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood's fall from power in Egypt have sent Islamist parties around the region scrambling to preserve gains made in the Middle East and North Africa as a result of the Arab Spring uprisings.
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| Painstaking care, honor for 19 fallen firefighters Posted: 07 Jul 2013 02:51 PM PDT  PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) — The idea to drape the bodies of 19 dead firefighters in American flags came from Yavapai County Sheriff Scott Mascher, shortly after the men were found dead.
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| AP IMPACT: MIA work 'acutely dysfunctional' Posted: 07 Jul 2013 11:31 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon's effort to account for tens of thousands of Americans missing in action from foreign wars is so inept, mismanaged and wasteful that it risks descending from "dysfunction to total failure," according to an internal study suppressed by military officials.
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| 5 changes since the last British Wimbledon champ Posted: 07 Jul 2013 02:58 PM PDT  LONDON (AP) — Five notable changes that took place in Britain in the 77 years that elapsed between Wimbledon titles for Fred Perry and Andy Murray, who ended Britain's drought on Sunday:
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| Official: Asiana flight flew too slow before crash Posted: 07 Jul 2013 04:43 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Pilots of Asiana Flight 214 were flying too slowly as they approached San Francisco airport, triggering a warning that the jetliner could stall, and then tried to abort the landing seconds before crashing, according to federal safety officials. |
| Murray ends Britain's 77-year wait at Wimbledon Posted: 07 Jul 2013 03:08 PM PDT  LONDON (AP) — Andy Murray needed one more point, one solitary point, to win Wimbledon — a title he yearned to earn for himself, of course, and also for his country.
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| Egypt factions work on compromise on premier post Posted: 07 Jul 2013 01:01 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Secular and liberal factions in Egypt's new leadership worked Sunday to reach a compromise with ultraconservative Islamists on a new prime minister, with a liberal economist emerging as a leading candidate for the post to run the country after the military's ouster of President Mohammed Morsi. |
