| McChrystal opens up about his ouster, weighs in on Bergdahl, praises Hillary Posted: 05 Jun 2014 02:54 PM PDT  Retired general reflects on personal controversy in wide-ranging conversation.
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| Seattle police: 4 victims in university shooting Posted: 05 Jun 2014 04:55 PM PDT  SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle police now say there are four victims in a shooting Thursday afternoon on the campus of Seattle Pacific University. They say one suspect is in custody.
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| Falling trees cause 3 deaths as severe weather hits South Posted: 05 Jun 2014 03:20 PM PDT  By Timothy Ghianni NASHVILLE Tenn. (Reuters) - High winds and flash flooding on Thursday in the south-central United States killed three people in Arkansas and Tennessee, derailed a train in Arkansas and blew off part of a motel roof in a Missouri tourist town, officials said. Trees toppled by strong winds killed two people in northern Arkansas on Thursday afternoon, officials said. In Black Rock, Arkansas, a tree fell on a van and killed the person inside, said Brandon Morris, a spokesman for the state's Department of Emergency Management. In Jonesboro in Craighead County, Arkansas, retired Jonesboro police officer Tom Sanford, 74, was killed when a tree fell on his home, Jonesboro Police Sergeant Doug Formon said.
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| At least three shot at Seattle campus, suspect in custody Posted: 05 Jun 2014 04:18 PM PDT At least three people were shot at Seattle Pacific University on Thursday, and the suspect was in custody, Seattle police said on social media. The Seattle Times newspaper put the number of wounded higher, at seven, none fatally, and said that police were evacuating Otto Miller Hall on campus, but a police spokesman at the scene confirmed only three victims. Seattle police had initially said via twitter that four people were confirmed shot but later downgraded that to three, saying a SWAT team was searching the campus and that authorities were receiving conflicting information about the number of victims. |
| Manhunt clears Canadian city's streets Posted: 05 Jun 2014 04:54 PM PDT  Gunman suspected of killing three officers spotted three times but eludes massive search.
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| Jury awards Bestie Boys $1.7M in Monster Beverage case Posted: 05 Jun 2014 03:01 PM PDT  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - Beastie Boys' fight for their right to not let Monster Beverage Corp use the hip-hop group's music without their permission resulted in a verdict of $1.7 million on Thursday. A federal jury in Manhattan issued the verdict on the eighth day of trial in a copyright dispute between members of the Brooklyn-born band and the energy drink maker over songs the band says Monster used without a license in a 2012 promotional video. The Beastie Boys had sought up to $2.5 million for copyright infringement and false endorsement. Monster countered that it owed no more than $125,000, calling the case "illogical" and saying an employee had mistakenly believed the company had permission to use the music.
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| Gallery: D-Day anniversary Posted: 05 Jun 2014 08:30 AM PDT  In this June 6, 2014 file photo, allied troops crouch behind the bulwarks of a landing craft as it nears Omaha Beach during a landing in Normandy, France. The D-Day invasion broke through Adolf Hitler's western defenses and led to the liberation of France from Nazi occupation just as the Soviet Army was making advances in the east, turning the tide of the war in the Allies' favor. Allied troops landed on the Normandy coast of France in tremendous strength by cloudy daylight today and stormed several miles inland with tanks and infantry in the grand assault which Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower called a crusade in which "we will accept nothing less than full victory."(AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard, File) |
| Petition drive for school guard fired over wheelchair attack Posted: 05 Jun 2014 01:15 PM PDT  A Second Guard Has Been Disciplined for Confrontation With Boy in Wheelchair
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| Watch: UK's Red Arrows commemorate D-Day with aerobatics Posted: 05 Jun 2014 10:32 AM PDT  Seventy years ago, more than 1,200 aircraft formed an assault on the coast of western Europe as part of Operation Overlord, the code name for the Battle of Normandy — also known as D-Day and commemorated in the U.K. on Monday by the spectacular aerobatics of the Royal Air Force's nine-jet Red Arrows display team.
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| Senators reach agreement on veterans' health care Posted: 05 Jun 2014 04:27 PM PDT  Key senators have reached agreement on a bipartisan proposal to address the delays in getting health care for military veterans, Sen. John McCain said.
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| Burwell faces urgent 'to do' list Posted: 05 Jun 2014 11:32 AM PDT  Senate confirms Sylvia Mathews Burwell as new health secretary in bipartisan vote.
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| Survivors tell of attack by 'preachers' in Nigeria Posted: 05 Jun 2014 11:19 AM PDT  Maiduguri (Nigeria) (AFP) - Forty-five people were killed by suspected Boko Haram gunmen pretending to be preachers in a village near the group's spiritual home in northeast Nigeria, two residents said on Thursday. The attack happened at about 9:30 pm (2030 GMT) on Wednesday in Barderi, on the outskirts of Maiduguri, and saw insurgents hoodwink locals into congregating before opening fire on the crowd. Itinerant preaching is commonplace in mainly Muslim northern Nigeria and the fake clerics reportedly told villagers that they had come to show them "the righteous path". Mallam Bunu, who survived the attack, said: "I counted 45 bodies after the attackers left the village.
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| Verizon fires back at Netflix over slow service message Posted: 05 Jun 2014 02:50 PM PDT  By Lisa Richwine and Marina Lopes LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc on Thursday demanded that Netflix Inc immediately stop displaying messages to customers that place blame on Verizon's broadband service for slow delivery of Netflix TV shows and movies. The letter is the latest sign of tension between content providers like Netflix and Internet service providers over who should pay the price for companies that stream heavy traffic online. In a cease-and-desist letter sent to Netflix, Verizon also asked the video streaming service to provide information including a list of customers on the Verizon network to whom Netflix delivered the notices, or face legal action.
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| 911 report: Jace admits to shooting wife in call to father-in-law Posted: 05 Jun 2014 10:37 AM PDT  Actor Michael Jace, who is charged with killing his wife, called and told his father-in-law about the shooting and asked him to come for the couple's two young children soon after it happened, a recently released 911 call indicates.
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| Seller cancels auction of soldier's skull found near Gettysburg Posted: 05 Jun 2014 10:32 AM PDT  By David DeKok HARRISBURG Pa. (Reuters) - Facing wide criticism, including from the National Parks Service, an auction house has canceled plans to sell the skull of a Civil War soldier and military relics found near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. But late on Monday, auctioneer Thomas Taylor of the Hagerstown, Maryland-based company said the skull would be handed over to the National Park Service at the Gettysburg National Military Park. The park service had earlier called for the skull to be donated for burial in the Soldiers National Cemetery at Gettysburg, alongside the bones of other unknown soldiers. The Battle of Gettysburg, which lasted three days in 1863, is often described as the turning point of the Civil War.
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| Officials: Bergdahl deal hinged on secrecy Posted: 05 Jun 2014 10:28 AM PDT  White House tells lawmakers Taliban threatened to kill soldier if swap went public.
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| GM axes 15 over ignition problem that dragged on 11 years Posted: 05 Jun 2014 06:35 AM PDT  Actions follow company's own probe into deadly ignition switch defect.
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| President Obama to field college debt questions on Tumblr Posted: 05 Jun 2014 08:01 AM PDT  Mad about your college loans? You have a chance to take your frustrations straight to the president on Tuesday.
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| U.S., Britain lay down new markers for Putin Posted: 05 Jun 2014 11:50 AM PDT  President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron laid down new markers for Russia Thursday, giving Moscow a month to meet their conditions in Ukraine or face further sanctions.
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| Violence against women: What is — and is not — different this time Posted: 05 Jun 2014 03:23 AM PDT  The 25-year-old gunman entered the crowded classroom early that morning, armed with a rifle and a hunting knife. Before the 60 students could really register what was happening, he'd ordered the men to leave, then opened fire on the women, shouting, "You're all a bunch of feminists, and I hate feminists!" By the time he turned the gun on himself, he'd left 14 dead and 10 more injured.
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| Matt Bai: The tea party is after Eric Cantor. Seriously. Posted: 05 Jun 2014 03:13 AM PDT  Just how conservative do you have to be before these conservative activists will leave you alone?
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| Saving Sgt. Bergdahl Posted: 05 Jun 2014 06:43 AM PDT In murky ground between war and terror, prisoner swap causes uproar. |
| Boko Haram militants slaughter hundreds Posted: 05 Jun 2014 08:32 AM PDT  Rebels dressed as soldiers slaughtered at least 200 civilians in 3 Nigerian villages.
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| 34 injured in Staten Island blaze Posted: 05 Jun 2014 10:24 AM PDT  Fire tore through three townhouses on Staten Island, injuring 34 people including two young children who were tossed out a window from a smoke-filled second-floor apartment into the arms of neighbors below, authorities and witnesses said.
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| In Nepal, thousands hug trees in world record bid Posted: 05 Jun 2014 05:12 AM PDT  More than 2,000 people, mostly students wearing their school uniforms, gathered in Nepal's capital on Thursday in a bid to set a world record for the largest tree hug.
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| Ukraine diplomacy kicks into high gear at G-7 Posted: 05 Jun 2014 07:00 AM PDT  Diplomatic efforts to resolve the months-long standoff between Ukraine and Russia might end up with a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's president-elect, France's president said Thursday.
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| McChrystal: I’m not the right person to run VA Posted: 05 Jun 2014 03:21 AM PDT  The retired general explains why he's taken himself out of the running for the job.
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| European Central Bank cuts rates to help eurozone Posted: 05 Jun 2014 05:19 AM PDT FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank has cut two key interest rates, one of them into negative territory — a highly unusual step that underlines the urgency of its efforts to keep the eurozone economy from sliding into crippling deflation. |
| Pilot ejects as Navy jet crashes into sea Posted: 05 Jun 2014 06:48 AM PDT  SAN DIEGO (AP) — Officials say a Navy jet crashed into the sea as it prepared to make a late-night landing on an aircraft carrier, but the pilot ejected and was listed in stable condition.
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| Manhunt for suspect after 3 officers killed in Canada Posted: 04 Jun 2014 11:37 PM PDT  Two other police officers were injured in a rare case of gun violence in eastern Canada.
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| GM recall probe to clear senior execs: WSJ Posted: 04 Jun 2014 09:55 PM PDT  (Reuters) - An internal probe of General Motors Co's GM.N delay in recalling cars with defective ignition switches linked to at least 13 deaths is expected to conclude there was no concerted coverup and clear senior management of blame, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The report will conclude that GM managers did not make connections and act on evidence of problems linked to deadly accidents, and it will recommend changes to GM culture and management, the Journal said. But GM's general counsel, Michael Millikin, who was co-lead of the internal probe with former U.S. prosecutor Anton Valukas, is expected to continue to work for the automaker and is cleared of responsibility for the mishandling of defects and the recall delay, the people told the newspaper. Barra is expected to announce the findings of the internal probe on Thursday.
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| No injuries in California military jet crash Posted: 04 Jun 2014 11:00 PM PDT IMPERIAL, Calif. (AP) — A Marine jet crashed into a residential area and destroyed two homes in a Southern California desert community Wednesday, but no one was injured, authorities said. |
| Threat to Bergdahl led to US action, officials say Posted: 05 Jun 2014 02:51 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration told senators it didn't notify Congress about the pending swap of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five Taliban officials because of intelligence the Taliban might kill him if the deal was made public.
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| Bergdahl's hometown sidesteps desertion debate Posted: 05 Jun 2014 04:46 PM PDT  HAILEY, Idaho (AP) — Bowe Bergdahl's hometown is accustomed to celebrity and the attention it brings.
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| VA chief: 18 vets left off waiting list have died Posted: 05 Jun 2014 03:54 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — An additional 18 veterans in the Phoenix area whose names were kept off an official electronic Veterans Administration appointment list have died, the agency's acting secretary said Thursday — the latest revelation in a growing scandal over long patient waits to see doctors and falsified records covering up the delays at VA hospitals and clinics nationwide.
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