| Sen. Walsh responds to plagiarism scandal Posted: 25 Jul 2014 02:53 PM PDT  Montana Democrat speaks with Yahoo News following plagiarism revelations.
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| Three children dead after Philly carjacking Posted: 25 Jul 2014 02:28 PM PDT  Three other people were critically injured after a hijacked car was driven into a crowd.
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| Judge strikes down Florida's gay marriage ban Posted: 25 Jul 2014 04:46 PM PDT  A Florida judge has overturned the state's ban on same-sex marriage in a ruling that applies to Miami-Dade County, agreeing with a judge in another county who made a similar ruling last week.
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| FIBA to review 'discriminatory' headgear ban Posted: 25 Jul 2014 02:03 PM PDT  Facing claims that Muslim and Sikh players are being discriminated against, basketball's governing body will review its ban which prevents players wearing headgear for religious reasons.
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| Hospital gunman planned to kill others, official says Posted: 25 Jul 2014 02:45 PM PDT  A psychiatrist's patient ranted about a gun ban at a suburban medical complex before opening fire there, killing his caseworker and grazing his psychiatrist before the doctor pulled out his own weapon and fired back, authorities said Friday.
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| Large Sandy-struck family splits $20M New Jersey lottery win Posted: 25 Jul 2014 02:10 PM PDT  A lottery-playing tradition started by the matriarch of a large New Jersey shore family paid off for her 17 children this week when the group won a $20 million jackpot that will partly be used to help family members recover from 2012's Superstorm Sandy.
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| FBI's Mueller: Gaza will fuel al-Qaida threat Posted: 25 Jul 2014 12:06 PM PDT  A former FBI director says Israel's Gaza offensive will inflame anti-U.S. sentiment.
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| Washington wildfire: 300 homes burned Posted: 25 Jul 2014 04:43 PM PDT  A sheriff in Washington state says a massive wildfire has burned 300 homes, double the number previously estimated.
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| Jailed Russian opposition leader goes on hunger strike Posted: 25 Jul 2014 12:46 PM PDT  Russian opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov began a hunger strike on Friday, a day after being sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison for inciting public unrest. "Today is the first day of the indefinite hunger strike declared by Udaltsov. Udaltsov, a leftist opposition leader, and his co-defendant Leonid Razvozzhayev were convicted on Thursday of fomenting mass riots ahead of President Vladimir Putin's inauguration to a third term in 2012. Udaltsov wrote a letter to the head of the prison in Moscow informing him that was going on hunger strike, said prison service spokesman Sergei Tsygankov.
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| AH5017: First images emerge of Air Algerie crash site Posted: 25 Jul 2014 07:46 AM PDT  This photo provided Friday July 25, 2014 by the French army shows a helicopter at the site of the plane crash in Mali. French soldiers secured a black box from the Air Algerie wreckage site in a desolate region of restive northern Mali on Friday, the French president said. Terrorism hasn't been ruled out as a cause, although officials say the most likely reason for the catastrophe that killed all onboard is bad weather. At least 116 people were killed in Thursday's disaster, nearly half of whom were French. (AP Photo/ECPAD) |
| Israel rejects Gaza truce plan Posted: 25 Jul 2014 04:20 PM PDT  Israeli media say the country's Security Cabinet has unanimously rejected a U.S. proposal for a temporary pause in Israel-Hamas fighting.
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| Congress faces high price for border inaction Posted: 25 Jul 2014 09:30 AM PDT  Lawmakers could end up paying more to address immigration crisis.
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| Russian execs fear economic damage after plane crash Posted: 25 Jul 2014 10:03 AM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — Having for months dismissed Western sanctions on Russia as toothless, business leaders here are now afraid that the downing of the Malaysian jetliner will bring about an international isolation that will cause serious and lasting economic damage.
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| Judge: Defendant in 9/11 Gitmo case to be tried separately Posted: 25 Jul 2014 11:16 AM PDT  MIAMI (AP) — A military judge has ruled that one of five prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay naval base charged in the Sept. 11 attack should be tried separately from his co-defendants.
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| FIFA rejects calls to strip Russia of World Cup despite pressure Posted: 25 Jul 2014 09:43 AM PDT  GENEVA (AP) — FIFA rejected calls to move the 2018 World Cup from Russia, saying the tournament "can achieve positive change."
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| Vatican staff gets surprise lunch guest Posted: 25 Jul 2014 08:15 AM PDT  But a cafeteria cashier balks at handing Pope Francis the bill.
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| Aide: White House takes impeachment threat seriously Posted: 25 Jul 2014 07:08 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — One of President Barack Obama's top advisers says the White House takes seriously the possibility that House Republicans could pursue impeachment of the president.
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| Drought, disease to drive up U.S. meat, seafood prices Posted: 25 Jul 2014 08:58 AM PDT  By Ros Krasny WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Overall U.S. food inflation will remain near the historic norm in 2014, even as prices for meat and seafood are pushed higher by disease and widespread drought, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Friday. Prices for shelf-stable and processed items made by companies such as General Mills and Kraft Foods Group are relatively flat. "It appears that supermarkets are maintaining minimal price inflation on packaged food products, possibly in an effort to keep prices competitive in light of rising cost pressures for most perishable items," the USDA said.
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| Gunman to face bedside arraignment Posted: 25 Jul 2014 07:36 AM PDT  Man accused of shooting his caseworker, then was shot by his psychiatrist, police say.
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| Comic-Con fanboys, girls confront changes in beloved characters Posted: 25 Jul 2014 10:24 AM PDT  Captain America is now black, Thor becomes a woman, and comic character Archie Andrews is shot and killed while saving his gay friend. The annual pop-culture carnival that is the Comic-Con Festival got under way in San Diego on Thursday with fans welcoming the world of change facing so many beloved characters. An estimated 150,000 devotees of comics, video games, fantasy and action movies are expected to throng the four-day extravaganza in southern California, many opting to don costumes of their favorite characters. The streets surrounding the festival resemble a surreal bazaar: a miniature Darth Vader asleep on the shoulders of his father, dressed as Bart Simpson, or Princess Elsa from "Frozen" posing with "Avengers" heroine Black Widow.
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| Cyclist reprimanded for Gaza protest on gloves Posted: 25 Jul 2014 08:01 AM PDT  GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — A Malaysian cyclist at the Commonwealth Games who wore gloves with "Save Gaza" written on them has been reprimanded by his team and warned he will be expelled if he does it again.
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| Technology that could help prevent hot-car child deaths Posted: 25 Jul 2014 06:06 AM PDT  The Hot Seat, Babeep and Precious Cargo app -- could help save children's lives by alerting parents if they've accidentally left their little ones behind. Created by New Mexico teen Alissa Chavez, The Hot Seat is a small pad that parents place under their child's car seat and a proximity sensor attached to a key fob. Although she's a high school senior now, Chavez came up with The Hot Seat idea as an eight grader.
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| Bad weather likely cause of fatal Air Algerie crash Posted: 25 Jul 2014 03:59 PM PDT  By Chine Labbé and Tiemoko Diallo PARIS/BAMAKO (Reuters) - Poor weather was the most likely cause of the crash of an Air Algerie flight in the West African country of Mali that killed all 118 people on board, French officials said on Friday. "French soldiers who are on the ground have started the first investigations," French President Francois Hollande told reporters. An earlier count of 51 French nationals among the dead was also raised to 54 by the French Foreign Ministry to include those with dual nationality. French, Malian and Dutch soldiers from a U.N. peacekeeping force (MINUSMA) secured the crash site, which lies about 80 km (50 miles) south of the northern Malian town of Gossi, near the Burkina Faso border.
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| Ukraine on edge of political meltdown Posted: 25 Jul 2014 01:44 PM PDT  Shock resignation of prime minister, continued combat at MH17 site. What else can go wrong?
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| Frantic search for 32-year-old Ebola patient zero Posted: 25 Jul 2014 06:15 AM PDT  By Umaru Fofana FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leone officials appealed for help on Friday to trace the first known resident in the capital with Ebola whose family forcibly removed her from a Freetown hospital after testing positive for the deadly disease. Radio stations in Freetown, a city of around 1 million inhabitants, broadcast the appeal on Friday to locate a woman who tested positive for the disease that has killed 660 people across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since an outbreak was first identified in February. "Saudatu Koroma of 25 Old Railway Line, Brima Lane, Wellington," the announcement said. We need the public to help us locate her." Koroma, 32, a resident of the densely populated Wellington neighborhood, had been admitted to an isolation ward while blood samples were tested for the virus, Health ministry spokesman Sidi Yahya Tunis.
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| Setback in US-led Gaza truce efforts Posted: 25 Jul 2014 04:21 PM PDT JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel-Hamas fighting looked headed for escalation after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry failed Friday to broker a weeklong truce as first step toward a broader deal and Israel's defense minister warned Israel might soon expand its Gaza ground operation "significantly." |
| AP ANALYSIS: Old story, new twists in Gaza war Posted: 25 Jul 2014 02:04 PM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — The third Gaza war is playing out much like the first one more than five years ago: The harrowing civilian toll in Gaza is now at the center of the discourse, eclipsing the rocket attacks by Hamas militants that were the stated reason for the Israeli assault.
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| US: Russia is firing across border into Ukraine Posted: 25 Jul 2014 04:08 PM PDT  KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia is launching artillery attacks from its soil on Ukrainian troops and preparing to move heavier weaponry across the border, the U.S. and Ukraine charged Friday in what appeared to be an ominous escalation of the crisis.
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| Migrants: Obama urges Latin leaders, GOP to help Posted: 25 Jul 2014 04:26 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Pressing for swift action, President Barack Obama on Friday urged Central American presidents and congressional Republicans to help ease the influx of minors and migrant families crossing the southwest border of the U.S.
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| What happened? The day Flight 17 was downed Posted: 25 Jul 2014 12:53 PM PDT  SNIZHNE, Ukraine (AP) — It was lunchtime when a tracked launcher with four SA-11 surface-to-air missiles rolled into town and parked on Karapetyan Street. Fifteen hundred miles (2,400 kilometers) to the west, passengers were checking in for Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.
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| Former CIA officials can't see 'torture' report Posted: 25 Jul 2014 03:32 PM PDT ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — About a dozen former CIA officials named in a classified Senate report on decade-old agency interrogation practices were notified in recent days that they would be able to review parts of the document in a secure room in suburban Washington after signing a secrecy agreement. |
| Taiwan plane survivor crawls out, phones dad Posted: 25 Jul 2014 10:05 AM PDT  XIXI, Taiwan (AP) — The 10 survivors of Taiwan's worst air disaster in more than a decade include a 34-year-old woman who called her father after scrambling from the wreckage and seeking help at a nearby home.
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| Teams converge on remote site to probe plane crash Posted: 25 Jul 2014 01:24 PM PDT  PARIS (AP) — Aviation experts, criminal investigators and soldiers began converging Friday on an isolated patch of restive Mali to search for clues that might explain why an Air Algerie jetliner fell from the sky in a storm and apparently disintegrated on impact.
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| Transcript shows concerns during Arizona execution Posted: 25 Jul 2014 08:30 AM PDT  FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) — U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake was attending a ceremony for a judicial colleague when he received an urgent — and unusual — request: Lawyers for a condemned inmate wanted him to stop an execution that didn't seem to be working.
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