| Terror on the beach: Tourists recount Tunisia attack horrors Posted: 27 Jun 2015 03:48 PM PDT  Tunisia's postcard destination for tourists is reeling from the terror that blighted another day of play at the Mediterranean seaside resort of Sousse. A man armed with a Kalashnikov and grenades gunned down tourists on a private beach, and then moved methodically through the grounds of a luxury hotel — to the swimming pool, reception area and offices.
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| Iran, US warn of 'hard work' at tough nuclear talks Posted: 27 Jun 2015 01:17 PM PDT  Iran and the US showed little sign Saturday of an early breakthrough in last-ditch nuclear talks with both sides warning of "hard work" ahead and France stressing key issues remain unresolved. US Secretary of State John Kerry and Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met twice during the day for what is set to be the final push to seal an accord curtailing Tehran's nuclear programme after almost two years of negotiations.
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| Baltimore police open probe into new shooting of unarmed black man Posted: 27 Jun 2015 11:36 AM PDT  Police have opened an investigation into the killing of an unarmed black man by law enforcement officers outside Baltimore, authorities said on Saturday, two months after the city was rocked by protests over the death of another African-American who was taken into custody. The latest incident unfolded in the Baltimore suburb of Owing Mills, where three officers fired at least 19 rounds and killed Spencer Lee McCain, 41, during a domestic disturbance on Thursday. The Baltimore County police's homicide unit is investigating, police said in a statement Saturday.
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| Fire injures scores attending party at Taiwan water park Posted: 27 Jun 2015 12:08 PM PDT  A fire on a music stage spread into a crowd of spectators at a party Saturday night at a Taiwan water park, injuring more than 200 people, authorities said.
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| French terror suspect took selfie with beheaded victim Posted: 27 Jun 2015 02:20 PM PDT  A detained truck driver with a history of radical Islamic ties is refusing to speak to police investigators over his implication in an explosion and beheading in southeastern France, a French official said Saturday, adding that one of the other suspects initially arrested has been released without charge.
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| Greece's future in balance as creditors reject aid extension Posted: 27 Jun 2015 02:21 PM PDT  Greece's place in the euro currency bloc looked increasingly shaky on Saturday after eurozone nations rejected a monthlong extension to its bailout program and the prime minister called for a risky popular vote on the country's financial future.
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| Charleston suspect's life a troubled road to radicalization Posted: 27 Jun 2015 09:33 AM PDT  The people who know Dylann Storm Roof — the people who watched his progression from a sweet child to a disturbed man — are struggling with guilt. How could they have missed the signs? Could they have done something to prevent the deaths of nine innocents at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church?
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| Shaken tourists flee Tunisia after seaside massacre Posted: 27 Jun 2015 03:27 PM PDT  Planeloads of shocked foreign tourists flew home from Tunisia Saturday after a beachside massacre claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group killed 38 people and prompted a major security clampdown. Britain said that at least 15 of its citizens were killed in Friday's gun assault in the popular resort of Port el Kantaoui and that the number "may well rise". The attack represents Britain's worst loss of life in a terror incident since the 2005 London bombings.
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| Police: Surviving escapee could face a harder time alone Posted: 27 Jun 2015 03:47 PM PDT  The shooting death of one escaped killer brought new energy to the three-week hunt for a second escaped murderer as helicopters, search dogs and hundreds of law enforcement officers converged on a wooded area 30 miles from the prison.
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| Cosby lawyer: Unsealing court docs 'terribly embarrassing' Posted: 26 Jun 2015 08:51 PM PDT  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A lawyer for Bill Cosby argued Friday that it would be "terribly embarrassing" for the comedian if documents from a 2005 sex-assault lawsuit were unsealed.
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| Jim Obergefell on historic gay marriage ruling Posted: 26 Jun 2015 12:09 PM PDT  The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Friday that same-sex marriage must be legal nationwide. Yahoo global news anchor Katie Couric spoke to Jim Obergefell, the lead plaintiff in the case that challenged the ban on same sex marriages.
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| Dozens killed in attacks in Tunisia, Kuwait and France Posted: 26 Jun 2015 07:16 PM PDT  SOUSSE, Tunisia (AP) — A young man pulled a Kalashnikov from a beach umbrella and sprayed gunfire at European sunbathers at a Tunisian resort, killing at least 39 people — one of three deadly attacks Friday from Europe to North Africa to the Middle East that followed a call to violence by Islamic State extremists.
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| Landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizes gay marriage nationwide Posted: 27 Jun 2015 01:58 AM PDT  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the U.S. Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry, handing a historic triumph to the American gay rights movement. The court ruled 5-4 that the Constitution's guarantees of due process and equal protection under the law mean that states cannot ban same-sex marriages. With the landmark ruling, gay marriage becomes legal in all 50 states.
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| New York manhunt for prison escapee heats up after accomplice killed Posted: 27 Jun 2015 03:37 PM PDT  Hundreds of law enforcement officers hunting for a convicted murderer who escaped from a New York state maximum security prison scoured an area of near the Canadian border on Saturday, a day after a fellow escapee was killed. About 1,200 federal, state and local law enforcement officers on Saturday were searching a 22 square-mile (57 square-km) area along state route 30 between the towns of Malone and Duane in northern New York state, New York State Police said in a statement. After Richard Matt was fatally shot by U.S. Border Patrol officers, a tight security perimeter was set up in the area, where Sweat was believed to be holed up.
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| Activist takes down Confederate flag outside South Carolina capitol Posted: 27 Jun 2015 11:33 AM PDT  An activist climbed a flagpole outside the South Carolina state capitol early on Saturday and took down the Confederate flag, state officials said, a day after U.S. President Barack Obama called the banner a symbol of racial oppression. Two people were arrested and charged with defacing a monument, the South Carolina Department of Public Safety said in a statement. The department identified them as 30-year-olds Brittany Ann Byuarim Newsome and James Ian Tyson, from North Carolina.
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| Bitter dissents in gay marriage case reveals deep divide in high court Posted: 26 Jun 2015 06:03 PM PDT  Justice Anthony Kennedy almost always votes alongside his four conservative colleagues on the Supreme Court. But when he doesn't, it's often in big, transformative cases, like Friday's gay marriage decision. His defection clearly has made his conservative peers hopping mad.
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