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• 36 injured in Texas floor collapse
• Cavaliers select Wiggins with No. 1 overall pick in 2014 NBA draft
• Rebekah Brooks 'vindicated' by hacking acquittal
• Wis. governor not target of special investigation, lawyer says
• Obama seeks $500M to train Syrian rebels
• Man's paperwork mistake cost his children $400,000 of an IRA inheritance
• Supreme Court curbs state limits on abortion clinic protests
• FAA, developers clash over proposed building height limits
• ‘We never saw it coming,’ father of Isla Vista shooter says
• Howard Baker Jr., former Tennessee senator, dies at 88
• U.S. advances to World Cup round of 16 despite 1-0 loss to Germany
• Activist's slaying in Benghazi leaves many Libyans stunned
• High court rebukes Obama on recess appointments
• Matt Bai: What is Martin O'Malley thinking?
• Will San Francisco break the fall of Golden Gate jumpers?
• Knee-high flooding could impact USA-Germany match
• Men sue New Jersey Lottery after throwing out $1M ticket
• Utah same-sex marriage ruling returns focus to Supreme Court
• Sex abuse report: Late BBC host 'interfered with dead bodies'
• Ariz. schools chief sorry for blog posts, but won't step down
• 1 suspect held, 1 killed after deadly Nigeria bomb blast
• Malaysia jet most likely on autopilot when it crashed, Australia says
• Former Providence mayor makes post-prison bid for old job
• Lawyer seeks impartial jury for friend of Boston bombing suspect
• Eli Wallach, veteran character actor, dies at 98

36 injured in Texas floor collapse Posted: 26 Jun 2014 02:54 PM PDT A floor collapse during a religious gathering near Houston injures three dozen people.

Cavaliers select Wiggins with No. 1 overall pick in 2014 NBA draft Posted: After a one-year stopover in Lawrence, Kan., Andrew Wiggins has been drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Rebekah Brooks 'vindicated' by hacking acquittal Posted: 26 Jun 2014 12:14 PM PDT Former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks said Thursday she is innocent of phone hacking and other crimes and feels vindicated by a jury's unanimous decision to acquit her.

Wis. governor not target of special investigation, lawyer says Posted: 26 Jun 2014 02:11 PM PDT Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker was not a target of an investigation into possible illegal coordination between his campaign and special interest groups during elections in 2011 and 2012, a lawyer for the prosecutor leading the investigation said on Thursday. Randall Crocker, an attorney representing special prosecutor Francis Schmitz, said Thursday that documents released publicly last week outlined the prosecutor's legal theory of the investigation and did not establish the existence of a crime. A federal judge halted the investigation in response to a lawsuit filed by the Wisconsin Club for Growth that accuses prosecutors of violating their free-speech rights. "At the time the investigation was halted, Governor Walker was not a target of the investigation," Crocker said in the statement.

Obama seeks $500M to train Syrian rebels Posted: 26 Jun 2014 04:10 PM PDT Obama has asked Congress for funds to train and arm members of the Syrian opposition.

Man's paperwork mistake cost his children $400,000 of an IRA inheritance Posted: Before Leonard Smith lost his battle with cancer in 2008, he worked with his financial advisors and attorneys to make sure his children received the balance of his retirement funds when he died.

Supreme Court curbs state limits on abortion clinic protests Posted: 26 Jun 2014 03:29 PM PDT The U.S. Supreme Court handed a victory to anti-abortion activists on Thursday by making it harder for states to enact laws aimed at helping patients entering abortion clinics to avoid protesters, striking down a Massachusetts statute that had created a no-entry zone. On a 9-0 vote, the court said the 2007 law violated freedom of speech rights under the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment by preventing anti-abortion activists from standing on the sidewalk and speaking to people entering the clinics. The ruling casts into doubt similar fixed buffer zones adopted by several municipalities around the country, including San Francisco and Pittsburgh. The Massachusetts law was enacted in part because of safety concerns highlighted by violent acts committed against abortion providers in the past.

FAA, developers clash over proposed building height limits Posted: 26 Jun 2014 03:51 PM PDT The government wants to dramatically reduce the allowable height of buildings near hundreds of airports — a proposal that is drawing fire from real estate developers and members of Congress who say it will reduce property values.

‘We never saw it coming,’ father of Isla Vista shooter says Posted: 26 Jun 2014 11:37 AM PDT The father of a man who killed six people in a California college town said in a television interview that his son's rampage came as a surprise, despite contentions by some victims' families that the attack might have been prevented. Peter Rodger, a Hollywood film director, told Barbara Walters in an interview set to air Friday on ABC's "20/20" that prior to the shooting he did not believe his son, Elliott, 22, could "hurt a flea." Elliot Rodger stabbed three men to death in his apartment in the town of Isla Vista on May 23 before fatally shooting three more people near the campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Howard Baker Jr., former Tennessee senator, dies at 88 Posted: 26 Jun 2014 11:28 AM PDT Sen. Baker's question sliced to the core of Watergate: "What did the president know and when did he know it?"

U.S. advances to World Cup round of 16 despite 1-0 loss to Germany Posted: Team USA lost 1-0 to Germany, but still won by scraping through to the knockout stage of the World Cup after surviving a nervous final afternoon of Group G action.

Activist's slaying in Benghazi leaves many Libyans stunned Posted: 26 Jun 2014 12:57 PM PDT A prominent Libyan activist who had become an international face of her strife-torn country's efforts to build a democracy was assassinated by gunmen who stormed her home in the restive eastern city of Benghazi, police said.

High court rebukes Obama on recess appointments Posted: 26 Jun 2014 08:46 AM PDT Supreme Court rules for Senate GOP in partisan clash with president over filling vacancies.

Matt Bai: What is Martin O'Malley thinking? Posted: 26 Jun 2014 01:46 AM PDT Maryland's governor persists in behaving like a man who is actually running for president.

Will San Francisco break the fall of Golden Gate jumpers? Posted: 26 Jun 2014 02:02 AM PDT Historic vote might finally lead to installation of a suicide barrier at the iconic bridge.

Knee-high flooding could impact USA-Germany match Posted:

Men sue New Jersey Lottery after throwing out $1M ticket Posted: 26 Jun 2014 06:11 AM PDT MAHWAH, N.J. (AP) — Two New York men are suing the New Jersey Lottery after they threw out a Powerball ticket worth $1 million.

Utah same-sex marriage ruling returns focus to Supreme Court Posted: 26 Jun 2014 06:34 AM PDT Top court may have to make decision it's avoided — can states prohibit gay marriage?

Sex abuse report: Late BBC host 'interfered with dead bodies' Posted: 26 Jun 2014 04:49 AM PDT Late BBC presenter Jimmy Savile sexually abused vulnerable patients in scores of British hospitals over decades and claimed to have performed sex acts on dead bodies, investigators said on Thursday. Savile, one of the biggest TV stars in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s, abused girls, boys, men and women aged from five to 75 as he enjoyed unrestricted access throughout state-run National Health Service (NHS) institutions, they found. Witnesses told investigators that Savile also claimed to have performed sex acts on bodies at the same hospital's mortuary, and even bragged about having jewellery that he had had made from glass eyes taken from the deceased.

Ariz. schools chief sorry for blog posts, but won't step down Posted: 26 Jun 2014 04:16 AM PDT Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal broke down in tears Wednesday at the end of a news conference where he apologized for posting an anonymous blog comment that denigrated welfare ...

1 suspect held, 1 killed after deadly Nigeria bomb blast Posted: 25 Jun 2014 10:34 PM PDT Nigerian authorities have arrested one suspect and killed another, after a bomb claimed 21 lives in a shopping centre in the capital Abuja, a city gripped by fear of attacks by Boko Haram Islamists. Wednesday's blast shook the Emab Plaza at 4:00 pm (1500 GMT), the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said, as shoppers were buying groceries ahead of the country's World Cup match against Argentina, which kicked-off an hour later. Later the National Information Centre said a second suspect had been shot dead by troops as he tried to escape on a motorbike. Rescue teams were deployed to the scene and evacuated the victims from the area, NEMA spokesman Manzo Ezekiel told AFP.

Malaysia jet most likely on autopilot when it crashed, Australia says Posted: 26 Jun 2014 01:34 AM PDT By Lincoln Feast SYDNEY (Reuters) - Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 was most likely on autopilot when it crashed into the Indian Ocean further south than previously thought, Australian officials said on Thursday, as they charted the next phase of a so far fruitless search. Investigators say what little evidence they have to work with suggests the plane was deliberately diverted thousands of kilometres from its scheduled route before eventually plunging into the Indian Ocean. The search was narrowed in April after a series of acoustic pings thought to be from the plane's black box recorders were heard along a final arc where analysis of satellite data put its last location. We are now shifting our attention to an area further south along the arc," Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss told reporters in Canberra.

Former Providence mayor makes post-prison bid for old job Posted: 25 Jun 2014 07:50 PM PDT Buddy Cianci, the twice-convicted felon who led Providence as mayor for 21 years, wants his old job back.

Lawyer seeks impartial jury for friend of Boston bombing suspect Posted: 25 Jun 2014 01:44 PM PDT Lawyers for a friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have asked a judge to allow potential jurors to be questioned on their attitudes about Muslims and a host of other questions designed to root out bias against their client.

Eli Wallach, veteran character actor, dies at 98 Posted: 25 Jun 2014 06:21 PM PDT As a masterful character actor and early product of postwar, Method-style theater, Eli Wallach wore countless faces, disappearing into them all. But he was always propelled — in acting and in life — by a mischievousness and an abiding playfulness that made him a tireless performer, an enduring family man and, of course, one immortal scoundrel.

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