| Inmate dies 2 hours after execution began Posted: 23 Jul 2014 04:46 PM PDT  Lawyers of Arizona death row inmate said he was gasping, snorting for an hour.
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| Judge strikes down gay marriage ban, stays ruling Posted: 23 Jul 2014 04:43 PM PDT  A federal judge in Denver has declared Colorado's gay marriage ban unconstitutional, but he issued a temporary stay of the ruling until an appeals court hearing next month.
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| UN: Rockets 'have gone missing' Posted: 23 Jul 2014 03:25 PM PDT  Twenty rockets found in an abandoned Gaza school this week are missing: U.N.
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| Montana senator accused of plagiarizing thesis Posted: 23 Jul 2014 03:27 PM PDT  Montana Sen. John Walsh's thesis written to earn a master's degree from the U.S. Army War College contains unattributed passages taken word-for-word from previously published papers.
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| Blasts kill 82 in Nigeria Posted: 23 Jul 2014 02:22 PM PDT  Ex-leader Buhari targeted in attacks, which bore the hallmarks of Boko Haram.
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| Death sentence given in U.S. photographer's killing Posted: 23 Jul 2014 01:59 PM PDT  Afghan police officer sentenced for AP photographer Anja Niedringhaus' death.
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| Inside the first Conservatarian hackathon Posted: 23 Jul 2014 05:57 AM PDT  The Koch network is teaming up with Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to connect coders with D.C politicos
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| Ark. military base on lockdown after suspicious person reported Posted: 23 Jul 2014 12:48 PM PDT  Little Rock Air Force Base went on lockdown Wednesday amid reports of a suspicious person, though military officials have offered few details about the incident.
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| Officials release sketch of suspect in peacock shooting death Posted: 23 Jul 2014 02:49 PM PDT  Officials have released a sketch of a man suspected of shooting and killing a peacock from his Mercedes-Benz earlier this month in Southern California.
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| Teen dies during record-attempt flight Posted: 23 Jul 2014 03:40 PM PDT  17-year-old Haris Suleman and his father were flying around the world together.
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| Hamas gives conflicting truce signals Posted: 23 Jul 2014 12:39 PM PDT  Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said ready to accept truce in Gaza but had terms for full ceasefire.
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| Ariz. execution to proceed after court denies last-ditch appeal Posted: 23 Jul 2014 11:48 AM PDT The highest courts in Arizona and the nation have cleared the way for the state to carry out its third execution in the last year Wednesday, following a closely watched First Amendment fight over the secrecy surrounding lethal injection drugs. |
| Family was the reason woman booked seat on MH17 Posted: 23 Jul 2014 08:03 AM PDT  In a bedroom in a townhouse near Amsterdam, Miguel Panduwinata reached out for his mother. "Mama, may I hug you?"
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| Ukraine rebel leader: Separatists had BUK missiles Posted: 23 Jul 2014 03:47 PM PDT  Vostok Battalion commander Alexander Khodakovsky says weapon may have come from Russia.
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| 47 trapped, feared dead in Taiwan crash Posted: 23 Jul 2014 11:04 AM PDT  ATR turboprop plane landing in stormy weather crashed outside airport on small Taiwanese island, said transport minister.
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| CDC lab director behind anthrax mishap resigns Posted: 23 Jul 2014 01:24 PM PDT  By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The director of a U.S. government bioterror lab that potentially exposed scores of workers to live anthrax last month has resigned, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday. Michael Farrell, head of the CDC's Bioterror Rapid Response and Advanced Technology Laboratory (BRRAT) in Atlanta, had been reassigned from his position last month after the agency disclosed the safety breaches. He submitted his resignation on Tuesday, the CDC said. "I can confirm that he was the team lead for the BRRAT lab since 2009 and that he's resigned from that position," said CDC spokesman Thomas Skinner.
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| Nazi war crimes suspect dies before facing justice Posted: 23 Jul 2014 10:35 AM PDT  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An 89-year-old Nazi war crimes suspect has died, the night before a judge ruled that he should be extradited to Germany to face trial, his lawyer said Wednesday.
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| Detroit porch shooter's lawyer says he feared for his life Posted: 23 Jul 2014 02:39 PM PDT  DETROIT (AP) — A suburban Detroit man who killed an unarmed woman on his porch was rocked out of sleep by a series of "boom, boom, boom" pounding sounds outside his home, causing him to grab a shotgun, open the front door and fire, a defense lawyer told jurors during opening statements Wednesday.
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| Head doctor fighting Ebola epidemic contracts virus himself Posted: 23 Jul 2014 10:33 AM PDT  By Umaru Fofana FREETOWN (Reuters) - The head doctor fighting an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Sierra Leone has himself caught the disease, one of a growing list of medical workers infected while battling to halt its spread across West Africa. Ebola has killed 632 people across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since an outbreak began in February, putting strain on a string of weak health systems facing one of the world's deadliest diseases despite waves of international help. In a sign of the growing frustrations with the failure of region's governments to tackle the outbreak, a Liberian whose brother died from the disease set fire to the Health Ministry in protest on Wednesday. A statement from the president's office said 39-year-old Sheik Umar Khan, a Sierra Leonean virologist credited with treating more than 100 Ebola victims, had been transferred to a treatment ward run by medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres.
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| Using fake IDs, investigators score Obamacare benefits Posted: 23 Jul 2014 08:41 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Undercover investigators using fake identities were able to secure taxpayer-subsidized health insurance under President Barack Obama's health care law, congressional investigators said Wednesday.
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| Elizabeth Warren takes a cue from Hillary Clinton Posted: 23 Jul 2014 05:43 AM PDT  Sen. Elizabeth Warren insists she 'is not' running for president in 2016, but could she still?
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| Two bomb blasts in same Nigerian city kill at least 82 Posted: 23 Jul 2014 02:24 PM PDT  By Garba Muhammed KADUNA Nigeria (Reuters) - At least 82 people were killed on Wednesday in two suicide bombings in the north Nigerian city of Kaduna, one aimed at opposition leader and ex-president Muhammadu Buhari and another at a moderate Muslim cleric about to lead a crowd in prayer. The attacks bore the hallmarks of Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which considers all those who do not share its views to be enemies. In the deadliest attack, a bomber in a car full of explosives hurtled towards Buhari's convoy at the crowded Kawo market, his son told Reuters on the scene and police said later. Buhari was the main opposition party contender against President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2011 election and remains a key figure in the opposition alliance.
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| First bodies from MH17 crash arrive in Netherlands Posted: 23 Jul 2014 11:55 AM PDT  By Harro Ten Wolde and Thomas Escritt EINDHOVEN Netherlands (Reuters) - The bodies of the first victims from a Malaysian airliner shot down over Ukraine last week arrived on Wednesday at a military base in the Netherlands - a nation in shock and sorrow. Bells pealed and flags flew at half mast in memory of the 298 people killed when flight MH17 came down in an area of eastern Ukraine held by Russian-backed separatists, in the first national day of mourning since wartime Queen Wilhelmina died in 1962. King Willem-Alexander and Prime Minister Mark Rutte joined dignitaries on the tarmac as two military aircraft carrying 40 plain wooden coffins landed at Eindhoven in the southern Netherlands. Relatives of some of the victims were present at the airport but were shielded from the media glare, officials said.
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| UN's human rights chief warns both sides in Gaza on war crimes Posted: 23 Jul 2014 02:17 PM PDT  GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.'s top human rights official demanded Wednesday that all sides in the two-week war in the Gaza Strip refrain from indiscriminate attacks on civilians, warning that violations may amount to war crimes.
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| UN says civilians make up most of Gaza deaths Posted: 23 Jul 2014 02:23 PM PDT  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Shopkeepers say they were sitting outside their shuttered businesses Wednesday, catching a break from being cooped up during wartime, when an Israeli missile struck a nearby mosque, killing a truck driver and wounding 45 people.
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| US pushes for truce as Gaza battle rages Posted: 23 Jul 2014 03:08 PM PDT  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The United States announced signs of progress in cease-fire talks Wednesday, but prospects for a quick end to the fighting were dim as Palestinian families fled fierce battles in southern Gaza and the death toll rose to more than 700 Palestinians and 34 Israelis.
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| 40 bodies from jet solemnly returned to Dutch soil Posted: 23 Jul 2014 02:04 PM PDT  EINDHOVEN, Netherlands (AP) — Victims of the Malaysian jetliner shot down over Ukraine returned at last Wednesday to Dutch soil in 40 wooden coffins, solemnly and gently carried to 40 identical hearses, flags at half-staff flapping in the wind.
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| Plane crashes while landing in Taiwan, killing 47 Posted: 23 Jul 2014 11:25 AM PDT  TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A plane attempting to land in stormy weather crashed on a small Taiwanese island late Wednesday, killing 47 people and wrecking houses and cars on the ground.
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| Stopping deadly oil train fires: New rules planned Posted: 23 Jul 2014 01:12 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Responding to a series of fiery train crashes, the government proposed rules Wednesday that would phase out tens of thousands of older tank cars that carry increasing quantities of crude oil and other highly flammable liquids through America's towns and cities.
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| Senator says he had PTSD when he wrote thesis Posted: 23 Jul 2014 04:07 PM PDT  HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana Sen. John Walsh's thesis written to earn a master's degree from the U.S. Army War College contains unattributed passages taken word-for-word from previously published papers.
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| Ocean crash kills teen pilot seeking world record Posted: 23 Jul 2014 04:36 PM PDT  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — His pilot's license fresh in his hands, an Indiana teenager set out in June for the adventure of a lifetime: an around-the-world flight with his father designed to break a record and raise money to build schools in his father's native Pakistan.
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| Honduran families deported back to a bleak future Posted: 23 Jul 2014 04:34 PM PDT  TOCOA, Honduras (AP) — Elsa Ramirez already had lost two brothers to violence in this remote Caribbean region when co-workers handling clandestine cocaine flights from South America murdered her husband four months ago.
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| Nunn and Perdue shift to fall battle of outsiders Posted: 23 Jul 2014 02:41 PM PDT  ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — New Republican nominee David Perdue and Democratic opponent Michelle Nunn used the first day of the general election campaign to retool the "outsider" arguments they've used to reach this point in a race that will help determine who controls the Senate for the final years of the Obama administration.
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