| WDBJ journalists Alison Parker, Adam Ward killed during live broadcast Posted: 26 Aug 2015 03:45 PM PDT  Two journalists at CBS affiliate in Virginia were shot by a former employee of the station.
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| Hillary Clinton on a Biden run: give him ‘space’ for ‘a very difficult decision’ Posted: |
| U.S. stocks surge, snapping 6-day losing streak Posted: 26 Aug 2015 02:30 PM PDT  The Dow Jones industrial average rocketed more than 600 points Wednesday, its biggest gain in seven years, snapping a six-day losing streak that had Americans nervously checking their investment balances.
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| Saudi arrested in 1996 bombing that killed 19 Americans Posted: 26 Aug 2015 01:36 PM PDT  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A man described as the mastermind of the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing that killed 19 American servicemen in Saudi Arabia has been captured, a U.S. and a Saudi official said Wednesday, ending a nearly two-decade manhunt for one of the FBI's most-wanted terrorists.
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| Trump says he's proud he booted Univision's Ramos from event Posted: 26 Aug 2015 02:33 PM PDT  The GOP frontrunner lashes out at the prominent TV anchor: "Go back to Univision."
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| Police: Teacher, pastor calmed boy who held class hostage Posted: 26 Aug 2015 10:50 AM PDT  PHILIPPI, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia preacher, a teacher and police helped persuade a 14-year-old boy to free 27 fellow students he held at gunpoint in a high school classroom Tuesday, a standoff that ended without a single shot fired, authorities and the pastor said.
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| Dust-covered woman from iconic 9/11 photograph dies of cancer Posted: 26 Aug 2015 03:06 AM PDT  A survivor of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York who was featured in one of the most haunting photographs of the outrage has died of stomach cancer. The family of Marcy Borders first announced her death Monday on Facebook. Borders, who was 28 at the time of the attacks, was just one month into a job for Bank of America in one of the Twin Towers.
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| US stocks open sharply higher after 6-day slump Posted: 26 Aug 2015 06:41 AM PDT  Asian stocks were mixed Wednesday and Shanghai's index fell despite Beijing's decision to cut a key interest rate.
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| Virginia TV journalists killed by suspect with 'powder keg' of anger Posted: 26 Aug 2015 01:48 PM PDT  Two television journalists were killed during a live broadcast in Virginia on Wednesday, shot by a suspect who was a former employee of the TV station and who called himself a "powder keg" of anger over what he saw as racial discrimination at work and elsewhere in the United States. The suspect, 41-year-old Vester Flanagan, shot himself as police pursued him on a Virginia highway hours after the shooting. Flanagan, who was African-American, died later at a hospital, police said.
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| Colorado movie gunman sentenced to 12 lifetimes and 3,318 years Posted: 26 Aug 2015 12:20 PM PDT  Condemning movie massacre gunman James Holmes to 12 life sentences and the maximum 3,318 years in prison for his rampage in a midnight screening of a Batman film, a Colorado judge said on Wednesday that evil and mental illness are not mutually exclusive. "It is the court's intention that the defendant never set foot in free society again ... If there was ever a case that warranted the maximum sentences, this is the case," Arapahoe County District Court Judge Carlos Samour said. Survivors and relatives of those killed clapped and cheered as Samour then ordered deputies to remove Holmes from his courtroom, and the gunman was led away in shackles.
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| Video links white supremacist to Kansas killings: prosecutors Posted: 26 Aug 2015 04:40 PM PDT  Prosecutors presented witnesses, video and forensic evidence on Wednesday they said proved white supremacist Frazier Glenn Cross fatally shot three people outside two Jewish centers in Kansas last year. Prosecutors said they expected to rest their case on Thursday after presenting one more witness in the jury trial of Cross, 74, a former senior member of the Ku Klux Klan, who is representing himself and has promised to take the stand. Cross, also known as Glenn Miller, could be sentenced to death if convicted of the April 2014 fatal shootings of Reat Underwood, 14, and his grandfather William Corporon, 69, outside the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City, as well as Terri LaManno, 53, outside the Jewish retirement home in Overland Park, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri.
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| US student who helped stop France terror attack arrives home Posted: 26 Aug 2015 12:17 AM PDT  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — An American college student who along with two friends helped stop a terror attack on a high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris returned home to California.
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| Why does the U.S. lead the world in mass shootings? Posted: 25 Aug 2015 07:48 AM PDT  Unprecedented gun ownership, obsession with fame, and failure to achieve the "American dream" lead to mass violence, a new study finds.
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| Trump mixes it up in Iowa: Rally highlights Posted: 25 Aug 2015 06:26 PM PDT  GOP frontrunner held a rally in Dubuque, Iowa on Tuesday night just moments after mixing it up with a member of the press. Trump was confronted at a press conference preceding his town hall with Iowa voters by Univision's Jorge Ramos, who at one point was escorted from the building by security. It proved just the start of a spirited night in the Hawkeye State as Trump showed once again that any signs of his campaign receding are hard to find. Yahoo News provided live coverage of all the night's events.
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