| Putin: Ceasefire needed for Ukraine talks Posted: 06 Jun 2014 10:12 AM PDT  After short talk with president-elect Poroshenko, says he expects "good will" from neighbor.
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| Global telecom says six countries have direct taps on phones Posted: 06 Jun 2014 10:12 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — One of the world's largest cellphone companies on Friday revealed the scope of government snooping into phone networks, saying authorities in some countries are able to directly access its network without seeking permission.
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| D-Day vet ditches nursing home for secret trip to Normandy Posted: 06 Jun 2014 10:11 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — An 89-year old World War II veteran who was reported missing from a nursing home in England has been found in Normandy after traveling to attend D-Day commemorations, police said Friday.
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| UNCF to receive $25 million Koch gift Posted: 06 Jun 2014 08:30 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The United Negro College Fund announced a $25 million grant Friday from Koch Industries Inc. and the Charles Koch Foundation — a large donation from the conservative powerhouse Koch name that Democrats have sought to vilify heading into the 2014 midterm elections.
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| VA: 18 more 'lost' vets died Posted: 06 Jun 2014 07:47 AM PDT  Officials are investigating if the newly reported deaths were due to long wait times.
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| White House hints at help for Syrian rebels Posted: 06 Jun 2014 08:49 AM PDT  Obama foreign advisor Susan Rice said Friday US was providing "lethal and non-lethal" support to opposition.
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| Afghan candidate survives bomb attacks Posted: 06 Jun 2014 10:26 AM PDT  Six civilians die in the assassination attempt on presidential hopeful Abdullah Abdullah.
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| Security researchers uncover new OpenSSL threat Posted: |
| D-Day event brings together Putin, new Ukraine leader Posted: 06 Jun 2014 07:36 AM PDT  By John Irish and Jeff Mason COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER France (Reuters) - The leaders of Russia and Ukraine held their first talks on Friday since Moscow annexed Crimea, discussing ways to end their four-month conflict in a brief encounter during commemorations in France of the World War Two D-Day landings. French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel brought together Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian president-elect Petro Poroshenko for a 15-minute meeting before they joined other dignitaries for lunch. Putin later had an equally short "informal" talk with U.S. President Barack Obama, the White House said.
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| Taliban: We took good care of Bergdahl Posted: 06 Jun 2014 07:26 AM PDT  The U.S. soldier got fresh fruit and played soccer with his captors.
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| Suspect in Canada police killings arrested Posted: 05 Jun 2014 09:55 PM PDT  The suspect was wanted in the shooting that left 3 officers dead and 2 others wounded.
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| Obama honors D-Day heroes at Normandy Posted: 06 Jun 2014 06:59 AM PDT  The president joins veterans and world leaders in a solemn tribute.
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| Seattle police: Student disarmed shooter in deadly campus attack Posted: 05 Jun 2014 05:50 PM PDT  SEATTLE (AP) — Police say a Seattle Pacific University student on Thursday disarmed a lone gunman who entered a building and shot four people.
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| North Korea says it is holding another American tourist Posted: 06 Jun 2014 07:13 AM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Friday it has detained an American tourist for committing an unspecified crime, the third U.S. citizen being held there.
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| McChrystal opens up about his ouster, weighs in on Bergdahl, praises Hillary Posted: 05 Jun 2014 02:54 PM PDT  Retired general reflects on personal controversy in wide-ranging conversation.
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| Wind, flooding take three lives in Arkansas and Tennessee Posted: 05 Jun 2014 03:20 PM PDT  By Timothy Ghianni NASHVILLE Tenn. (Reuters) - High winds and flash flooding on Thursday in the south-central United States killed three people in Arkansas and Tennessee, derailed a train in Arkansas and blew off part of a motel roof in a Missouri tourist town, officials said. Trees toppled by strong winds killed two people in northern Arkansas on Thursday afternoon, officials said. In Black Rock, Arkansas, a tree fell on a van and killed the person inside, said Brandon Morris, a spokesman for the state's Department of Emergency Management. In Jonesboro in Craighead County, Arkansas, retired Jonesboro police officer Tom Sanford, 74, was killed when a tree fell on his home, Jonesboro Police Sergeant Doug Formon said.
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| Seattle hospital: 1 dead, 3 injured in university shooting Posted: 05 Jun 2014 05:11 PM PDT  SEATTLE (AP) — A Seattle hospital spokeswoman says one man in his 20s has died and a woman is critically injured after a shooting Thursday afternoon on the campus of Seattle Pacific University.
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| At least three shot at Seattle campus, suspect in custody Posted: 05 Jun 2014 04:18 PM PDT  At least three people were shot at Seattle Pacific University on Thursday, and the suspect was in custody, Seattle police said on social media. The Seattle Times newspaper put the number of wounded higher, at seven, none fatally, and said that police were evacuating Otto Miller Hall on campus, but a police spokesman at the scene confirmed only three victims. Seattle police had initially said via twitter that four people were confirmed shot but later downgraded that to three, saying a SWAT team was searching the campus and that authorities were receiving conflicting information about the number of victims.
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| Seattle police: 4 victims in university shooting Posted: 05 Jun 2014 04:55 PM PDT SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle police now say there are four victims in a shooting Thursday afternoon on the campus of Seattle Pacific University. They say one suspect is in custody. |
| Jury awards Bestie Boys $1.7M in Monster Beverage case Posted: 05 Jun 2014 03:01 PM PDT  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - Beastie Boys' fight for their right to not let Monster Beverage Corp use the hip-hop group's music without their permission resulted in a verdict of $1.7 million on Thursday. A federal jury in Manhattan issued the verdict on the eighth day of trial in a copyright dispute between members of the Brooklyn-born band and the energy drink maker over songs the band says Monster used without a license in a 2012 promotional video. The Beastie Boys had sought up to $2.5 million for copyright infringement and false endorsement. Monster countered that it owed no more than $125,000, calling the case "illogical" and saying an employee had mistakenly believed the company had permission to use the music.
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| Gallery: D-Day anniversary Posted: 05 Jun 2014 08:30 AM PDT  In this June 6, 2014 file photo, allied troops crouch behind the bulwarks of a landing craft as it nears Omaha Beach during a landing in Normandy, France. The D-Day invasion broke through Adolf Hitler's western defenses and led to the liberation of France from Nazi occupation just as the Soviet Army was making advances in the east, turning the tide of the war in the Allies' favor. Allied troops landed on the Normandy coast of France in tremendous strength by cloudy daylight today and stormed several miles inland with tanks and infantry in the grand assault which Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower called a crusade in which "we will accept nothing less than full victory."(AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard, File) |
| Petition drive for school guard fired over wheelchair attack Posted: 05 Jun 2014 01:15 PM PDT  A Second Guard Has Been Disciplined for Confrontation With Boy in Wheelchair
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| Watch: UK's Red Arrows commemorate D-Day with aerobatics Posted: 05 Jun 2014 10:32 AM PDT  Seventy years ago, more than 1,200 aircraft formed an assault on the coast of western Europe as part of Operation Overlord, the code name for the Battle of Normandy — also known as D-Day and commemorated in the U.K. on Monday by the spectacular aerobatics of the Royal Air Force's nine-jet Red Arrows display team.
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| Senators reach agreement on veterans' health care Posted: 05 Jun 2014 04:27 PM PDT  Key senators have reached agreement on a bipartisan proposal to address the delays in getting health care for military veterans, Sen. John McCain said.
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| Burwell faces urgent 'to do' list Posted: 05 Jun 2014 11:32 AM PDT  Senate confirms Sylvia Mathews Burwell as new health secretary in bipartisan vote.
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| Survivors tell of attack by 'preachers' in Nigeria Posted: 05 Jun 2014 11:19 AM PDT  Maiduguri (Nigeria) (AFP) - Forty-five people were killed by suspected Boko Haram gunmen pretending to be preachers in a village near the group's spiritual home in northeast Nigeria, two residents said on Thursday. The attack happened at about 9:30 pm (2030 GMT) on Wednesday in Barderi, on the outskirts of Maiduguri, and saw insurgents hoodwink locals into congregating before opening fire on the crowd. Itinerant preaching is commonplace in mainly Muslim northern Nigeria and the fake clerics reportedly told villagers that they had come to show them "the righteous path". Mallam Bunu, who survived the attack, said: "I counted 45 bodies after the attackers left the village.
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| Verizon fires back at Netflix over slow service message Posted: 05 Jun 2014 02:50 PM PDT  By Lisa Richwine and Marina Lopes LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc on Thursday demanded that Netflix Inc immediately stop displaying messages to customers that place blame on Verizon's broadband service for slow delivery of Netflix TV shows and movies. The letter is the latest sign of tension between content providers like Netflix and Internet service providers over who should pay the price for companies that stream heavy traffic online. In a cease-and-desist letter sent to Netflix, Verizon also asked the video streaming service to provide information including a list of customers on the Verizon network to whom Netflix delivered the notices, or face legal action.
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| 911 report: Jace admits to shooting wife in call to father-in-law Posted: 05 Jun 2014 10:37 AM PDT  Actor Michael Jace, who is charged with killing his wife, called and told his father-in-law about the shooting and asked him to come for the couple's two young children soon after it happened, a recently released 911 call indicates.
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