| Congress faces high price for border inaction Posted: 25 Jul 2014 09:30 AM PDT  Lawmakers could end up paying more to address immigration crisis.
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| Russian execs fear economic damage after plane crash Posted: 25 Jul 2014 10:03 AM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — Having for months dismissed Western sanctions on Russia as toothless, business leaders here are now afraid that the downing of the Malaysian jetliner will bring about an international isolation that will cause serious and lasting economic damage.
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| Judge: Defendant in 9/11 Gitmo case to be tried separately Posted: 25 Jul 2014 10:50 AM PDT  MIAMI (AP) — A military judge has ruled that one of five prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay naval base charged in the Sept. 11 attack should be tried separately from his co-defendants.
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| FIFA rejects calls to strip Russia of World Cup despite pressure Posted: 25 Jul 2014 09:43 AM PDT  GENEVA (AP) — FIFA rejected calls to move the 2018 World Cup from Russia, saying the tournament "can achieve positive change."
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| Vatican staff gets surprise lunch guest Posted: 25 Jul 2014 08:15 AM PDT  But a cafeteria cashier balks at handing Pope Francis the bill.
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| Aide: White House takes impeachment threat seriously Posted: 25 Jul 2014 07:08 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — One of President Barack Obama's top advisers says the White House takes seriously the possibility that House Republicans could pursue impeachment of the president.
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| Drought, disease to drive up U.S. meat, seafood prices Posted: 25 Jul 2014 08:58 AM PDT  By Ros Krasny WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Overall U.S. food inflation will remain near the historic norm in 2014, even as prices for meat and seafood are pushed higher by disease and widespread drought, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Friday. Prices for shelf-stable and processed items made by companies such as General Mills and Kraft Foods Group are relatively flat. "It appears that supermarkets are maintaining minimal price inflation on packaged food products, possibly in an effort to keep prices competitive in light of rising cost pressures for most perishable items," the USDA said.
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| Gunman to face bedside arraignment Posted: 25 Jul 2014 07:36 AM PDT  Man accused of shooting his caseworker, then was shot by his psychiatrist, police say.
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| Comic-Con fanboys, girls confront changes in beloved characters Posted: 25 Jul 2014 10:24 AM PDT  Captain America is now black, Thor becomes a woman, and comic character Archie Andrews is shot and killed while saving his gay friend. The annual pop-culture carnival that is the Comic-Con Festival got under way in San Diego on Thursday with fans welcoming the world of change facing so many beloved characters. An estimated 150,000 devotees of comics, video games, fantasy and action movies are expected to throng the four-day extravaganza in southern California, many opting to don costumes of their favorite characters. The streets surrounding the festival resemble a surreal bazaar: a miniature Darth Vader asleep on the shoulders of his father, dressed as Bart Simpson, or Princess Elsa from "Frozen" posing with "Avengers" heroine Black Widow.
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| Cyclist reprimanded for Gaza protest on gloves Posted: 25 Jul 2014 08:01 AM PDT  GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — A Malaysian cyclist at the Commonwealth Games who wore gloves with "Save Gaza" written on them has been reprimanded by his team and warned he will be expelled if he does it again.
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| Technology that could help prevent hot-car child deaths Posted: 25 Jul 2014 06:06 AM PDT  The Hot Seat, Babeep and Precious Cargo app -- could help save children's lives by alerting parents if they've accidentally left their little ones behind. Created by New Mexico teen Alissa Chavez, The Hot Seat is a small pad that parents place under their child's car seat and a proximity sensor attached to a key fob. Although she's a high school senior now, Chavez came up with The Hot Seat idea as an eight grader.
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| Bad weather likely cause of fatal Air Algerie crash Posted: 25 Jul 2014 08:56 AM PDT  By Chine Labbé and Tiemoko Diallo PARIS/BAMAKO (Reuters) - Poor weather was the most likely cause of the crash of an Air Algerie flight in the West African state of Mali that killed all 118 people on board, French officials said on Friday. "French soldiers who are on the ground have started the first investigations," French President Francois Hollande told reporters. An earlier count of 51 French nationals among the dead was also raised to 54 by the French Foreign Ministry to include those with dual nationality. French, Malian and Dutch soldiers from a U.N. peacekeeping force (MINUSMA) secured the crash site, which lies about 80 km (50 miles) south of the northern Malian town of Gossi near the Burkina Faso border.
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| Ukraine on edge of political meltdown Posted: 25 Jul 2014 04:31 AM PDT  Shock resignation of prime minister, continued combat at MH17 site. What else can go wrong?
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| Frantic search for 32-year-old Ebola patient zero Posted: 25 Jul 2014 06:15 AM PDT  By Umaru Fofana FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leone officials appealed for help on Friday to trace the first known resident in the capital with Ebola whose family forcibly removed her from a Freetown hospital after testing positive for the deadly disease. Radio stations in Freetown, a city of around 1 million inhabitants, broadcast the appeal on Friday to locate a woman who tested positive for the disease that has killed 660 people across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since an outbreak was first identified in February. "Saudatu Koroma of 25 Old Railway Line, Brima Lane, Wellington," the announcement said. We need the public to help us locate her." Koroma, 32, a resident of the densely populated Wellington neighborhood, had been admitted to an isolation ward while blood samples were tested for the virus, Health ministry spokesman Sidi Yahya Tunis.
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| 5 killed in West Bank, amid new Gaza truce efforts Posted: 25 Jul 2014 10:15 AM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — The U.N. chief and the U.S. secretary of state made a new attempt Friday to nail down a temporary truce between Israel and Hamas, as Israel's 18-day military operation in the Gaza Strip fueled unrest in the West Bank, where five Palestinians were killed in protests.
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| Taiwan plane survivor crawls out, phones dad Posted: 25 Jul 2014 10:05 AM PDT  XIXI, Taiwan (AP) — The 10 survivors of Taiwan's worst air disaster in more than a decade include a 34-year-old woman who called her father after scrambling from the wreckage and seeking help at a nearby home.
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| Black box found at Air Algerie wreckage site Posted: 25 Jul 2014 09:18 AM PDT  PARIS (AP) — French soldiers recovered a black box from the Air Algerie wreckage site in a desolate region of restive northern Mali on Friday, officials said. Terrorism hasn't been ruled out as a cause, although officials say the most likely reason for the catastrophe that killed all 118 people onboard is bad weather.
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| Australia, Netherlands ready to secure crash site Posted: 25 Jul 2014 09:59 AM PDT  KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — A small group of Dutch and Australian investigators combed the sprawling, unsecured site where Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 went down, taking notes and photos as their governments prepared police detachments they hope can help protect the crash area and bring the last of the victims home.
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| Transcript shows concerns during Arizona execution Posted: 25 Jul 2014 08:30 AM PDT  FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) — U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake was attending a ceremony for a judicial colleague when he received an urgent — and unusual — request: Lawyers for a condemned inmate wanted him to stop an execution that didn't seem to be working.
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| States' use of execution drugs varies widely Posted: 25 Jul 2014 10:47 AM PDT  The prolonged execution of an Arizona death row inmate with a new, two-drug combo has highlighted the patchwork quilt approach that states now take with lethal drugs, with types, combinations and dosages varying widely. A question and answer look at how the disparity came about and why, following more than three decades in which all death penalty states used the exact same three-drug mixture.
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| Obama to urge Central American leaders for help Posted: 25 Jul 2014 09:19 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama was meeting with Central American leaders Friday to urge them to help slow the exodus of unaccompanied children from their countries, as House Republicans tried to get behind a solution to the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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| Judge says Texas man should be exonerated in rape Posted: 25 Jul 2014 10:03 AM PDT  DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas man who prosecutors say did not commit a 1990 rape for which he served 12 years in prison should be exonerated based on recent DNA testing he did not request, a judge recommended Friday.
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| Cause sought for gunfight between patient, doctor Posted: 25 Jul 2014 09:45 AM PDT  DARBY, Pa. (AP) — Authorities hope to learn Friday why a psychiatric patient allegedly killed a caseworker at a hospital complex outside Philadelphia and whether a psychiatrist who shot the patient with his own gun, wounding him, had feared the man.
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