| Floodwaters rise in Houston; search goes on for 30 missing Posted: 26 May 2015 11:20 AM PDT  Officials have confirmed 11 deaths so far in holiday weekend storms in Oklahoma and Texas.
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| Cleveland, Justice Department announce police settlement Posted: 26 May 2015 11:13 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Cleveland officials and the U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday announced their settlement over a pattern of excessive force and civil rights violations by the city's police department.
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| Joint Chiefs Chairman says U.S. blindsided by fall of Mosul Posted: 26 May 2015 05:36 AM PDT  Gen. Martin Dempsey admits in a new documentary that the Pentagon did no contingency planning for the Islamic State advance.
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| Governor says deadly flooding is worst ever seen in Texas area Posted: 26 May 2015 11:32 AM PDT  By Jim Forsyth SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Monday likened the ferocity of flash flooding that killed at least three people to a tsunami, and authorities said a dam had given way in a state park. Abbott declared states of disaster in 24 counties and flew over the area south of Austin to assess the damage caused by tornadoes, heavy rainfall, thunderstorms and flooding that forced evacuations and rooftop rescues and left thousands of residents without electricity. "This is the biggest flood this area of Texas has ever seen," Abbott said.
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| U.S. Capitol building reopened after alarm sounded Posted: 26 May 2015 11:06 AM PDT  The U.S. Capitol building was reopened after an evacuation earlier on Tuesday when an audible alarm was sounded, U.S. Capitol Police said. No other details were immediately available on the cause for the alarm, although law enforcement and fire department officials were checking on the possibility of a fire, officials said.
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| Amtrak to install cameras to monitor train engineers after crash Posted: 26 May 2015 10:56 AM PDT  (Reuters) - Amtrak plans to install video cameras to monitor the engineers of locomotives on its heavily traveled routes in the northeastern United States following a deadly derailment, the nation's largest passenger rail service said on Tuesday. The move to add cockpit cameras in trains on the Northeast Corridor line by the year's end follows a derailment outside Philadelphia that killed eight people and injured about 200. "Inward-facing video cameras will help improve safety and serve as a valuable investigative tool," Amtrak Chief Executive Joe Boardman said in a statement.
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| Iraq begins operation to oust Islamic State from Anbar Posted: 26 May 2015 11:31 AM PDT  BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq vowed Tuesday to retake Anbar province — now mostly held by the Islamic State — by launching a large-scale military operation less than two weeks after suffering a humiliating defeat at the hands of the extremists in the provincial capital of Ramadi.
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| Lawyer says allegations B.B. King was poisoned 'ridiculous' Posted: 26 May 2015 02:38 AM PDT  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Two B.B. King heirs who've been most outspoken about the blues legend's care in his final days have accused King's two closest aides of poisoning him, but the attorney for King's estate called the claims ridiculous and police said there was no active homicide investigation.
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| Washington Post reporter on trial in Iran for spying Posted: 26 May 2015 09:44 AM PDT  Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian went on trial behind closed doors in Iran Tuesday on charges of spying, in a case that has clouded a rapprochement with the United States. The United States blasted the trial's "complete lack of transparency", and renewed calls for Tehran to drop "absurd" spying charges. Rezaian's wife, Yeganeh Salehi, who is also a journalist, appeared in court alongside her husband and a female press photographer, Iran's official IRNA news agency reported.
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| Report: Cleveland, DOJ reach settlement over police Posted: 25 May 2015 01:27 PM PDT  Federal authorities cite a pattern of unconstitutional policing and excessive use of force, the New York Times reported.
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| Charter nears deal for Time Warner Cable Posted: 25 May 2015 03:45 PM PDT  Charter Communications Inc. is close to buying Time Warner Cable for about $55 billion, according to two people familiar with the negotiations.
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| Afghan official: 19 police, 7 soldiers dead in ongoing siege Posted: 25 May 2015 12:06 PM PDT  An Afghan official says that 19 policemen and seven soldiers have been killed by Taliban militants who have surrounded a police compound in an ongoing siege.
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| Mexico officials stand by account of deadly ranch shootout Posted: 25 May 2015 12:44 PM PDT  Mexican officials stood by their account Monday of a shootout that killed 42 suspected criminals and one federal police officer last week, dismissing questions raised about the lopsided death toll.
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| Anonymous threats against airliners prompt plane searches Posted: 25 May 2015 12:42 PM PDT  A series of anonymous telephone threats against commercial airliners Monday, possibly from the same source, prompted searches of at least two planes at Kennedy Airport and nearly interrupted a third flight from England, authorities said.
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