| Mike Huckabee defends Holocaust comment amid backlash Posted: 28 Jul 2015 10:39 AM PDT  Yahoo's Katie Couric interviews the presidential hopeful about his controversial remarks on the Iran nuke deal.
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| Donald Trump's lawyer gets law wrong, says, ‘You can’t rape your spouse’ Posted: |
| NY prison worker pleads guilty in escape of 2 killers Posted: 28 Jul 2015 09:44 AM PDT  PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — A prison worker admitted Tuesday to smuggling hacksaw blades in frozen hamburger meat to two killers who later broke out and spent more than two weeks on the run, and prosecutors said they believed no one else knowingly aided in the elaborate escape.
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| Obama: Africa must create jobs for its next generation Posted: 28 Jul 2015 06:01 AM PDT ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Closing a historic visit to Africa, President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged the continent's leaders to prioritize creating jobs and opportunity for the next generation of young people or risk sacrificing future economic potential to further instability and disorder. |
| GOP on guard as Trump continues to dangle 3rd party prospect Posted: 28 Jul 2015 10:41 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is running for president as a Republican, and he says that won't change — so long as he's "treated fairly."
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| Libya court sentences Kadhafi son Seif al-Islam to death Posted: 28 Jul 2015 08:00 AM PDT  A Libyan court Tuesday sentenced a son and eight aides of slain dictator Moamer Kadhafi to death for crimes during the 2011 uprising, in a verdict denounced by rights campaigners. The United Nations also said it was "deeply disturbed" by the outcome and criticised the trial for failing to meet international standards. Seif al-Islam, the strongman's one-time heir apparent who is also wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), was tried in his absence because he is held by militia opposed to the Tripoli authorities.
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| Prison employee who aided New York escapees pleads guilty Posted: 28 Jul 2015 10:19 AM PDT A female prison employee pleaded guilty to one felony and one misdemeanor charge in a deal with prosecutors on Tuesday in connection with helping two convicted murderers in their daring June escape from a maximum security prison in upstate New York. Joyce Mitchell, 51, faces up to seven years in prison for her role in the breakout by inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat from Clinton Correctional Facility on June 6. "She realizes that she made a horrible mistake," her attorney Stephen Johnston told reporters. |
| U.S. appeals court upholds bulk of Obama air pollution rule Posted: 28 Jul 2015 07:44 AM PDT  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday mostly upheld a major federal environmental regulation requiring some states to limit pollution that contributes to unhealthy air in neighboring states. Among the challengers were coal company Peabody Energy Corp and energy company American Electric Power Company Inc. The case was before the appeals court for a second time after an April 2014 U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the justices, on a 6-2 vote, upheld the regulation. Writing for the majority, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg called the EPA rule a cost-effective way to allocate responsibility for emission reductions among upwind states, and that the EPA need not consider each state's proportionate responsibility for the emissions in question.
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| Senate aims to vote on defunding Planned Parenthood Posted: 28 Jul 2015 09:28 AM PDT  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is planning to hold a vote on legislation in coming days on a Republican bill halting federal funding of Planned Parenthood, following the release of videos involving use of aborted fetal tissue for medical research. "The leader is working with his members to address this horrific issue and intends to have a vote before we leave" for a five-week summer recess, said McConnell spokesman Michael Brumas.
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| Colorado theater shooter's sister says his eyes changed Posted: 27 Jul 2015 05:53 PM PDT  CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — When the younger sister of Colorado theater shooter James Holmes visited him in jail nearly two years after the attack, his eyes bulged from his head and he spoke in short, stilted phrases— a vast difference from the loving brother who protected her while they were growing up, she testified Monday.
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| Clinton aims high in green energy plan Posted: 27 Jul 2015 12:52 PM PDT  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Calling climate change one of the "most urgent threats of our time," Hillary Rodham Clinton laid out elements of a sweeping plan Monday that would see every U.S. home powered by renewable energy by 2027, even as she declined to take a position on the Keystone XL oil pipeline opposed by environmental activists.
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| New York Gov. Cuomo announces new LaGuardia Airport Posted: 27 Jul 2015 08:25 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — A year after comparing New York's LaGuardia Airport to "some Third World Country," Vice President Joe Biden helped unveil an ambitious plan Monday to rebuild its collection of aging terminals into a modern, unified hub while easing congestion by doubling the space available for planes to operate.
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| Boston out of running for 2024 Summer Olympic Games bid Posted:  The city of Boston is no longer a candidate to host the 2024 Olympic Games.
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