| Family of woman found dead in Texas jail files wrongful death suit Posted: 04 Aug 2015 07:24 AM PDT  The family of Sandra Bland filed a wrongful death lawsuit on Tuesday against a Texas trooper, a sheriff's office and her jailers, accusing them of being responsible for the woman's apparent suicide in a county jail.
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| GOP forum in N.H.: More cattle call than debate Posted:  Fourteen of the 17 Republican candidates show up, but they're hamstrung by the format.
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| 2 dead, 22 hurt in New Hampshire tent collapse Posted: 03 Aug 2015 10:04 PM PDT  A circus tent collapses as a severe storm rakes a northern New Hampshire fairground.
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| Family of woman found dead in Texas jail files wrongful death suit Posted: 04 Aug 2015 08:36 AM PDT  The family of Sandra Bland filed a wrongful death lawsuit on Tuesday against a Texas trooper, a sheriff's office and her jailers, accusing them of being responsible for the woman's apparent suicide in a county jail. The suit, filed in a federal court in Texas, said officials violated her constitutional rights. The family said it was seeking financial damages, but court papers did not specify an amount.
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| Three days, five killings and a year of pain in Baltimore Posted: 04 Aug 2015 08:24 AM PDT  Kajuan Guinn was just 8, and recently reunited with his family after years in foster care, when his chronically ill mother died of complications from lupus. Two years after his mother died, Guinn ran away, following his father's path into a world of gangs, drugs and violence on the streets of Baltimore.
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| Major U.S. airlines end trophy hunter shipments after Cecil outcry Posted: 04 Aug 2015 03:16 AM PDT  Three U.S. airlines have banned the transport of lion, leopard, elephant, rhino or buffalo killed by trophy hunters, in the latest fallout from the killing of Zimbabwe's Cecil the lion last month. American Airlines said on Tuesday it would join Delta Airlines and United Airlines in banning the transport of animals known in Africa as the "big five", coined by hunters because they are the hardest to kill on foot. There has been an international outcry against trophy hunting among animal lovers since it emerged that American dentist Walter Palmer killed Cecil, a rare black-maned lion that was a familiar sight at Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park.
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| Special Report: State Department watered down human trafficking report Posted: 03 Aug 2015 12:19 PM PDT  By Jason Szep and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the weeks leading up to a critical annual U.S. report on human trafficking that publicly shames the world's worst offenders, human rights experts at the State Department concluded that trafficking conditions hadn't improved in Malaysia and Cuba. The State Department's senior political staff saw it differently — and they prevailed. A Reuters examination, based on interviews with more than a dozen sources in Washington and foreign capitals, shows that the government office set up to independently grade global efforts to fight human trafficking was repeatedly overruled by senior American diplomats and pressured into inflating assessments of 14 strategically important countries in this year's Trafficking in Persons report.
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| Holmes jury keeps execution as option as sentencing advances Posted: 03 Aug 2015 03:42 PM PDT  Jurors in the Colorado theater shooting trial declined to rule out the death penalty Monday as they move toward sentencing James Holmes, finding his defense failed to persuade them to show him mercy.
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