| Microsoft tweaks Windows 8, blamed for PC slump Posted: 26 Jun 2013 12:18 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft on Wednesday released a preview version of an update to Windows 8, aiming to address some of the gripes people have with the company's flagship operating system.
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| Patriots player Hernandez charged with murder Posted: 26 Jun 2013 12:18 PM PDT  ATTLEBORO, Mass. (AP) — Police have charged Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez with murder and weapons counts in connection with the slaying of a semi-pro football player whose body was found in an industrial park about a mile from Hernandez's home.
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| Judge orders competency test for Cleveland kidnap suspect Posted: 26 Jun 2013 11:32 AM PDT  By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A former Cleveland school bus driver accused of imprisoning three women in his home for a decade must submit to testing to determine if he understands the proceedings in his case and can assist in his own defense, a judge ruled on Wednesday. Ariel Castro, 52, has pleaded not guilty to more than 300 charges against him, including rape and kidnapping and is expected to face more charges in the imprisonment of Amanda Berry, 27, Gina DeJesus, 23, and Michelle Knight, 32. ...
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| Pats player Aaron Hernandez arrested, due in court Posted: 26 Jun 2013 11:32 AM PDT ATTLEBORO, Mass. (AP) — New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez has left a police station and is due in court after being arrested at his home. |
| Deen's name to be removed from Caesars buffets Posted: 26 Jun 2013 11:02 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Paula Deen's name is being stripped from four buffet restaurants owned by Caesars, part of the continuing fallout over her admission that she used a racial slur in the past.
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| Snowden mystery deepens: All eyes on airport Posted: 26 Jun 2013 10:16 AM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — Moscow's main airport swarmed with media from around the globe Wednesday, but the man they were looking for — National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden — was nowhere to be seen. The mystery of the former spy's whereabouts only deepened a day after President Vladimir Putin said that Snowden was in the transit area of Sheremetyevo Airport.
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| Senate moves forward on immigration bill Posted: 26 Jun 2013 10:16 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has agreed to spend tens of billions of dollars on a dramatic increase of border security.
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| Snowden, stuck in Moscow airport, becoming headache for Russia Posted: 26 Jun 2013 09:44 AM PDT Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden may be trapped indefinitely in the extraterritorial limbo of the transit zone in Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, as a high level US-Russia diplomatic tug-of-war over his fate continues to show little hope of agreement. |
| Snowden's limbo in purported airport hideout Posted: 26 Jun 2013 09:13 AM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says that fugitive National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has been in the transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport since flying in from Hong Kong — meaning that he has not officially entered the country. If true, it's effectively a life of airport limbo for Snowden, whose American passport has been revoked by U.S. authorities.
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| No sign of Snowden at Moscow airport Posted: 26 Jun 2013 08:58 AM PDT MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says that fugitive National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has been in the transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport since flying in from Hong Kong — meaning that he has not officially entered the country. If true, it's effectively a life of airport limbo for Snowden, whose American passport has been revoked by U.S. authorities. |
| Larger lessons for parties in Mass. Senate race Posted: 26 Jun 2013 08:30 AM PDT  BOSTON (AP) — Drawing on the political might of the White House, Democrats swept to victory in a U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts that highlighted President Barack Obama's challenges in the 2014 congressional elections and the GOP's struggle to broaden its appeal.
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| Supreme Court clears way for gay marriage in Calif Posted: 26 Jun 2013 08:30 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has cleared the way for same-sex marriage in California by holding that defenders of California's gay marriage ban did not have the right to appeal lower court rulings striking down the ban.
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| Ecuador: Decision on Snowden could take months Posted: 26 Jun 2013 06:55 AM PDT LONDON (AP) — Ecuador could take months to decide whether to grant National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden asylum, and the country's relations with the U.S. would be one of the factors considered, an official from the Latin American country said Wednesday. |
| Pats player Hernandez taken from home in handcuffs Posted: 26 Jun 2013 06:40 AM PDT  NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was taken from his home in handcuffs Wednesday morning, more than a week after a Boston semi-pro football player was found dead in an industrial park a mile from the player's house.
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| US economy grows at slower 1.8 pct. rate in Q1 Posted: 26 Jun 2013 06:40 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 1.8 percent in the first three months of the year, significantly slower than first thought. The steep revision was mostly because consumers spent less than previously estimated, a sign that higher taxes could be having a deeper impact on growth.
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| Group: More than 100,000 killed in Syrian war Posted: 26 Jun 2013 05:54 AM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — More than 100,000 people have been killed since the start of Syria's conflict over two years ago, an activist group said Wednesday. |
| States promise quick action on election laws Posted: 26 Jun 2013 05:08 AM PDT  ATLANTA (AP) — Across the South, Republicans are working to take advantage of a new political landscape after a divided U.S. Supreme Court freed all or part of 15 states, many of them in the old Confederacy, from having to ask Washington's permission before changing election procedures in jurisdictions with histories of discrimination.
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| 100,000 killed since start of Syria conflict Posted: 26 Jun 2013 04:56 AM PDT  BEIRUT (Reuters) - More than 100,000 people have been killed since the start of the Syrian conflict in March 2011, now the longest and most violent of the recent Arab uprisings, a monitoring group said on Wednesday. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which is opposed to President Bashar al-Assad, said the figure included 18,000 rebel fighters and about 40,000 soldiers and pro-Assad militiamen. But the true number of combatants killed was likely double that due to both sides' secrecy in reporting casualties, it said. (Reporting by Oliver Holmes; Editing by Angus MacSwan)
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| Snowden at Moscow airport, no Aeroflot flight booked for days Posted: 26 Jun 2013 04:24 AM PDT  MOSCOW (Reuters) - A former U.S. spy agency contractor sought by Washington on espionage charges appeared on Wednesday to be still in hiding at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and the national airline said he was not booked on any of its flights over the next three days. Edward Snowden fled to Hong Kong after leaking details of secret U.S. government surveillance programs, then flew on to Moscow on Sunday, evading a U.S. extradition request. President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday he was in the transit area of the airport and he had no intention of handing him to Washington. ...
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| Aussie PM Gillard loses leadership ballot to Rudd Posted: 26 Jun 2013 03:21 AM PDT  CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been ousted as Labor Party leader by her predecessor, Kevin Rudd, in vote of party lawmakers hoping to avoid a huge defeat in upcoming elections.
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| Financier Marc Rich dies in Switzerland Posted: 26 Jun 2013 02:51 AM PDT GENEVA (AP) — Marc Rich, the trader known as the "King of Commodities" who was pardoned in 2001 by President Bill Clinton just hours before he left office, has died in Switzerland. He was 78. |
| Texas abortion bill falls after challenge Posted: 26 Jun 2013 01:36 AM PDT  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas' lieutenant governor has acknowledged that Republicans missed their deadline to pass new abortion restrictions after protesters screamed down lawmakers as the final 15 minutes passed before the special legislative session's deadline.
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| 20 bodies found in helicopter crash in north India Posted: 26 Jun 2013 01:36 AM PDT  GAUCHAR, India (AP) — Paramilitary soldiers on Wednesday recovered 20 bodies from a steep hillside in northern India where a helicopter crashed while on a mission to rescue people stranded in monsoon floods, the country's air force chief said.
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| Texas woman set to be 500th execution in state Posted: 26 Jun 2013 12:48 AM PDT HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas, the nation's busiest death penalty state, is set to mark a solemn moment in criminal justice Wednesday with the execution of convicted killer Kimberly McCarthy. |
| Al-Qaida said to be changing its ways after leaks Posted: 26 Jun 2013 12:34 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence agencies are scrambling to salvage their surveillance of al-Qaida and other terrorist groups who are working frantically to change how they communicate after a National Security Agency contractor leaked details of surveillance programs. |
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