| Stephanie Kwolek, Kevlar inventor, dies at 90 Posted: 20 Jun 2014 01:51 PM PDT  DOVER, Del. (AP) — Police Lt. David Spicer took four .45-caliber slugs to the chest and arms at point-blank range and lived to tell about it. Like thousands of other police officers and soldiers shot in the line of duty, he owes his life to a woman in Delaware by the name of Stephanie Kwolek.
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| NYC has tentative deal in Central Park jogger case Posted: 20 Jun 2014 12:30 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — New York City says it has reached a settlement with five men who were falsely convicted in the vicious 1989 rape and beating of a Central Park jogger.
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| AP PHOTOS: Glimpse at refugees, as UN count surges Posted: 20 Jun 2014 12:30 PM PDT  Women and children seeking asylum from Eritrea sit along a sidewalk in Sanaa, Yemen. Syrian refugee children play soccer at a camp in Lebanon. Iraqis fleeing violence in the city of Mosul carry their belongings as they arrive at a refugee camp north of Baghdad.
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| Kremlin criticizes Ukrainian peace plan Posted: 20 Jun 2014 11:47 AM PDT  KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — The Kremlin says a peace offer by the Ukrainian president looks more like an ultimatum and lacks an offer to start talks with the insurgents in eastern Ukraine.
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| Ukraine's leader orders 1-week govt cease-fire Posted: 20 Jun 2014 11:47 AM PDT KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko ordered his forces to cease fire Friday and halt military operations for a week against pro-Russia separatists in the country's east — the first step in a peace plan he hopes will end the conflict that has cost more than 350 lives. |
| Ukraine: 1-week cease-fire starts now Posted: 20 Jun 2014 10:51 AM PDT  Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko orders his forces to cease fire and halt military operations for seven days against pro-Russia separatists in the country's east — the first step in what he hopes is a concrete plan to end the conflict that has cost more than 350 lives.
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| Ukraine: 1-week cease-fire to start by end of day Posted: 20 Jun 2014 10:14 AM PDT KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian troops will start a unilateral, seven-day cease-fire later Friday as a first step in efforts to de-escalate the conflict with pro-Russia separatists in the country's east, the president said. |
| Report: Half of vets with PTSD got treatment Posted: 20 Jun 2014 09:20 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Institute of Medicine says only about half of veterans diagnosed last year with PTSD after serving in Iraq and Afghanistan received the recommended therapy. |
| Great white shark numbers are surging, study says Posted: 20 Jun 2014 09:20 AM PDT  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A report that scientists are calling one of the most comprehensive studies of great white sharks finds their numbers are surging in the ocean off the Eastern U.S. and Canada after decades of decline — bad news if you're a seal, but something experts say shouldn't instill fear in beachgoers this summer.
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| Congress probes how IRS emails could go missing Posted: 20 Jun 2014 08:11 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Eight federal employees connected to the tea party investigation experienced hard drive crashes, resulting in an unknown number of lost emails, Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen told lawmakers Friday in an unusually tense congressional hearing.
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| US blacklists Thailand, Malaysia for failure to fight human trafficking Posted: 20 Jun 2014 07:14 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has blacklisted Thailand and Malaysia for failing to meet its minimum standards in fighting human trafficking, a move that could strain relations with two important U.S. partners in Asia.
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| Top Shiite cleric calls for new government in Iraq Posted: 20 Jun 2014 06:21 AM PDT  BAGHDAD (AP) — The spiritual leader of Iraq's Shiite majority called for a new, "effective" government Friday, increasing pressure on the country's prime minister as an offensive by Sunni militants rages on.
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| Congress to probe how IRS emails could go missing Posted: 20 Jun 2014 03:12 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — In the week since the Internal Revenue Service acknowledged it can't produce emails from seven officials connected to the tea party investigation, there are mysteries about computer crashes inside the agency, the government's efforts to recover all the missing data and why the IRS assured a congressman it would provide him with emails it already knew were lost. |
| UN: More than 50 million displaced worldwide Posted: 19 Jun 2014 11:36 PM PDT  The number of people uprooted by war and crisis soars to the highest level since WWII.
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| Tornado strikes SD town, razing homes; only 2 hurt Posted: 19 Jun 2014 07:52 PM PDT  A timely warning allowed an entire South Dakota city to shelter from a tornado that razed dozens of homes and businesses but injured only one or two people in the area, officials said Thursday.
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| Heavy rains, floods hit Bulgaria; 10 people killed Posted: 19 Jun 2014 05:25 PM PDT  Torrential rains and floods hit Bulgaria on Thursday, killing at least 10 people, cutting off electricity, blocking roads and sparking evacuations, officials said. Heavy rainfall in the Black Sea resort city of Varna triggered a flood wave late on Thursday in one of its low-laying suburbs that killed at least 10 people, the mayor of Varna told the national radio. The street is not here, the houses are not here, there are cars on top of each other," Varna mayor Ivan Portnih said. In central Bulgaria, firefighters evacuated 11 people from the top of their houses in the town of Kilifarevo, police said.
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| House Republicans elect McCarthy, Scalise to lead party in wake of Cantor loss Posted: 19 Jun 2014 03:34 PM PDT  Conservative Republicans ousted Majority Leader Eric Cantor from Congress, but they couldn't prevent his establishment heir apparent from taking over his leadership position. On Thursday, the House Republican conference voted to promote Kevin McCarthy of California, who had been the chamber's No. 3 Republican, to majority leader. McCarthy beat a conservative challenger, Raul Labrador of Idaho, whose bid had been viewed as largely symbolic. Labrador had only entered the race after several other prominent conservative lawmakers dropped out of the race, so that McCarthy would not run unopposed.
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| England falls to Uruguay at World Cup, 2-1 Posted: 19 Jun 2014 03:34 PM PDT  Luis Suarez scored twice to give Uruguay a 2-1 victory over England at the World Cup on Thursday, making an instant impact on his return from injury.
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| Gerry Goffin, Carole King's ex-husband, dies at 75 Posted: 19 Jun 2014 03:01 PM PDT  Lyricist Gerry Goffin, who with his then-wife and songwriting partner Carole King wrote such hits as "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," ''(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman," ''Halfway to Paradise" and "The Loco-Motion," died Thursday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 75.
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