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• House set to take up VA overhaul bill
• 3 Putin allies among 8 hit with new EU sanctions
• Insanity plea mulled for prom stabbing suspect
• Dissent quieted with most Israelis behind Gaza war
• UCLA wades through damage caused by flooding
• Feds investigating for fraud in D.C. building projects
• Argentine football chief Grondona dies
• Probe exposes flaws behind HealthCare.gov rollout
• Strike on crowded Gaza area kills 16, wounds 150
• A more vigorous US economy appears to be emerging
• Senate reprieve for highly contested border bill
• Dubai, European airlines divert flights over Iraq
• Israeli strike on Gaza market kills 15, wounds 150
• Ukraine: Clashes prevent visit to jet debris site
• Landslide hits Indian village, killing at least 17
• 2 women survive ordeal along Indiana rail bridge
• Russia counts cost of new economic sanctions
• US economy grew at strong 4 percent rate in spring
• Yes, we do negotiate with terrorists
• Bolt upset over report he criticized Glasgow Games
• VIDEO: Narrow escape from death on Indiana train bridge
• 15 killed at Gaza UN school; Israel holds fire
• Israel says it will hold Gaza fire for 4 hours
• Ukraine official: Rebels lay mines near crash site
• How high-level Chinese officials are taken down

House set to take up VA overhaul bill Posted: 30 Jul 2014 01:04 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — With a new Veterans Affairs secretary in place and an August recess looming, Congress is likely to move quickly to approve a compromise bill to refurbish the VA and improve veterans' health care.

3 Putin allies among 8 hit with new EU sanctions Posted: 30 Jul 2014 12:47 PM PDT BRUSSELS (AP) — Three long-time Putin associates are among eight people who have been hit with new European Union sanctions, an official EU document showed Wednesday.

Insanity plea mulled for prom stabbing suspect Posted: 30 Jul 2014 12:32 PM PDT Lawyers for a Connecticut high school student accused of murdering a female classmate hours before their junior court began talks on Wednesday on whether to amend his plea to not guilty based on insanity or on related grounds. Christopher Plaskon, 17, pleaded not guilty in June to the fatal stabbing of 16-year-old Maren Sanchez. At a pretrial hearing at Connecticut Superior Court in Milford on Wednesday, his attorney, Richard Meehan, began discussions with Superior Court Judge Frank Iannotti on which variant of the plea to enter. Plaskon has been charged with stabbing Sanchez in the chest, neck and face with a kitchen knife in a stairwell at Jonathan Law High School on April 25, the day of the school prom.

Dissent quieted with most Israelis behind Gaza war Posted: 30 Jul 2014 12:16 PM PDT JERUSALEM (AP) — Despite Israeli casualties and world criticism, a near-consensus in Israel supports the government's conduct of the Gaza war, views Hamas as the aggressor and considers outsiders' moralizing as hypocritical, ignorant or both. And in an echo-chamber fed by ubiquitous updates on Hamas rocket and tunnel attacks, the minority of local voices that do agonize over Gazans' suffering are being silenced in a way rarely seen in a country long proud of its spirited, democratic debate.

UCLA wades through damage caused by flooding Posted: 30 Jul 2014 11:44 AM PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) — A ruptured 93-year-old water main left the UCLA campus awash in 8 million gallons of water in the middle of California's worst drought in decades, stranding people in parking garages and flooding the school's storied basketball court less than two years after a major renovation.

Feds investigating for fraud in D.C. building projects Posted: 30 Jul 2014 11:14 AM PDT Federal investigators looking for fraud in the nation's capital are scrutinizing a program meant to give local contractors a share of major construction projects, people familiar with the probe have told The Associated Press.

Argentine football chief Grondona dies Posted: 30 Jul 2014 10:58 AM PDT Julio Grondona, the veteran president of the Argentine Football Association (AFA) and FIFA vice-president, died on Wednesday at the age of 82 in a Buenos Aires clinic, AFA sources reported. The all-powerful figure, who had been in charge of Argentine football since 1979, had been taken to hospital suffering from heart problems and died while undergoing emergency surgery. Earlier this week he had held meetings with Alejandro Sabella, who decided not to continue as Argentina coach after leading the team to the World Cup final in Brazil recently.

Probe exposes flaws behind HealthCare.gov rollout Posted: 30 Jul 2014 10:26 AM PDT Officials tell The Associated Press that a nonpartisan investigative report concludes that management failures by the Obama administration set the stage for the computer problems that paralyzed the HealthCare.gov website last fall.

Strike on crowded Gaza area kills 16, wounds 150 Posted: 30 Jul 2014 10:10 AM PDT JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike hit a crowded Gaza shopping area on Wednesday, killing at least 16 people and wounding more than 150, hours after Israeli tank shells slammed into a U.N. school sheltering displaced Palestinians, killing 15 people, Gaza health officials said.

A more vigorous US economy appears to be emerging Posted: 30 Jul 2014 09:55 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy has rebounded with vigor from a grim start to 2014 and should show renewed strength into next year.

Senate reprieve for highly contested border bill Posted: 30 Jul 2014 09:24 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill to deal with the immigration crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border has won a temporary reprieve in the Senate.

Dubai, European airlines divert flights over Iraq Posted: 30 Jul 2014 09:08 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — European and Dubai-based airlines have begun rerouting flights over Iraqi airspace as a security precaution, though Iraq says its skies are safe.

Israeli strike on Gaza market kills 15, wounds 150 Posted: 30 Jul 2014 08:52 AM PDT JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza health officials say 15 people have been killed and more than 150 wounded by an Israeli airstrike in a crowded shopping area.

Ukraine: Clashes prevent visit to jet debris site Posted: 30 Jul 2014 08:36 AM PDT DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Almost two weeks after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 went down, clashes on Wednesday between Ukrainian forces and separatist rebels again prevented international experts from reaching the crash site to recover remains still baking in midsummer heat in farm fields — deepening frustration for victims' relatives and the governments whose citizens died.

Landslide hits Indian village, killing at least 17 Posted: 30 Jul 2014 08:20 AM PDT NEW DELHI (AP) — Torrential rains triggered a massive landslide that buried a remote village in western India on Wednesday, killing at least 17 people as it swept away scores of houses and possibly trapping many more people under debris, officials said.

2 women survive ordeal along Indiana rail bridge Posted: 30 Jul 2014 07:49 AM PDT BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — A video camera captured the terrifying plight of two women who became trapped on an 80-foot-high railroad bridge in Indiana when a freight train surprised them as they walked along the tracks.

Russia counts cost of new economic sanctions Posted: 30 Jul 2014 07:33 AM PDT MOSCOW (AP) — Russia blasted the West's new economic sanctions on Wednesday, accusing the U.S. of being "prosecutorial" in its drive to impose penalties on the country's key energy and finance sectors.

US economy grew at strong 4 percent rate in spring Posted: 30 Jul 2014 07:01 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — After a dismal winter, the U.S. economy sprang back to life in the April-June quarter, growing at a fast 4 percent annual rate on the strength of higher consumer and business spending.

Yes, we do negotiate with terrorists Posted: 30 Jul 2014 06:15 AM PDT NYT: al-Qaeda now funds terror operations via $125 million ransom paid by European governments.

Bolt upset over report he criticized Glasgow Games Posted: 30 Jul 2014 05:59 AM PDT GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Even before stepping on the track, Usain Bolt is causing a stir at the Commonwealth Games.

VIDEO: Narrow escape from death on Indiana train bridge Posted: 30 Jul 2014 05:44 AM PDT Two trespassers narrowly escaped death on a rail bridge, according to the Indiana Rail Road Company, as a 14,000-ton freight train approached.

15 killed at Gaza UN school; Israel holds fire Posted: 30 Jul 2014 05:29 AM PDT JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli tank shells slammed into a crowded U.N. school sheltering Gazans displaced by fighting on Wednesday, killing 15 and wounding 90 after tearing through the walls of two classrooms, a spokesman for a U.N. aid agency and a health official said.

Israel says it will hold Gaza fire for 4 hours Posted: 30 Jul 2014 05:13 AM PDT JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military has declared a four-hour cease-fire in some areas of the Gaza Strip, saying it's for humanitarian reasons.

Ukraine official: Rebels lay mines near crash site Posted: 30 Jul 2014 04:26 AM PDT DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — International observers turned back Wednesday after making another attempt to reach the site where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 went down in eastern Ukraine, and a government official said the area near the zone had been mined by pro-Russian separatists who control it.

How high-level Chinese officials are taken down Posted: 30 Jul 2014 04:10 AM PDT BEIJING (AP) — The investigation into China's former security chief Zhou Yongkang could pave the way for him to stand trial as the most senior politician ever prosecuted for graft. It's hard to predict how his case will be handled in the opaque, secretive world of Chinese politics, but here's how such prosecutions tend to play out, though not necessarily always in this sequence:

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