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Monday, Jul 08, 2013 11:34 AM PDT
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Victim may have been hit by responder vehicle 
Monday, Jul 08, 2013 11:34 AM PDT
This image released by the National Transportation Safety Board Sunday, July 7, 2013, shows NTSB workers near the Boeing 777 Asiana Airlines Flight 214 aircraft. The Asiana flight crashed upon landing Saturday, July 6, at San Francisco International Airport, and two of the 307 passengers aboard were killed. (AP Photo/NTSB)Investigators are looking into the cause of one victim's death in the Asiana crash.
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How bin Laden hid from satellite surveillance 
Monday, Jul 08, 2013 11:17 AM PDT
FILE - This undated file photo shows al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. Several weeks after overseeing the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, then-CIA Director Leon Panetta violated security rules by revealed the name of the raid commander in a speech attended by the writer of the film "Zero Dark Thirty," according to a draft report by Pentagon investigators. The unpublished report was first disclosed by the Project on Government Oversight and confirmed Wednesday by Rep. Peter King, who requested the probe nearly two years ago. (AP Photo, File)Osama bin Laden "trusted in Allah for his protection" but made sure to wear a cowboy hat on his walks around his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, "to avoid detection from above." That's according to the blockbuster final report of a Pakistani commission that looked into the circumstances surrounding the May 2011 raid in which U.S. [...]
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Rick Perry will not seek re-election as Texas governor 
Monday, Jul 08, 2013 11:44 AM PDT
FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2011 file photo, Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks at The Response, a call to prayer for a nation in crisis, in Houston. Perry attended the daylong prayer rally despite criticism that the event inappropriately mixes religion and politics. Perry announced Monday, July 8, 2013, that he would not seek re-election as Texas governor next year. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)You know it's lights out when a politician starts quoting from the Book of Ecclesiastes. Amid much speculation about his political future, Rick Perry, the longest-serving Texas governor, announced Monday that he would not seek a fifth term as the state's chief executive. "Today I am announcing I will not seek re-election as governor of [...]
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Clashes by Egypt army, protesters kill at least 54 
Monday, Jul 08, 2013 12:21 PM PDT
CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian soldiers and police clashed with Islamists protesting the military's ouster of the president in bloodshed that left at least 51 protesters and three members of the security forces dead, officials and witnesses said, and plunged the divided country deeper into crisis with calls by the Muslim Brotherhood's political party for all-out rebellion against the army.
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Governments condemn shootings in Egypt 
Monday, Jul 08, 2013 08:23 AM PDT
A man sits by a body of a person killed when Egyptian soldiers and police opened fire on supporters of the ousted President Mohammed Morsi early Monday in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, July 8 , 2013. The violence left dozens people killed outside the Republican Guard military building in Cairo where demonstrators had been holding a sit-in, government officials and witnesses said. (AP Photo/ Ahmed Gomaa )Governments have reacted strongly to the clashes between Egyptian troops and supporters of the ousted president Mohammed Morsi that have left dozens dead.
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NTSB: Plane parts found in San Francisco Bay 
Monday, Jul 08, 2013 12:39 PM PDT
This image released by the National Transportation Safety Board Sunday, July 7, 2013, shows NTSB workers near the Boeing 777 Asiana Airlines Flight 214 aircraft. The Asiana flight crashed upon landing Saturday, July 6, at San Francisco International Airport, and two of the 307 passengers aboard were killed. (AP Photo/NTSB)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Part of the tail section of an Asiana jetliner that crashed at San Francisco International Airport was found in the waters of San Francisco Bay, and debris from the seawall was carried several hundred feet down the runway, a federal official said Monday.
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Perry reshaped Texas, but foundered nationally 
Monday, Jul 08, 2013 11:57 AM PDT
FILE - In this June 27, 2013 file photo, Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks in Grapevine, Texas. Perry announced Monday, July 8, 2013, that he would not seek re-election as Texas governor next year. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Gov. Rick Perry was a champion of fiercely conservative social activism long before the tea party was born. He oversaw the "Texas Miracle" job-creation boom and became the most powerful Texas governor since Reconstruction.
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Zimmerman investigator returns to witness stand 
Monday, Jul 08, 2013 12:21 PM PDT
The parents of Trayvon Martin, Tracy Martin, right, and Sybrina Fulton, listen to the testimony of Sanford police officer Chris Serino during the George Zimmerman trial in Seminole Circuit Court, in Sanford, Fla., Monday, July 8, 2013. Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed teen, in 2012. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe Burbank, Pool)SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — The lead detective in George Zimmerman's second-degree murder case testified Monday that Trayvon Martin's father told him that screams for help on a 911 call weren't his son's.
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40 still missing in deadly Canada oil train crash 
Monday, Jul 08, 2013 12:39 PM PDT
LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec (AP) — Hazardous conditions slowed firefighters' attempts Monday afternoon to search for some 40 people still missing after a runaway oil tanker train exploded over the weekend in a Quebec town, killing at least five people and incinerating at least 30 buildings, officials said.
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Girl who got new lungs in Pa. has pneumonia 
Monday, Jul 08, 2013 12:23 PM PDT
FILE - In this May 30, 2013 file photo provided by the Murnaghan family, Sarah Murnaghan, left, lies in her hospital bed next to her sister Ella on the 100th day of her stay in Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Murnaghan, who got adult lungs after her parents sued to change national transplant rules, is scheduled to have more surgery to repair her diaphragm at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Tuesday, July 2, 2013. That's according to a post on the Facebook page of her mother, Janet Murnaghan. (AP Photo/Murnaghan family, File)PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl who had a pair of adult-lung transplants after her parents sued to change national rules regarding organ donations has developed pneumonia in her right lung, which her mother described on Monday as "a large setback."
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Pa. father, son get prison in NY prostitution case 
Monday, Jul 08, 2013 12:10 PM PDT
FILE - In this file photo of June 6, 2013, Vincent George Jr., left, and Vincent George Sr., listen to closing arguments in a courtroom in New York. The father and son who acknowledged they were pimps were sentenced on Monday July 8, 2013, to three to nine years in prison for promoting prostitution and money laundering. They were acquitted earlier of sex trafficking charges after several prostitutes testified they were treated well. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)NEW YORK (AP) — A case that became a tabloid spectacle when high-priced prostitutes testified in support of father-and-son pimps from Pennsylvania ended Monday with the pair being sentenced to three to nine years in prison.
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Condition of hospitalized Heinz Kerry is upgraded 
Monday, Jul 08, 2013 09:42 AM PDT
FILE - In a Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008 file photo, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, left, talks with his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry while watching election results at a hotel in Boston, in Boston. A hospital spokesman says Teresa Heinz Kerry is hospitalized Sunday, July 7, 2013 in critical but stable condition in a hospital on the island of Nantucket, Mass. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)BOSTON (AP) — The condition of Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and heir to a ketchup company fortune, was upgraded from critical to fair Monday, a day after she was first hospitalized, a State Department spokesman said.
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Lauryn Hill starts prison sentence for taxes 
Monday, Jul 08, 2013 11:51 AM PDT
FILE - An April 22, 2013, file photo shows singer Lauryn Hill walking from federal court in Newark, N.J. Hill has started serving a three-month prison sentence in Connecticut for failing to pay about $1 million in taxes over the past decade. The Grammy-winning singer reported Monday July 8, 2013, to the federal prison in Danbury. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, file)DANBURY, Conn. (AP) — Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill began serving a three-month prison sentence in Connecticut on Monday for failing to pay about $1 million in taxes over the past decade.
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Plane parts found in water, NTSB official says 
Monday, Jul 08, 2013 12:25 PM PDT
This image released by the National Transportation Safety Board Sunday, July 7, 2013, shows NTSB workers near the Boeing 777 Asiana Airlines Flight 214 aircraft. The Asiana flight crashed upon landing Saturday, July 6, at San Francisco International Airport, and two of the 307 passengers aboard were killed. (AP Photo/NTSB)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal investigators say they found parts of the Asiana airlines plane that crashed at San Francisco International in the waters of San Francisco Bay.
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Millions more immigrants under the Senate bill 
Monday, Jul 08, 2013 12:34 PM PDT
The Capitol is seen in Washington, early Monday, July 8, 2013, as Congress returns to work following the Independence Day recess. Republicans and Democrats face potentially incendiary fights over nominations, unresolved disputes over student loans and the farm bill, and the uncertainty of whether lawmakers have the political will to rewrite the nation's immigration laws. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — Landmark immigration legislation passed by the Senate would remake America's workforce from the highest rungs to the lowest and bring many more immigrants into the economy, from elite technology companies to restaurant kitchens and rural fields.
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For firefighters, answer to why is: Someone has to 
Monday, Jul 08, 2013 09:52 AM PDT
FILE - In this July 30, 2008 file photo, Rio Bravo Hotshot firefighter Cole Cates clears manzanita while cutting a fireline on the Telegraph Fire near Yosemite National Park in California. In American culture, the firefighter is almost a mythic being and it is no different in the wildland firefighting community, where men and women armed with little more than axes, shovels and chain saws face mountainsides engulfed in flames. (AP Photo/Ron Lewis, File)PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) — In his book, "Young Men and Fire," Norman Maclean attempted to convey what a crew experiences in the chaos of a mountain firestorm.
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