JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. (AP) — Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the American soldier charged with killing 16 Afghan civilians during nighttime raids on two villages last year, is expected to plead guilty Wednesday to avoid the death penalty. He is also expected speak in a military courtroom about the slayings.
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LUXOR, Egypt (AP) — A mother and two daughters were allegedly killed by male relatives in southern Egypt who believed they'd had affairs, the latest apparent example of so-called "honor killings" in which women are slain for violating traditional morals in the conservative region, a security official said Friday....
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HARRISBURG, Pa., June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Governor Tom Corbett today signed House Bill 492, amending the Crime Victims Act to allow victims or their representatives to testify in person before the state Parole Board before it decides whether to release an offender from prison. "We have an obligation to honor the rights and sometimes the memories of the people who have suffered from crime,'' Corbett said. ......
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The government's release Friday of the May jobs report comes at a time of anxiety over the U.S. economy and whether the Federal Reserve will soon scale back its extraordinary support.
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The fire at Santa Fe National Forest threatened homes, campgrounds, and cabins.
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A federal judge has ruled that Google Inc. must comply with the FBI's warrantless demands for customer data, rejecting the company's argument that the government's practice of issuing so-called national security letters to telecommunication companies, Internet service providers, banks and others was unconstitutional and unnecessary....
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks edged modestly lower on Thursday after European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said a cut in the ECB's deposit rate below zero was not on the cards for now. Losses were limited as investors looked for stocks offering value following a steep two-day decline. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 21.57 points, or 0.14 percent, at 14,939.02. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was down 2.74 points, or
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NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian film director Rituparno Ghosh, whose work includes award-winning films in the Bengali language, died of cardiac arrest at age 49, news reports said Thursday....
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SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Attorneys trying to pick a jury in George Zimmerman's murder trial have selected a pool of 40 potential jurors who will go on to a second round of questioning.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index recorded one of its steepest one-day percentage falls of the year on Wednesday, with every major sector trading in the red, as U.S. economic growth concerns resurfaced after a sluggish private payrolls report. The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index unofficially closed down
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PRETORIA (Reuters) - South Africa needs greater stability in its strategic mining industry to speed up lacklustre growth in Africa's biggest economy, President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday. In an address to journalists in Pretoria, Zuma sought hard to reassure the public and investors that renewed unrest in the mines sector would not derail
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